Cally Spooner
The Overall OOOOH
30 Oct - 07 Dec 2014
Kunstverein Langenhagen is proud to present Cally Spooner’s first Soloshow in Germany. Cally Spooner (b. 1983 lives and works in London) produces plotless novellas, disjunctive scripts, looping monologues and musical arrangements to stage the automation of speech, outsourced subjectivity, mutated human resources and the short-circuiting of language as it transforms into labour. Appropriating different performance genres such as the Broadway musical Spooner considers how dematerialized, indeterminate, unmediated performance, can sit within the extreme visibility of entertainment and today's attention economies.
For Cally Spooner's solo show at Kunstverein Langenhagen - The Overall OOOH - the artist presents a film prop and an off-camera dialogue, both new components for her pending feature film (*) about states of technical dependency; the hired virtuosic body as a technology, a person becoming a corporation and a corporation becoming a person. For the The Overall OOOH Spooner stages the intersections between semiotic engineering, logistical subjugation, oversized objects and outsourced subjectivity. With very special thanks to Giles Round.
Cally Spooner has had recent solo presentations at gb Agency Paris, Tate Modern, London; Performa 13, New York and Kunsthal Charlottenburg, Copenhagen, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; with recent group group exhibitions at Kunstverein Munchen, Munich, Zero Gallery, Milan, KW Institute, Berlin; Serpentine Gallery, London; Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover; Cally Spooner is a recipient of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Awards for Artists 2013 and is nominated for The Future Generations Art Prize, 2014.
Spooner's film is the indirect and abstracted documentation of And You Were Wonderful, On Stage; a peripatetic live musical commissioned and produced by the Stedelijk Museum in April 2013, co-produced by Performa 13, New York, and Tate Modern, London. Delivered by a chorus line of 26 women, and based on the artists time working at an advertising agency as a copywriter.on a client campaign where an employee’s personally disclosed stories and aspirations were extracted, repackaged to better reflect the voice of their corporation, then returned to the employee to be redelivered to camera, as TV commercials. The musical will be adapted into a HD multichannel film by April 2015, co-produced by Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), USA and the Stedelijk Museum, NL.
For Cally Spooner's solo show at Kunstverein Langenhagen - The Overall OOOH - the artist presents a film prop and an off-camera dialogue, both new components for her pending feature film (*) about states of technical dependency; the hired virtuosic body as a technology, a person becoming a corporation and a corporation becoming a person. For the The Overall OOOH Spooner stages the intersections between semiotic engineering, logistical subjugation, oversized objects and outsourced subjectivity. With very special thanks to Giles Round.
Cally Spooner has had recent solo presentations at gb Agency Paris, Tate Modern, London; Performa 13, New York and Kunsthal Charlottenburg, Copenhagen, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; with recent group group exhibitions at Kunstverein Munchen, Munich, Zero Gallery, Milan, KW Institute, Berlin; Serpentine Gallery, London; Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover; Cally Spooner is a recipient of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Awards for Artists 2013 and is nominated for The Future Generations Art Prize, 2014.
Spooner's film is the indirect and abstracted documentation of And You Were Wonderful, On Stage; a peripatetic live musical commissioned and produced by the Stedelijk Museum in April 2013, co-produced by Performa 13, New York, and Tate Modern, London. Delivered by a chorus line of 26 women, and based on the artists time working at an advertising agency as a copywriter.on a client campaign where an employee’s personally disclosed stories and aspirations were extracted, repackaged to better reflect the voice of their corporation, then returned to the employee to be redelivered to camera, as TV commercials. The musical will be adapted into a HD multichannel film by April 2015, co-produced by Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), USA and the Stedelijk Museum, NL.