Lina Viste Grønli: Tinging
Exhibition
10 November 2013 – 12 January 2014
Performa 13 and Kunsthall Stavanger present: Practicing Haydn (Piano Sonata in Eb, Hob XVI:45 finale)
A project by Lina Viste Grønli, Peter Child, Elaine Chew
Practicing Haydn (Piano Sonata in Eb, Hob XVI:45 finale)
Practicing Haydn (Piano Sonata in Eb, Hob XVI:45 finale) is a collaborative work between Lina Viste Grønli, artist, Peter Child, composer and professor of music at MIT, and Elaine Chew, concert pianist and professor of digital media at Queen Mary, University of London. It is a composition for solo piano based upon transcripts of pianist Elaine Chew practicing the last movement of Haydn’s sonata for the first time. Child has meticulously transcribed the practice session, which, with its repetitions, errors, halts and interruptions, creates a new performable score refracting Haydn’s original music.
The performance lasts 8 minutes and will be performed by Elaine Chew at the opening of Lina Viste Grønli’s solo
Performa 13 and Kunsthall Stavanger present: Practicing Haydn (Piano Sonata in Eb, Hob XVI:45 finale)
A project by Lina Viste Grønli, Peter Child, Elaine Chew
Practicing Haydn (Piano Sonata in Eb, Hob XVI:45 finale)
Practicing Haydn (Piano Sonata in Eb, Hob XVI:45 finale) is a collaborative work between Lina Viste Grønli, artist, Peter Child, composer and professor of music at MIT, and Elaine Chew, concert pianist and professor of digital media at Queen Mary, University of London. It is a composition for solo piano based upon transcripts of pianist Elaine Chew practicing the last movement of Haydn’s sonata for the first time. Child has meticulously transcribed the practice session, which, with its repetitions, errors, halts and interruptions, creates a new performable score refracting Haydn’s original music.
The performance lasts 8 minutes and will be performed by Elaine Chew at the opening of Lina Viste Grønli’s solo show at Kunsthall Stavanger, Norway, on November 10, and by pianist Jennifer Lai in the Performa Headquarters in New York City, NY. The performances are simultanous. Print-outs of the score will be available as handouts at both venues, and there will be an online component to the project on Performa and Kunsthall Stavanger's websites.
About Performa
Founded in 2004 by art historian and curator RoseLee Goldberg, Performa is the leading international organization dedicated to exploring the critical role of live visual art performance in the history of the twentieth century and to generating new directions for the twenty-first century, engaging artists and audiences through experimentation, innovation and collaboration. Performa’s unique commissioning, touring, and year-round education programs, involving all disciplines, forge a new course for contemporary art and culture and culminate in the Performa biennial every other November.
Performa 13 and Pavilion Without Walls
Performa 13 will take place from Friday, November 1st through Sunday, November 24th in New York City. The three week program of more than 100 separate events presented at over 40 venues across the city will soon be announced, with behind-the-scene studio visits, information from more than 30 curators responsible for selecting and working with artists from around the world, and previews from cities as far afield as Johannesburg, Delhi, Singapore, Oslo and Warsaw.
New to the organizational structure this year will be Pavilions Without Walls, Performa's international initiative that in its inaugural year will be led by Norway and Poland. Both countries have been closely involved with the planning of the biennial to integrate programming that builds substantial trans-Atlantic connections between cultural producers and artists across disciplines through the commissioning, presentation, and research of live performance, both in their countries and beyond. One of Performa's collaborating institutions in Norway is Kunsthall Stavanger.
