LAZY THINKING
Presented by Lazy Thinking & JOLT Arts
HUH (Jpn)
JAMES HULLICK
WITHDRAWE
Legendary noise and sound art duo HUH bring the action to Lazy Thinking, and supported by recalcitrant Australian sound artist, James Hullick.
Trailblazing Japanese free form noise/rock/avant duo HUH who put the unfettered scream back into punk. HUH is one of the major shining lights in the Japanese avant-garde. Kyosuke Terada: electric guitar; Takuma Mori: drums.
Withdrawe are: Jasper Craig-Adams (guitar) and Mitch Elliott (electronics).
James Hullick will perform voice and electric guitar for this set at Lazy Thinking.
James’ creations are concerned with questions of our collective social life drawn from his work with community artists. Since 2006, he has worked with The Amplified Elephants – an ensemble for artists with intellectual disabilities.
A community worker, published researcher and artistic director of JOLT Arts and the BOLT Ensemble, James is an Australia Council for the Arts Creative Fellow 2015 and Michael Harvey Piano Scholar 2016. Through JOLT, James has co-directed large sonic events and festivals locally and in Asia, Europe and the US.
From the outside looking in, James’ creativity seems boundless, manifesting sound worlds from inventive machines, electronics, acoustic instruments, found objects, the human voice, sonic ensembles and the uncanny mergings of these things.
Critics have remarked on the visual, visceral, risky nature of his work: “shocks as much as electrifies the listener”; “Hullick is a social critic. He holds his people and the world of sound up to a mirror” (Reutlingen Press, Germany.) While art critic Ashley Crawford has summarised James’ aesthetic as “a decidedly fresh take on the Neo Gothic” (The Age).