Hamza Jupp
I am an artist and musician based in Brighton and London focused primarily on moving image, visual art and music. I wish to create work that explores the surreal, conscious and subconscious states we exist in. I believe that between image and sound there is a place where one can experience the space in between being. Through analysis and recreation of my own dreams and personal perceptions I aim to create an environment in my work that is inviting a collective experience. I work heavily with sound and its relation to image, often creating sound pieces live in response to visual work. My visual work consists of experimental and avant garde film techniques and imagery as well as documentary filmmaking and live projection
and installation work. I am deeply inspired by painting and music, particularly that of folk art and music from all around the world. I believe strongly in community and want to make work that invites conversation and shared experience expressed in a space.
Place of a Dream is an installation and optionally a single screen piece that explores three dream sequences, inviting the viewer into the dream world, a space between perception and experience where things that in day to day life feel understandable but in dreamtime are malleable and intertwine revealing memories both shared and personal. In this piece I wish to take personal obscurity and make it clear, through exploring my own practices of poetry and sound in visual art. This piece also focuses on the relationship between language and imagery using narrative to mistranslated subtitles. This is poetry I have written in response to the rhythm and delivery of the speech, creating a confessional conversation and narrative development within the dream. I wish for this piece to make sense in a way that only a dream can, expressing an emotional state only felt when our consciousness lacks control. This piece aims to simulate this, accessing the space between, a place that holds more than we realise.