Janet Cardiff
Janet Cardiff (born March 5, 1957 in Brussels, Ontario ( Canada )) is a Canadian installation artist and filmmaker .
Career
Cardiff studied at Queen's University in Kingston , Ontario , where she received her bachelor's degree in 1980. She completed her studies at the University of Alberta Edmonton , Alberta , in 1983 with an MVA (Master of Visual Arts). She works artistically with her partner George Bures Miller . Autonomous as well as joint works are created. Cardiff and Miller live and work in Berlin and Grindrod, British Columbia , Canada.
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In her first work, the Whispering Room , she set up sixteen loudspeakers mounted on metal frames in a poorly lit room in the Art Gallery of Ontario in 1991 . A female voice could be heard from each of the speakers in dialogues with different contexts. The atmosphere of the quiet voices in the darkened room was interrupted by the projection of a 30-second film loop in which a young girl in a red dress performs a tap dance in the forest.
Cardiff's installation Forty-Part Motet is part of the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa . It is an adaptation of the forty-part Renaissance motet Spem in alium by Thomas Tallis, and consists of forty loudspeakers, the sound of which can be enjoyed individually or together.
In 2009 the couple Cardiff and Miller showed a 30-minute sound installation under the title The Murder of Crows in the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum in Berlin . In the empty main hall of the museum (the historical station hall) they installed 98 loudspeakers through which they played a composition of voices, pieces of music and room sounds. A stereophonic method for recording and reproducing the sound field ( ambisonics ) confronted the listener with excessive spatial hearing and sensation. With this, the most extensive piece to date, Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller are continuing their investigation of the sculptural and physical properties of sound images, which they have pursued together since the mid-1990s.
Since 2012 there has been a bench with sound by the artist couple in the sculpture garden of the Städel in Frankfurt am Main : The Bench .
Honors - awards
- 2004: Botho Graef Prize of the City of Jena
- 2011: Käthe Kollwitz Prize together with George Bures Miller
- 2020: Wilhelm Lehmbruck Prize from the City of Duisburg and the Rhineland Regional Council together with George Bures Miller
Exhibitions
- 1997: Sculpture. Projects in Münster
- 1999: Istanbul Biennial Biennale Istanbul; Voices , Witte de With, Rotterdam
- 2000: Between Cinema and a Hard Place , Tate Modern, London; TALK.Show , House of Art, Munich
- 2001: 49th Venice Biennale; Looking at You , Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel
- 2002: Biennale of Sydney, Sydney (also 2008); The Museum of Our Desires , Museum Ludwig Cologne; Cardiff & Miller, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, and Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal
- 2003: On Stage , Kunstverein Hannover (also galleries of the city of Esslingen); Cardiff & Miller, The Berlin File , Portikus, Frankfurt am Main
- 2005: Utopia Station , Haus der Kunst, Munich; Faces in the Crowd , Castello di Rivoli, Turin; Take Two , Museum of Modern Art, New York; Cardiff & Miller, Opera for a Small Room
- 2007: Not for Sale , PS1 MoMA, Long Island; Mapping the Self , Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
- 2009: Cardiff & Miller, The Murder of Crows , Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
- 2012: Documenta 13 , Kassel
- 2015: Cardiff & Miller, Conversation with Antonello , Soundscapes, National Gallery, London
Web links
- Literature by and about Janet Cardiff in the catalog of the German National Library
- Janet Cardiff at Google Arts & Culture
- Website of the artist
- Biography at Kunstaspekte.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Madeleine Grynsztejn, David Frankel: Carnegie International 1999/2000 , Carnegie Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, 1999, p. 164 ISBN 9780880390378
- ↑ Janet Cardiff website: Whispering Room , sixteen audio recordings of different lengths (between 40 seconds and three minutes)
- ^ Website of the Hamburger Bahnhof 2009: The Murder of Crows
- ^ Käthe Kollwitz Prize for artists Cardiff and Miller . In: Saarbrücker Zeitung of June 29, 2011, p. B4
- ^ Wilhelm Lehmbruck Prize 2020. In: lehmbruckmuseum.de. Retrieved February 15, 2020 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Cardiff, Janet |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian installation artist and filmmaker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 5, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brussels, Ontario (Canada) |