AURA SATZ

RECENT, ONGOING and FORTHCOMING EVENTS:

10 October 2011- 31 December 2013
'Oramics: Atlantis Anew' film on display at the Science Museum, London
http://www.iamanagram.com/oramics.php
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/galleries/oramics/satz_video.aspx
An excerpt can be seen online on the Wire Magazine website: thewire.co.uk

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

2nd May
'Ventriloqua' restaged with thereminist Dorit Chrysler Cabinet magazine events space, New York
http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/events/satz.php

3-7 May 2012
"Sight of Sound", group exhibition in VIP Deutsche Bank Lounge, performance on the 5th May Frieze Art Fair, New York
Frieze Art Fair

12 May - 30 September 2012
New film, installation and performance commissions for Tatton Park Biennial, 'Flights of Fancy', Cheshire
http://www.tattonparkbiennial.org
http://www.iamanagram.com/ornaments.php

29 September 2012
Tatton Park performance, new visual score on a 12 metre pianola scroll performed live by harpsichordist Jane Chapman
http://events.tattonpark.org.uk/viewEvent.aspx?eid=51385&s=634844736000000000&e=634844736000000000

26 May
‘Universal Language: A lost manifesto’ film performance
Bauhaus film season
Barbican Centre, London
http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?id=13416

20 June – 19 September 2012
"Soundworks", ICA, London, exhibition continues online
http://www.ica.org.uk/soundworks

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

27 October 2012
"In and out of Synch" performance screening, Tate Oil Tanks, London as part of ‘Playing in the Shadows: Film Action’
http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern-tanks-tate-modern/film-music-and-live-performance/aura-satz-and-out-synch

28th October 2012
Film screening at Wundergrund Festival
SNYK - Centre for contemporary, experimental music and sound art, Copenhagen
http://wundergrund.dk/kunstnere-3/radiofoniens-vidundere-daphne-oram-aura-satz-talk-ved-anne-hilde-neset-jonny-trunk/
http://www.snyk.dk/
http://www.wundergrund.dk

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

11 November 2012
"Universal Language: A Lost Manifesto" film performance  
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, as part of ‘The Voice and the Lens’, curated by Sam Belifante and Third Ear
http://www.ikon-gallery.co.uk/programme/current/event/695/autumn_almanac/

January 23 - February 3 2013
“Soundfigures” solo retrospective at Blaak 10, as part of the 42nd International Film Festival Rotterdam, curated by Edwin Carels
http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/nl/iffr-2013/more-than-film/more-than-film-uitgelicht/
http://www.wdka.nl/en/Whats-on/News/newsitem/?article=1784

28 January 2013
“School of Sound,” at the 42nd International Film Festival Rotterdam, with Michael Snow, Simon Field, Barry Esson, Caroline Martel and Aura Satz.
http://schoolofsound.co.uk/
http://pzwart.wdka.nl/pzi/2013/01/08/piet-zwart-institute-and-iffr-present-the-school-of-sound-rotterdam/

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/

22 March - 26 May 2013
“Impulsive Synchronization” solo exhibition at Hayward Gallery Project Space
Talk with Curator Stephanie Rosenthal on Sunday 24 March, 3.30-4.30pm
http://ticketing.southbankcentre.co.uk/find/hayward-gallery-and-visual-arts/tickets/aura-satz-1000344 

May 2013 and onwards
Curiosity: Art and the Pleasures of Knowing, exhibition and performances as part of Hayward Touring exhibition in association with Cabinet Magazine, curated by Brian Dillon,
Turner Contemporary (Margate), Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Royal Hibernian Academy (Dublin), de Appel Amsterdam
http://ticketing.southbankcentre.co.uk/find/hayward-gallery-and-visual-arts/hayward-touring/future/curiosity-art-and-the-pleasures-of-knowing

June 2013
"In and Out of Synch" performance screening with live music by Maja Ratkje
Ny Musikk festival, Oslo
http://www.nymusikk.no


Reproductions of artworks in Marina Warner’s forthcoming book
THE SYMBOL GIVES RISE TO THE THOUGHT: WRITINGS ON ART BY MARINA WARNER, VOL.1
Violette Editions (Autumn 2012)
http://www.violetteeditions.com/books/index.php?route=product/product&path=60&product_id=59

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

Huffington Post commissioned blog huffingtonpost.co.uk
Interview on the Creators Project website thecreatorsproject.com
Artist's profile in Diva Magazine divamag.co.uk
Frieze magazine focus article frieze.com
Interview on the Ear Room website: earroom.com
Animate projects interview: apengine.org

Aura Satz: UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE: A LOST MANIFESTO

UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE: A LOST MANIFESTO

A 16mm short film by Aura Satz

 

Universal Language

Aura Satz, Universal Language film still, 16mm film

Universal language: A Lost Manifesto is a short 16mm film which looks at universal language and its various manifestations through abstract film, optical sound on film, phonetics, short-hand, ways of writing sound, and drawn sound animation. The film draws on two mysteriously missing utopian endeavours: the lost film by Moholy-Nagy, 'Sound ABC' (1932), and his attempt to create a grapho-phonetic writing, an opto-acoustic alphabet, as well as the lost manifesto document of Hans Richter and Viking Eggeling, 'Universal Language' (1920). The performance will involve a live voice over which converts sound to light signals, as well as a filmic kinetic sculpture in homage to Moholy Nagy’s ‘Light-space-modulator’.

To view a brief excerpt follow this link on the Barbican Centre's youtube channel:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y62fw92q7FY

 

7.30pm 26th May 2012
Barbican Cinema

The film will be performed with a live sound-to-light voice-over at the Barbican cinema on the as part of Bauhaus film season.

Cinema 1
Barbican Centre
Silk Street
London EC2Y 8DS
Box Office: 020 7638 8891
http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?id=13416

 

 Universal Language  Universal Language
Aura Satz, Universal Language film still, optigan disc

 

Filmed, directed and scripted by Aura Satz

Super16 DP Boyd Skinner

Rostrum camera animation Aura Satz

Edited with Alia Syed

Special thanks to Len Thornton, James Holcombe and No.w.here

Sound to light device construction Mike Blow

Kinetic Film sculpture construction Mihai Rusu

Funded by Arts Council England