Furious Folly

19 May 2024

The British producer, Simon Chatterton, creates the outdoor event “Furious Folly” in co-operation with Dark Spark, in the historic setting of De Lovie. The sound and light event aims to be an all-embracing experience. Sound art, pyrotechnics, projection and kinetic sculptures are the trademark of Dark Spark. The production is gripping and surprising, tragic and full of hope at the same time. An acoustic experiment in memory. An electromechanical lament. An alchemical rendering of the madness of war. (Simon Chatterton) Mark Anderson leads a team of artists that, in the spirit of the Dadaists, attempt to respond to the inconceivable madness of the First World War. Taking place, as night falls, in the no-mans land between the two sides, the audience are immersed within an open-air collage of sound, kinetic devices, pyrotechnics and performance. Anderson draws on the anti-war sentiment of the Dadaist movement of the early 20 century. The madness of the battlefield and the futility of the Great War as a whole, led these artists to answer with a new artistic language, one that deliberately eschewed structure and meaning rejecting everything that had gone before. Furious Folly uses the Dada ethos to shape a powerful work that rails against the inhumanity and senselessness of conflict past and present.