Overlap (7)

Michael Denton and Anna McCrickard formed Overlap in 1999 as a platform for music, electronic art and music industry, festival and gallery activities including single screen videos,VJing, audiovisual performances and installations. Overlap have developed a style outside film, TV and video art - a way of abstracting and combining imagery that has a musical or painterly logic rather than a narrative based or conceptual one. A visual take on serialism - wallpaper with conceits. Overlap's music is created alongside the imagery. Recent works explore the relationship between still and moving imagery through systems of implied motion within transitions, use of discreet picture planes and obscuration techniques. The view is in movie time but limited to flat photographic space, through a perceptual keyhole more akin to memories and dreams. Experiments with sound and image are distilled into single screen pieces - Lazy Wave, Cloud Edged, Forest Tree, Returning - forming useful components for mixing into audiovisual polyphonies for installations and performances. In their live performances Overlap create a mesmeric dance of shapes, lights and abstract imagery, on the cusp of the recognizable: atmospheric, sensory and textural, delivered through a systematic patterning within a void.