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The work was installed for a one-off evening event entitled, 'The Fractured Body: The House as Body' curated by Mobile Studio as part of The Surreal House exhibition at Barbican Art Gallery. DESCRIPTION 'The Family' is a sound installation that takes the form of a staircase. The work acts to isolate the mundane and evoke a reaction from the banality of normal objects and their modified sounds. The staircase piece plays a series of collected sounds based around the daily entrance and exit of a family from their home. Each step has a sound of its own, relating to a specific family member. Adjacent to the installation is a film made from the actions and sounds of the family members which becomes choreographed where the actors play the roles of the family and each 'play' their own set sequences and in turn question the overlap and role of the family in relationships to the house. PROFILE Pearson is a young London based sound artist and musician interested in the relationship between the perception of sound and space. He recently graduated from the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, where he studied Architectural Studies and Design. He is also a musician in alternative rock band; Islington Boys' Club and co-runs Club.The.Mammoth For more info, please visit:- www.barbican.org.uk www.barbican.org.uk www.theMobileStudio.co.uk http

Site-Specific Dance / Contemporary or Modern Dance: Vanishing Point was envisioned as both a site-specific dance and simultaneously as a dance for a theatrical space, making use of both the unique architectural features and cultural implications of St. Mark's Church as well as its function as a theater for innovative dance works. As part of the City/Dans series, Danspace Project presented the premiere of Tom Pearson and Zach Morris' Bessie Award winning work. Wickedly funny and suddenly somber, Vanishing Point fuses aggressive, exhaustive movement, meditative nuance, and live music by the whisky-powered, alt-bluegrass ensemble The Dang-it Bobbys, led by composer Kris Bauman (performing with Andy Cotton and Bryn Roberts). Vanishing Point was created in collaboration and performed with: Donna Ahmadi, Marissa Nielsen-Pincus, Tara O'Con, Jennine Willett. Lighting Design by Carol Mullins and Costume Design by Karen Young. The work was presented in a three night engagement that ran Thursday, June 26th through Saturday, June 28th, 2008. Vanishing Point won two 2008 Bessie Awards, for Music Composition and for Choreography. Vanishing Point engages St. Mark's Church both as a sanctuary and an architectural structure evocative of the columns and porticos of the rural south. Culled from the artists' collective stories, it represents a confluence of slipping memories, improbable tales, and faulty recollections--an exploration of family legacies shrouded in secrets, blurred by liquor ...