Peter Doig, Painting for Wall Painters (Prosperity P.o.S.), 2010–2012, distemper on linen, 240 x 360 cm. © Peter Doig. All Rights Reserved.
12pm
Cyrus Goberville, Curator, Bourse de Commerce
3pm
Behrang Karimi
5.30pm
Ed Ruscha, Artist
A live programme that activates Peter Doig’s House of Music on Sundays and select evenings. With sound system by Laurence Passera / dsp London.
House of Music transforms the gallery into a listening space and explores the role of music, film and communal gathering in Peter Doig’s (b. 1959, Edinburgh, Scotland) practice. Each week, Sound Service gathers Doig’s friends and special guests to play records from their collections, adding to and expanding the sonic aspect of the exhibition.
Spanning the last 25 years, the exhibition brings together the artist’s paintings with sound for the first time. At the core of the exhibition are two sets of rare, restored analogue speakers, originally designed for cinemas and large auditoriums in the early and mid-twentieth century. Music selected by the artist – from his vast archive of vinyl records and cassette tapes accumulated over decades – plays daily through a pair of original ‘high fidelity’ 1950s wooden Klangfilm Euronor speakers. A rare Western Electric and Bell Labs sound system, produced in the late 1920s and early 1930s to meet the demands of the first ‘talking movies’, is installed in the central gallery.
On Sundays, the space is activated by Sound Service, a series of live listening sessions where guest musicians and artists play tracks from their own music collections on the Western Electric and Bell Labs system. On select evenings, visitors will encounter new and unexpected acoustic exchanges between invited guests. An integral part of the exhibition, Sound Service fosters sonic dialogues while exploring sound as memory, listening as gathering, and the loudspeaker as sculpture and conduit.
Sunday Sound Service participants include: Dare Balogun, Cafe OTO, Jerald ‘Coop’ Cooper, Andrew Cranston with John MacLean, Nihal El Aasar, Danny Fitzgerald, Lloyd Foster, Cyrus Goberville, David Harrison, Arthur Jafa, Behrang Karimi, Ruby Khaira, Mark Leckey, Olukemi Lijadu, Sean O’Hagan, Basma Osman, Radio Alhara, James Righton, Ed Ruscha, Sam Strang, Soul Jazz Records, Duval Timothy, and more soon to be announced.
Evening Sound Service participants include: Lizzi Bougatsos, Dennis Bovell, Brian Eno, Andrew Hale, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Cat Power, Roger Robinson, and more soon to be announced.
The schedule below will continue to be updated. More dates and times will be added shortly.
Free
Opening Hours
Tue-Sun 10am-6pm
Location:
Kensington Gardens
London, W2 3XA
Copyright text and images the gallery and the artist