Whitechapel Gallery Special Event: The Voice and the Lens
Sunday 15
June 2014, 12.00 pm – 6.00 pm
Booking essential.
£12.50 / £10.00 concessions (£10.50 Whitechapel Gallery Members, £ 8.40 Whitechapel
Gallery Concession Members). *Proof of concessions and membership to be
shown on the door.
The Voice and the Lens is a festival exploring the
treasures of the human voice, conjured up for our eyes through film and
performance. Over three days, the programme features works by 55 artists,
musicians and film-makers, ranging from classics to recent and brand new works.
For the festival finale, the
Whitechapel Gallery hosts an afternoon of films and performances by 20 artists.
Highlights include: Bill Viola’s Anthem; Bruce McLean and Adam de la
Cour’s Drumstick; Anri Sala’s Answer Me; Robert Ashley’s
classic Atalanta Strategy; recent
work by Imogen Stidworthy, Helen Petts, Laure Prouvost and Lina
Lapelyte; and specially-made new work by AMAE and Pier Giorgio De
Pinto with philosopher Jean-Luc
Nancy.
The relationship between the voice
and the camera is a filter through which we explore a number of linked ideas,
in particular: sound and image; original and copy; liveness and mediation;
presence and absence. And it ultimately stages the relationship between
different ways of experiencing and constructing individual and collective
self-identities.
12.00 pm
Introduction
by the curators
Sam
Taylor-Johnson, Mute, 2001
Extract
from David Lynch, Mulholland Drive,
2001
Bruce
McLean and Adam de la Cour, Drumstick, 2012
Sepideh
Saii, Behind The Scene, 2010
Neil Luck and Fiona
Bevan, Gaze, 2012
1.00 pm
Break.
Elsewhere in the galleries artist Simon
Lewandowski demonstrates and performs with his automatic voice machines
2.00 pm
Imogen Stidworthy: In conversation...
Adam de la Cour performing: Mauricio Kagel, Con Voce, 1972
Anri Sala, Answer Me, 2008
3.00 pm
AMAE and Pier
Giorgio De Pinto with Jean Luc Nancy, 58(+1) Indices on the body, 2014
Sam
Belinfante, Focus, 2012
Lina Lapelye, Dearest!,
2014
Laure
Prouvost, It, Heat, Hit, 2010
4.00 pm
Bill Viola, Anthem,
1983
Dante Rendle Traynor, Travel, song, singing, screen, voice, silly: a new work?, 2014
Helen
Petts, with Phil Minton and Ute Wassermann, The
Cutty Wren, 2009; Ute on the marshes,
2010
Robert
Ashley, Atalanta Strategy, 1984
5.00 pm
Mikhail
Karikis with Adam de la Cour, 102 Years
Out of Sync, 2013
The Voice and the Lens was first developed at the Ikon
Gallery, Birmingham, with support from Sound and Music, the PRS for Music
Foundation, Birmingham City University, and from the Institute for Musical
Research. Supported by Arts Council England.
Information at: info@whitechapelgallery.org
In
association with Sam Belinfante and Ed McKeon (Third Ear).
