Decoding Cultural Resistance is an audio visual journey exploring the echoes of the protests of 1968 to the present day. Through a live performative video and sonic montage, Dubmorphology references activism and political, social and independence movements. Decoding Cultural Resistance reflects on the acts of liberation and power structures that have emerged and resonated over the ensuing six decades of global crisis.
Dubmorphology is a London based interdisciplinary artist and research group formed by Gary Stewart and Trevor Mathison. Through experimental approaches to sound art, live cinema and installations Dubmorphology blurs the boundaries between the sonic, visual and performative. Its practice is distinguished by its ongoing investigation into the unique spaces emerging in museums, art galleries and public spaces formed by the shifting intersections between audiences, authorship and participation.
Gary Stewart Working with digital technology as an artist, producer and curator over the last thirty years, Gary Stewart has been involved in pioneering initiatives and projects around the world that explore and interrogate social and political issues of identity, culture, technology and creativity. Formerly Head of New Media at Iniva, the Institute of International Visual Arts, London, where he curated Iniva’s digital programme, including installations, exhibitions, public and online projects, he has been freelance since 2011, creating collaborative environments within, between and across the unique spaces emerging in public spaces, art galleries and museums.
Trevor Mathison Trevor Mathison is an artist, composer, sound designer and recordist. His sonic practice, centred on creating fractured haunting aural landscapes and integrating existing music, has featured in over thirty award-winning films. Mathison was a founding member of the cine-cultural artist collective, The Black Audio Film Collective (1982-1998), where his body of sonic de signs defined and situated for the Collective’s film and gallery installations, including Signs of Empire, Handsworth Songs and The Last Angel of History. Mathison has continued to work with some of his former collaborators from Black Audio (John Akomfrah, Lina Gopaul and David Lawson) creating sound design for installations and feature documentaries, including Mnemosyne and The Unfinished Conversation. His latest compositional score features in Slave Rebellion Re-enactment (John Akomfrah and Dredd Scott, 2019) and Garret Bradley’s award-winning feature America (2019). Mathison has also founded and been active in a number of other ex perimental sonic groups – Dubmorphology, Hallucinator and Flow Motion. He has also been a pioneer of sound installation work. His most recent sound performance took place at CAPC in Bordeaux in 2020 where he was commissioned to make a sonic response to Lubaina Himid’s installation Naming the Money.
