[spectre] Elizabeth Penker at HTTP: Opening Tuesday 10 May 2005 7-9pm

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De-Grammatical: Rhythm and Language Transformation
by Elisabeth Penker

We invite you to the opening on Tuesday 10 May 2005 7-9pm

For the opening, Penker will perform live to the composition "Die 
Bildhauerin". The performance is supported by a sonic structure 
constructed of wood and various industrial floor materials which are 
amplified and function as instrument and interactive sound sculpture 
during the exhibition.

------- Exhibition open:
10 May - 5 June 2005
Friday - Sunday 12-5pm

--------------- Getting to HTTP:
Unit A2, Arena Business Centre,
71 Ashfield Rd, London N4 1NY
Tube: Manor House, Buses: 341, 141,
Car: free parking facilities

for further information contact: info at http.uk.net
tel: +44 (0) 208-8022827
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HTTP gallery is pleased to present Austrian artist Elisabeth Penker's 
first solo exhibition in the UK.
In her work Elisabeth Penker is questioning visual structures in 
relation to language. By decoding visual systems and displacing rhythm 
and language into a non-linear structure, Penker is showing the 
commonality of Modern Art and First Nation Art. It is of particular 
interest how polysynthetic languages which are common in First Nation 
Languages (i.e. there is no clear distinction between a word and a 
sentence), compare to Indo-European languages and how visual languages 
relate to grammar and syntax.

At the turn of the last century the Futurists introduced sounds of 
motors and vocals as instruments for orchestras, which consequently 
influenced Dada and Fluxus movements that pioneered the early days of 
electronic music. The Dadaists phonetically experimented with 
grammatical structures. Penker combines these different approaches to 
rhythm and language transformations. For her exhibition at HTTP gallery, 
Elisabeth Penker has developed a new sound piece Die Bildhauerin (The 
Sculptor [fem.]), a deconstruction of rhythm and syntax in a non-linear 
repetitive multi-channel matrix. Die Bildhauerin breaks up the 
grammatical structure of the word "DIE-BILD-HAU-ER-IN" into minimal 
units which are called morphemes. The composition is arranged with the 
sound of two stone masons, chiselling this broken grammatical structure 
into a wall. The morphemes build the base rhythms of the composition.

For the opening, Penker will perform live to the composition "Die 
Bildhauerin". The performance is supported by a sonic structure 
constructed of wood and various industrial floor materials which are 
amplified and function as instrument and interactive sound sculpture 
during the exhibition.

The audience can play on the sonic structure of the sound piece, and 
this is combined structurally with the conceptual logic of Luigi 
Russolo’s (1913) Manifesto, The Art of Noises and the technical 
methodology of Jack Foley’s recordings for films.

"De-Grammatical: Rhythm and Language Transformation" is supported by the 
Austrian Cultural Forum.

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Elisabeth Penker, born 1974 lives and works in Vienna recent exhibitions 
include:

2005 "The Red Thread" Howard House Contemporary, Seattle
2004 "Sound Studio" Gallery Priestor for Contemporary Arts, Bratislava, 
SK "Born to be a Star" Künstlerhaus, Vienna
2003 "Sound System", Salzbuger Kunstverein, Salzburg, A ; Liste 03 with 
Galerie Michael Hall, Vienna (solo), "Selected Sound Sculptures", 
Galerie 5020 Salzburg /A (solo)
2002 "Butterfly reached the sound-barrier", Kibla New Media Center, 
Maribor, SL; "Waiting for the Ice Age"(curated by Michael Hall), Galerie 
Georg Kargl, Vienna; "hear the art", Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
2001 Kunstbüro, Vienna (solo) "First Story-Women Building", Galerie do 
Palacio Cristal, Porto (curated by Ute Meta Bauer) and "(untitled) 
654321", Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, DK (curated by Jacob 
Fabricius & Tommy Lund)
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Getting to HTTP

Unit A2, Arena Business Centre,
71 Ashfield Rd, London N4 1NY
Tube: Manor House, Buses: 341, 141,
Car: free parking facilities

for further information contact: info at http.uk.net
tel: +44 (0) 208-8022827

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Press release for print (446k) 
http://www.http.uk.net/docs/exhib5/epenker.pdf
Gallery website http://www.http.uk.net
Getting to HTTP http://www.http.uk.net/docs/gettingto.htm

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