Hannah Rickards
09 May - 17 Jun 2007
HANNAH RICKARDS
The Showroom is delighted to announce the first solo show in London by Hannah Rickards. For The Showroom, Rickards will present an exhibition based upon her recent research trip to Alaska and Canada, collecting verbal accounts from the small number of people who have perceived the visual phenomenon of the Northern Lights as being accompanied by a sound.
This research is a continuation of Rickards' interest in the verbal or non-verbal reconstruction of sound-related phenomena. Her practice most commonly revolves around a process of translation. This has, in the past, involved the movement of a sound, such as birdsong or a thunderclap, to the point where it is able to be replicated or reconstructed by other means, in these cases, a human voice or an ensemble of orchestral instruments.
Hannah Rickards has been included in a number of group shows: KölnShow2, European Kunsthalle, Cologne, The Elementary Particles (paperback edition), Standard, Oslo, Don Quijote, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, and Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2003, London and Manchester. Rickards' latest work,Thunder (2005), commissioned by Media Art Bath, was installed at Central Reformed Church, Bath, and also featured in Live Art at the South London Gallery - Hannah Rickards: Thunder / Phil Coy: Test Signal, South London Gallery, London.
For further information please contact Shama Khanna on +44 (0)20 8983 4115, or refer to the gallery's website www.theshowroom.org/
The Showroom is financially assisted by Arts Council England, The Moose Foundation for the Arts and the many members of the gallery's Friends Scheme. The sound I think it makes is, is that whispering sound, to me it sounds, it almost sounds, um, uh, what's the word I'm thinking? Um, like historic, not historic, but, um, oh: a legend, it, it sounds like a legend, you know, when you think of a legend or something way back in the past you get that, that, it sounds like that to me, like this legend or somebody's, this whispering sound: it's a legend. is supported by Arts Council England Grants for the Arts and Media Art Bath.
The Showroom is delighted to announce the first solo show in London by Hannah Rickards. For The Showroom, Rickards will present an exhibition based upon her recent research trip to Alaska and Canada, collecting verbal accounts from the small number of people who have perceived the visual phenomenon of the Northern Lights as being accompanied by a sound.
This research is a continuation of Rickards' interest in the verbal or non-verbal reconstruction of sound-related phenomena. Her practice most commonly revolves around a process of translation. This has, in the past, involved the movement of a sound, such as birdsong or a thunderclap, to the point where it is able to be replicated or reconstructed by other means, in these cases, a human voice or an ensemble of orchestral instruments.
Hannah Rickards has been included in a number of group shows: KölnShow2, European Kunsthalle, Cologne, The Elementary Particles (paperback edition), Standard, Oslo, Don Quijote, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, and Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2003, London and Manchester. Rickards' latest work,Thunder (2005), commissioned by Media Art Bath, was installed at Central Reformed Church, Bath, and also featured in Live Art at the South London Gallery - Hannah Rickards: Thunder / Phil Coy: Test Signal, South London Gallery, London.
For further information please contact Shama Khanna on +44 (0)20 8983 4115, or refer to the gallery's website www.theshowroom.org/
The Showroom is financially assisted by Arts Council England, The Moose Foundation for the Arts and the many members of the gallery's Friends Scheme. The sound I think it makes is, is that whispering sound, to me it sounds, it almost sounds, um, uh, what's the word I'm thinking? Um, like historic, not historic, but, um, oh: a legend, it, it sounds like a legend, you know, when you think of a legend or something way back in the past you get that, that, it sounds like that to me, like this legend or somebody's, this whispering sound: it's a legend. is supported by Arts Council England Grants for the Arts and Media Art Bath.