Monday, 12 December 2011

Chance Encounter by Lisa Bielawa

At the moment we are still confirming the artists that will be exhibiting in Chance Encounters. Until that point, we'll be posting inspiring work that's relevant to the exhibition, and perhaps inspire different ways of thinking about the idea of a 'chance encounter.'
First up, it's 'Chance Encounter', a film by Lisa Bielawa, 'a piece in, and about, transient public space.'





Text below is taken from Lisa Bielawa's website.

About Chance Encounter, by Lisa Bielawa:
Chance Encounter is a 35-minute site-specific musical work, co-conceived by world-renowned soprano Susan Narucki and myself, in which a Susan and 12 instruments convene, one or several at a time, in and out of the texture and context of public spaces. Susan sings songs and arias constructed of texts we have collected in transient public spaces, thereby enacting the listener’s private (yet collective) experience of the performance space itself. Each performance ‘venue’ requires a re-mapping of the spatial and movement elements of the piece onto the new location. 


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