Audio: Antony Hudek, The Fantasy of the House Museum
1 hour 3 minutes 17 seconds
The Fantasy of the House Museum
Antony Hudek, at the time curator at Raven Row gallery, speaks about the fascination elicited by house museums as a curatorial site.
His talk, titled Our House in the Middle of our Street begins with a quote from Jean-François Lyotard, Libidinal Economy (1974): "the representative room is an energetic apparatus", Hudek proposes Lyotard's ideas as a particularly useful way of approaching Yes, These Eyes Are the Windows.
Recorded 5 June 2014 at The Type Archive, 100 Hackford Rd, London SW9 0QU, United Kingdom.
This recording is also available to hear on Soundcloud.
Image: Inside 87 Hackford Road, Saskia Olde Wolbers, Yes, These Eyes Are the Windows (2014). Photograph: Marcus Leith
Audio: Jane Rendell, Site-Writing
55 minutes 13 seconds
Site-Writing
Jane Rendell, Professor of Architecture and Art at the Bartlett, UCL, speaks about transitional spaces in architecture and psychoanalysis.
Rendell presents four readings that all relate to Yes, These Eyes Are the Windows; each a response to the work and its overlapping areas with her own concerns such as the architectural fringes between internal and external worlds, the relation of cultural history to personal memory, and how one can use voice and the structures of fiction and narrative to reconfigure the past and the present.
Recorded 19 June 2014 at The Type Archive, 100 Hackford Rd, London SW9 0QU, United Kingdom.
This recording is also available to hear on Soundcloud.
Image: Inside 87 Hackford Road, Saskia Olde Wolbers, Yes, These Eyes Are the Windows (2014). Photograph: Marcus Leith
Audio: Michelle Baharier, R. M. Sánchez-Camus and Rachel Anderson, On Our Way Here
1 hour 18 minutes 15 seconds
On Our Way Here
In this talk, Rachel Anderson speaks about how Artangel approaches the commissioning of collaborative works, Michelle Baharier talks through the beginnings of the CoolTan Arts organisation in squatted spaces in Brixton and R.M. Sánchez-Camus introduces his practice in applied live art. Together, they discuss the project At the Crossroads With Vincent which was developed alongside Yes, These Eyes Are the Windows.
Recorded 15 May 2014 at The Type Archive, 100 Hackford Rd, London SW9 0QU, United Kingdom.
This recording is also available to hear on Soundcloud.
Image: Inside 87 Hackford Road, Saskia Olde Wolbers, Yes, These Eyes Are the Windows (2014). Photograph: Marcus Leith
Saskia Olde Wolbers
Born in The Netherlands in 1971, Saskia Olde Wolbers lives and works in London. Applying a process of research into oral history, literary works and academic text to her audio installation with Artangel, Olde Wolbers brings into focus two important aspects of her work, the voice over and the composed sound track. Ordinarily known for her video work, she creates fictional narratives linked to real life events, often those that are in the public eye.
Recent solo exhibitions include 'Kinemacolor' at M Museum Leuven, Leuven, Belgium in 2013; Ota Fine Arts in Tokyo and Singapore in 2013; Maureen Paley, London, 2012; 'A Shot in the Dark' at the Secession, Vienna in 2011; the Goetz Collection, Munich in 2010; the Art Gallery of York University in Toronto and the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo in 2008. Recent group exhibitions include' Visceral Sensation', 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, 2013; 'Trapping Lions in the Scottish Highlands', Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, USA, 2013; 'Open End', Sammlung Goetz at Haus der Kunst in Munich in 2012; 'Monanism', Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania in 2011; 'Automated Cities', San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego in 2009; and 'The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image', Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, 2008, toured to CaixaForum, Barcelona in 2011.
Olde Wolbers is represented by Maureen Paley London and Galerie Diana Stigter Amsterdam.
Production
Lu Kemp – Associate Director
Elena Peña – Sound Design
Freddie Lippi – Installation Sound Engineer
Cis O’ Boyle – Lighting Design
Daniel Pemberton – Music
Audio recorded at Essential Music with Dave Chilton and Lucinda Mason Brown
Installation
R.M. Sánchez-Camus – Production Manager
Alexa Reid – Fine Detail
Stefano Farfariello – Carpentry
Actors
Tom Brooke
Pippa Haywood
Jack Klaff
Amanda Lawrence
Colette O’Neil
Paul Ritter
Sophie Stanton
Nick Underwood
Produced for Artangel by Rachel Anderson
Biographies
Lu Kemp: A director and also a dramaturge working across physical theatre and dance as well as theatre for radio, Kemp has most recently directed Neil Gaiman's book The Day I Swapped My Dad For Two Goldfish for National Theatre for Scotland and The Arabian Nights at the Tricycle Theatre. Kemp is an Associate Artist with Inspector Sands and a visiting tutor at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
Freddie Lippi: Originally from Rome, Freddie has studied Musical Theatre in New York City where she has led a successful career in Stage and Production Management. In 2000 she moved to London to study Sound Engineering and has since worked in a very broad range of live and recorded arts applications; from live sound mixing for music, theatre and conferences through to sound design and art installations. Freddie is very pleased to be involved in yet another Artangel’s innovative and inspiring project.
Tom Brooke: Brooke's screen roles include The Boat That Rocked (2009) and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004) as well as a role in the BBC's Sherlock, Foyle's War and Game of Thrones television series.
Amanda Lawrence: An actor who has played both Emily Davison, the suffragette who died beneath the feet of King George V's horse and the Devil, in Bijan Sheibani's Damned by Despair at the National Theatre, Lawrence has also appeared in features directed by Mike Leigh, Luc Besson and Woody Allen alongside TV and stage appearances.
The interior of 87 Hackford Road for Saskia Olde Wolbers, Yes, These Eyes Are the Windows (2014). Photograph: Marcus Leith
Credits
Commissioned and produced by Artangel, with the kind permission of James Wang and Alice Childs and supported by the Mondriaan Fund, the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Invisible speaker technology supplied by Feonic.
Artangel is generously supported by Arts Council England and the private patronage of the Artangel International Circle, Special Angels and The Company of Angels.
