Artist Statement

INTERFACING SOUND VJ Performance

VJ-Anyone delivers a special pre-launch version of The Suspension of Displeasure, a 60-minute video projection concept focused on hedonism. The Suspension of Displeasure aims to provide an environment free of pain and alienation, from calm and soothing visual patterns to beat shifting color fields and complex figurative layers.

In addition, live cameras will provide additional video sources, filming specific areas of the room, where members of the audience can step in a spotlight and be seen onscreen, this way engaging in a visual dialogue with the visuals, or simply indulging in narcissistic delight, looking at their larger than life image evolving amongst the video projections.

• Oli Sorensen (VJ Anyone)  (UK) works at the crossroads between new media, cinema and live art. He has been delivering sound-reactive video performances to audiences worldwide since 1996. Recent club events include collaborations with Ken Ishii at The Loft (Barcelona), VJ Anyone has also been part of numerous new media festivals such as PixelACHE (Helsinki), ISEA2002 (Nagoya), and ZKM (Karlsruhe).   youtube.com/watch?v=FQA_01Ck95Y