Empty Orchestra

13 Oct-23 Oct 2011

Overview

Empty Orchestra is the literal translation of karaoke. This Second Gallery exhibition, curated by Georgie Park and Samuel Rodgers, will be a working lounge bar including new and existing works by Dom Allen, Stephen Cornford, Petra Cortright, Flat Soufflée, Rob Gawthrop, Christopher Gladwin, Laura James & Samuel Rodgers, Pete McPartlan, Oneohtrix Point Never, Alex Peverett and Gillian Wylde. Artists will interrogate, dismantle, displace, replace and rebuild the tools and contexts of musical performance. From the use of instruments in extended ways, and playful explorations of audio/visual interferences, to work that abandons precision to embrace ‘shoddiness’, the exhibition brings together the slick and the shabby, the engineered and the experimental.