Commissions A Nod to Cage
De La Warr Pavilion
Curator David Rhodes and Creative Producer Laura Ducceschi worked closely together on a 5 week programme honouring the artist and musician John Cage. The exhibition focused on his visual art works and was curated in conjunction with Heyward Gallery Touring, entitled ‘Every Day Is A Good Day’ A live programme entitled A Nod To Cage was curated in response to the exhibtion. The programme was devised to honour and reflect John’s work and approach as well as featuring new works and commissions that incorporate the Cagean approach of experiential works that blurred line between audience and artist as well as the utilisation of chance, randomisation and contemporary artists.
Installations
Yoko Ono Play It By Trust
Play It By Trust first realised in 1966 as White Chess Set
Charlie Hooker Audio Accompaniment (2011)
Yamaha Disklavier piano, laptop, Geiger-counter
Felix Thorn Felix’s Machines
Felix’s Machines are music making sculptures
Hugh Fox Mind is Moving (2011)
Performance/two channel video installation
Charles Atlas Joints 4tet for Ensemble (1971-2010)
This is an installation of Super-8 colour films of the dancer Merce Cunningham shot by Atlas in 1971.
Steve Thompson Everyday is a Good Day (2011)
Digital prints mounted on mdf
Joseph Long Mecannaissance (2011)
Timber, MDF, video camera, monitor
Sophie Fishel Skiddley Bop (2011)
HD film Void Vector Supercell A Mixed Media Digital Installation for Sound, Light, Air and Software
Daisy Grove-Lafarge Music from the Vacuum (2011)
Sound installation
Date: 2011Felix Thom - Felix’s Machines
Live Performances
Margaret Leng Tan Through the Silence
A full programme representing the diversity of Cage’s work over three decades
A Discussion on John Cage
Anton Lukoszevieze of experimental ensemble Apartment House and Cage collaborator Margaret Leng Tan Mount Kimbie + Creep
Machine-music duo Mount Kimbie accompanied by Void Vector installation
Brainwaves: Mira Calix, Anna Meredith, Aurora Quartet, Loop.pH Bringing together science, visual art and music to explore the connections between the brain and sound.
Indeterminacy: Stewart Lee, Steve Beresford and Tania Chen
Performing John Cage’s Indeterminacy, a group of 90 short stories, each lasting one minute each.
eighth blackbird
Missy Mazzoli (2008), Cage Aria (1958), Lang (2007) Glass (1969), Ades Catch (1991), Hartke (2007) Shelley Parker Birdcage
Auditorium, PA, laptop, software
AK/DK Requiem for a Building
VJs, metaLuna, Johanna Bramli and AKDK turn the Pavilion into a musical score
Lucy Phillips What Cannot Be Seen
Pinhole cameras, inkjet prints, scanned photographic paper negatives, texts, emails
Jane Ormerod
poet
FOUND Collective Cybraphon (2009)
automated interactive, mechanical band in a box