Article in Cabinet magazine issue 44, Winter 2011-2012, 'Shapes with the sound of their own making' http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/
14 April - 25 June 2012
Psychosis part II, "I is someone else", group exhibition curated by Robin McGinley Färgfabriken - Centre for Contemporary Art and Architecture, Stockholm http://www.fargfabriken.se/index.php?sit=arkiv&id=347
21-23 June 2012
Pop-up Cinema at Christie’s South Kensington with screenings of films by Aura Satz
Thursday 21st and Friday 22nd: 11am to 6pm; and Saturday 23rd 11am to 1pm
Plus
23rd June 2.45-4.45pm.
A screening of an additional selection of films curated by Aura Satz, including films by Manon de Boer, Jayne Parker and Luke Fowler
Supersonix Symposium, Exhibition Road, London http://www.exhibitionroad.com/7416/pop-up-cinema-at-christies-south-kensington-aura-satz
12 September to 3 November 2012
Jarman award shortlist touring programme showcasing works by the 10 shortlisted artists will take place from at venues across the UK, including FACT (Liverpool), CCA (Glasgow) and CIRCA Projects (Newcastle). The tour will culminate in a special event at London’s Whitechapel Gallery on Saturday 3 November with screenings, Q&As and performances. Q&A with Rebecca Shatwell at Circa Projects on the 26th September. http://flamin.filmlondon.org.uk/projects/projectscurrent/jarmanaward/jarman_award_12 http://www.circaprojects.org/
6th October 2012
Film screening as part of 'Does Dark Matter?' curated by Cosmicmegabrain.
Artists featured include Bálint Bolygó, Emily Candela, Ronin Cho, Davide D’Elia, Roberto Ekholm, Goodbye Leopold, Andy Holden with Tyler Woolcott*, Janina Lange, Romvelope, Aura Satz and Semiconductor. http://www.cosmicmegabrain.com/index.php?id_section=14&id_event=19
1 November 2012
"In and out of Synch", performance screening, Arnolfini, Bristol, as part of four day event showcasing exploratory practices in music, performance, visual art and cinema featuring Russell Haswell, Kevin Drumm, Thomas Ankersmit, Ben Russell, Tai Shani, Raime, Emptyset, Her Ghost: An Homage To Chris Marker’s La Jette by Kode9, MFO and Ms Haptic, Aura Satz’s And Out Of Synch, People Like US aka Vicki Bennett’s film The Zone and more. 26 October–3 November. http://www.arnolfini.org.uk/whatson/films/details/1422
13 February 2013
Workshop at Camden Arts Centre, together with Steve Dorney, to coincide with exhibition “Film in Space: Group show selected by Guy Sherwin” Participants in the workshop will include Steven Ball, Andy Birtwistle, Rob Mullender, Aura Satz, Jan Thoben, David Toop, and Duncan White. http://www.camdenartscentre.org/whats-on/view/eve-gs-06
4 March 2013
Flights of Fancy
Turner Sims, University of Southhampton
Screening and performance of Tatton Park commissions http://www.turnersims.co.uk/
Artist page on the website of The Wire: Adventures in Modern Music: thewire.co.uk to accompany the cross-platform feature on my work in the September 2010 issue.
This includes:
An excerpt of the filmic installation 'Sound Seam' thewire.co.uk
An excerpt of 'Automamusic' thewire.co.uk
An excerpt of 'Oramics: Atlantis Anew', thewire.co.uk
An excerpt of 'Vocal Flame', thewire.co.uk
My short film on the Theremin virtuosa Lydia Kavina, thewire.co.uk
Continuing her work as artist in residence at the Ear Institute, UCL London, Aura will develop a new intimate, immersive sound sculpture that will create a physical and psychoacoustic sonic experience whereby visitors will be encouraged to place their head inside the sculpture itself. Like a giant hearing trumpet or an automaton ear, the horn appears to tune into the vast library of past sounds that is the air. The multi-channel soundtrack outputs in a spiral sequence, thus echoing the rotating technology of wax cylinder sound recordings. Similarly, the narrative voicover explores the idea of memory being like a wax cylinder, a 'mystic writing-pad' of sorts, a blank slate onto which memories leave their trace and personal history is recorded. For the musical composition Aura has revisited and re-composed some of the original recordings made as a result of her Soundtrap III commission for Beaconsfield in Vauxhall, Glissolalia. This new composition includes excerpts of the psychoacoustic illusion of a Shepard tone, the theremin played by Lydia Kavina and voices by the barbershop quartet Hunky Dory (Jackie Driscoll, Lolly Thomas, Ceejai Seaman, and Barbara Thompson). Spiral Sound Coil explores the ever-shifting site of sound, and offers a powerfully disorienting acoustic experience.
Commissioned by Jerwood Space
Aura would like to thank Bradford Backus and Thorsten Marquardt at the Ear Institute; Beaconsfield Gallery and in particular David Crawforth; Lydia Kavina; Jackie Driscoll, Lolly Thomas, Ceejai Seaman, and Barbara Thompson; Dave Hunt for his sound advice; and Sarah Williams.
Aura Satz, Spiral Sound Coil - in the studio, 2010. Photo: Paul Winch-Furness
Locate, curated by Sarah Williams
Jerwood Space 11 August - 12 September 2010
Mon-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat & Sun 10am-3pm
Featuring the work of artists Mel Brimfield, Sarah Pickering and Aura Satz, Locate will exhibit three new commissions exploring the artists' responses to the idea of 'site'.
Each of the artists was asked to propose ideas for new works that responded to a geographical location, institution, collection, a fictional or conceptual space. They are
currently undertaking a five month research project to develop their ideas and the resulting
works will be exhibited at Jerwood Space in August.
Part of the Jerwood Encounters series, Locate is the third in a series of experimental exhibitions curated by Sarah Williams and demonstrates a commitment by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation to supporting new experimental commissions within the Jerwood Visual Arts programme.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a publication designed by The Partners with text by Cecilia Wee.
To download the catalogue as a pdf follow this link
A series of evening events at Jerwood Space will run alongside the exhibition from 6 - 8pm.
Events are free but must be booked in advance. For further information or to book contact:
Jerwood Space
171 Union Street, London, SE1 0LN
Tel: 020 7654 0179
Email: jva@jerwoodspace.co.uk www.jerwoodvisualarts.org
Installed at the Jerwood Space. Photo: Paul Winch-Furness
Installed at the Jerwood Space. Photo: Paul Winch-Furness
Spiral Sound Coil is included in the group show: Fraternise - the Salon Beaconsfield
2 April - 29 May 2011
Tuesday - Sunday, 11am-5pm
Franko B, David Birkin, Ansuman Biswas, John Burgess, Matthew Burrows, Tony Carter, Tamsyn Challenger, Jules Clarke, Ben Cockett, Susan Collis, Michael Corkrey, Keith Coventry, A. David Crawforth, Mikey Cuddihy, Shane Cullen, Michael Curran, Judith Dean, Mark Dean, Nicolas Deshayes, Adam Dix, Richard Elliott, Robert Ellis, Tracey Emin, Laura Emsley, Alexa de Ferranti, Peter Fillingham, Edwina fitzPatrick, Rebecca Fortnum, Eloise Fornieles, Stephen Fowler, Paul Fryer, Rachel Garfield, Mary George, Mathew Gibson, Bruce Gilbert, Colin Glen, Lucy Gunning, Matt Hale, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Denise Hawrysio, Damien Hirst, Rachel Howard, Marc Hulson, Sarah Jones, Simon Lawson, Peter Liversidge, Sarah Lucas and Olivier Garbay, Maria Marshall, Ross McNicol, David Mollin, Charlotte Moth, Hayley Newman, Paul Noble, Monika Oechsler, Tom Ormond, Lily Paine, Tom Paine, Tamsin Pender, Susan Pui San Lok, Aura Satz, Boo Saville, Michael Shaw, Naomi Siderfin, Bob and Roberta Smith, Julian Stallabrass, Dafna Talmor, John Timberlake, Caroline Todd, Roman Vasseur, Jessica Voorsanger, Mark Wallinger, Joseph Walsh, Roxy Walsh, Amelia Whitelaw, Keith Wilson, Erika Winstone.
Fraternise - the Salon gathers a cohort of artists in a curated, fundraising exhibition, to support the future existence of Beaconsfield - the pioneering, non-profit organisation that has provided a laboratory and presentation space for artists since 1995.
Beaconsfield is an artist-led entity that specialises in encouraging artists to pursue projects of ambition and to experiment without commercial pressure. The Salon brings together collaborators, patrons and proteges who have worked with Beaconsfield or who support its role in the artists' community.
The Salon offers a rare opportunity to view a diverse range of contemporary works (many artists exhibiting together for the first time) and to start or expand a collection. Sales will benefit both participating artists and Beaconsfield.
Fraternise - the Salon is co-curated by the charity's artist-trustees, Rachel Howard, Judith Dean and artist-directors A. David Crawforth and Naomi Siderfin.
Spiral Sound Coil included in the group show: Psychosis part II, “I is someone else”
Färgfabriken - Centre for Contemporary Art and Architecture, Stockholm
April 14 - June 21, 2012 Wednesday–Sunday: 11am–4pm
Psychosis is a long-term project. Through exhibitions, publications, film screenings and seminars we illuminate various aspects of the subject. The aim is to use art in order to deepen our understanding of the human psyche and our social relationships.
With I is Someone Else we want to produce an exhibition that deals less with artistic authenticity or the diagnosis of psychosis and more with the symptoms of the illness as the point of departure for describing transformations of the self. Even a healthy person is not constituted by a clearly delineated self; we harbour a whole set of potential selves. This is clearly captured in common expressions: I could be “beside myself” with worry, for example, or “not really myself today”, or I could “lose myself in my thoughts”.
A similar view of the possibility of multiple identities is expressed in the pamphlet of directions for use that accompany a particular anti-depression medication. Taking the medication, it warns, may cause the sense of “being apart from oneself and from reality”. Where, then, does the person feel like he or she is? If you’re “not yourself”, then who are you? And hearing voices in your head could be a symptom of mental illness, but under certain circumstances it’s considered entirely normal – if you heart them in the wakening state between dream and consciousness, for example. Further, those who claim to hear the voice of God are seldom declared unfit for that reason alone. The boundary between what is normal and what is abnormal is obviously blurry, malleable, and negotiable.
We imagine that works of art may be understood as symptoms, as “psychotic” without being expressions of illness. They can construct temporary wholes from splintered selves, and they can just as easily dissolve the illusion of a solid identity. Or they can simply pose unanswered questions about the nature of the self. And the exhibition’s artworks are not psychotic, because they communicate with the viewer and create the kind of dialogue that is impossible for someone suffering from psychosis.
Participating artists: Beata Berggren, Maja Bajevic, Andreas Gedin, Matti Kallioinen,Renja Leino, Håkan Rehnberg, Aura Satz
Curators: Elsa Ekesiöö Thambert, Andreas Gedin, Joachim Granit, Fia Palmgren, Robert Stasinski
Lövholmsbrinken 1
SE 117 43 Liljeholmen
Stockholm
Tel +46-8-645 07 07 www.fargfabriken.se
