Exhibition

Phil Coy - Moving Images

26 Apr 2013 – 2 Jun 2013

Event times

Daily 10am-8pm (Call Reception for exact time information)

Cost of entry

Free

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Siobhan Davies Studios

London, United Kingdom

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  • By Bus: 1, 35, 40, 45, 63, 68, 100, 133, 155, 168, 171, 172, 176, 188, 196, 333, 343, 363, 468, P5
  • By Tube: Northern Line (Elephant & Castle), Bakerloo Line (Lambeth North, Elephant & Castle)
  • By Rail: Waterloo Station, Elephant & Castle
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Phil Coy - Moving Images

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Siobhan Davies Dance presents an exhibition of sound and video works by the artist Phil Coy which explores movement and choreography in new contexts.

Material Choir (2013) investigates the choreography of sound, deconstructing the traditional notion of a choir as a group, with individual singers navigating paths through the building, singing about the material surfaces they encounter. Recordings of the original performance will remain in the building for the duration of the exhibition. Originally invited to the Studios for Independent Dance's what_now festival, Material Choir was jointly commissioned by Siobhan Davies Dance and Independent Dance.

In Moving Images (2013) individual dancers are required not to dance, but instead to hold a pose whilst holding scaled photographs of architectural details taken from the position where they are posing. Coy recognises that non-movement is an important aspect of any choreography and is interested in the tension that is implied in this non-movement ' a physical impossibility for any living person. Moving Images has been captured on video, challenging the temporal relations between the moving image of the video recording the activity, the photograph held by the dancer, the moving body of the dancer and the inferred stability of the architecture.

In a formulated phrase reordered by movement (Prufrock) (2013), magnetic speaker heads attached to lengths of angle-iron lean against the wall and are captured on film by a CCTV camera. Lines have been cut from a poetry book containing the renowned T. S. Eliot poem 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' and physically pasted to the CCTV screen alongside the image of each speaker. Movements made within the space of the work are detected and trigger the lines to be 'spoken' out of the different speakers from an original recording of T.S.Eliot reading the poem. The mounted speakers themselves are figurative, referencing the head and body whilst echoing the material of the architecture the work inhabits.

Also included in the exhibition is Crate (2011-13), a standard issue wooden art packing crate that is essentially empty save for the audio equipment that enables it to record and play back its journey from one exhibition to the next; in this instance Bergen, Norway, to Siobhan Davies Studios, London. On arrival the crate is opened out and the sound recorded on route is played back in the Studios.

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