Brutus x IFFR: Temporary Pleasure

An Uaimh Bhinn (“The Sweet Sounding Cave”) is a multidisciplinary project by artist and spatial sound composer Lugh O’Neill and experimental collective Temporary Pleasure. At its core is an installation featuring a performance among the basalt columns of Fingal’s Cave, a natural wonder on Scotland’s Isle of Staffa, famed for its cathedral-like acoustics and mythical ties to an ancient giant’s bridge.

Curated by Orpheu de Jong, a pivotal figure in Amsterdam’s music scene, the exhibition transforms the space into a dynamic environment for innovative music and performance. Shifting between exhibition, installation, and stage, it offers a constantly evolving acoustic and spatial experience.

As a continuation of our collaboration with Brutus, this edition of IFFR features two extraordinary nights of performances. For the second event Temporary Pleasure has produced a live show to demonstrate the staging capabilities of scenography through choreography, alongside Rat Section who’s very tailored and site specific performances marry choreography and space in a highly characteristic manner.

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About the artists:

The Temporary Pleasure event/performance draws a connection between Lugh’s exploration of ancient sonic culture and the connection of ancient and modern ritual spaces and modern club culture. Inspired by the stone circle – one of the earliest forms of celebratory spaces – the design reimagines this ancient structure through the lens of modern club and dance floor culture.
 An immersive dance floor experience that takes advantage of the 360° spatial audio system, allowing sound and light to move unpredictably and transform the space into a living, evolving experience where everyone becomes part of the performance.
 The result is a dynamic, immersive environment that blends ancient celebration with contemporary ritual, where sound, light, architecture, choreography, and dance floor energy converge to create a new type of ritual space.

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Rat Section are a music and performance act currently based in London. Formerly active 1989–2001, their recent reemergence came in the form of What Stays In Vegas via Halcyon Veil in November 2023 – the first album from Rat Section since the late 90s. Known for placing emphasis on choreography, set design and tailoring each performance to the space has seen them present: Splash Zone, a water based installation at Ormside Projects and 47 Lines Of Vision a modular curtain set up developed during their month long residency at Scythe, Melbourne. If Even For A Moment, The Sax Melts Our Worries Away is a theatre piece and video work that has been shown at galleries in Malmo, London and New York.