AILEEN CAMPBELL

Starform: sounding as a local structure

25 September–20 October 2007

Publication Launch and Performance: Saturday 13th October 8:00-9:00pm Duets and Duels

Aileen Campbell presents new video works in which two “sound dreamers” escape from themselves, until their performance slips away.

The artist uses structures of music-making to elicit feelings of empathy, sensation, event, nostalgia and illusion which buffer or distract the viewer from social conventions of judgement.

During absence, daydream or trance, the voice and ear can begin to transcend the physical and local and an alternate time experience becomes possible. These male ‘sound dreamers’ become sites for new aesthetic experiences formed the projected voice.

In the confused cacophony of private sounds in a domestic space, a sound performance ensues. These conflicting sounds with their disruptive metaphors begin a series of flawed relationships and associations between the performer, the resonating room and the event.

Ultimately, however, out of this dissonance the private experience becomes a public. The musical structure codifies the performance but the private site of ‘pre-performance’ remains untouched. The sounds from the head are presented publicly but the sound takes with it an individual corporality.