Layla Curtis, Tong Tana, 2012
Curtis’s work has a focus on mapping and the ways we represent terrain and locate ourselves and our movements through space. Previous projects include collages made of maps; drawings produced through the use of computers and satellite GPS technology whilst in Antarctica with the British Antarctic Survey; and video work made with parkour practitioners from London.

Layla Curtis spent four weeks in the rainforests of Borneo with the semi-nomadic Penan – one of the last surviving hunter-gatherer tribes in South-East Asia and acknowledged masters of tracking and hunting.

Her intention was to obtain point of view (POV) video footage of a Penan hunter’s solo journey with blowpipe and poisoned darts through dense jungle near Ba Jawi, one of Borneo’s last remaining pristine rainforest wildernesses. A Penan hunter agreed to go out with a head mounted camera as well as binaural microphones – designed to accurately record sound as experienced by the human ear – and the resultant recordings provide the material for this project.

I aim to place the viewer in the centre of the action and thus experience the journey from point-of-view of the protagonist. I aim to create a heightened sensory experience for the viewer and create an immersive viewing experience within the gallery space. Each of the films will comprise of a single take of POV footage – the content and pace of which will be entirely dependent on the self-determined course of the hunter.
  — Layla Curtis

Tong Tana is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

The artist would like to thank The Penan of the Upper Baram River, Sarawak, Borneo for their generosity and hospitality. In particular special thanks to Misa, Dennis and Sia. Thanks also to Lukas Fort and Craig Vear for all their continued support and advice and to Maxwell Clark, Tom Hewitt, Mike Prior-Jones, Gennie Rose and Peter Sercombe. Tong Tana was sound mastered by Craig Vear.

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Juneau Projects, Čapexagon Series and Sleepwake, 2011
Juneau Projects were formed in 2001 and explore relationships between technological, social and natural worlds in their work in both visual art and music and sound. The Čapexagon Series is the results of an attempt to use robotics to make landscape paintings.

The system is set up to allow us to paint en plein air using the robotic arm: the arm is powered by a laptop and we are able to paint with it for as long as the laptop has charge. The system was initially conceived by us in an attempt to consider some of the aspects that are involved in producing paintings as a duo. There is a constant act of translation that takes place between us when we are painting and, with the Čapexagon works, this process is physically manifested in the robotic arm.

The marks produced by the robotic arm are also in opposition to the perceived ideas of robots being utilised to produce precise mechanical results. The arm is awkward and imprecise, rendering our interpretations of landscapes as near-abstract images. Sleepwake was developed in response to the idea of machines becoming self-aware. Two strobe lights run inside the sculpture, causing its eyes to blink on off constantly and echoing the 'thinking' processes that are happening all the time in our homes and workplaces.
  —Juneau Projects

Juneau Projects are represented by Ceri Hand Gallery, London.

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Andrew Kötting, Klipperty Klöpp, 1984
Andrew Kötting is a filmmaker, artist and writer whose practice encompasses sound art, installation, experimental theatre, short film, artist's books and full length feature films; most recently Swandown, an installation and film based on a voyage made with Iain Sinclair in a pedalo from the Hastings coast to Hackney via the Sussex and Kent waterways.

Klipperty Klöpp is a film of the artist repeatedly and energetically running round a field in Gloucestershire pretending to be a horse. The record of this activity is accompanied by a soundtrack where certain phrases, some from the artist, some from written texts, can be made out from layers of sound.

In all Kötting's work, there is a more or less active reclamation of deep strains of popular experience and folk memory for the digital age. His project, vitally, operates against the hollow ordering of reality and existence. He is closer to the Native American Coyote, to the trickster, harlequin and knave in his operation than to the career 'administrator' artist. He is most adept at 'making do', at mining the creative possibilities of material or structural limitation to invigorating effect.
  —Gareth Evans, Lux

Surpasses even the 'Running-Jumping-Standing-Still Film'... a dada classic.
  —Phillip Jenkinson, Radio Times, 1986