{"id":6006,"date":"2009-08-31T02:38:56","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T01:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=6006"},"modified":"2009-08-31T02:38:56","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T01:38:56","slug":"apparition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/08\/31\/apparition\/","title":{"rendered":"A=P=P=A=R=I=T=I=O=N"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A=P=P=A=R=I=T=I=O=N<\/em> is a collaboration between artist Cerith Wyn Evans<\/a> and Throbbing Gristle<\/a>, the once notorious Industrial music act now enjoying a resurgence of activity and attention. Evans and TG have an earlier connection via Derek Jarman, for whom Evans worked as an assistant. Given how much I enjoy seeing mirrors used in art, I’m very taken with these, and knowing that they function as drifting speakers transmitting specially recorded TG audio makes them doubly interesting. The mirrors-plus-audio aspect is reminiscent of Josiah McElheny’s recent Island Universes<\/em><\/a> with Paul Sch\u00fctze but that’s not to imply any influence, both artists have been following their individual paths for some time.<\/p>\n

The title of this work comes from a poem by Stephan Mallarm\u00e9<\/a> (1842\u20131898), a poet closely associated with the Symbolists. Looking at an English translation<\/a>, the piece ends with the line “a snow of white bouquets of perfumed stars”; that final, impossible flourish\u2014perfumed stars\u2014is a very Symbolist touch. Claude Debussy, who took the title of his Pr\u00e9lude \u00e0 l’apr\u00e8s-midi d’un faune<\/em> from Mallarm\u00e9, set Apparition<\/em> to music in 1884.<\/p>\n

A=P=P=A=R=I=T=I=O=N<\/em> can be seen at Tramway<\/a>, Glasgow until September 27, 2009.<\/p>\n

\u2022 A=P=P=A=R=I=T=I=O=N<\/em> test run<\/a> on Chris Carter’s Flickr pages.<\/p>\n

Previously on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 In the Shadow of the Sun by Derek Jarman<\/a>
\n\u2022 The art of Josiah McElheny<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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