QUARTET For the Year 4698 or 5760

Artist/Creator: Laiwan (Artist)
Date: 2000
ID #: BG6254

Physical Description

Medium: performance, audio, 16 mm film
Support: –
Dimensions: –
Object Description: A multimedia collaboration between Vancouver-based artist Laiwan and virtuoso clarinetist Lori Freedman from Winnipeg that uses film with audio, live performance, music improvisation, computer media and the internet. It is a celebration of the improvisational musical body, spontaneous time and space, and the presence/absence of cultural histories within a critique of the limitations of machines.

History

Collection: Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery Permanent Collection
Credit Line: Gift of the artist, 2021 "Gift of the artist. In memory of my sister Rose (1953-2015)."
Related Exhibitions: –

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