IDJ2Many
CAROLINE BERGVALL
Installation concept & general composition, texts, lead voice
ADAM PARKINSON
Soundwork, spatial sound design
BACKGROUND
Mashup text composed of some 68 pop/funk/rock songs for lust and love, recomposed line by line into one spoken song. With programming and micro beats by Adam Parkinson.
It rekindles the memory of popular song hooks heard in transit, on the radio, in clubs, in taxis, and the type of connection and excitement this recognition often provokes as one of those “soundtrack to one’s life”.
Installed in various contexts and frequently read live solo voice.
PUBLICATIONS
JOHN HANSARD GALLERY
Title: 1DJ2MANY(wired_madeleine)
Location: John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK
Date: May 7, 2010 – July 3, 2010
Elements: installed audiotext, reflective chrome vinyl lettering, architecture structure.
Info: I subtitled it (wired_madeleine) as an allusion to Proust’s memorable pages on the sensory experience of eating a madeleine and its immediate impact on his memory.
Link: John Hansard Gallery, Middling English
VILLA BERNOSCUNI
Title: 60 Songs We Love to Love
Date: 7 Feb–12 April 2015
Location: Villa Bernasconi, Geneva, Switzerland
Elements: Transparent colour panels (texts and signs), reflective circular structure (entrance area). Generative sound mix in headphone piece, vinyl text on wall (first floor)
Info: Group show: REVERSE. For this show I invited Adam to create a generative version for headphones to allow for an undisturbed and broader spectrum of clicks and beats. My voice frequently ghosted out in this version. The entrance area was covered in colour vinyl. The circular yet split text on the first floor displayed for the first time some of the lines of the lovesong.
MCA DENVER
Title: 1DJ2MANY (Elevation Mix 2)
Location: MCA Denver, USA
Date: October 12, 2012 – February 3, 2013
Elements: Audiotext – reflective chrome lettering on mirror – in elevator.
Info: Group show: Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art featured some 50 artists and writers exploring conceptual practices from the 1960s to the present. Also travelled to The Powerplant, Toronto (Canada). The catalogue – ed. by curator Andrea Andreasson, features my early keynote “What do we mean by Performance Writing” delivered at the opening of the first Performance Writing festival, Dartington College of Arts, 1996.
GRÜ/TRANSTHEATRE
Title: 1DJ2MANY (Elevation Mix 1)
Location: TR4NS festival, GRü/Transtheatre, Geneva, CH
Date: February 2 - 5, 2012
Elements: Audiowork in elevator, fluo lighting, one-liner chrome vinyl on mirror: ooh it’s so good.
First live adaptation of the 1DJ2MANY. Presented at Actoral festival, Marseille, 2014.