Job Koelewijn, ‘Relief 25 march 2009 – 6 jan 2012’ (2012)
Every day, for 45 minutes, Job Koelewijn read aloud a book, recording his voice on cassette tapes, creating columns whose height corresponds to the length and complexity of the book.
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Jordan Wolfson
Jordan Wolfson, ‘Con Leche’ (2009)
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Shot on video in Detroit Michigan, the characters walk through the desolate streets in real video sometimes in groups and sometimes alone. The image wobbles, flips and turns inside of the video frame. A commercial voice over actress speaks from texts Wolfson collected from the internet referencing identity, technology, memory and mortality most of which are personal accounts spoken in first person. Every few minutes Jordan Wolfson interrupts her giving basic formal instructions and adjustments distorting her tone, volume, and “sex”
Hadley+Maxwell
Hadley+Maxwell, ‘Metal Pessoa (Carte)’ (2012)
Re-designed menu, part of a body of work entitled ‘Metal Pessoa’. This also includes a performance with a recording of Maxwell reading Fernando Pessoa’s unsigned, “Letter to Two French Magnetists” (1919), interpreting it through a range of voices influenced by Heavy Metal styles. Listen to an excerpt here: http://www.hadleyandmaxwell.net/metal-pessoa-berlin/
Ignas Krunglevicius
‘Daemons Mouth’ (2015) by Ignas Krunglevicius.
A page from the diary of schizophrenic young man is read by
a text-to-speech robot.
Erik Thys
Choral piece by Erik Thys, “Das Wunder des Lebens” (Canon for 6 voices), performed by Chor im Hemd, Andreas Salzbrunn.
Opening performance for the exhibition “Das Wunder des Lebens. Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys“, Kunsthalle Vienna, Feb. 6 2014.
Robert Smithson & Nancy Holt
‘Swamp’, a film by Robert Smithson and Nancy Holt (1969)
Robert Smithson said of the film :”it’s about deliberate obstructions or calculated aimlessness”. This was attained by having Holt walk through the swamp while simultaneously filming, only seeing where she was walking by looking through the lens of her Bolex camera, as Smithson gave her verbal instructions which he recorded as he spoke them.
