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In the past ELECTRA has worked with:
Steve Beresford
Bohman Brothers
Boredoms
Michelle Deignan
Luke Fowler
Melanie Gilligan
Kenneth Goldsmith
Kim Gordon
Carl Michael von Hausswolff
Emma Hedditch
Karl Holmqvist
Chia-En Jao
Philip Jeck
Janice Kerbal
Jacob Kirkegaard
Jutta Koether
Aleks Kolkowski
Christina Kubisch
Yaron Lapid
Lydia Lunch
Matmos
Christian Marclay
Daria Martin
Kaffe Matthews
Phil Morrison
Flávia Müller Medeiros
Hayley Newman
Harold Offeh
Uriel Orlow
Tony Oursler
Zeena Parkins
Olivia Plender
Colin Potter
Maja Ratkje
Marina Rosenfeld
Steven Stapleton
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Kim Gordon
ELECTRA has worked with Kim Gordon on several
projects since 2005.
Perfect Partner, 2005, was a collaboration between Gordon, artist Tony Oursler and filmmaker Phil Morrison.
Premiering at the
Barbican Centre in October 2005, the production then toured to venues across the UK,
Belgium, Sweden and Italy. The collaboration between ELECTRA and Gordon continued
with Her Noise
at South London Gallery and Tate Modern. Kim Gordon performed at Tate Modern and
was commissioned by ELECTRA to produce the
Reverse Karaoke
installation in collaboration with Jutta Koether. In 2006 Reverse Karaoke toured to
Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France for the exhibition;
'Replay: La Sphere Punk', whilst Perfect Partner
was screened in the USA at the Alexander Kasser Theatre, Montclair,
New Jersey. 2007 saw the relationship between Gordon and ELECTRA continue with
Reverse Karaoke opening as part of Under Construction at MAK in Vienna,
Austria in May and Galleria Enrico Fornello, Prato, Italy in September.
In October 2007 ELECTRA presented Kim Gordon's
watercolour portraits
at the Zoo Art Fair.
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Jutta Koether
Koether collaborated with Kim Gordon to realise
Reverse Karaoke
in 2005, commissioned by ELECTRA for
Her Noise.
The piece premiered at South London Gallery in November 2005 and was complemented
by a performance, screening and conversation by the two artists at Tate Modern.
Reverse Karaoke has since been shown throughout Europe in 2006 at Centre
National d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France for the exhibition; 'Replay: La
Sphere Punk' in 2007; 'Under Construction' at MAK in Vienna in May and Galleria
Enrico Fornello, Prato in September. The collaboration between Koether and
ELECTRA continues into 2008 when Koether will participate in 27 Senses,
an exhibition due to take place at Kunstmuseet KUBE in Alesund, Norway.
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Tony Oursler
Tony Oursler was one of the three authors of
Perfect Partner alongside Kim Gordon and Phil Morrison. Perfect Partner was a
film and performance work commissioned and produced by ELECTRA (co-commissioned
with the Barbican Centre and CMN) which premiered at the Barbican Centre
in October 2005, and then toured to venues across the UK, Belgium, Sweden and Italy
and the US in 2006.
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Phil Morrison
Filmmaker Phil Morrison collaborated with musician and artist Kim Gordon
and artist Tony Oursler on
Perfect Partner. ELECTRA commissioned and brought the film and performance
piece to venues across the UK, premiering at the Barbican Centre in London in October
2005, followed by performances across the UK, Belgium, Sweden and Italy, then to
the Alexander Kasser Theatre, Montclair, New Jersey in October 2006.
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Marina Rosenfeld
New York based artist and composer Marina Rosenfeld worked with
ELECTRA presenting a new performance for forty female improvisers.
The performance entitled
Emotional Orchestra took place at the Tate Modern on 23rd September 2005 and marked the beginning of the
Her Noise season.
Following this collaboration, in May 2006 she took part in the Tate Modern's Long Weekend with her
Sheer Frost Orchestra.
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Daria Martin
In 2005 ELECTRA acted as music consultants to artist
Daria Martin and paired her with composer Zeena Parkins.
Parkins composed the soundtrack for Martin's film Loneliness And The Modern Pentathlon.
As a follow up to this fruitful collaboration initiated by ELECTRA, Tate Modern commissioned a
live performance titled Regeneration. The work premiered at Tate Modern's
Turbine Hall in Spring 2006, with screenings of the film as part of Tate's Triennial.
Martin and Parkins continue to work together, most recently on a performance, 'Object Relations'
at Art Basel Miami Beach in December 2006 and in a new commission by S.M.A.K and Performa in March 2007
at the Watermill Center in New York.In 2005 ELECTRA brought together Norwegian
composer Maja Ratkje and Martin as collaborators on Martin's new film 'Wintergarden'.
Ratkje not only composed and performed the film's soundtrack, but also played one
of the key roles in it. The film was premiered at the reopening of the De La Warr Pavillion in
November 2005 and went on to be included in the Tate Triennial and Castlefield Gallery, Manchester between June and July 2006.
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Zeena Parkins
Zeena Parkins was paired with Daria Martin in 2005 by ELECTRA, to compose the soundtrack
for Loneliness And The Modern Pentathlon. The work was shown at
Tate Modern in its premiere in the Turbine Hall in Spring 2006 in screenings as part of
the Tate Triennial. The partnership has continued with 'Object Relations' at Art Basel Miami
Beach in December 2006 and a commission in March 2007 by S.M.A.K and Performa at the Watermill Center in New York.
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Maja Ratkje
ELECTRA worked with Maja Ratkje on a collaboration with
Daria Martin's 'Wintergarden.' Ratkje is well known as
a singer/voice user and electronics player as well as studio engineer, mainly in connection with the Norwegian
contemporary improvisation ensemble SPUNK and she works on the composition for the soundtrack of 'Wintergarden'
and a role within the film.
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Christian Marclay
ELECTRA began working with Christian Marclay in December 2004 on
The Sounds of Christmas. The 2-week project co-produced by ELECTRA and Tate Modern,
was installed in a specially designed pavilion positioned on the North Lawn in front of
Tate Modern and consisted of a collection of 1,200 Christmas records as a publicly accessible archive,
alongside projections of the record covers and footage of previous performances, with DJs and turntablists
invited on Friday and Saturday evenings to create live remixes from the collection.
In April 2005, Christian Marclay's work was presented at the Barbican Gallery in a major retrospective and
ELECTRA collaborated with the Barbican on a series of
Performance Events. Christian Marclay's Shuffle, co-presented by ELECTRA, Aperture and White Cube,
took place in August 2007 at The Council Chamber, Finsbury Town Hall, London, inviting musicians to
interpret Marclays Shuffle photographic playing cards as a musical score.
Most recently ELECTRA produced the London premiere of Marclay's piece Screen Play.
The event took place at Bush Hall in November 2007 as part of the Wire 25 season,
a month long season of new music and performance events celebrating The Wire magazine's 25th birthday.
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Christina Kubisch
ELECTRA invited artist Christina Kubisch to create two new works for the
Her Noise
exhibition. Kubisch's piece
Security
was installed in the South London Gallery, whilst another piece West End Walks, based upon her Electrical Walks
was installed at the Goethe Institut during November and December 2005.
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Hayley Newman
Hayley Newman and ELECTRA have worked together on projects since 2005 when ELECTRA
invited Newman and Aleks Kolkowski to participate in a programme of
live music and performance events. The season of Wednesday night events, co-curated by ELECTRA
and the Barbican Art Gallery, accompanied the
Christian Marclay exhibition
at the Barbican Art Gallery from February to April 2005. Newman and Kolkowski's performance took place on 20th April;
offering live record cutting karaoke. In November 2005, Hayley Newman was invited
by ELECTRA to make a new work for Her Noise
exhibition at the South London Gallery and created the installation piece
Mini Flux.
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Kaffe Matthews
Kaffe Matthews took part in the
Her Noise exhibition with her ELECTRA commissioned and produced installation piece
Sonic Bed.
The exhibition took place from November to December 2005 at the South London Gallery.
Subsequently Sonic Bed was given the Award of Distinction in the Digital Musics Category at
Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria in September 2006 after being a part of the exhibition at the Ars Electronica Festival.
The piece has since toured to Stirling, Linz, Lille, Quebec, Taipei and Shanghai.
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Emma Hedditch
ELECTRA and Emma Hedditch have a long standing relationship.
In 2004, Hedditch showed her film Video Home, Come On! during a season of talks,
interventions and screenings at Electric Avenue Studios and The Ritzy Cinema called
Electric Weekend.
In 2005 ELECTRA and Hedditch continued to work together on
Her Noise at the South London Gallery, where Hedditch?s ELECTRA commissioned piece
We're Alive, Let's Meet was scheduled over November and December.
The curators of Her Noise and Hedditch collaboratively produced a
'Her Noise Archive' for the project. Peacock Visual Arts presented the
'Her Noise Documentary' at the Sound Festival in Aberdeen in November 2006 which was a further
collaboration between Hedditch and ELECTRA. The co-produced Her Noise Archive and commissioned 'We're Alive Let's Meet' was given residence at Landmark,
Bergen Kunsthall in Norway from November- December 2006.
In May 2007 The Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture invited ELECTRA and Emma Hedditch to screen
'Her Noise: The Making of,' with further screenings of interviews from the 'Her Noise Archive' from 14th- 18th May 2007.
In 'Art Now Live,' Art Now and ELECTRA co-curated a day of performances at Tate Britain on
September 8th 2007. Emma Hedditch generated and published texts in dialogue for this exploration of participation and
storytelling.
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Carl Michael von Hausswolff
ELECTRA's Lina Dzuverovic and Carl Michael Von Hausswolff co-curated
Radio Gallery: The Trans-Communication Lab
at The Old Operating Theatre in London on 17th November 2006. 'Trans-Communication Lab' was the closing event of the
Radio Gallery series curated by Anna Colin. It examined radio as exhibition space. Von Hausswolff,
who is also a composer and visual artist, also participated in the event,
examining Electronic Voice Phenomena as referenced by 'Trans-Communication' in the project title.
More recently ELECTRA has invited von Hausswolff to participate in '27 Senses,'
a group exhibition which will take place at Kunstmuseet KUBE in September 2008
with a series of actions and a three month exhibition.
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Jacob Kirkegaard
Jacob Kirkegaard worked with ELECTRA on the
Radio Gallery: The Trans-Communication Lab,
co-curated by ELECTRA's Lina Dzuverovic and Carl Michael Von Hausswolff.
The event, examining radio as an exhibtion space, saw Danish artist Kirkegaard perform live,
using his technique of 'sonic time layering' in order to evoke the spirit of the space.
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Karl Holmqvist
27 Senses is a project being developed by ELECTRA for Autumn 2008.
Karl Holmqvist has been invited by ELECTRA to examine the way in which Kurt Schwitters'
has influenced a wide range of contemporary artistic and performative practices at the
Kunstmuseet KUBE in Alesund, Norway. Holmqvist took part in Symposium Merzbau 2007 "Organic Functionalism" in
November 2007 at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zürich. Holmqvist offered an insight into the development of his performative
contribution to the '27 Senses' project.
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Melanie Gilligan
Melanie Gilligan worked with ELECTRA in collaboration
with Tate Britain?s 'Art Now Live' event.
Art Now and ELECTRA presented a day of performance works at Tate Britain in September 2007.
Melanie Gilligan presented 'The Miner's Object,' in its European premiere, a performance that combined
information and combined information and storytelling in a strange parable about the social character of knowledge.
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Olivia Plender
ELECTRA's Lina Dzuverovic and Carl Michael Von Hausswolff invited Olivia Plender
to perform a live ghost story at
Radio Gallery: The Trans-Communication Lab at The Old Operating Theatre, London in November 2006.
Plender, an artist and writer, has since worked with ELECTRA on 'Art Now Live,' a collaboration with
Tate Britain in September 2007, enacting a live ghost story from her comic book series 'The Masterpiece.'
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Kenneth Goldsmith
Kenneth Goldsmith is working with ELECTRA on '27 Senses,'
an exhibition scheduled for September 2008 at the Kunstmuseet KUBE in Alesund, Norway.
Kenneth Goldsmith has been invited by ELECTRA to examine the way in which Kurt Schwitters'
has influenced a wide range of contemporary artistic and performative practices.
Goldsmiths took part in Symposium Merzbau 2007 "Organic Functionalism" in November 2007 at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zürich.
Goldsmith offered an insight into the development of his performative contribution to the '27 Senses' project.
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The Boredoms
ELECTRA worked with The Boredoms at The Wire 25;
a collaboration between ELECTRA and The Wire during October and November 2007 that celebrates
25 years of the magazine with a series of live performances, film screenings,
studio workshops and features a number of premieres and new collaborations.
The Boredoms presented an exclusive 'in-the-round' performance of 'Vooredoms,'
performed for the first time outside of their native Japan on 26th October 2007 at Shoreditch Town Hall, London.
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Matmos
Matmos presented a sit-down performance for The Wire 25;
a collaboration between ELECTRA and The Wire during October and November 2007 that celebrates 25 years of the magazine
with a series of live performances, film screenings, studio workshops and features a number
of premieres and new collaborations. Matmos, are celebrated for their use of sampling unconventional sounds and objects -
from amplified crayfish nerve tissue, the pages of bibles turning, chin implant surgery and rat cages,
performed on Monday 29th October 2007 at Bush Hall, London.
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Michelle Deignan
ELECTRA's Lina Dzuverovic curated an evening of screenings at the Whitechapel Gallery
in association with LUX;
New Work UK: Trust Yourself, Deignan's 'Red Cheeks,' from 2006, and 'Il Cittadino,'
from 2007, were both shown at this event on 25th October 2007.
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Chia-En Jao
ELECTRA's Lina Dzuverovic curated an evening of screenings at the
Whitechapel Gallery in association with LUX;
New Work UK: Trust Yourself, Jao's piece 'Father's Tongue,' from 2007, was shown at this event on 25th October 2007.
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Yaron Lapid
ELECTRA's Lina Dzuverovic curated an evening of screenings at the
Whitechapel Gallery in association with LUX;
New Work UK: Trust Yourself. Lapid's piece
'You Have Not Found His Riddle,' from 2003, was shown at this event on 25th October 2007.
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Flávia Müller Medeiros
ELECTRA's Lina Dzuverovic curated an evening of screenings at
the Whitechapel Gallery in association with LUX;
New Work UK: Trust Yourself. Müller Medeiros' piece
'Fight the Enemy Abroad So We Don't Have To Face Them At Home,' from 2005, was shown at this event on 25th October 2007.
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Harold Offeh
ELECTRA's Lina Dzuverovic curated an evening of screenings at the
Whitechapel Gallery in association with LUX;
New Work UK: Trust Yourself. Offeh's 'Haroldinho,' from 2003, was shown at this event on 25th October 2007.
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Uriel Orlow
ELECTRA's Lina Dzuverovic curated an evening of screenings at the
Whitechapel Gallery in association with LUX;
New Work UK: Trust Yourself.
Orlow's 'The Visitor,' from 2007, was shown at this event on 25th October 2007.
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Steven Stapleton
ELECTRA's Anne Hilde Neset and Rob Young curated Steven Stapleton and
Colin Potter's piece
Shipwreck Radio, produced between May and July 2004. Stapleton and Potter made sound
art above the Arctic Circle. Whilst marooned off the Northern Coast of Norway,
they made a sonic record of their time on the unfamiliar islands.
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Colin Potter
ELECTRA's Anne Hilde Neset and Rob Young curated Colin Potter and Steven
Stapleton?s piece
Shipwreck Radio,
produced between May and July 2004. Stapleton and Potter made sound art above the Arctic Circle.
Whilst marooned off the Northern Coast of Norway, they made a sonic record of their time on the unfamiliar islands.
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Aleks Kolkowski
Violinist and composer Aleks Kolkowski worked with Hayley Newman on a
performance that was part of a season of Wednesday night events, co-curated by
ELECTRA and the Barbican Art Gallery, accompanying the Christian Marclay exhibition at the
Barbican Art Gallery from February to April 2005. Newman and Kolkowski?s performance took place on 20th April;
offering live record cutting karaoke.
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Philip Jeck
Experimental turntablist Philip Jeck performed as part of a season of Wednesday night events,
co-curated by ELECTRA and the Barbican Art Gallery, accompanying the Christian Marclay exhibition
at the Barbican Art Gallery from February to April 2005. Using his extraordinary orchestra of
ageing Dansette phonographs, Jeck's methods leave much to chance; nothing is pre-planned or calculated.
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Steve Bereford
Steve Beresford was invited to interpret Christian Marclay's score for 'Shuffle,'
bringing the piece to life for its London premiere on 18th August 2007 at
Finsbury Town Hall in London. Beresford is a musician and composer known for his 'free improvisation.'
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Bohman Brothers
The Bohman Brothers worked with ELECTRA and the Tate Britain on 'Art Now Live'
a day event at Tate Britain on 8th September 2007. The event used performance works
to explore ideas of participation and storytelling. The Bohman Brothers offered personal
responses to works on display in selected galleries through a series of commissioned spoken word interventions.
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Janice Kerbal
Janice Kerbal worked with ELECTRA and Tate Britain on 'Art Now Live,' at Tate Britain
on 8th September 2007. Kerbal presented, for the first time as a live performance, 'Nick Silver Can't Sleep.'
The performance told a narcotic tale of thwarted desire through the voice of six nocturnal plants.
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Lydia Lunch
ELECTRA and Lydia Lunch started working together in 2005 through taking part in
Emma Hedditch's Her Noise Documentary.
Lunch defies categorization, incorporating many creative endeavours into her practice.
She recently worked with ELECTRA on
The Wire 25 events celebrating 25 years of
The Wire magazine from October to November 2007, Lydia Lunch's UK premiering of her biopic
'Video Hysteries,' complete with a Q&A, followed by a rare performance of her new
piece 'Hangover Hotel' took place at St Giles-in-the-Fields, London on 1st November 2007.
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Luke Fowler
In collaboration with The Wire, ELECTRA screened Luke Fowler's 'Bogman Palmjaguar' on November
20th 2007 at the Roxy Bar and Screen as part of
The Wire 25 season of events. Fowler's piece was
shown at the 'Extraordinary Lives' evening curated by Mark Webber.
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