A Secret Understanding

A Secret Understanding presents a series of specially-commissioned films made by visual artists in response to rare or unheard versions of songs by great bands and vocalists. These unique fusions span a wide range of visual approaches, from animation to video sampling and media art, and represent a broad review of musical styles, thereby engaging and surprising a wide audience.

The works are presented as a looped programme, cinematic style within a gallery, some single screen and others diptychs.

The programme was originally curated and produced by Forma in 2007 for an event in Trafalgar Square in London in league with the ICA.

The Kunsthaus Graz Landesmuseum Joanneum are presenting A Secret Understanding as part of springnine, Austria's largest electronic art and music festival.

Exhibition

8 – 24 May 2009 | Kunsthaus Graz am, Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, AU

Works included in the exhibition

The Star Spangled Banner Recurring by Graham Dolphin, with The Star Spangled Banner Recurring performed by Jimi Hendrix
Doug Fishbone, with Also Sprach Zarathustra by Eumir Deodato
Nick Jordan, with Norwegian Wood by Cornershop
Clare Langan, with I Gaer by Sigur Rós
Oliver Laric, with versions of Under the Bridge by Red Hot Chili Peppers
Torsten Lauschmann, with Sway by Dean Martin and Julie London (Rip–Off Artist Remix)
o/68 by Lia and @c, from O Superman (for Massenet) by Laurie Anderson
Erik van Lieshout, with Kingdom Come by Jay–Z
Jane and Louise Wilson, with Who Knows Where The Times Goes by Cat Power
Am I Relapsing? by Young–hae Chang Heavy Industries, with Everyone's Got to Learn Sometime
by Beck
(Total running time approx 45 mins.)

All films produced by Forma and commissioned by ICA for Beck’s Futures 2007 except Graham Dolphin with The Star Spangled Banner Recurring performed by Jimi Hendrix, 2007 courtesy of the artist and SEVENTEEN. Doug Fishbone, with Also Sprach Zarathustra by Eumir Deodato: footage from Billabong Odyssey courtesy Billabong, Shark Park courtesy Greg Huglin Films and Biggest Wednesday, Blackwater and Teahapo's courtesy TB Productions. Clare Langan with I Gaer by Sigur Rós supported by Bord Scannán na hÉireann/the Irish Film Board.

Related links

Beck's Fusions
Diary

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