
N/ONE
performance
sound, sand, metal rods, singing bowl.
2024
One Extended Meditation
Copeland Gallery
N/ONE is a live experiment in sound and movement, contemplating echoes, ripples and waves as carriers of information, rational and irrational, through the cosmic void.
Beginning with a ceremonial spilling of black sand, the words “I am one” and “I am none” echo through the space as the sand is pushed or pulled along the grainy ellipsis. The performance continues with a trembling vocal iteration of an iconic traditional Bulgarian song, Izlel e Delyu Haydutin by Valya Balkanska, recorded in 1970 and included on the Golden Record carried on board both Voyager probes. The live song is accentuated by a low bass sound, the sharp clangs of metal on concrete, and the smooth pitch of a small singing bowl, in defiance of an infinite vacuous silence.
N/ONE was first played at One Extended Meditation (17 - 20 October 2024, Copeland Gallery, London, UK), presented by FURIES Collective. Highlighting art as a verb, an act, a motion, transforming the gallery into a loving space of discovery, contemplation, and dialogue, the exhibition also featured a series of distinctive guest performances by Auno (DE/CL), Lao San Yang (CN), Donna Kim (KR), as well as the nine exhibited artists.
Performance photographs by James Merrell.

N/ONE (2024)
performance, sound, sand, metal rods, singing bowl. View at One Extended Meditation, Copeland Gallery, London.

N/ONE (2025) at Copeland Gallery, London.

N/ONE (2025) at Copeland Gallery, London.

N/ONE (2025) at Copeland Gallery, London.

N/ONE (2025)
Performance view at One Extended Meditation, Copeland Gallery, London.