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25/9/2007

Paul Pfeiffer

Artangel, London

In a vast empty building which stands in the shadow of the new stadium, The Saints celebrates one vital element of the stadium - the crowd. Pfeiffer is intrigued by the multitudes who flock to the stadium to watch and worship, to lose themselves and find themselves in mass communion with their heroes on the field of play.


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The Saints

A major new sound and video installation
WEMBLEY

The opening of the new Wembley Stadium in 2007 is the catalyst for a major new sound and video installation for Artangel by leading US artist Paul Pfeiffer. Presented in a vast empty building which stands in the shadow of the new stadium, The Saints celebrates one vital element of the stadium – the crowd. Pfeiffer is intrigued by the multitudes who flock to the stadium to watch and worship, to lose themselves and find themselves in mass communion with their heroes on the field of play.

The sounds of the crowd cheering and chanting and praying sweep around the site – Rule Britannia, Deutschland über Alles, When the Saints Go Marching In – mix with the chants of the names of individual footballers... Bobby Moore... Nobby Stiles... It is the noise of the crowd at the most famous sporting event ever staged in Britain, the 1966 World Cup Final between England and Germany. The huge arena of the installation reverberates with the sound of Wembley's history – the soundtrack to a now phantom spectacle.

Video projections in the space reveal a surprising source for the some of the sounds. Pfeiffer has outsourced a cover version of the 1966 Final to a new and distant multitude. A crowd of young Filipinos has been brought together in Manila, an outpost of a different Empire, to chant and cheer their way through the 1966 soundtrack.

Somewhere in the middle of all this sound and fury, a solitary figure runs this way and that to no apparent purpose on an otherwise empty pitch, lost before the crowd...

For further information or images please contact Janette Scott on
+44 (0)7713 1400 Janette@artangel.org.uk

Opening 26 september 2007

The Junction, Engineers Way, Wembley, London
Free Admission

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