This showing arrives partway through a process that hasn’t quite settled.

Something has been unfolding over the past weeks — not toward a finished work, but toward a way of staying.

PACT’s Artist in Residence, Amit German, has been working with glitch — not simply as an image, but as a method: a way of staying with delay, drift, and the feeling of not quite matching up. Glitch becomes a tool for remaining inside systems that are difficult to read — where illegibility is monitored, where not understanding is treated as error, where deviation is managed.

Rather than correcting or resolving these conditions, the work follows the build-up, exploring the tension between emergence and collapse. Loops intensify, feedback accumulates, density gathers until something begins to give way, or open, or leak. The body becomes a way in.

Through butoh-informed practice, movement travels toward places that feel thick, slow, and sometimes impossible to hold — spaces that are dark not only in mood but in visibility, where orientation softens and language becomes less reliable.

Sound by Gigi De Lacy moves with the work, generated through audio- and video-responsive experimentation throughout the residency, forming a shifting field where image, sound, and movement interact in real time.

You may encounter repetition, interruption, something that doesn’t explain itself. You may find yourself waiting for meaning to arrive, or noticing the moment the need for it drifts away.

This is not a performance with answers, but an opening, a temporary condition: let’s get a little lost together.

Artist in Residence: Amit German

Sound Artist: Gigi de Lacy

Residency Mentor: Victoria Hunt

⚠︎ Content Note (Visual/Sensory):

This work uses video synthesisers and projection. Unpredictable visual glitches may occur, including flickering and high-contrast imagery. This may not be suitable for people with photosensitive epilepsy, so please take care when deciding to attend.

Contact the host of PACT Residency Showing — Amit German