Degrade
Private View: Tuesday 9 September 2025 Exhibition: Wednesday 10, Thursday 11, Friday 12 and Saturday 13 September 2025
Lighthouse Project Space, Unit D North Level 1, New England House, Brighton, BN1 4GH
Private View: Tuesday 9 September 2025, Time: 5 PM - 7 PM, Free, Booking Required.
Exhibition: Wednesday 10, Thursday 11, Friday 12 and Saturday 13 September 2025 Time: 12-5 PM FREE. Just turn up!
Location: Lighthouse Project Space, Unit D, North Level 1, New England House, Brighton, BN1 4GH (map)
Drawing you in through immersive birdsong and shifting, lilting compositions, Degrade confronts the damaging effects of our collective actions by gently destroying reel-to-reel tape loops in response to the audience.
Made up of five reel-to-reel tape machines playing different loops to produce unique compositions, Degrade detects the audience’s position and pushes sandpaper against the tape loops based on your proximity to each of the vintage machines, hastening their destruction. At first, the audio begins to degrade, losing fidelity and top end before hissing, stretching and cutting in and out before, ultimately, failing completely. Degrade is designed to prompt the audience to reflect on the damaging cycles of consumption, causing the climate catastrophe.
Degrade was produced with technical consultancy from Alex Johnson.
Book to join the artist and guests at the private view on Tuesday 9 September, or catch them at the exhibition on Wednesday, Friday or Saturday.
About the artist
adrien châtelain is a transdisciplinary musician & artist working with installation, analogue photography, audio & sonic arts, sculpture and more, exploring the climate catastrophe; the anthropocene; decay and the abandoned; regrowth; oppression; surveillance; gender, and the impact of technology, with an emphasis on texture. their artworks are identity informed as a nonbinary, queer & Desi creator.
adrien is an alumnus of the Lighthouse Young Creative programme and has performed and exhibited work at the Metropolis Contemporary, Boomer Gallery, and the Lighthouse Project Space, and taken part in residencies with Metal, The Nest Collective and Brighter Sound.
ACCESSIBILITY
No flashing lights. Degrade uses layered field recordings and compositions played at a volume level similar to an acoustic performance.
This event will be held on the ground floor, level access, of Lighthouse Project Space, Unit D North Level 1, New England House, Brighton, BN1 4GH (map)
We have step-free access just to the left of our space. The step-free ramp is 1 metre wide, after the ramp you reach a blue door please use the 'Lighthouse' doorbell, one of the team will come to let you in and you will then go through a door that is 34 in / 86.5cm wide and after that another door in to the space that is 33.5 in / 85cm wide. There is an accessible toilet in the space on the same floor. We have one accessible parking space that must be booked in advance. For further information email info@lighthouse.org.uk or call 01273 647197.
Watch our video on the step-free access at Lighthouse Project Space. We are fundraising to adapt our entrance so that everyone enters our space through the same door.
PHOTOGRAPHY & VIDEO DURING EVENT
Please note, that this event will be photographed/filmed. If you prefer not to be photographed please speak to a member of the Lighthouse team. The photographs and film we capture at our events are used for marketing and promotional purposes for our programme only and are stored securely.