New Event

'Her Noise' is an exhibition featuring five newly commissioned installations by international artists whose practice shares the use of sound as a medium to investigate social relations, inspire action or uncover hidden soundscapes. New installations by Kim Gordon; Emma Hedditch; Christina Kubisch; Kaffe Matthews and Haley Newman all involve high levels of participation and are set in motion only when used by visitors or performers forming a base of events, live music and performances.

Kim Gordon aims to demystify the process of music making. Drawing on the DIY nature of her musical history with her band Sonic Youth, Gordon invites visitors to record their own track using samples of her voice and music.

British artist Hayley Newman reproduces, in miniature, every object ever used in the Sixties Fluxus movement's musical scores. The installation becomes a score in itself through Newman's invitation to guest artists to host impromptu performances using the objects.

Berlin based Christina Kubisch has for many years been developing 'electrical walks' which make audible the otherwise undetectable sound waves generated by the electromagnetic signals that surround us. Visitors are invited to put on Kubisch’s headphones and walk in order to experience the hidden soundscapes of the area.

While lying on Kaffe Matthews’ ‘Sonic Bed: Menu Of Five Pleasures’ the visitor becomes physically affected by a spectrum of sound vibrations emanating from above and below and selected from five different sensual modes on offer.

In ‘We’re Alive, Let’s Meet’, London based, Emma Hedditch uses the spaces in the exhibition as meeting points to discuss and explore the relationships between historical acts, ways of forming collaborations, and ways in which we are inspired to perform and record sound.

HER NOISE opens with Marina Rosenfeld's project Emotional Orchestra at Tate Modern on 23 September 2005 and continues throughout this year and next at venues across the UK and internationally.

Forma has published a catalogue alongside this exhibition with contributions from Jan Avgikos, Christoph Cox, Drew Daniel, Anna Dezeuze, Lina Dzuverovic, Louise Gray, Anne Hilde Neset, Alan Licht, Thurston Moore and Rob Young, edited by Lina Dzuverovic and Anne Hilde Neset. This catalogue forms an invaluable resource, highlighting the often overlooked contributions of women artists to the development of genres as disparate as Fluxus, performance art, punk and sound installation.

Curated by Lina Dzuverovic Russell and Anne Hilde Neset
Produced by Electra in association with Forma
The exhibition is supported by Arts Council England, PRSF, The Henry Moore Foundation, The Elephant Trust, The Mondriaan Foundation, Women in Music and Feminist Review Trust.

Exhibition:

10 November - 15 December 2005 | South London Gallery | London, UK

For further information visit:

Her Noise
www.electra-productions.com