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	PAST PROJECTS - 2005
	Her Noise HER NOISE With Kim Gordon (US) & Jutta Koether (DE), Emma Hedditch (UK), Christina Kubisch (DE), Kaffe Matthews (UK), Hayley Newman (UK) South London Gallery, London 10th November - 18th December 2005 Her Noise gathered five international artists whose practice shares the use of sound as a medium to investigate social relations, inspire action or uncover hidden soundscapes. The five installations in Her Noise operated as a base for numerous events, performances and music evenings throughout the course of the show. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue, a screening programme and an online archive. Jutta Koether & Kim Gordon KIM GORDON AND JUTTA KOETHER: PERFORMANCE, SCREENING AND CONVERSATION A collaboration between ELECTRA and Tate Modern as part of HER NOISE Tate Modern, London Thursday 10th November This unique event brings together two seminal figures, both who enjoy cult status on the international contemporary art, performance and music scene. Kim Gordon and Jutta Koether regularly collaborate on installations and performance projects. The event is part of the Her Noise season of performances, events and installations. Phil Morrison still PERFECT PARTNER A film by Kim Gordon, Tony Oursler and Phil Morrison, starring Michael Pitt and Jamie Bochert with a live soundtrack featuring: Tim Barnes, Kim Gordon, Ikue Mori, Jim O'Rourke and DJ Olive October 2005 Perfect Partner is a first time collaboration between Sonic Youth guitarist Kim Gordon, renowned video artist Tony Oursler and filmmaker Phil Morrison. Somewhere between Godard's Pierrot Le Fou and a thundering free rock freak-out, Perfect Partner is a surreal psychodrama-cum-road movie celebrating our society's enchantment with automobile culture. Joining Kim Gordon on stage is another Sonic Youth member, producer extraordinaire, composer and 'School Of Rock' collaborator Jim O'Rourke, percussionist Tim Barnes, ex DNA laptop virtuoso Ikue Mori and turntable whiz DJ Olive. Fasten your seatbelts and be transported with live music, video projections, actors and a few surprises at this one-off cross media adventure. Perfect Partner premiered at the Barbican Centre on Sunday 2 October 2005, 7.30pm. The production then toured to a number of UK and international venues. Perfect Partner was produced and curated by Electra and is a CMN Tours and Barbican co-commission. Emotional Orchestra MARINA ROSENFELD: EMOTIONAL ORCHESTRA Commissioned by ELECTRA as part of HER NOISE Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London 7.30pm, 23rd September 2005 New York based artist and composer Marina Rosenfeld presented a new performance for forty female improvisers. Following a two-day workshop involving London-based musicians and non-musicians, participants performed Rosenfeld's animated improvisational score using an array of bowable instruments, such as strings, guitars and harp. Emotional Orchestra was commissioned by Electra, and was part of the Her Noise season of performances, events and installations. Still from 'Loneliness And The Modern Pentathlon' DARIA MARTIN Californian, but British based artist Daria Martin uses the medium of film to reveal and explore thematic polarities and to make explicit the artifice behind the lyricism and seduction created by her work. Drawing on a rich source of philosophical and artistic theory, Martin's films aim to overtly seduce the viewer into a dreamy 'virtual reality'. Martin has had solo shows at Andrea Rosen Gallery in New York, Rafael Tous Foundation in Barcelona and Analix Forever Gallery in Geneva. She is shortlisted for the 2005 Beck's Futures award. Electra is working with Daria Martin on the soundtrack for two of her upcoming films. Carsten Nicolai SOUND AND THE 20TH CENTURY AVANT GARDE Led by Rob Young, Lina Dzuverovic, Anne Hilde Neset Tate Modern, London 13 June - 18 July 2005 Mondays 6:30-8:30pm From the noises of Futurism and Dada to the Silence of John Cage, this course investigates key sonic moments of the 20th century avant-garde. Participants learn about different ways in which artists have exploited the materiality of sound through lectures, listening sessions and screenings with a particular emphasis on sound as a political tool, sound sculpture, the emergence of electronic tools in composition and ending with a look at current effects of sampling and 'copyleft' strategies of the Creative Commons. Hayley Newman THE WIRE SOUND SYSTEM / PHILIP JECK / HAYLEY NEWMAN & ALEKS KOLKOWSKI Barbican Art Gallery during the Christian Marclay Exhibition 23rd February - 27th April 2005 Wednesday Evenings Swiss American artist Christian Marclay’s practice combines video installations, sculpture, photography, and collage and addresses the overlapping of aural and visual realms. His work is full of nods to popular culture, while also playing on the tradition of avant-garde music inherited from John Cage and Fluxus. The Barbican Art Gallery presented a major retrospective of Christian Marclay’s work (17 Feb - 2 May 2005) which came to London from the Los Angeles Hammer Museum. Electra collaborated with the Barbican to present a programme of live music and performance events during the exhibition. Artists included Philip Jeck, Hayley Newman and others. THE POLITICS OF SOUND / THE CULTURE OF EXCHANGE ONLINE PANEL Moderated by ELECTRA's Lina Dzuverovic Tate Online 31 January - 23 March 2005 This eight week online discussion took its cue from the Politics Of Sound lecture which was part of the Sound And The 20th Century Avant Garde course held in autumn 2004. The forum discussion is part of Tate Modern’s current season of discussions, MP3 releases and live events. Sound based art which uses technologies such as sampling, data sharing, peer to peer networks, ‘copyleft licences’ and open source strategies promises to not only affect future models of production, exhibition and distribution but to radically redefine the future of cultural production at large. In this online text forum (with associated MP3 resources) panelists considered the impact of the above shifts in production methods on contemporary artistic practice with a particular focus on copyright and the public domain. Panelists: Kenneth Goldsmith, ubu web, Douglas Kahn, Director of Technocultural Studies, University of California at Davis and John Oswald, www.plunderphonics.com.
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