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During the month of February 2010, Blackfish Gallery will host a collaborative exhibition between Blackfish Artist Member, Steve Tilden, visual artist; Paul Merchant, writer and archivist at Lewis and Clark College Library; and Tomas Svoboda, composer, whose works are internationally performed. The show opens Tuesday, February 2nd and continues through Saturday, February 27th. An opening reception will be held on First Thursday, February 4th from 6-9 pm at the gallery.
This exciting collaboration titled Migrating Messages seeks to coalesce the diversity of a) different creative individuals, and b) different media. And given opportunities over time to influence, even provoke, one another to produce works that would have never emerged in isolation.
Svoboda has written a twenty-three minute concerto for xylophone and tape, a single xylophone accompanied by a computer-generated “orchestra.” Merchant has written a three-part mix of original poetry and selections from poetry by Sugawara no Michizane (845-903) who died in exile from the Heian Court. Notions from Svoboda’s score and Tilden’s designs are reflected in these works. Tilden has designed and produced three major visual works: first “movement” a 4’ x 24’ landscape incorporating a portion of the Svoboda score and images from Merchant’s Michizane piece – the landscape depicts Michizane traveling into exile, from warmth of sun to coldness of moon. The horizons of the landscape (mountains, hill, field) are dictated by measures 61 through 66 of the concerto; in the second “movement” the shape of the musical score will be depicted by fifteen steel panels in graduated sizes from 20” square to 48” square, each panel distorted to reflect the percussive colors and tones of the concerto. These panels hang from the ceiling. The third “movement” is several poem sculptures. Part of these poem sculptures translates a portion of the Michizane chapbook, and part of the poem sculptures is an extension of the Michizane poems, which Paul Merchant has translated into English.
Major elements of all three components will be digitally archived for educational purposes. The web page will be designed for educational use in schools/colleges for those interested in how creative collaboration stimulates and inspires.
>> Slideshow of February 2010 exhibition
Fishbowl 1: 'Urban Aquarium' Sayuri Sasaki Hemann
Fishbowl 2: 'Kindle' Jim Neidhardt & Kerry Davis
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