ARTISTS
ELISABETH S. CLARK
Recent Slade MA fine art graduate Elisabeth S. Clark will conduct 29 performers through a reading of a site-specific text – ‘A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf. Each performer shall represent a different ‘stanza’ or room while collectively forming one larger work.
Her use of the word penguin, she reveals, quantifies both the designated number of books (instruments) and performers (orchestra). Through a carefully devised and conducted piece, this 'score-object' will be elucidated.
Beautifully choreographed, the concerto will comprise of the entirety of a book's pages being simultaneously turned (and silently read) to create an ensemble of pages in turn. Coined by the artist, book concerto.
This piece seeks to question the very object, entity, and nature and composition of the book as well further elucidate its potentiality. Treated as a sculptural/sound/performative object - as a 'score-object', the book as we know it becomes a far more soluble being, on the verge of becoming. its very definition of what is expanded, renegotiated and challenged.
Sponsored by Penguin