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What you get from this Summer Special Episode:
You'll find out about British artist Haroon Mirza's new commissioned piece (a performance and a sound installation) for Focal Point Gallery's exhibition In Other Worlds: Acts of Translation . By travelling with our host, curator Joana P. R. Neves, you hear about the people, the seascapes, the urban areas, histories of Essex's estuary, through the scope of Mirza's translation of electric sounds from an older piece into human voices. This journey will be told in Joana's voice but also through recordings of the artist, and the two curators of the exhibition, Inês Costa and Yates Norton. And finally, you'll arrive on site to experience the performance Adam, Eve, Others and a UFO for Choral Octet.
DIG DEEPER...
To know more about Focal Point Gallery: https://www.fpg.org.uk/ – Instagram: @focalpointgallery
Focal Point Gallery is South Essex’s only public contemporary art gallery, open to all. Offering an exciting and ambitious programme of largely free workshops, talks, outdoor film screenings and offsite projects, it also presents four major exhibitions a year featuring both international and local artists. Focal Point gallery believes in building a community and a safe space to enjoy art and the creative process, where everyone is valued.
The gallery also runs an outdoor video program: Big Screen Southend, a purpose-built display screen which opened in 2013 with the Forum for the presentation of artist commissions, live transmissions, and short and feature films relative to the cultural context of Southend, South Essex and further afield (partnership project between Focal Point Gallery, University of Essex, South Essex College and Southend-on-Sea Borough Council. It is managed on behalf of the partners by Focal Point Gallery).
To know more about The Roberts Institute of Art @therobertsintittuteofart
The Roberts Institute of Art (RIA) is a non-profit contemporary arts organisation, who commissions pioneering performance art and runs a residency programme in Scotland, collaborates with national partners on exhibitions, and works to research and share the David and Indrė Roberts Collection.
Founded in 2007 as the David Roberts Art Foundation (DRAF).
Re-launched as the Roberts Institute of Art in 2021.
Since 2021, RIA has reached over 127,000 audiences through an exhibition and performance programme, collaborated with over 25 museums and cultural organisations and commissioned over 80 artists, choreographers, musicians, dancers and performers to present new performances to live audiences, resulting in 15 new commissions. During this time, they have also loaned close to 300 works from the David and Indrė Roberts Collection to over 50 institutions worldwide.
To know more about Haroon Mirza: https://www.lissongallery.com/artists/haroon-mirzahttps://www.youtube.com/@outputs_av
Sound Bites...
"Translating is accepting defeat."
"Music is communication, right?"
"Essex is a land for experimentation."
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00:00 Introducing Art Travelogue: The Journey From London to Southend Starts
07:58 Discovering Essex,The Most Misunderstood County in the UK
15:26 Mirza's 2013 piece Adam, Eve, Others and a UFO (Installation & Sound)
19:22 Electricity, Music, Communication and Shamanism
23:08 Communication and Translation Beyond Words
30:10 The Difference Between Knowing and Interpreting
37:12 The Performance: Canaan, The Choir, The AI, The Shaman
44:57 Myths of Creation: Gender, Language, Knowledge, Power
40:52 The Power of Words and Language
49:16 Outro