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24/6/2013

Sounding The Body Electric

Calvert 22, London

Sounding The Body Electric: Experiments in Art and Music in Eastern Europe 1957–1984 is an exhibition on the first experimental approaches to sound and image in Eastern Europe during the 60s and the decades that followed, featuring artworks and recordings by Fluxus artist Milan Knižák, plus works by Sots-Artists Komar & Melamid, Hungarian artist Dóra Maurer and composer Zoltán Jeney.

In the aftermath of Stalinism, composers and artists in Eastern Europe were given new opportunities to experiment. New recording studios equipped with magnetic tape recorders and, later, synthesisers were established, first inWarsaw in 1957 and then throughout Eastern Europe. New and often challenging forms of music were produced in these laboratories of sound.

The connections between the visual arts and experimental music were closer in the 1960s than perhaps any time before or since. Sound and image combined in artists’ films, ‘happenings’ and sounding installations. Experimental forms of notation were also created to stimulate uninhibited musical expression.

The early happenings and actions of the 1960s were associated with intellectual freedom and reform. The exhilaration of experimentation declined during the decade and in the 1970s new critical forms of art emerged which associated sound with surveillance and censorship.

This exhibition explores both the optimism and the anxiety that was to be found in the experimental zone of art and music.

Curated by David Crowley and Daniel Muzyczuk

Artists: Walerian Borowczyk, Collective Actions, Andrzej Dłużniewski, Szábolcs Esztényi, Bulat Galeyev, Milan Grygar, Zofia & Oskar Hansen, Zoltán Jeney, Milan Knížák, Grzegorz Kowalski, Zygmunt Krauze, Komar & Melamid, Katalin Ladik, Jan Lenica, Dóra Maurer, Henryk Morel, Vladan Radovanović, Józef Robakowski, Eugeniusz Rudnik, Bogusław Schaeffer,Cezary Szubartowski, László Vidovszky, Krzysztof Wodiczko

A double-CD of recordings of works in the show will be issued by Bólt Records.

Sounding The Body Electric: Experiments in Art and Music in Eastern Europe 1957–1984 was first shown at the Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz from June – August 2012.

In cooperation with Muzeum Sztuki

Thursday 27 June, 7pm
Curating Sound
The panel considers the conceptual and practical challenges that arise when working with sound-based practices in visual arts spaces.
Panellists include David Crowley and Daniel Muzyczuk, Curators of Sounding the Body Electric: Experiments in Art And Music in Eastern Europe 1957–1984; Aura Satz, artist; Nathaniel Budzinski, Editor, Cross Platform Section, The Wire magazine; chaired by Lina Džuverović, Artistic Director, Calvert 22 Foundation

Thu 11 July, 2013 Door Times : 8pm
THE WIRE SALON: In the Experimental Zone: Art and Music in Eastern Europe in the 1960s and 70s
David Crowley, one of the curators of Sounding The Body Electric: Experiments In Art And Music In Eastern Europe 1957-1984, will explore the politics of experimentation in Eastern Europe during the 1960s and 1970s. The talk will focus on the sound works of Krzysztof Wodiczko, Milan Knížák, Zygmunt Krauze, Dóra Maurer, Zoltán Jeney, the Bosch + Bosch Group and others, and will be illustrated with audio and film clips.
This event is organized in collaboration with The Wire magazine and will take place at Cafe OTO

For furter informations please contact:
Penny Sychrava PR pennysychrava@hotmail.com 07967 915339
Lesya Myata, C22 lesya@calvert22.org

Private view june 25

Calvert 22 Foundation
22 Calvert Avenue, London, E2 7JP
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