Performative Lecture At Adam Art Gallery

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Performative Lecture At Adam Art Gallery

Slave Pianos Pianology: A Schema and Historio-Materialist Pro-gnostic
Presented by Victoria University of Wellington, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney and the Remembering the 20th Century Committee
Adam Art Gallery
Friday 18 June 2010
8pm
$5 entry

Art, music and academia combine in an entirely new and unexpected configuration next Friday evening at the Adam Art Gallery.

This event promises to be a very different concert experience, as the renowned international artist collective Slave Pianos activate their installation Slave Pianos (of the Art Cult) 1998-1999 in collaboration with the students of the New Zealand School of Music. Alluding to the format of a lecture and using the gallery as a site for the display of visual information, this one hour performance promises to be an interdisciplinary encounter of theatrical proportions; unrepeatable and not to be missed.  

Since the late 1990s Slave Pianos has studied the musical works of visual artists. Their process of working involves recomposing, arranging and transcribing the original recordings of artist’s music and scoring them for piano.

This collaborative venture involves artists Danius Kesminas and Michael Stevenson in partnership with musical composers Neil Kelly and Rohan Drape. Their project seeks to document the history and practice of sound art, in particular the music of artists who are known predominantly in the field of the visual arts. For this performance they are joined by recent member of Slave Pianos, inventor David Nelson.

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