Resonant acts. A ritual performance. Echoes of the Celtic symphony.

Gruppen (Tim Brennan & Dean Brannagan)
AIR Gallery, Manchester, 2022

Invocation

All are antlerfolk
When the frequencies align
Post-Anthropocene

A five-hour durational action at AIR Gallery.
A non-score. A ritual field.
Antler as tuning device. Clay as conductor.
Triangle as hinge. Sound as offering.

📺  Watch documentation of the performance below:

A memory of sound. A lineage of gesture. A dream waiting for bodies to remember it.

🌀 About the Work

This was not an exhibition.
This was a concerto — performed without a stage, a score, or an audience.

Concerto for Antler Folk emerged from a lineage of ritual sonic gestures, consciously attuned to Joseph Beuys’ Celtic+~~Symphony, the frontlets of Star Carr, and the geomantic grammar of The Great Antler Ley.

Figurines sculpted from clay and twig antlers served not as props, but as receivers — operators in a field of resonance. Soundwork involved drum machine, triangle, jagged recorder, and charcoal drawings made live across floor and wall.

Motifs returned, then vanished.
Stillness countered vibration.
Each act a threshold, between performance.

🗣️ Testimonies

"A deeply spiritual and transcendent experience... expressive mark-making merged with shamanic sound... a haunting symbol walking in the footsteps of ancient rites."
— Alan Baker, Artist, Curator & Witness

📜 Field Poetics

Sound – rhythm – vibration
Repetition marks on paper, black charcoal, burnt earth
Automatic drawing as a map to Doggerland
Together we attempt to untangle this riddle...

— Dean Brannagan of Gruppen

🔁 Echoes

This was not art to be preserved. It was a rite to be remembered.
A struck tone that still resonates.

The clay figures remain. But it is their echo that lives most strongly now.

Future Additions

→ A ritual document may be made available through Gruppen Editions in 2026.