Art and music meet at PAC with video projections, talks and performances

From July 2 to September 13, 2020, Milan PAC presents Made of Sound, a project dedicated to a current theme in contemporary visual arts studies. The chosen theme is the relationship between art and music, which will be addressed through video projections, archival memoirs, talks, interventions by artists, curators and critics, and performances.

The Milanese exhibition venue will kick off the project with Laurie Anderson, an icon of multimedia art, to whom the PAC will pay tribute by projecting for the first time the video of the performance made in 2003 by the New York-based artist on the occasion of her anthological exhibition The Record of the Time, staged at the same venue and curated by Jean Hubert Martin and Thierry Raspail.

In July, thanks to a collaboration with the Cineteca Italiana, Laurie Anderson ’s feature film Heart of a Dog (2015), a story that moved the press at the Venice Film Festival, will also be screened in the PAC courtyard. An intimate and delicate journey in the company of the beloved dog Lolabelle, a multimedia reflection on the meaning of memory, loss and love.

The Made of Sound journey unfolds through the works of five artists who use sound and music in their artistic research:

the duo Barbara and Ale proposes the film The sky is falling (2017), where the vibraphone of Elio Marchesini, a percussionist at Teatro alla Scala, is played on a frozen lake among snowy mountains.

The film made by Jeremy Deller with Nicholas Abrahams, titled Our Hobby Is Depeche Mode (2006), photographs the Depeche Mode fanbase moving in a few weeks between Mexico, the United States, Germany, Romania, Brazil, Canada and Russia. This documents how the haphazard, chaotic and often unpredictable behavior with which fans take ownership of the band collides with the group’s carefully crafted commercial image.

Pamela Diamante presents Generating Heavenly Bodies - Exercises In Style (2020), a never-before-seen installation that explores the relationship between anthropocentric vision and infinity. In collaboration with composer Malasomma, the artist breaks down and translates into music the words of Paolo, who is visually impaired, who narrates the emotion of remembering being able to observe the stars; Antonio, on the other hand, who has been blind since birth, has depicted on two large canvases a starry sky that he has never been able to observe.

Italian art duo Invernomuto, on the other hand, presents the audiovisual installation Vers l’Europa deserta, Terra Incognita (2017), which, moving through an expanded suburb between Italy and France, works on the patterns of self-representation shared by suburban youth cultures across Europe through mediums such as video clips, Instagram stories and Snapchat streams.

In Portuguese artist João Onofre ’s work, a teenage girl sings Petula Clark’s La Nuit n’en Finit Plus inside a hole in the ground of a prairie. The work Untitled (N’en Finit Plus) from 2010-11, investigates the theme of appropriation, declined in both artistic practice and pop music, and the possibility of these two parallel worlds overlapping.

Complementing this sonic investigation are two additional interventions: in the project room a selection of music video clips directed by some of the most important and visionary contemporary directors (Anton Corbijn, Chris Cunningham, Jonathan Glazer, Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, Mark Romanek, Stephane Sednaoui) recounts art’s forays into the pop and rock music universe; in the parterre, Marie Cérisier’s installation Pile à CD that builds her personal and imaginary memory in a “sound” balance by giving a fragment to the public, between équilibre and déséquilibre.

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Hours: Thursday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.

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Pictured, Heart of a dog by Laurie Anderson (2015)in.

Art and music meet at PAC with video projections, talks and performances

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