Haroon Mirza
Talk Art
Russell Tovey and Robert Diament c/o Independent Talent
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2019
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Robert & Russell meet British artist Haroon Mirza, best known for installations that test the interplay and friction between sound, light waves and electric current. He devises sculptures, performances and immersive installations, such as The National Apavillion of Then and Now (2011) – an anechoic chamber with a circle of light that grows brighter in response to increasing drone, and completely dark when there is silence. An advocate of interference (in the sense of electro-acoustic or radio disruption), he creates situations that purposefully cross wires. He describes his role as a composer, manipulating electricity, a live, invisible and volatile phenomenon, to make it dance to a different tune and calling on instruments as varied as household electronics, vinyl and turntables, LEDs, furniture, video footage and existing artworks to behave differently. Processes are left exposed and sounds occupy space in an unruly way, testing codes of conduct and charging the atmosphere. Mirza asks us to reconsider the perceptual distinctions between noise, sound and music, and draws into question the categorisation of cultural forms. "All music is organised sound or organised noise," he says. "So as long as you’re organising acoustic material, it’s just the perception and the context that defines it as music or noise or sound or just a nuisance" (2013).
Mirza's major solo exhibition 'Waves and Forms' is at John Hansard Gallery, Southampton until 11th January 2020. The show highlights the artist’s ongoing exploration of waveforms: how they are perceived, the emotional and physical responses they create and the various ways in which we relate to them.
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| 0:57.0 | Good afternoon, good morning, good evening. Wherever you are in the world, I'm Russell Tovey. |
| 1:06.1 | And I'm Robert Diamen. This is Talkart. Welcome to Talkart. |
| 1:09.4 | How are you, Rob? I'm really warm, actually. Are you? Yeah, me me too it's quite a hot room it's |
| 1:15.2 | my gosh it is hot in here and it's it's English summertime so it's been incredibly |
| 1:19.5 | it's been a heat wave it has been a heat wave and I've actually been by the seaside but even there it was still like |
| 1:29.1 | 30 I'm not going to tell you where it's top secret people you have to listen to other |
| 1:34.5 | episodes and find out we're not allowed to mention anything. By the seas |
| 1:37.1 | you've had a breeze yeah yeah but even in like our office at the gallery it was |
| 1:41.3 | 36 degrees inside we ended up I don't understand |
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