The Cult of Quatermass

The Project

East London gallery Xero, Kline & Coma will host a new project by AAS, The Cult of Quatermass, which is an audio visual installation of a scientific workstation based upon control rooms from science fiction movies.

Within the control panels a series of  monitors develop a non-linear narrative video work in three parts very loosely based on Nigel Kneale's Quatermass series. The project is a development from the earlier project The Quatermass Code (2005), which was hosted at BlocSpace in Sheffield.

The Story

In the early years of the Twenty First Century, society had begun to break down due a series of global financial shocks and a failure of confidence in economics, politics, and society in general. At that time a mysterious cult called The Temple of Drone began to exert influence over the world's youth. The Dronites believed that many of the world's problems could be attributed to a failure to 'tune in' to the Eternal Drone, a sound that was said to underlie and sustain all of nature, and to be all but inaudible to anyone but the young. The Temple of Drone reserved particular disdain for the work of The British Sonic Research Group, headed by Professor Bernard Quatermass, and their attempts to synthesise the Eternal Drone.

At the time of the exhibition, Quatermass has disappeared and rolling news broadcasts endlessly loop the final moments of the decline of civilisation, seeking to understand the fragments of reports from journalists Xero, Kline, & Coma.

The Group

The letters AAS do not stand for anything: they should be pronounced as a word.

AAS's work is future-orientated and is developed through symbolic activity, often drawing upon coincidence and chance as forms of divination. We aim to discover and produce new, alternate readings of reality that we encounter together.

We use half familiar ritual structures and music to bring people to the appropriate state of mind, but these require no subscription to any prior belief structures. Participants share a communal sacrament that is both transient and eternal, based on immediate responses and an ongoing desire to commit to the future.

Your Funding

This Sponsume project will cover the materials costs of the installation and video production. It forms part of larger programme of work for which we have sought other funding elsewhere. We feel that in the current economic climate it is prudent to secure relatively small amounts of money from a number of sources.

Your contribution will help us to realise this project even if other sources of funding fall through by ensuring we have the physical materials with which to proceed.

Your contribution will allow us to buy wood, switches, dials, and paint, as well as publicity and van hire.

To show our appreciation for your support, we offer a range of rewards (see info bar to the right) graded by coolness.

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