B.c.c. (1997), Cleveland Gallery and The Tannery Gallery, London.
3 times counting, repeat track 1 0100:00 to 0102 and forty something’ ’3 times vocal, repeat track 1 0100:0102 and fiftysomething, was a sound work made for B.c.c,, an exhibition held simultaneously between The Tannery Gallery and Cleveland Gallery London.
Three separate CD players installed on each floor of The Tannery Gallery played individual recordings of an unaccompanied soprano singing the parts of Amor, Orpheo and Eurydice from an aria included in the opera Orpheus and Eurydice. Each track gradually desynchronised with the others over the duration of the exhibition.
Within Cleveland Gallery a recording of the singer repeatedly counting the tempo of each part of the aria by memory were superimposed over each other, making audible the slippages between her objective and subjective sense of time.
Made in collaboration with Pat Naldi.
Exhibition:
1997
B.c.c., Cleveland Gallery and The Tannery, London. Curated by Andrew Renton.
Participating artists: Pierre Bismuth, Laurence Crane, Sarah Dobai, Peter Fillingham, Margarita Gluzberg, Pat Naldi and Wendy Kirkup, Simon Starling
Wendy Kirkup 