Friday, June 19, 2009

De Fenestrated Performance 0.2

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A studio presentation of Three Sketches in the mediums of light and sound.
June 16 @ Studio A7, Radesingel 6.
Drinks and conversation beginning 22:00.
Performance starts 23:00
with:
Þóra Margrét Sveinsdóttir - Viola
René van Munster - Cello
DJ KnoKno - turntable, electric guitar
Mix Master Mike - video/audio mixing
and special guest,
Jan Klug

De Fenestrated Performance 0.1

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A studio presentation of Three Sketches in the mediums of light and sound.
June 16 @ Studio A7, Radesingel 6.
Drinks and conversation beginning 22:00.
Performance starts 23:00
with:
Þóra Margrét Sveinsdóttir - Viola
René van Munster - Cello
DJ KnoKno - turntable, electric guitar
Mix Master Mike - video/audio mixing
and special guest,
Jan Klug

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Justin Bennett: guest-teacher iME

Justin Bennett (b. 1964) is regarded as one of the leading sound artists currently working in the Netherlands. His work charts the sounds of everyday life. In his first one-man museum exhibition, Bennett will show a selection of work produced over the last fifteen years, including a number of sound sculptures never previously presented to the public.


Bennett grew up in Great Britain, but came to the Netherlands in the late eighties to study sonology at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. This was followed by graduate research at the Jan van Eyk Academy in Maastricht. Since then he has lived and worked in The Hague and Barcelona. As a sound artist, Bennett is chiefly active outside the mainstream museum and gallery circuit. He makes interventions in public spaces, exhibits in the context of artists’ initiatives, presents his sound sculptures during festivals and in theatres, and records his work in the form of limited-edition vinyl records, CDs and videos. In this form, examples of his work have been included for some time in the Gemeentemuseum’s city collection. Noise Map will give visitors to the GEM an opportunity to experience the diversity of Bennett’s work. The majority of his sound installations are subdued and minimalistic. Beirut Story (2004), for example, is a record of the everyday sounds of Beirut, magically blended with material from a local radio channel and accompanied by a series of slides. In Crystal radio, made in the same year, heavily distorted sounds are disseminated via resonating glass bowls set out on the floor, creating an illusion of space. His earlier Soundhouse (1998) consists of a structure built of PVC tubing ending in funnels. If you put the funnels to your ear, you hear fragments of various conversations between a man and a woman. Specially for this exhibition, Bennett is creating a new soundscape condensing sounds of urban life over a 24-hour period to produce a succinct composition. In a text entitled ‘Let there be noise’ (2003), Bennett has explained his preoccupation with sound as follows: ‘Noise is the sand between your toes, the kink in the cable, the music that keeps you awake and the sea that lulls you to sleep. Noise is accident, chance and luck. Noise is the vibration of life itself’.
(text:
GEM, Museum of Contemporary Art)

Justin Bennett