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21/4/2004

Janet Cardiff: Walking thru

Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Wien

Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (T-B A21) opened its FIRST SPACE IN PROGRESS concept in Vienna and presents major installations representative of Janet Cardiff's works: To Touch (1993), Hillclimbing (1999), The Forty Part Motet (2001), House Burning (2001), and Feedback (2004) as well as new collages. The major audio work The Forty Part Motet will be exhibited at the renown Semperdepot in collaboration with the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

T-B A21 SPACE IN PROGRESS

With the SPACE IN PROGRESS, T-B A21 is creating a platform for contemporary art in Vienna, fulfilling the foundation's purpose of sharing its collection with the public and offering its resources to artists for production, display and critical commentary of their works of art. Far from the commercialized gallery setting or the institutional context of the museum and kunsthalle, SPACE IN PROGRESS redefines ways of exhibiting art in the art world's climate of changing parameters. T-B A21's permanent location in Vienna's city center is a 150 m2 space and acts as the nucleus of the foundation's activities, radiating out to locations, cities, and institutions within its programmatic reach.

Janet Cardiff: One exhibition - two locations - three senses: touch, sight, hearing

Janet Cardiff s work combines sound, movement and the environment. Her artworks, whether they are installations or walking pieces, are mainly audio based and integrate additional media including sound, lm, video and photography.

''I am interested in how and to what extent hearing can in uence our perception of the real world. We perceive our three-dimensional environment not only through our sense of sight but also through the nature of the sounds we hear. If these sounds are changed in some way, the effect on our perception of reality may be quite drastic. One might still be walking physically through a city and yet, through a manipulation of the sounds, have the feeling that one is in a forest.'' (Janet Cardiff)

With her audio-visual installations Janet Cardiff has taken an artistic direction which is not covered by the classical de nition of either sound art or spatial installation. Not only does she mix media, she also operates in a way that is interdisciplinary and involves video, radio drama, performance, installation and sculpture. In her audio and video works the Canadian artist examines audiovisual perception as well as the viewer s illusion. Her works indicate narrative themes while the three dimensional sound track allows the viewer to become part of the events and the surrounding space is transformed into a place of acoustic and visual projection.

In addition, a collector's catalogue - including a CD ''walk through the book'' - focusing on Cardiff's legendary Walks will be released specially for the occasion. The catalogue, edited by Mirjam Schaub was commissioned and published by T-B A21 and is distributed by the Walther König Verlag, Cologne.

T-B A21 Space in Progress
Himmelpfortgasse 13/9 1010 Vienna, Austria
Opening times Tues Sat 12 a.m. 7 p.m.
Closed Holidays May 1, May 20, May 29, June 10
Admission free

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