Felix Bayley-Higgins

Hülpüsch is a discursive project anchored in my collaboration with 82 year old Willem Hülpüsch around his observational photographs, journal and drawings. We've been in dialogue for over two years now after sharing a conversation following a lecture we both attended in late 2018. My interest in Willem’s observations stems from his past career as a private investigator whilst living in Germany.

The project has many outputs, which can be loosely grouped around 3 different levels.

1) An archive I arranged of Willems observations, featuring my analytical commentary on his work.

2) Collaborative making experiments, born out of our dialogue together.

3) A network of research stemming from everything within the first two levels.

Part of the project deals with the different ways databases of research and making can be structured, elements from all three levels feed into and animate each-other. I developed new methodologies to guide this project specifically, these processes are as much a part of the project as any visual or sound outcomes. In this way Hülpüsch is most cohesive when understood as an eco-system, a narrative which skates across a range of media. What began as a collaboration with an 82 year old ex-private investigator broadened into an attempt to map the importance of mystery and myths in cultural media.

A Music Video I directed for the the new Glows double single release.

TEMP TCR is temporary television studio set up and co-hosted by Felix Bayley-Higgins and Louise Gholam. Both are looking into the visual languages, history and culture surrounding video broadcasting in their respective personal practices. TEMP TCR is the first outing of a platform they’re currently developing to build a community of people working with experimental video, sound and research methodologies in unique ways. The platform functions by inviting individuals to engage with a set of different formats. Placing a focus on intuitive making these formats are specifically designed to showcase people’s underlying interests, methodologies and sensibility.

Excerpts from an ongoing research project into using alternative processes to create musical elements. Imagery is used as in two ways; as a source material from which to generate compositional structure, melody and rhythm, and as a kind of notation to record abstract musical ideas or atmospheres. Many of the experiments reconfigure the syntax of traditional sheet music. These images are aids to devising new systems for reading, transcribing, translating and assembling sound. The sound created in tandem with this collection of imagery is due for release later this year.

Documentation of performance and installation audio-visual work dealing with the relationship between sound and moving image.

Monobrow is a podcast created in collaboration with artist Jonny Drewek. We’re really interested in the relationship between Pop culture and Experimental art.

We’ve been discussing it for a year now: Thoughts vs. Feelings. Knowing naivety. Irony. Memes. Intellectual posturing.

We’ve found a lot of amazing work which has great depth but also a direct and uncomplicated attitude towards its audience, seeking genuine engagement instead of spamming art language.

These truly experimental practitioners operate mainly on the internet, outside of the conventions of institutional art spaces. For some reason, confronting this freaks everyone at art school out quite a lot, including us at times.

We want to share our findings and expand our knowledge by speaking directly to these pioneering practitioners. Join us as we talk horseshoes, music, old brains, diagrams and more with @La_Meme_Young to try and chart new relationships between experimental art and popular culture.