Return to the dancefloors of the 1990s - with its pulsating bass lines and euphoric drops - during this unique Eurotrance performance.
Friday 18 April 7pm for show start at 7.30pm
Solo performance, 1hr approx.
This is a standing event with some seats.
In this unique concert Rowland Hill explores her conflicted relationship with 1990s Eurotrance music and its wider political and cultural legacies.
Using deep listening techniques, theatrical effects and a personal archive of audio-visual ephemera, Rowland invites you to reencounter Eurotrance’s disquieting rhetoric of utopia and disaster.
This presentation draws on philosophies of perception that purport to conjure timescales beyond conventional comprehension, including Byzantine iconography — believed to open a direct channel of communication with the divine — and listening practices developed by avant-garde composer Pauline Oliveros.
The event will be followed by a specially curated Eurotrance disco.
Saturday 19th
Fluchtpunkt (vanishing point, place of refuge)
FREE ENTRY - just drop-in.
Light and sound installation, 15 mins approx, looped
Across the Easter weekend Rowland Hill will transform the gallery into an immersive and ambiguous attraction with a special adaption of her light and sound installation Fluchtpunkt (vanishing point, place of refuge). The work combines a suspenseful choreography of animated stagecraft with an intense, ASMR inducing audio landscape of sampled voices, alienated club beats and extreme weather effects—a recurring metaphor in 90s dance music for conflict and resolution.
Rowland Hill
Rowland Hill is a Manchester-based artist working across the visual and performing arts. Her work often explores the history of entertainment and its use of dark glamour, ritualism, enacted drama and heightened emotional states. She uses stagecraft, choreography, found media and the presence of audiences to create intimate, beguiling and at times unsettling events and environments.
Instagram: @row.land.hill
Top image: Rowland photo by Jules Lister
Bottom image: Fluchtpunkt installation view Logical Song at Castlefield Gallery 2024 copyright Jules Lister.
