People Like Us: The Open Fund for Music Creators
Gone, Gone Beyond by People Like Us
Gone, Gone Beyond is an immersive A/V spatial cinema work by People Like Us (Vicki Bennett), which breaks the rectangle, smashing the thin screen into tiny fragments, looking beyond the frame, climbing through to see what’s behind.
Housed in “CineChamber”, a 10 screen / 8 speaker structure, GGB has seamless wrap around projection and surround sound where the audience sit inside. It comprises of movie and musical compositions, animated and musique concrète collage juxtaposed with content filmed/recorded by the artist, all sewn together in a giant patchwork. Pull on a thread and watch whole new narratives expand and unravel all at once on a 360º palette. This work will be 1 hour 5 minutes long once completed and will premiere in Autumn 2021 in Oslo (Black Box Teater/nyMusikk), Ipswich (DanceEast), Brighton and London Barbican.
Since 1990, People Like Us has released 33 albums and toured at least 7 live A/V performances internationally to hundreds of venues. She was the first artist to be given unrestricted access to the entire BBC Archive and has shown work at, amongst others, Tate Modern, Whitechapel Gallery, Centro de Cultura Digital, Maxxi, Sonar, and performed radio sessions for John Peel and Mixing It. The A/V performance THE MIRROR has toured over 20 cities internationally, gaining national coverage on BBC Radio 3 and BBC 6Music. The soundtrack CD/LP went to No.8 in Wire Magazine’s Album of the Year. In May 2021, Vicki was the cover article for The Wire magazine, with a 10 page career feature.