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13/7/2010

Projections Series

Musee d'art contemporain de Montreal MACM, Montreal

From the “true” video clip commissioned from an artist by a pop star (or musician friend) to an artistic practice suffused with a pop aesthetic and sensibility, the connections between the visual arts and music are manifold and often very close: many visual artists are also musicians. A memorable event here at the Musée was the concert given by the Rodney Graham Band, in October 2006, for the opening of the exhibition Rodney Graham.

As far back as the late 1970s, Graham joined with Jeff Wall and Ian Wallace to form UJ3RK5, a “new-wave-art-rock” group that grew to cult status on the Canadian music scene. Around the same time, Robert Longo, leader and guitarist with the Menthol Wars, was playing the New York clubs with Richard Prince. Tony Oursler was part of the Poetics with Mike Kelley; Oursler also performed with the noisy, post-rock band Sonic Youth.

Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist sang and played with the group Les Reines Prochaines from 1988 to 1994. In the latter year, Martin Creed, who went on to win the Turner Prize in 2001, formed the band Owada, in which he played guitar and sang lead vocals. On YouTube, in a performance recorded in New York in 2007, Creed expressed his feeling of being torn between the visual arts and music: “When I’m doing music work I want to do visual work, and when I’m doing visual work I want to do music.”

In France, the output of Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, 2002 winner of the Prix Marcel Duchamp, also includes concert performances and videos following artists on tour, including Alain Bashung’s 2003 tour, for which she made the “clip” Bill & Jane in 2007.

This fifth Music Video program offers an international selection of visual artists whose interest in music forms an important component of their work and who, in various ways, have drawn on the pop aesthetic for the vocabulary and even the inspiration of their creations.

PROGRAM

Pipilotti Rist, I’m a Victim of This Song, 1995, 5 min 6s
Courtesy of Pipilotti Rist and EAI Electronic Arts Intermix
Original song: Wicked Game, Chris Isaak, 1989

Rineke Dijkstra, Annemiek, 1997 4, min
Courtesy of Rineke Dijkstra and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York/Paris
Original song: I Wanna Be with You, Backstreet Boys, 1996, Jive records

Rodney Graham, A Little Thought, 2000, 3 min 54s
Courtesy of Rodney Graham and 303 Gallery, New York.

Sam Taylor Wood, Elton John: I Want Love, with Robert Downey Jr. 2001, 4min 38s
Courtesy of Sam Taylor Wood and White Cube
Words and Music by Elton John, Bernie Taupin ©Universal-Songs of Polygram Int., Inc. on behalf of HST MGT.Ltd/Universal-Polygram Int.,Publi.,Inc. on behalf of Rouge Booze Inc. *Licensed by AVLA

Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, Live to Tell, 2002, 6 min
Courtesy of Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay
Original song: Madonna, True Blue album, 1986

Pascal Grandmaison, Les yeux tout autour de la tête, Jérôme Minière, 2002, 4 min 38 s
Courtesy of Pascal Grandmaison
Les éditions La Tribu and Suzie Larivée

Johanna Billing, You Don’t Love Me Yet, 2003, 7 min 43 s
Courtesy of Johanna Billing
Original song: Roky Erickson, published by R. Erickson, 1984

Doug Aitken, Someone Great, LCD Soundsystem, 2007 3min 50s
Courtesy of Doug Aitken
Doug Aitken Workshop/EMI Records Ltd *Licensed by AVLA

Dominique T Skoltz, dislocK_ 1, 2009, 3 min 5s
Courtesy of Dominique T Skoltz and Patrick Watson
Song: Wooden Arms, Patrick Watson, Secret City records, 2009

Dominique T Skoltz, dislock_ 3, 2009, 1 min 41 s
Courtesy of Dominique T Skoltz and Félicia Atkinson
Song: No Wedding, Félicia Atkinson, Spekk records, 2009

Patrick Daughters and Marcel Dzama, No One Does It Like You,
Department of Eagles, 2009, 3 min 57 s
Courtesy of Marcel Dzama
The Directors Bureau / EMI Records Ltd *Licensed by AVLA

Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay and Aleesa Cohene, The Same Problem, 2009, 4 min 5 s
Courtesy of Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay and Aleesa Cohene

Press contact:
Danielle Legentil, MACM Public Relations Coordinator Tel.: 514.847.6232
danielle.legentil@macm.org

Image: Dominique T. Skoltz, Dislock, 2009
Courtesy the artist

Opening 14 July 2010

Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal
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