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Student Showcase Archive
Show RCA 2019

James Rushton

Show RCA work

  • Infracontra — RBK&C (Install View)

    Infracontra — RBK&C (Install View), 2019
    Unsound, Light, Moving Image

  • Infracontra — RBK&C (Install View)

    Infracontra — RBK&C (Install View), 2019
    Unsound, Light, Moving Image

  • Infrascontra — RBK&C (Install View)

    Infrascontra — RBK&C (Install View), 2019
    Unsound, Light, Moving Image

  • Infracontra— RBK&C (Data Present)

    Infracontra— RBK&C (Data Present), 2019
    Unsound, Light, Moving Image

  • Infracontra — RBK&C (Geophone)

    Infracontra — RBK&C (Geophone), 2019
    Unsound, Light, Moving Image

  • Infracontra — RBK&C (Histogram)

    Infracontra — RBK&C (Histogram), 2019
    Unsound, Light, Moving Image

  • "Where are you going you fucking idiot?" (Stills)

    "Where are you going you fucking idiot?" (Stills), 2019
    Single Channel Video, Installation, Unsound
    1080 x 1920

  • Untouch Infra (Still)

    Untouch Infra (Still), 2018
    Super 8 Film, Unsound

Major project:

Infracontra – Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea

Infrasonic Control is an ongoing research project exploring and mapping infrasound (inaudible low-frequency waves > 20hz) levels within communities. Infrasound has long been known by science to create nausea, respiration difficulty, anxiety and fear within humans. It has also been known to mutate bacteria and is possibly believed to be related to grey matter. In order to monitor these levels of infrasound, self-adapted geophones (seismic sensors) are used on location. The project itself is firmly grounded in the theory of Vibrational Anarchitecture: that the low-frequency resonation of buildings create ambient infrasound in urban environments along with all other sources of urban infrasonics. The work questions whether this repeated exposure to infrasound is being used as a means of systemic societal control, through the perpetuation of ecological fear seen in rentier capitalism.

Info

  • James Rushton's work is situated within unsound research, moving image and installation. Presenting ideas and questions focused on communities and, more specifically, gated communities; that is, gates to keep people in or gates to keep people out. However, these gates are not always obvious or visible. Through forensic unsound research, the work attempts to present new or possibly forgotten and ignored ways of understanding these gates and ultimately, the disparity they represent through a perpetuated ecology of fear. The work also attempts to ask broader questions related to class, rentier capitalism, sonic agency and the materiality of sound.

  • Previous degrees

  • BA Fine Art, Falmouth University, 2015
  • Experiences

  • Co-founder and creative director, From Concentrate, London, 2016–present; Art director and live visual artist, Husky Loops, London, 2017–present
  • Exhibitions

  • Degree Show, Royal College of Art, London, 2019; 'Togetherness', Assembly Point, London, 2019; Work-in-progress Show, Royal College of Art, London, 2018; The Embassy Tea Gallery, London, 2015; The Poly Gallery, Falmouth, 2015
Royal College of Art