William Furlong
dal 4/12/2002 al 19/1/2003
Segnalato da
4/12/2002
William Furlong
South London Gallery SLG, London
To Hear Yourself as Others Hear You. In this new work created for SLG, the voices heard are drawn from the past 30 years of Audio Arts. Resonant fragments of sentences, words, hesitations, the said and the unsaid, uhms and ahs are mapped and choreographed into the gallery. The sounds are heard from 32 speakers installed just above head height on a tracery of taut wires stretched across and along the gallery.
TO HEAR YOURSELF AS OTHERS HEAR YOU
In this new work created for SLG, the voices heard are drawn from the past 30
years of Audio Arts. Resonant fragments of sentences, words, hesitations, the
said and the unsaid, uhms and ahs are mapped and choreographed into the gallery.
The sounds are heard from 32 speakers installed just above head height on a
tracery of taut wires stretched across and along the gallery. The voices and
sounds heard will encourage movement around the gallery as particular auditory
focuses will occur in different parts of the space.
Come and See is a further work, installed in the entrance to the gallery, which
through voice recording explores local issues, ideas, identity and
preoccupation, constructed from the words and sounds of Camberwell and Peckham
residents. From school children to picketing firemen and market stall holders a
diverse range of opinions and experiences are documented.
In this new solo exhibition William Furlong has used primary and incidental sounds from the Audio Arts' archive to create a chorus of audible incidents, pauses and traces in choreographed sequences for an installation spanning the gallery. The ebb and flow of voices around the gallery creates a constantly shifting acoustic environment, which requires the visitor to move under a taut network of wires and speakers situated just above head height.
Alongside this major installation Furlong will be presenting a new commission especially made for the South London Gallery collection and funded by the Contemporary Arts Society. Taking the local area and its inhabitants as a theme, Furlong will be interviewing residents of Camberwell and Peckham, juxtaposing their views and attitudes towards South London.
Since 1973 William Furlong has been producing Audio Arts Magazine on cassette, which he describes as, "a primary medium and space for the articulation and dissemination of debate, theory and practice in relation to contemporary art." Over some 30 years Audio Arts has become an unprecedented archive of recordings made with over 300 of the best known contemporary artists, musicians, curators and critics, from Andy Warhol to Tracey Emin, Liam Gillick, Anish Kapoor, Joseph Beuys, Gilbert & George, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Matthew Collings to Yoko Ono.
Private View
Thursday 5 December 6.30-8.30pm
Fri 6 December until Sun 19 January
For press information, images or to arrange artist interviews, please contact Richard Thompson at the SLG on 020 7703 6120 or via e-mail at
richard@southlondongallery.org
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65 Peckham Road - SE5 8UH
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