Hannah Rickards
dal 7/5/2007 al 16/6/2007
Segnalato da
7/5/2007
Hannah Rickards
The Showroom (old venue), London
The artist presents an exhibition based upon her recent research trip to Alaska and Canada, collecting verbal accounts from the small number of people who have perceived the visual phenomenon of the Northern Lights as being accompanied by a sound.
Solo show
The sound I think it makes is, is that whispering sound, to me it sounds, it almost sounds, um, uh, what's the word I'm thinking? Um, like historic, not historic, but, um, oh: a legend, it, it sounds like a legend, you know, when you think of a legend or something way back in the past you get that, that, it sounds like that to me, like this legend or somebody's, this whispering sound: it's a legend.
The Showroom is delighted to announce the first solo show in London by Hannah Rickards. For The Showroom, Rickards will present an exhibition based upon her recent research trip to Alaska and Canada, collecting verbal accounts from the small number of people who have perceived the visual phenomenon of the Northern Lights as being accompanied by a sound.
This research is a continuation of Rickards' interest in the verbal or non-verbal reconstruction of sound-related phenomena. Her practice most commonly revolves around a process of translation. This has, in the past, involved the movement of a sound, such as birdsong or a thunderclap, to the point where it is able to be replicated or reconstructed by other means, in these cases a human voice or an ensemble of orchestral instruments.
Biographical notes
Hannah Rickards graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2002. This will be her first solo show in London.
Rickards' latest work, Thunder (2005), commissioned by Media Art Bath, was installed at Central Reformed Church, Bath, and also featured in Live Art at the South London Gallery – Hannah Rickards: Thunder / Phil Coy: Test Signal, South London Gallery, London.
Rickards has also been included in a number of group shows: The Elementary Particles (paperback edition), Standard, Oslo, Don Quijote, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, and Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2003, London and Manchester.
During her trip to North America Rickards was assisted in her research by Dirk Lummerzheim, a Research Professor in Space Physics and Aeronomy at the Geophysical Institute of Alaska in Fairbanks who has lectured on the subject of Aurorally Associated Sound.
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