[Nettime-bold] Sound in Art - Gallery Priestor for Contemporary Arts

Gallery Priestor for Contemporary Arts

have a pleasure to invite you to the exhibition

Sound in Art

Marc Behrens /D/, Monogramista T.D. /SK/
Marko Peljhan /SLO/, Susan Philipsz /UK/
Marjetica Potrc /SLO/, Carina Randlov /DK/
Egill Saebjornsson /IS/, Scanner+Tonne /UK/

curator: Natasa Petresin /SLO/

opening: 7th December 2001 at 5 pm
address: Somolickeho 1/B, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

opening program:
5.30 pm Marc Behrens - performance
parallel program:
7th December - Buryzone, Cajakova ul. 11
7pm - Egill Saebjörnsson - sound event
8pm - Presentation of Apsolutno group
9pm – Closing party

exhibition lasts till: 16th December 2001
more info: www.publicis.sk/priestor

In the age of new technologies, evolving new media and tactics in contemporary art, so called sound art or practice of introducing aural dimensions into visual arts has confronted a revival of its characteristics. We can trace its roots back to early 20th century into the Futurist and Dada movement and find its most important realisations in the 60ies with the breakthrough of the neo-avantgarde in the form of John Cage, Nam June Paik and Laurie Anderson, and continue to find its connectedness with contemporary experimental and electronica music from 80ies until now.

In exhibited projects the participating artists are developing subjective relationships with sound. I was interested to display as broad and various spectrum of sound art works as possible. These include 'silent' pieces (Monogramista T.D., Susan Philipsz), web-based art works (Marjetica Potrè, Scanner+Tonne), sound installation (Marc Behrens), music video (Egill Saebjörnsson ) and installation and video ambience that include sound as its most constitutive element (Marko Peljhan, Carina Randlov).

Natasa Petresin

Websites: Marc Behrens - www.mbehrens.com, Marko Peljhan - makrolab.ljudmila.org,
Marjetica Potrè - www.potrc.org, Egill Saebjörnsson - www.egill.org, Scanner - www.scannerdot.com, Tonne - www.tonne.org.uk

Thanks for support:
Publicis Knut, Spinner, Palisády s.r.o, Daimler-Chrysler, SME,
Danish Contemporary Art Foundation, Aena d.o.o., Brocadero d.o.o., Velvyslanectvo Republiky Slovinsko