Post by Owen Y on Sept 21, 2020 14:55:55 GMT 12
Currently showing at the Akld Art Gallery until 6 Dec, is a 2015 video installation by Berlin-resident, South African-born artist, Candice Breitz.
This is an immersive 18 video screen installation where visitors can view 18 men, selected citizens of Montreal (Cohen's home-town) singing (& humming, whistling, etc) along to Cohen's 1988 comeback album, 'Im Your Man'.
There is also main screen upon entry, featuring a Jewish Synagogue Choir, interpreting his songs.
Sound quality at the gallery is quite good, each screen tilted, with its own loudspeaker around the side.
" The work expands Breitz’s ongoing anthropology of the fan. Although these multi-channel portraits mimic the flow and duration of the original albums that they take as their templates, they specifically exclude the auratic voices and familiar musical arrangements of the original albums, such that the musical icon ultimately remains present only through the a cappella voices of a devout amateur collective. "
(Excuse poor quality of this cellphone video.)
This is an immersive 18 video screen installation where visitors can view 18 men, selected citizens of Montreal (Cohen's home-town) singing (& humming, whistling, etc) along to Cohen's 1988 comeback album, 'Im Your Man'.
There is also main screen upon entry, featuring a Jewish Synagogue Choir, interpreting his songs.
Sound quality at the gallery is quite good, each screen tilted, with its own loudspeaker around the side.
" The work expands Breitz’s ongoing anthropology of the fan. Although these multi-channel portraits mimic the flow and duration of the original albums that they take as their templates, they specifically exclude the auratic voices and familiar musical arrangements of the original albums, such that the musical icon ultimately remains present only through the a cappella voices of a devout amateur collective. "
(Excuse poor quality of this cellphone video.)
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