(re)visionLAND
dal 22/11/2001 al 22/12/2001
Segnalato da
22/11/2001
(re)visionLAND
The Changing Room, Stirling
The first UK solo show by Alejandra Salinas and Aeron Bergman, musicians / artists who live and work in Logrono, Spain, relocating from New York. With ‘(re)visionLAND’, their aim is to 'set up a puzzling situation of dialogue about landscape'. The work, including full size replication of English Garden scene (with sound), video works and traditional Spanish Belen christmas window scene, suggests subjects such as colonialism, foot and mouth and shaping of the land, but also talks about myth, and utopian images slipping (and surviving) in the cracks.
Alejandra & Aeron
‘(re)visionLAND’ is the first UK solo show by Alejandra Salinas and Aeron
Bergman, musicians / artists who live and work in Logrono, Spain, relocating
from New York, where they were married in a Chinatown church in 1997.
Since 1997, Alejandra & Aeron have operated the Lucky Kitchen record label,
subtly combining a fine art aesthetic of ideas through beautifully measured
home made packaging with a refreshingly off-the-cuff approach to realism in
their sound work. Describing their work as "electronic folk music",
Alejandra & Aeron bring an evocative human touch to the normally cold
formalist worlds of experimental music and sound based art.
With ‘(re)visionLAND’, their aim is to "set up a puzzling situation of
dialogue about landscape". Humans manipulate and posses land as if it were a
clay model.
The work, including full size replication of English Garden
scene (with sound), video works and traditional Spanish Belen christmas
window scene, suggests subjects such as colonialism, foot and mouth and
shaping of the land, but also talks about myth, and utopian images slipping
(and surviving) in the cracks.
Alejandra & Aeron have exhibited and performed internationally, releasing
sound works on record labels such as Fat Cat (UK), Audiobus (France), Tom
(Germany), Goodiepal (Denmark), Audioview (Belgium).
In addition to a
regular recording schedule, and film soundtrack work, their installation
"Bells Intervals" rang from the belltower of the Ex Teresa Contemporary Art
Museum in Mexico City this past July.
Their sound work entitled "Pueblos
Asolados, Underwater Villages" in the "Listening Pod" is currently
exhibiting at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris before moving onto the
Museum of Modern Art in Luxembourg in November 2001.
‘(Re)visionland’ is curated by Scottish artists collective Diskono, long
time collaborators with Alejandra & Aeron and funded by the Scottish Arts
Council through ‘International Projects in Scotland’ scheme.
-Alejandra and Aeron conjure a world that truly has to be seen--and
heard--to be believed.-
Philip Sherburne XL8R
GALLERY EVENTS
Alejandra & Aeron audio performance; exhibition ‘preview night’ 23rd
November 2001.
‘Sorry, I Couldn’t Be With You Tonight’;
two evenings of ‘film, sound and
image’ curated by Alejandra & Aeron (6th December, featuring films by Peter
Campus, Kenny Schachter, Susana Salinas, Anna Wilms, Karl Erickson a.o),
Diskono (13th December, featuring films by Semi Conductor, Mariola
Brillowska, Jan Van Den Dobblesteen, Danielle Lemaire, Felix Kubin a.o.)
Lucky Kitchen: http://www.luckykitchen.com
Diskono:
http://www.onoksid.freeserve.co.uk
For further information:
Diskono, c/o The Changing Room,
Tel / Fax : +44 (0) 1786 479361,
email diskono@lineone.net
The Changing Room
Contemporary Art Space
35 The Crawford Arcade, King Street,
Stirling, FK8 1AX
Tel / Fax / Ans : +44 (0) 1786 479361