Friday, November 18, 2011

Answer Me

Long sorrow, 2005

Anri Sala
Serpentine Gallery

As the Serpentine duo Hans Ulrich Obrist and Julia Peyton Jones (curators, writers, museum directors...) achieved their 2nd place again in the Art Review Power list this year, they keep bringing forth great shows. The last one I viewed there this summer was Michelangelo Pistoletto´s cardboard labyrinths, this time it is Anri Sala's video's accompanied by live music.

The Albenian Artist Anri Sala has seen it as his mission to represent the social and political changes that his country is going through, his work is dominated by the importance of sound related to images. Next year Anri Sala is having a solo exhibition at the Pompidou Center in Paris. 
Long Sorrow though is filmed in Berlin where he now lives, the jazz musician Jemeel Moondoc performs while suspended outside the window of an empty apartment on the eighteenth floor, of a public housing estate. At first you only view the contours of the musician's head and the tops of skyscrapers, which looks pretty grim. As the film progresses it turns greener and greener until it seems like a park in the middle of the housing estate. It feels like quite a concert treat since another saxophone player in the gallery is playing live a duet with Jemeel Moondoc in the film...

Long Sorrow, 2005

When Long Sorrow ends the saxophone player leads us into the next room where Tlatelco crash is being shown.

Tlatelco clash, 2011

Tlatelco clash, 2011

Tlatelco clash, is filmed in the ruins of the Tlatelcolco site in Mexico City, where different people brings fragments of the same musical score into a barrel organ.

Tlatelco clash, 2011


I interpreted this a bit like we are all given our own personal predetermined musical score and somehow it all links us together in one long song. I was explaining this a little to my husband when I got home saying that I would probably have been given a very dramatic heavy score, but he said no, I think it would be a more happy "Lalalala"... and yes I would hope for that too.  

With the happy and light lalalala I will wish you all a great weekend!!!

With Love
Kristin

13 comments:

  1. This looks like it would be marvelous..love the pictures and I hope you will be more happy Lalala!! Lots of love xx

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  2. Wagner one day, Vivaldi the next - how could I possibly choose ONE single score to reflect me? Though I would hope that Lalalala would work on some level for most days ;-) Have a great weekend xo

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  3. an interesting piece, something to draw all our senses, including our consciences.

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  4. Sounds really interesting and something I'd love to see in person. Hope you are having a lovely Friday, darling. xo

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  5. i love these video installations... have a great weekend!

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  6. i like the one long song idea :)

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  7. What a great concept and I hope you have a lalala weekend ��

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  8. Oh super cool! Love video installations!
    xx

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  9. aww, i love it when husbands know best! :) lalalala from me to you!

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  10. WELL INTERESTING, I JUST LOVE ALL THE DIFFERENT WAYS OF EXPRESSING OURSELVES TO THE WORLD!!!
    XXX

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