Sound Still
UCT Irma Stern Museum 29 August - 16 September 2006
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Katherine Glenday
curator
Curating this exhibition signals new dimensions in the creative journey for me.
Our various collaborations have expanded and amplified our respective understandings and ways of working in an extraordinary way.
The resultant work carries each one of our 'thumbprints' intact and honed, while encompassing the harmonics of a wider field of interconnection and belonging.
It is people that are the most magnificent of art works and none of us stands alone and nothing that we do is in isolation. As artists we engage profoundly with 'meaning' and enliven each other and the world. As a group we have learned much about ourselves and each other.
It has been enormously stimulating to be a part of this wonderful group.
Claire Beynon (New Zealand)
works on paper
I have long been interested in liminal spaces and in the particular concentration of energy that exists between, behind, beneath and around sound. Having recently spent eight weeks in a remote field camp in Antarctica, my most recent work explores the profound silence and 'non-silence' of that place. Whilst there, I wrote in a notebook "rare sounds abound in these places where wind is dressed in white... 'Antarctica has become a geographical metaphor for what I believe our 'civilized' world has largely lost - namely, stillness.
Christina Bryer
Porcelain works
christinabryer.com
Evident from nature are the memories of bone and carapace.
Evident from art are the forms of decorated platter and mandala.
While the surface pattern of my work derives from a geometric grid of aperiodicity and mathematical precision, my working process is intuitive and meditative and carries the imprint of handwork and a memory of traditional woman's craft. Each plate takes a whole day to make and the final submission to the kiln is a gesture of faith to the transforming forces of white-hot fire.
Lore Heuermann (Austria)
performance works on paper
http://www.loreheuermann.at/
Lore Heuermann has exhibited extensively in many parts of the world. She draws the human figure in motion on long rolls of Japanese house paper. This work is often carried out as a meditative performance. She will be doing two performances with musician, Neo Muyanga at the Irma Stern Museum. Her rhythmical brush strokes 'spell out' the human figure in motion, transforming it into states of pure sign. In a sense she brings a new calligraphy which interestingly she has exhibited and performed to great acclaim in both China and Japan.
Katherine Glenday
porcelain installations
it is
because
I throw my heart
down into these fingers of clay
and pull up a song, that it flies…
Spinning with the fire-flying atoms,
tossing out stones and sand,
crashing these foaming waves
back to the trilling green
of growth…
Now
is all.
Mirjam Macleod
process artist
I am a process orientated art facilitator. My interest is in exploring the 'marks' that sound through a creative group interaction. I was asked to do a process with this group of artists in order to explore and document the group impulse. There is a resonance or 'field' in every group with a particular residue which distils. We worked for a set period of time making monoprints out of spontaneous marks on paper and clay, and then set them down together.
Neo Muyanga
musician
www.neosong.net
Neo Muyanga is a Soweto-born composer and musician, now living in Cape Town. His works straddle the categories of the traditional, the popular and the orchestral; often simultaneously leaning on more than one of these at a time.
The main inspiration for his music tends to be a journeying towards an ever greater understanding of the ties that bind all things.
Neo will be playing his new compositions with porcelain 'bell' vessels and working in conjunction with Lore Heuermann.
Lyn Smuts
works on paper and porcelain
My initial interest in oceanographic sonar printouts led to experimentation with the visualization of sound. Having developed a personal way of playing Chladni vibrational patterns on metal, this collaborative exhibition offers an exploration of shared energies. Porcelain pages carrying the fleeting structures of vibrational sound and nodes of silence have been produced.
John Turest Swartz
video installation and soundscape
www.cama.org.za
John Turest Swartz ~ musician and photographer, is currently engaged in heritage recordings of the music and dance of marginalized and rural communities in Southern Africa. .He is making a soundscape of 'generative music' to accompany the exhibition, which is based on forms and processes utilized by Katherine Glenday and Lyn Smuts in their collaborative work. He is also creating a related video installation for the exhibition, in collaboration with Robert Hofmeyr.
REMIX
Contemporary Dance Company
www.remixdancecompany.co.za
Remix Dance Company is a leading-edge integrated contemporary dance company in South Africa. Remix creates innovative thought-provoking contemporary dance performances and delivers education programmes which bring together people with different physical abilities.
Nicola Visser, director
"Performing this piece (Second Time Broken) is to drop through to the underside of quiet where silence is full and wholeness is a trick of the light"
"Second Time Broken"
Choreographed by Adam Benjamin with porcelain vessels by Katherine Glenday
original musical score by Neo Muyanga.