Kathryn Elkin
04 - 10 May 2015
KATHRYN ELKIN
fig-2 18/50
4 – 10 May 2015
Kathryn Elkin’s new commission ‘The Elephants in the Room’ merges modes of improvisation with immediacy of response in the form of a collaboration between the artist and the musician Okkyung Lee. As a conversation point and a reference for Lee’s improvisation they worked through the adagietto from Mahler’s 5th Symphony, which was famously used in Visconti’s masterpiece Death in Venice. Elkin worked with artist Lucy Parker shooting the film, with cellist Richard Thomas acting as a sound recordist. Parker and Thomas lend their own interpretations of Elkin’s intentions in documenting the sessions with Lee, each negotiating their own role in the studio set-up. Lee’s canny understanding of Elkin’s interest in the score and its associations as well as her understanding of the dualism of her role in the film at hand - as composer and as performer/subject - makes for a broad range of collaborative harmonies and dissonances. ‘The Elephants in The Room’, features two performances entitled Mud, a 22 minute vocal work that accompanies the video, on the opening evening and on Sunday 10th. Please book your tickets for the Sunday performance here.
Commissioned by fig-2 and CCA Glasgow. Generously supported by Outset Scotland.
Kathryn Elkin (b.1983, Belfast, UK). Lives and works in Edinburgh. Recent exhibitions and performances include: ‘Speaking Art Writing’, Whitechapel Gallery, London (2015), ‘Mutatis Mutandis’, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh (2015) and ‘Til The Stars Turn Cold’ at Glasgow Sculpture Studios (2015). In 2015 Elkin was awarded a 6 month residency at BBC Scotland to produce the video work ‘Michael's Theme’ and her video ‘Mutatis Mutandis’ featured as part of the 2014 London Film Festival. Elkin is one of the 2015 Visual Art residents at Cove Park. She will make a duo presentation with Seamus Harahan at CCA Derry in late 2015 and a solo presentation at CCA Glasgow.
fig-2 18/50
4 – 10 May 2015
Kathryn Elkin’s new commission ‘The Elephants in the Room’ merges modes of improvisation with immediacy of response in the form of a collaboration between the artist and the musician Okkyung Lee. As a conversation point and a reference for Lee’s improvisation they worked through the adagietto from Mahler’s 5th Symphony, which was famously used in Visconti’s masterpiece Death in Venice. Elkin worked with artist Lucy Parker shooting the film, with cellist Richard Thomas acting as a sound recordist. Parker and Thomas lend their own interpretations of Elkin’s intentions in documenting the sessions with Lee, each negotiating their own role in the studio set-up. Lee’s canny understanding of Elkin’s interest in the score and its associations as well as her understanding of the dualism of her role in the film at hand - as composer and as performer/subject - makes for a broad range of collaborative harmonies and dissonances. ‘The Elephants in The Room’, features two performances entitled Mud, a 22 minute vocal work that accompanies the video, on the opening evening and on Sunday 10th. Please book your tickets for the Sunday performance here.
Commissioned by fig-2 and CCA Glasgow. Generously supported by Outset Scotland.
Kathryn Elkin (b.1983, Belfast, UK). Lives and works in Edinburgh. Recent exhibitions and performances include: ‘Speaking Art Writing’, Whitechapel Gallery, London (2015), ‘Mutatis Mutandis’, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh (2015) and ‘Til The Stars Turn Cold’ at Glasgow Sculpture Studios (2015). In 2015 Elkin was awarded a 6 month residency at BBC Scotland to produce the video work ‘Michael's Theme’ and her video ‘Mutatis Mutandis’ featured as part of the 2014 London Film Festival. Elkin is one of the 2015 Visual Art residents at Cove Park. She will make a duo presentation with Seamus Harahan at CCA Derry in late 2015 and a solo presentation at CCA Glasgow.