VIGIL

On Thursday, 19th of November, North London's Raleigh Chapel hosts the launch of VIGIL with an evening of live ambience, diffuse electronic and tender conclusions from Mirror Organs, Visio & Zeynep Ağcabay. Coinciding with a gallery opening that will run from 19/11/26 until 23/11/26. VIGIL is a collaborative project born from the collective effort of 29 artists and practitioners, materialising as a 12-track compilation album and visual exhibition. Each track on the album has a distinct accompanying physical artwork or visualiser, to be revealed as part of a group show Andrew Osman . Baptiste Bernazeau . Burning Pyre Charlie Benjamin . Dan KerrisonStock . dmstfctn . Elliott Elder . Ellyson Gasparetto . Felix Luke . Flaty . Floid . Gabrielle Ngoo . Gregoire Becot . Hayden Martin . Jacob Dwyer . Lanark Artefax . Lucas Dupuy . Milagros Yaya . Mirror Organs . Mun Sing . Owen Pratt . Quirke . Russell Maurice . Sam Purcell . Severin Black . W92 . Visio . Zeynep Ağcabay All proceeds from the project will go directly to The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children’s Fund (GASCF) a charity dedicated to the children of Gaza & Lebanon: providing medical attention to the children who need it the most and helping to relieve the medical sector. This project is a reaction to a visceral disturbance in witnessing seemingly endless imagery of some of the world’s most vulnerable and voiceless children being routinely killed, and the growing passivity, the creeping numbness to this type of extreme violent imagery. The project’s loose outline was to respond to this sense of lurid voyeurism. Cameras, filming, face recognition, eyes, CCTV, drones, helicopter footage, optics, windows, lenses, data profiles, selfies & surveillance were all discussed and considered in the making of both the audio tracks and artworks / visualisers. The project’s name VIGIL comes from a blurred appreciation of multiple associations, a nod towards watching over someone at their bedside in times of illness, gatherings in…