(re)visionLAND
Alejandra & Aeron
24th November ? 22nd December 2001
Changing Room Gallery, Stirling, Scotland
(re)visionLAND is the first UK solo show by Alejandra
Salinas and Aeron Bergman, musicians / artists who
live and work in Logrono, Spain, relocating from New
York, where they were married in a Chinatown church in
1997.
Since 1997, Alejandra & Aeron have operated the Lucky
Kitchen record label, subtly combining a fine art
aesthetic of ideas through beautifully measured home
made packaging with a refreshingly off-the-cuff
approach to realism in their sound work. Describing
their work as electronic folk music ,Alejandra &
Aeron bring an evocative human touch to the normally
cold formalist worlds of experimental music and sound
based art.
With (re)visionLAND, their aim is to set up a
puzzling situation of dialogue about landscape. Humans
manipulate and posses land as if it were a clay model.
The work, including full size replication of English
Garden scene (with sound), video works and traditional
Spanish Belen christmas window scene, suggests
subjects such as colonialism, foot and mouth and
shaping of the land, but also talks about myth, and
utopian images slipping (and surviving) in the cracks.
ARS Electronica prize winners in 2001 (for digital
music), Alejandra & Aeron have exhibited and performed
internationally, releasing sound works on record
labels such as Fat Cat (UK), Tomlab (Germany), Diskono
(UK), Audioview (Belgium). In addition to a regular
recording schedule, and film soundtrack work, their
installation "Bells Intervals" rang from the belltower
of the Ex Teresa Contemporary Art Museum in Mexico
City this past July. Their sound work entitled
"Pueblos
Asolados, Underwater Villages" in the "Listening Pod"
is currently exhibiting at the Centre Georges
Pompidou, Paris before moving onto the Museum of
Modern Art in Luxembourg in November 2001.
(Re)visionland is curated by Scottish artists
collective Diskono, long time collaborators with
Alejandra & Aeron and funded by the Scottish Arts
Council through International Projects in Scotland
scheme.
Alejandra and Aeron conjure a world that truly has to
be seen--and heard--to be believed. Philip Sherburne
XL8R
GALLERY EVENTS
Alejandra & Aeron audio performance; exhibition
preview night 23rd November 2001.
Sorry, I Couldnt Be With You Tonight; two evenings
of film, sound and image curated by Alejandra &
Aeron (6th December, featuring films by Peter Campus,
Kenny Schachter, Susana Salinas, Anna Wilms, Karl
Erickson a.o), Diskono (13th December, featuring films
by Semi Conductor, Mariola Brillowska, Jan Van Den
Dobblesteen, Danielle Lemaire, Felix Kubin a.o.)
Lucky Kitchen:
http://www.luckykitchen.com
Diskono:
http://www.onoksid.freeserve.co.uk
For further information or press prints please
contact:
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The Changing Room
Contemporary Art Space
35 The Crawford Arcade, King Street,
Stirling, FK8 1AX
Tel / Fax / Ans : +44 (0) 1786 479361
e : info@changingroom.sol.co.uk
Transmission Gallery in cahoots with The Changing Room
are running a bus from Glasgow to the preview night of
Alejandra & Aeron's exhibition ?(re)visionLAND at The
Changing Room in Stirling on evening of Friday 23rd
November
Aeron and Alejandra will be performing live,
presenting special pieces composed for the opening,
and of course refreshments will be served.
The bus departs Transmission at 6.00pm, then returns
from Stirling (outside Barton Bistro) at 11pm, Price
is £5 (return). The preview night starts at 6.30pm,
with Aeron and Alejandra performing at approx. 7.30pm,
lights out at 8.30pm, then fall down the street to the
bar.
Seats are limited, so please either phone or email
Anna at Transmission to reserve.
Transmission Phone : 0141 552 4813
email : transmission@compuserve.com
Address : 28 King Street, Glasgow
Web :
http://www.transmissiongallery.org
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