Slave Pianos Pianology

Performative lecture
Slave Pianos Pianology: A Schema and Historio-Materialist Pro-gnostic
Presented by Victoria University of Wellington, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney and the Remembering the 20th Century Committee.

In collaboration with the students of the New Zealand School of Music at Victoria University of Wellington, the renowned collective Slave Pianos will activate the installation Slave Pianos (of the Art Cult) 1998-1999 in an entirely new and unexpected configuration. Riffing on the form of the university lecture and playing up the potential of the student community to create an ensemble, this event will present a very different kind of concert experience as another take on acoustic and discursive modes of address.

Slave Pianos is a collaborative venture undertaken by Danius Kesminas and Michael Stevenson in partnership with musical composers Neil Kelly and Rohan Drape. Their project seeks to document the history and practice of sound art, in particular the music of artists who are known predominantly in the field of the visual arts. For this performance they are joined by recent member and inventor David Nelson.
http://slavepianos.org

For further details on the Play On public programme: http://www.adamartgallery.org.nz/calendar/
The gallery is open Tuesday to Sunday 11am-5pm

Play On
Julian Dashper, Michael Parekowhai, Ava Seymour, Slave Pianos, Terry Urbahn
8 May-25 July 2010

Exhibition supported by Creative New Zealand, Coopers Creek and Piano House, Plimmerton.

Event listed by AdamArtGallery

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