Collision
14 November 2009, 04:30PM - 06:00PM
Projection Piece: detail from Collision Elegy Painting on right HS: Coronach Painting Left HS: Gethsemani FragmentBy Kevin Laycock and Michael Berkeley
CityArts brings a unique artistic collaboration to Dublin.
Collision, a collaboration between composer Michael Berkeley and visual artist Kevin Laycock is the result of cross-disciplinary work that examines the intersection of research in music and contemporary art. In particular, the questions associated with the analysis, translation and interpretation of the musical score into a visual format using painting practice and digital media.
Kevin Laycock is a Leeds based artist and classical musician. Since graduating from the Royal College of Art with an MA in Printmaking, he has exhibited widely throughout the UK, mainly through Art First, London. Laycock's two most recent publications, Uncertain Harmonies and Tectonics were both concerned with the interpretation of visual and harmonic information derived from the musical score. Laycock lectures in the Department of Design at the University of Leeds.
Michael Berkeley is an internationally known composer. His father was the composer Sir Lennox Berkeley and Michael was a chorister at Westminster Cathedral, where he frequently sang in works composed or conducted by his godfather, Benjamin Britten. He studied composition, singing and piano at London's Royal Academy of Music, but it was not until his late twenties, when he went to study with Richard Rodney Bennett, that he concentrated on composition. Berkeley is currently Composer-in-Association with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. He also acts as Visiting Professor in Composition at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and was Artistic Director of the Cheltenham International Festival from 1995 to 2004. He is also well known as a television and radio broadcaster on music. He currently presents BBC Radio 3's Private Passions.
Collision is designed to be presented in a public space where it provides the viewer/listener with a unique and contemplative experience. Collision will be seen in the Pro Cathedral, Dublin, on November 14th of this year as part of the remembrance celebrations.
A catalogue featuring an essay by Richard Cork will accompany the work.
Collision was made possible with support from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the University of Leeds, Gallery Oldham, and Art First.
Kevin Laycock is represented by Art First in London.
Venue
St. Mary's Pro Cathedral, Marlborough Street, Dublin 1
