Still from: Terence Hannum "Evocation (featuring Sunn O)))", 2007
Proclamation
'In the shadows, in the basement hollows, in the darkest spaces where music exists on a periphery forged by remaining out of the spotlight, a secular congregation remains prostrate before blackened shrines of amplifiers - fingers in their ears, swaying in the full deluge of possession.
'Music and religion communicate on many planes in my own work. Music is put to use, or strictly and selectively prohibited, in religious practices. Secular music has its own holy days, rituals, relics and divisions between the sacred and profane. These observances are even more defined within the music generated and celebrated by subcultures. It is this periphery of the living cult that I am interested in reflexively and poetically documenting to translate through painting, drawing and video installation; a frame for analyzing how ritual sublimates chaos even on the most outer fringe of the sonic spectrum.' -- Terence Hannum
Four paintings
click here for larger images and more examples
'Hannum focuses on the flash of the camera to deal with music and the youth sub cultures that follow it; not so much from a sociological than from a archeological stance because he is interested in the object. His perspective comes from someone who is a practitioner and not a witness. From a musician's standpoint he understands the stage, instruments, sound and the physical reaction of the crowd to the music, which is close to spiritual. As a plastic artist he attacks the object with respect, as if it were a relic from a ritual. Hannum explains that our collective experience with music starts with the pleasure of the object, the record, the packaging, the artwork, all by products of the main work.' -- The Lost Review
Selected drawings from Black Arts,
a zine by Terrence Hannum, ed. 75
ordering information
'The sound in Terence Hannum's video installation Evocation is a wall of throbbing electronic harmony and dissonance. Hannum recorded the earth-shaking dirges of the experimental metal band Sunn O))) at a recent performance and shot footage, projected here on three walls--dark, abstract scenes in which fragments of performers, fans, and equipment appear in lightning flashes through clouds of thick smoke. Comparing the shamanic summoning of spirits, or evocation, to immersive media experiences, Hannum notes that he often dislikes IMAX movies because they deny "the terror that is necessary to begin to experience the sublime." Visually the installation evokes Mark Rothko's meditations on color and Ad Reinhardt's austere, monolithic black canvases, but Hannum adds the aural element of drone, a common feature of sacred and ecstatic music.' -- Bert Stabler, Chicago Reader
4 videos and documented installations
'Evocation', three channel video installation, 2007 (73:23)
featuring Sunn0)))
'Incantation', two channel video installation, 2008 (8:27)
featuring C. Spencer Yeh
'As Dusk Gathers (Tenebrae)', two channel video installation, 2009 (8:08)
featuring Wolves in the Throne Room
'Offering', single channel video installation, 2010 (8:59)
Terence Hannum is a Chicago-based artist and musician. He received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2004 and has had solo exhibition at Light & Sie in Dallas, TX, Invisible NYC in New York City, and was featured in one of the 12x12: New Artists/New Work shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. He has been in group exhibitions at Thomas McCormick Gallery in Chicago, IL, Winslow Garage Gallery in Los Angeles, CA and was curated by Francesco Bonami in the exhibition " Silence. Listen to the show" at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Torino, Italy. His films screened in the Borealis Festival in Bergen, Norway and the San Francisco Cinematheque in Sanfrancisco, CA. He performs music with the gothic folk quartet Unlucky Atlas and the experimental duo Locrian.
----
No comments:
Post a Comment