Date : 07 February 2006
While Interwoven Echoes Drip into a Hybrid
Body
- an Exhibition about Sound, Performance and Sculpture
Rita Ackermann & Agathe Snow, Dave Allen, Peter Coffin, Chris Cunningham &
Björk, Delia Gonzalez & Gavin R. Russom, Paul Etienne Lincoln, Mileece*,
Seb Patane, Banks Violette
Curators Heike Munder and Raphael Gygax. An exhibition catalogue will be published.
21st January - 26th March 2006 - Migros Museum, Zurich
As early as the 1920s, German avant garde film makers attempted to visualise music
- detached from its static, two dimensional limits - and anchor it in the fourth
dimension. This "eye music" ("Augenmusik") constructed a unity
between image and sound information, and can be seen as the breeding ground for the
development of the comprehensive audio-visual spatial experience of multi-media installations.
The exhibition takes up this tradition and has as its theme the amalgamation of art
and sound. Occupied as it is by hybrid music sculptures and videos the white cube
itself becomes a huge sound body receptacle.
In recent times, the use of electronic music has precipitated an increase in the
fusion between performance art and sculpture, resulting in the emergence of new hybrid
forms. In these terms sound is liberated from its peripheral status as a prop for
performance or video art, and can assert its own autonomy within this new formation.
Furthermore, "sound sculptures" displayed in the group exhibition proclaim
an entirely new, form-appropriate, sculptural definition.
Loozoo cooperated with dance floor sculptur
Seb Patane, composing the music for Absolute Körperkontrolle (2006)
Wooden stage, Speakers, DVD on monitor, Inkjet print on canvas, sound (in cooperation
with Loozoo)
Seb Patane's dance floor sculpture based on 1950s design, takes as its subject the
relationship between music and body culture in a theatrical manner. Since the advent
of electronic music and club culture, dance - as an activity in an anonymous crowd
- has become a high performance act incorporating fitness. This interest in the anonymous
theatrical body is already revealed in his drawings based on illustrations from "theatre
gossip magazines" at the turn of the century.
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