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9/11/2005

Her Noise

South London Gallery SLG, London

Kim Gordon, Emma Hedditch, Christina Kubisch, Kaffe Matthews, Hayley Newman

Curated by Lina Dzuverovic Russell & Anne Hilde Neset

Her Noise is an exhibition featuring five newly commissioned works by international artists whose practice shares the use of sound as a medium to investigate social relations, inspire action or uncover hidden soundscapes.

New works by Kim Gordon; Emma Hedditch; Christina Kubisch; Kaffe Matthews and Hayley Newman all involve high levels of participation and are set in motion only when used by visitors or performers forming a base for events, live music and performances.

In ‘Reverse Karaoke’ Kim Gordon aims to demystify the process of music making. Drawing on the DIY nature of her musical history with her band Sonic Youth, Gordon invites visitors to record their own track using samples of her voice and music.

In her installation 'Mini Flux', London-based artist Hayley Newman tries to reproduce, in miniature, every object used in the Sixties Fluxus movement's musical scores. Installed with an accompanying list; objects as diverse as a wolf, flag and egg will be represented in this assortment. Invited artists have been asked to re-interpret this list in a series of impromptu performances inspired by everyday objects referenced in Fluxus scores.

Christina Kubisch has developed two works. Her installation at the South London Gallery introduces into a small room a spiderweb of black electrical cables in which by wearing a special electromagnetic headphone the public can receive the sounds of electroacoustic fields collected from all over the world by Kubisch. Her second piece, West End Electrical Walks, allows visitors to discover these sounds for themselves by picking up headphones from the Goethe-Institut and following a map of the surrounding area.

In Kaffe Matthews’s ‘Sonic Bed, Menu Of Five Pleasures’ the visitor becomes physically affected by a spectrum of sound vibrations emanating from above and below while lying on Matthew’s sensuous sonic bed. The visitor can freely test out five different pleasure modes.

In ‘We're Alive, Let's Meet’, London based artist Emma Hedditch uses all the spaces in the exhibition as a starting point to explore the relation between historical acts, ways of forming collaborations, and ways in which this information transforms and inspires us into acting, making performances, making and recording sounds.

Hedditch has also worked collaboratively with the show’s curators to combine a research area, listening posts and a viewing space filled with documentation of both historical and contemporary luminaries working in the field of sound installation and performance.

The space will contain books, fanzines, catalogues as well as exclusive on camera interviews and concert footage with artists including Pauline Oliveros, Maryanne Amacher, Diamanda Galas, Marina Rosenfeld, Thurston Moore, Kevin Blechdom, Kembra Pfahler, Kim Gordon, Lydia Lunch, Peaches and many others filmed in the process of developing HER NOISE and aimed at forming a research archive which will become publicly accessible in London after the end of the HER NOISE tour.

Her Noise is being developed in parallel with ‘Other Women: Women in Avant-Garde Music’ - a video project by artist Andrew Kesin in collaboration with Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth. Footage from ‘Other Women’ will be available for viewing in the Her Noise research area.

Her Noise is curated by Electra and is co-produced by Electra and Forma.

Opening: November 10 th

South London Gallery
65 Peckham Road - London

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