Automamusic
Artprojx presents
Aura Satz: AUTOMAMUSIC
Artprojx Space
8 July - 16 August 2008
Preview 9th July 6-9pm
Open Monday-Saturday 11-6
or by appointment
Aura Satz’s 'Automamusic' project has at its core a film about mechanical music. Intricate views of self-playing violins, accordions, drums, pianolas, and orchestrions are offset by scenes in which floating musical instruments are played by invisible hands. The film highlights the similarities between the beginnings of musical reproduction in the 19th century and spiritualist invocations of the dead through sound. ‘Automamusic' breathes the ghost back into the machine, inhabiting the figurative space between sound and source, when music had not yet become abstracted into the grooves of the gramophone record. In addition to the series of hand-printed cibachrome photographs which recall spiritualist photography, the exhibition includes drawings inspired by early patents for mechanical or hybrid musical instruments.
The film 'Automamusic' was developed with support from Film and Video Umbrella, funded by Arts Council England and Artsadmin, with kind assistance from Film London Artist’s Moving Image Network and a special thanks to the Museum of Music Automatons, Seewen, Switzerland.
Weds 16 July 6.30-8.30pm
Andrew Renton (art critic/curator and Director of the Curatorial Programme, Goldsmiths University) in conversation with Aura Satz on the withdrawal of authorship in relation to sound, sound technology and sound art, with live mechanical music performance by Aura Satz.
RSVP required to info@artprojxspace.com
Artprojx Space
53 Beauchamp Place
London SW3 1NY
Tel: 020 7584 0717 or info@artprojxspace.com
Automamusic at Artprojx Space has been extended to Saturday 15 August. The Gallery is open normal times and days through July and by appointment throughout August.
Automamusic also features in
Late at Tate Britain: Rehang
Artprojx Presents... STILL FILM
Friday 6 June 2008, 19.30
A selection of artist’s films with a sculptural sensibility. The films share a fixed camera gaze, an inherent quality and lingering effect despite their simplicity. Including films by Matt Calderwood, Ryan Gander, Michael Nyman, Aura Satz, Richard Wilson.
Compilation selected by David Gryn, Artprojx.
Tate Britain Auditorium
Free, tickets available on the night, no bookings taken
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/eventseducation/lateattatebritain/14333.htm
A screening and talk by Aura Satz
took place at the Photographer's Gallery
Wednesday 23rd January 7pm
The Photographer’s gallery
6-8 Newport Street
London WC2H 7HY
Free, booking recommended
To book please call the Information Desk
on +44(0)20 7831 1772 ext 201
or email info@photonet.org.uk
LINKS
The Museum of Music Automatons
Automamusic, film still by Aura Satz, Cibachrome print, 2008
Automamusic, film still by Aura Satz, Cibachrome print, 2008
Automamusic, film still by Aura Satz, Cibachrome print, 2008