STUART BRISLEY, Perforating

Perforating

Digital sound

A new sound work in

«L’EXPOSITION D'UN FILM» – A FILM BY MATHIEU COPELAND

BIENNALE OF MOVING IMAGES 2014

CENTRE D'ART CONTEMPORAIN GENEVE

18 September - 23 November 2014

www.centre.ch

 

Taking its construct both within the reality of a film and its medium, The Exhibition of a Film (L'Exposition d'un film) envisages through a polyphony of sound and images the possible textures offered by the cinematic environment. The time of the film stems from the spatial ad-equation of a projected image and of a sound heard. The film's spatialization defines its different textures, and thus creates an exhibition both to be seen and listened to, in other words, a cinematic experience. An exhibition for a context, namely a film screened in a cinema, which is as much an exhibited film as the film of an exhibition or a filmed exhibition.

Working within its own abstraction, this exhibition as a feature film plays with the spatialization of sound, and its polyphony in space. It envisages the unicity of the image and its possible fragmentation on the screen. This exhibition considers its structure as its material, and is constructed by the alternating and confronting of abstract elements and/or filmed scenes. The Exhibition of a Film aims at being something other than a structuralist 'epic', or a suite of artist's short films one after the other. Instead, each layer is constitutive of the whole, becoming a potential field of action.

The Exhibition of a Film (L'Exposition d'un film) features, among others, Mac Adams, Fia Backström, Robert Barry, Erica Baum, Madeleine Botet de Lacaze, Stuart Brisley, Jonathan Burrows, Brad Butler & Karen Mirza, Nick Cave, David Cunningham, Philippe Decrauzat, Peter Downsbrough, Maria Eichhorn, F.M. Einheit, Tim Etchells, Alexandre Estrella, Cerith Wyn Evans, John Giorno, Sam Gleaves, Kenneth Goldsmith, Myriam Gourfink, Philippe Grandrieux, Karl Holmqvist, Marie-Caroline Hominal, Vlatka Horvat, Myriam Lefkowitz, Franck Leibovici, Benoit Maire, Charles de Meaux, Ieva Misevičiūtė, Meredith Monk, Charlotte Moth, Phill Niblock, Jim O'Rourke, Deborah Pearson, Vanessa Place, Michael Portnoy, Lee Ranaldo, Laetitia Sadier, Laurent Schmid, Leah Singer, Mieko Shiomi, Susan Stenger, Sofia Diaz + Vitor Roriz, Kasper T. Toeplitz, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Daniel Turner, Alan Vega, Lawrence Weiner...

 

A production of the HEAD – Genève, with the support of the Fonds stratégique HES-SO