Karlheinz Stockhausen
Courtesy of Stockhausen-Verlag
Wed, 11 November / 11:00–16:00
Office for Contemporary Art Norway
Nedre gate 7, Oslo
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As part of 'Columns, Grottos, Niches: The Grammar of Forms – On Art Criticism, Writing, Publishing and Distribution', Anne Hilde Neset, Deputy Editor of The Wire, organises a workshop on different approaches to sound writing. Neset addresses questions such as: For whom are we writing? Who and what are we serving? What is our agenda when writing? and How does art writing differ from writing about sound and music?
The workshop opens with an introduction to pop-cultural music criticism including examples from the work of Lester Bangs, Greil Marcus, Alex Ross, Paul Morley, Ian Penman, Ian MacDonald and Simon Reynolds. It also presents an introduction to sound art and its critical analysis, using as examples Christoph Cox, Douglas Kahn, David Toop, Marshall McLuhan, R. Murray Schaeffer and Jaques Attali, and an introduction to selected artists' texts by John Cage, Edgard Varèse, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Ornette Coleman, Brian Eno, Pierre Schaeffer, William Burroughs, Dan Graham, Henry Cowell and Luigi Russolo.
This event is free and open to the public. However, it requires registration in advance. To register or for more information on how to obtain preparatory readings, please contact Anne Charlotte Hauen at anne.charlotte@oca.no.
Anne Hilde Neset is the Deputy Editor of The Wire magazine, and the co-founder (with Lina Dzuverovic) of Electra, a London-based contemporary art agency. She has commissioned, curated and produced a number of projects, including the 'Enter' series of permanent sound installations (Stavanger, Norway, 2008), 'Her Noise' (South London Gallery, London, UK, 2005) and the film/performance commission Perfect Partner by Kim Gordon, Tony Oursler and Phil Morrison (Barbican Centre, London, UK, 2005 and international tour), as well as the The Sounds Of Christmas installation and performance project by Christian Marclay (Tate Modern, London, UK, 2005) and the group exhibition 'Invisible London' (MACBA, Barcelona, Spain, 2001). She has worked with artist Daria Martin as a music consultant developing soundtracks by Zeena Parkins and Maja Ratkje, participated in the curatorial committee for sound at London's Serpentine Gallery and devised and taught at the lecture series Sound and the 20th Century Avant-Garde at Tate Modern (2004).
'Columns, Grottos, Niches: The Grammar of Forms – On Art Criticism, Writing, Publishing and Distribution' is a series public events, workshops and presentations that are taking place from autumn 2009 to spring 2010 at OCA's premises at Nedre gate 7, with the aim to look at language, writing, criticism and publishing in relation to contemporary art, exploring its diverse modes of operation and possibilities within historical and contemporary practices. In these public events, writers, artists, critics, publishers and theorists investigate different experiences of and approaches to writing and language, specifically in relation to art. These events have a pedagogical remit, and are accompanied by a series of projects including presentation of artworks and libraries of publications, made available to the public for consultation and reading. Other speakers this autumn include Peter Osborne, Ina Blom, Will Bradley and Stuart Bailey. For more details on the OCA semesterplan autumn/winter 2009, please click here.
'Columns, Grottos, Niches: The Grammar of Forms' is designed and installed by tenfinger, Brussels, Belgium. www.tenfinger.be.
For press inquiries and more information on the project, the lecture or the OCA semesterplan, please contact Marthe Tveitan at marthe@oca.no.