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Krumville Dian Joy

Krumville Dian Joy

25 - 27 September 2026

Free entry, booking encouraged

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Krumville is a multi-screen film that explores memory, perception, and mediated experience through a fictional town created from remixing algorithmic image-making and personal recollections. 

Rather than a single overarching storyline, the work presents a day-in-the-life of Krumville through repetitions, echoes, and interrelations where characters, motifs, and scenes reappear across five synced chapters. Using social media images and lived experience as blueprints, Krumville explores how networked cognition reshapes digital culture into an emergent narrative-building machine. These uncanny images are then restaged with filmed performances in real locations, forming a recursive loop where memory becomes data, image, and performance. 

Presented within an phantom shopping centre space, where dormant escalators stand as remnants of a future that never arrived at the back of Barnsley Civic, Krumville unfolds across five ambiguous environments: a factory grounded in labour-intensive metaphor; a high street populated by synchronised figures and quiet absurdities; a theatre occupied by a lone pacing dog and distant disembodied voices; a diner suspended in a loop of stalled action; and an underpass where isolated characters appear tenuously connected across space. Influenced by cinematic and televisual language, AI image generation, and online visual culture, the work constructs a world that feels both hyper-specific and strangely universal.

Ticket Information

Free entry, booking encouraged

Recommended Age

Running Time

60 minute slots

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Partner Companies

Venue

Barnsley Civic

Performance Space

Basement

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