Frontiers Series: Collapse
Date and time :02 May 2017 (6:30pm – 8:30pm)
Location: Recital Hall, Birmingham Conservatoire

I remember 
Those are pearls that were his eyes. 
“Are you alive, or not? Is there nothing in your head?”   
– TS Elliot The Wasteland 

Collapse by sound artist Justin Wiggan was created in collaboration with students from Birmingham Conservatoire.

The work investigated the removal of buildings and the utilisation of an empirical mind-set, leading to the psychological crutch of nostalgia. This was explored in a live sonic essay collaging TS Elliott’s Wasteland, the removal of Paradise Forum and the transferral of educational space, seen through the genres of harsh noise wall and doom metal.
The performance was designed to induce crumbling anxiety, leading to the wish of escape to the outside, thus achieving a full circle.

Andy Howlett’s film : Paradise Lost: History in the Unmaking was remixed as part of the process.

Wiggan was joined live by Chris Mapp and Mark Sanders.