#simone rowat

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Photo by Abigail Sidebotham of ‘History’s Glimmer’ by Simone Rowat, being screened at the Chalton Gallery as part of Zero Wave’s contribution to the gallery’s first birthday celebrations.

‘History's Glimmer’  was a 16mm film commissioned for a photography biennale taking place in the Swiss alps.  All of the objects in the film are from my great uncles private archive of objects and images he collected in post WW2 Germany.

I was thinking about the alpine landscape in terms of its role as a historical symbol in the culture of nationalism and accelerating industrialism in the rise of national socialism in Germany.

In their obsessive collection, these fragments of nature also became symbols which held some kind of potential in healing or evading trauma - fragments of lost or false history.

[text by Simone Rowat]

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Zero Wave joins the Chalton Gallery's birthday celebrations with a programme of live music and short films from 6pm til 8pm. Featuring live music from… INGRID PLUM An artist working with sound, voice, and space, praised by The Guardian for her "Gorgeously atmospheric vocal techniques woven around field recordings & electronics" http://www.ingridplum.com/ STEVE NOBLE & YONI SILVER Steve Noble studied with Nigeria master drummer Elkan Ogunde and has been a member of Rip Rig and Panic, Derek Bailey's Company, and Lol Coxhill's Standard Conversions. Yoni Silver is a clarinettist and multi-instrumentalist who plays regularly with Sharon Gal, Steve Noble, Mark Sanders, Tom Wheatley, Grundik Kasyansky and is a long-time member of Iancu Dumitrescu and Ana Maria Avram's Hyperion Ensemble. https://youtu.be/L0sNfcuTyHw FAR RAINBOW Kosmische improvising duo of Emily Mary Barnett (drums/percussion/things) and Bobby Barry (electronics, small objects, electrical appliances) released their debut cassette last year. According to Paul Margree's We Need No Swords blog, "It brings to mind the free-spirited electronic kosmische musik that Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius may have created in their Cluster heyday if they had King Tubby rather than Conny Plank producing it." farrainbow.bandcamp.com We will also be showing two short films by ABIGAIL SIDEBOTHAM a graduate of the Royal College of Art who has exhibited in galleries throughout Europe, including Michael Hoppen, London, Villa Romana, Florence, and the Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague & SIMONE ROWAT, a graduate of the Slade and RCA, whose films have been screened at the London Short Film Festival, Firestone International Experimental Film Festival, Moscow, and Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York. This event is free, but all donations will go to the participating artists.