INTRODUCING SENSE COLLECTIVE
Overbeck & L'Aubaine performing @ SENSE SYMBIOSIS 28/05/2022 Photo by Jan Bernet
PART OF HIVE CURATE’S ALICE BILLINGS CONNECTS PROGRAMME (2023)
In 2022, Hive Curates interviewed the Sense Collective, as part of Alice Billings Connects, which was a cultural programme along Stratford High Street to reinvigorate interest in Alice Billing House.
The two-part exhibition will be presented in The Citadel, Dover, 24th June, presenting a wave machine + sound score, a three channel film, a photographic series and ceramics + arts workshops.
The second part of the show will be presented at Frieze No.9 Cork Street, 20th-23rd July, which will show some of the work created by participants as well as the creative responses collected throughout the exhibition on the 24th June.
As a multimedia platform that brings together different practitioners and disciplines, how would you best describe your focus and what unites you as a collective?
Engagement. Our focus is on creating engaging spaces that speak not only to the familiar artistic audience, but to the wider community. We encourage social diversity and aim to build new relationships, encouraging the participants and audience to blossom new social streams through the cross-pollination of creative mediums.
Our network and the people we engage with are very important to us. When hosting shows we like to blur the line between artist, curator and audience, facilitating conditions suitable for collective learning.
What can people expect from a performance?
We tend to take a free flowing approach when we play music, the outcome will very much depend on the energy of the event and what is happening throughout the day. The performance will be a progressive journey, moving through different forms spanning from patient monotonous drones transmuting to more upbeat cyclic ondulations.
What new technologies are you working with to heighten people’s senses?
For this event, as well as on our last installation, we will be working with surround sound in order to heighten people's sonic perception and provide an immersive experience. Regarding our tools, we'll be using loopers, samples, pedals, synths and vocals to create an imaginary journey that parallels the kaleidoscopic adventure of urban living.
Why is connection and wellbeing so important on our high streets and in our town centers?
A sense of unity is something that is often lost in urban environments. Coexisting in open spaces, collaborating on tasks and having mutual goals encourages a sense of belonging. Strengthening our collectivity, strengthens our individuality, in turn, strengthening our sense of fulfillment and completeness.
What projects do you have in the pipeline?
This Summer, SENSE has been invited to participate in the project 'I'd search forever, I want to remember' by artist Tamara Al-Mashouk, in which we'll be contributing with workshop facilitators and a creative responder.