Intra Protocol Sally Golding and Matt Spendlove
Intra Protocol is a site-responsive immersive audiovisual work that transforms the cinema into a living instrument. The work reveals the hidden infrastructures and social architecture of cinematic space, bringing projection, sound, light and audiences into a shared field of perception.
Drawing on the artists' ongoing investigations into expanded cinema and sound system culture, Intra Protocol treats the cinema not simply as a place to watch moving images, but as an active environment that shapes how we gather, communicate and experience one another. The work explores protocol as both material and method, making perceptible the hidden infrastructures that organise collective experience while inviting audiences to reconfigure them through movement, attention and play.
Across an evolving composition of light, sound and embodied space, expectations of the cinema begin to shift. The auditorium becomes a responsive environment where technological and human signals coexist, overlap and influence one another, allowing the cinema itself to become the primary performer.
Reconfigured specifically for AND Festival 2026, Intra Protocol brings together ideas developed through Golding and Spendlove's ongoing artistic enquiry, including Decompression and Commune.sys, in a new site-responsive iteration created for the festival.
Intra Protocol is part of AND Festival, produced by Abandon Normal Devices. For more details on AND Festival please go to their website at andfestival.org.uk
