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| 27-29 March, Luke Fowler and Lee Patterson in Ghent |
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This weekend, Courtisane welcomes both artists to prepare their performance for the forthcoming festival. Draw a Straight Line and Follow it is the only instruction mentioned in the score of Composition 1960 #10 by La Monte Young. Patterson and Fowler follow the instruction by this conceptualist very literally. Registering things they meet on their way, they will make a 'straight' journey through Ghent. The result is brought together in a live performance during the festival (An evening on...Landscapes, 24 april, Vooruit). LUKE FOWLERIn his installations and videos, Fowler frequently makes use of photos, music, found footage and images found in archives. This way, he creates a multimedial collage that blurs the boudaries between documentary and video art. The stories he tells usually deal with characters that live on the margin of society. In The Way Out (2003) for example, he portrays Xento Jones, an obscure punkrocker from the eighties. In other films, he introduces us to the revolutionary practice of the psychiatrist R.D. Laing (What you see is where you're at, 2001 and The Nine Monads of David Bell, 2007). Luke Fowler exposes worldwide. His work was, among others, shown at the Tate Britain and the Venice Biennale. Last year, Fowler won the first Jarman Award for artist filmmakers. Fowler is also known for his presence in the alternative music scene of Glasgow. He plays in two bands, Rude Pravo and Lied Music, and is the face behind SHADAZZ, a multimedia platform that releases experimental electronical music. It devotes itself to be an intermediaire between artists and musicians. Fowler lives and works in Glasgow. LEE PATTERSON Lee Patterson lives in Prestwich, near Manchester. He is a sound artist and is also active as an improvising musician. According to Patterson, beautiful sounds – music – can be found in the most banal environments. This is why you will find the artist outdoors, fully equipped with his contactmicrophone or hydrophone, in search for interesting sounds that may have never been recorded before. After all, what one must keep in mind is that “both music and noise are entirely context specific and that music arises from a framework of specific listening”. |
