Sally Golding (Australia/UK) is a multimedia artist combining film projection, lighting and sonic composition to create expanded cinema performances and participatory installations. Golding’s audiovisual performance work focuses on the experience of the audience, pushing the boundaries of visual and auditory perception through the breakdown of the cinematic system into flicker, waveforms and colour fields; while her installations have harnessed the presence of the audience themselves by incorporating their reflected image into projections within immersive spaces. Golding’s performances are overdriven audiovisual transmissions of light, form, colour and sound. Utilising a custom system of contact-printed waveforms on torchlight-exposed, hand-processed 16mm film, Golding creates sonic compositions from vinyl library music which interweave musings across science and superstition, philosophy and pulp. Using hacked devices such as sewing machine motors and laboratory strobe lights, Golding generates throbbing, hallucinogenic visual distortions, which are also outputted as sonic signals. Cacophonic in form and content, performances transcend chaos and enter a hypnotic zone. Participatory by design, Golding’s installations invite the viewer to be a collaborator within the work, evoking a form of ‘auto-scopic hallucination’. The use of two-way mirrors, lighting mixer and film projections act as a phantasmagoria, while viewing can only take place in relation to the object, requiring the spectator’s presence for completion and inducing a vision of themselves as an ‘other’. Immersive soundtracks resembling deep listening therapy sessions, guide the audience into an otherworldly slippage. Through the curatorial outlets of Unconscious Archives and Otherfilm, Golding presents live audiovisual and sound art performance as a means of examining: ‘liveness’; the synaesthetic concerns of audiovisual art; and the contemporary role of the audience.