Martin Creed [Owada], Bruce Gilbert [Wire], Joe Banks [Disinformation], Hayley Newman, Javier Marchán + David Clegg - Museum of Installation 1997

A4 information sheet for the “Soundproofs” exhibition, at London’s Museum of Installation (gallery) in July 1997. “Soundproofs” featured audio installations by Bruce Gilbert (from the band Wire), Joe Banks (Disinformation), David Clegg and Javier Marchán, performances by Martin Creed and Keiko Owada, Bruce Gilbert, Joe Banks, and Hayley Newman, plus a panel discussion chaired by Robert Worby (from BBC Radio 3) and the late Paul Burwell.

The information sheet refers to installation art as “being delineated as a broad discursive field” which is “often presented with an almost exclusive reliance on the visual”. So, in this exhibition the Museum of Installation presented “a series of empty rooms in which there is nothing to see beyond the architectural fabric”. The “Soundproofs” exhibition featured “National Grid” - the electrical sound installation created by Joe Banks for the project Disinformation, and, although the sound from this installation was heard (and felt) as vibrations rising up through the floor into an empty gallery, in fact the set-up in the basement was quite photogenic (see links below).

The info sheet acknowledges “Soundproofs” as a “collaboration with David Clegg of Workfortheeyetodo”, describing how as the gallery’s “exterior skin is being refurbished” the artists were “producing a score for the architectural container”, and then describing how “by moving through the building the listener then recreates and modifies the works, fusing mnemonic triggers and fragments into a cohesive form”. “Soundproofs” took place at the same time that the Workfortheeyetodo space was exhibiting works by John Cage, Paul Burwell and Stephen Cripps.

“National Grid” was first published on LP in 1996 and first exhibited at the MOI in 1997, pre-dating works such as “Domestic Grid Flux” by CM von Hausswolff (Modern Art Oxford, 2000) and “Electrical Walks” by Christina Kubisch (Klangraum Raumklang, Köln, 2004) by 4 and 8 years respectively (and, rather strangely, Christina Kubisch often describes herself as belonging to the [quote] “first generation of sound artists”, despite her first work being published 65 years after Luigi Russolo’s famous Intonarumori, and decades after pioneering works by John Cage, Pierre Schaeffer, Luciano Berio, Iannis Xenakis, Daphne Oram and Delia Derbyshire, etc).

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Taken on: March 26, 2017

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