The Voice: Artists' Song Cycle
We are delighted that the PRS for Music Foundation is supporting one of our next major projects, developed with and led by artist and performer Sam Belinfante. We will bring together five artists to collaborate with one or more of three creative vocalists to make new work that exists as documentation, as performance, and possibly as exhibition artwork.
The project is symptomatic of a growing interest in the voice in contemporary art. Though contemporary artists have been grappling with the voice as both medium and subject matter, few have the opportunity to explore the voice through collaboration with skilled vocalists of the highest calibre. Fundamentally, this project comes from a desire to encourage conversations between the contemporary arts communities, conversations that will elucidate art’s complicated relationship with the voice as well as generate new processes and strategies for engaging with it.
Since graduating from University of Leeds and the Slade School of Fine Art, Sam Belinfante has performed and exhibited internationally, including group shows in Frankfurt, Athens, BALTIC, and Tate Britain. He has combined performance and video works in a series of live events at leading public galleries and art centres, including Milton Keynes Gallery, ICA, Wysing Arts Centre, and the Hayward Gallery. He worked closely with Bruce Mclean on a major new opera where world-class improvisation is combined with choreographed objects, video and movement, and is currently developing a new body of work from video fragments captured on an Anna Mahler Fellowship in Spoleto, Italy.
Belinfante has initiated a series of curatorial projects mixing performance, choreography and collaboration. Projects have included Notations and The Voice and Nothing More in collaboration with Neil Luck at the Slade Research Centre, LOOPs at Chelsea Space, and The Scuttler, with boyleANDshaw at ICA. Since 2008 he has been working on a series of performances and events devised in collaboration with Hayward Touring for Every Day is a Good Day, a major retrospective of the visual artwork of John Cage.
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