The evening to be held atBicocca Hangar is curated by Pedro Rocha, is part of the calendar of HB Public cultural initiatives linked to current exhibitions and offers the opportunity to once again investigate the work of the HangarBicocca artists using the sound element as a new point of view.
In ALL THE MANY PEOPLES, Jennifer Walshe combines different musical genres, using means and visual and sound references that create a fragmented universe made up of film clips, video clips, theatrical texts, videos taken from youtube or shot with smartphones: a work made up, in the artist's words, by " scrap we deal with every day”, accidental pieces of images and sounds of everyday life.
The project was presented for the first time in 2011 on the occasion of “The New Experimenatalists” program at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London: on that occasion Jennifer Walshe she was among four artists selected by a panel of experts, including Brian Eno, to represent England's contemporary experimental music scene.
There are numerous elements of contact between the works of Jennifer Walshe and the works of Joan Jonas, proving that the latter has influenced and continues to influence the new generations of artists. The investigation into the role and meaning of the female body, time and space, the use of different languages and technological means, the contrast between reality and scenic fiction, the use of disguises and alter egos are elements can already be found in the early works of Joan Jonas.
Jennifer Walshe was born in Dublin in 1974. Musician and composer, she has collaborated with orchestras and musicians from all over the world, participating in numerous international festivals and obtaining prizes and awards. With the Grúpat collective she founded – whose 9 members are actually alter egos of Walshe herself – she has created sound compositions, installations, sculptures, videos and photographs. In 2009 the collective was invited to exhibit at the Project Arts Center in Dublin in a retrospective, which was followed in 2010 by a solo exhibition at the Chelsea Art Museum in New York and in 2011 by participation in the Cut & Splice Festival at the ICA in London .
Wednesday 28 January 2015, at 21.00
Entry from 20.15
Free admission until seats last
HangarBicocca – via Chiese 2 – Milan
