MIACH MALACHY: ROTTERS - SUN 23 FEB, 12PM - 12AM (GMT)

MIACH MALACHY: ROTTERS - SUN 23 FEB, 12PM - 12AM (GMT)

SUNDAY 23 FEBRUARY, 12PM - 12AM

MIACH MALACHY

Rotters

“SOMETHING IS DIFFERENT TODAY… you are on trial.”

‘Rotters holds four sculptures in a looped dialogue. Two interrogators—Sparky the school locker, and Swall the watchtower—push the reticent Rotter the perspex box, for ‘FACTS’. Haunted by the looming presence of So-N-So and the pressure of unstable memories, Rotters’ scene-of-the-crime is a collision between different forms of inquest.’

This screening is the first showing of the full work outside of its primary installation format in a full video version produced in 2023. 

With 

Kirsty Clark as So-N-So 

Samson Dittrich as Sparky 

MKH as Swall

Rotter as Rotter

Thanks to Jon Roome and Ghislaine Leung.

Videography by Oliver Bradley-Baker. 

Installation still by David Tolley.

Content Notification:

Rotters contains explicit language and references to assault.

This work will be streaming this Sunday here on Spryte, on a continuous loop between 12pm - 12am GMT.

Installation details and description:

Rotters: Sculptures, sound, script, score, lighting, room, electronics, motors, program.

Rotters is a situation for four sculptures over 22 minutes, running continuously.

Rotters’ installation consists of 4 sculptures, synched lighting and speakers. Each sculpture is a character named in the script. Two of the characters Sparky (a steel school locker) and Swall (a watchtower) are interrogating a third, Rotter (a Perspex box) about the whereabouts of So-n-So (a sheet of safety glass). So-n-So is in fact in the room but this is never fully acknowledged by the other characters, though monologues memories in a streaming fashion. Rotter throughout remains mute. The sculptures are ‘animated’ by the structuring conceit of a motorized, synched light, which picks out the speaking or mentioned sculpture and the use of spatialized sound. The lines for each speaking character are voice-acted.

Previous showing:

A previous version of this work was shown in 2019 with C4 Random Acts, in a highly abridged adaption.

Credits for that adaption are as follows:

Camera: Oliver Bradley-Baker
Voices: Kirsty Clark, Samson Dittrich, MKH, Rotter
Producer: Catherine Bray
Commissioning Assistant: Jake Cunningham

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