Susan Philipsz

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The loudspeakers on the west breakwater at the entrance to Ystad harbor, for Susan Philipsz's sound installation "The Distant Sound"
Susan Philipsz - The Distant Sound. Ystad 25 May 2014.

Susan Philipsz (* 1965 in Glasgow ) is a Scottish sound artist who lives and works in Berlin .

life and work

Susan Philipsz studied sculpture at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee from 1989 to 1993 . She graduated from the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland with a Masters .

“Susan Philipsz's artistic material is sound; she designs rooms with the help of recordings of her own voice, a cappella singing or instrumental compositions in order to create evocative sound sculptures that echo in a given environment. She is interested in the interplay between sound and architecture, the psychological effects of songs and their ability to arouse immediate feelings and memories and thereby influence our perception of space. "

- The accompanying book documenta 13

The lost reflection

"Nice night, you love night, o calm my desires ..." begins the German text of the Barcarole , which opens the 4th act of the opera Hoffmanns Tales by Jacques Offenbach . Susan Philipsz sang both voices for the sound installation “The Lost Mirror Image” (2007). Both that of the Venetian courtesan Giulietta and that of her admirer Hoffmann, who gives her his mirror image as a token of his love. The echo-like chant of fleeting love and passion can be heard from loudspeakers that are attached to both sides under the Tormin Bridge in Münster .

Lowlands

In 2010 Susan Philipsz won the Turner Prize for her 3-channel sound installation “Lowlands”. She sings three different versions of the traditional Scottish seafaring song "Lowlands Away" in parallel. Only in the chorus do the versions merge into a unified sound experience.

Part File Score

In 2014 Susan Philipsz played in the historic hall of the former Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, with its twelve steel arches. Based on three film music compositions by Hanns Eisler , Susan Philipsz developed a 24-channel sound installation. The tones come from twelve speakers on each of the arches. Philipsz had the pieces recorded live by musicians: reduced to a violin, a cello, a trumpet and a piano. Various notes have been left out. Each tone is assigned to a loudspeaker. When a piece sounds, its sound wanders through the entire hall. Sometimes it seems like a question and answer, sometimes pauses give the impression that the music is getting lost in the room.

Twelve large-format graphics on the walls show scores by Eisler (1898–1962) overlaid with excerpts from FBI files. Because of his Jewish origins and his communist convictions, Eisler went into American exile between 1930 and 1940 . A life between departure and arrival. His everyday life was recorded in the FBI files. His passport can be seen and also when he visited New York. Many passages are blackened. These gaps visually correspond to the omitted notes of the composition.

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Awards

literature

  • Thomas D. Trummer (Ed.): Susan Philipsz: Night and Fog. Translations Anthony DePasquale, Tim Beeby, Sabine Bürger, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Walther König bookstore, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-86335-912-6
  • Brigitte Franzen , James Lingwood (Eds.): Susan Philipsz: You Are Not Alone. Text by Sara Arrhenius, translation by Paul Bowman, Walther König, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-86335-4-053
  • Susan Philipsz: The Distant Sound. [24. May - September 21, 2014, Bornholm, Denmark ... Moss, Norway, Radiosender Grimeton, Sweden], Editor Anna Johansson, Art And Theory Publishing, Stockholm 2014, ISBN 978-9-19815-7-345

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ art-in.de Susan Philipsz accessed on March 20, 2015
  2. ↑ Guggenheim Susan Philipsz accessed on March 20, 2015 (English)
  3. ↑ dOCUMENTA (13). The accompanying book / The Guidebook. Catalog 3/3., Page 360, 2012, ISBN 978-3-7757-2954-3
  4. ↑ skulptur.projekte münster 2007 Susan Philipsz ( Memento from April 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ Society for Modern Art Susan Philipsz - Lowlands ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on March 20, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / gmk-koeln.de
  6. ↑ Susan Philipsz. Part file score music works by visual artists ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on March 20, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.smb.museum
  7. ↑ The London Gazette December 31, 2015 To be Ordinary Officers of the Civil Division of the said Most Excellent Order accessed on March 20, 2015
  8. ↑ Charlotte Higgins: Susan Philipsz: Sonic boom , The Guardian , December 7, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Philipsz, Susan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Philipsz, Susan Mary
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish sound artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Glasgow