Sierra Casady (Cocorosie)
exclusive performance/collaboration with artist Loris Greaud
7th June 2008 - ICA
On 7th June 2008, in the third series of concerts brought to us by Stage of the Art, the ICA is proud to host a performance by Sierra Casady, best known as one of the two sisters whose operatic vocal techniques lend the lead vocals to Cocorosie.
This exclusive performance will form from an exciting collaboration with one of France's most innovative artist's Loris Greaud whose work Cellar Door is currently being exhibitive at the ICA.
Sierra Casady will be performing a musical interpretation of his work on piano, accompanied by violin and it promises to be a very special occasion.
Cocorosie
Originally from New York City is now part of the ever growing community of international artists now residing in Paris. International renowned for their music they are also very much involved in the art scene in Paris, having opened a gallery for both art and clothes in Paris and New York.
Since surfacing in 2004 with their first album 'La Maison de mon Reve' famously recorded in a Paris coldwater flat, where the two sisters met up and fell under the spell of the city, they have since gone on to release two further albums the last being the critically acclaimed 'Rainbowwarriors'in 2007.
The duo has often been associated with a kind of folk renaissance due mostly to the fragility of their compositions and friendship with Devandra Banhart.
However, the Casadys' really occupy a musical world all of their own.
One in which stuttering beats, live alongside plucked harps and piano figures collide with decaying loops created from toy instruments.
There is something unconventional, infinite and dreamlike about the world they inhabit and Sierra's exclusive performance will be nothing less than beautiful.
http://www.myspace.com/cocorosi
Loris Gréaud
25 April-22 June 2008
ICA, Lower Gallery
The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), is proud to present a new installation by French artist Loris Gréaud, one of the most exciting and innovative emerging artists in the international art scene. The installation at the ICA is a continuation of a larger project, Cellar Door, which is being presented as a major solo exhibition by Gréaud at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris (February 14th to May 4th 2008).
Although Gréaud is often seen as part of the new wave of French artists to emerge in the past few years. Imaginative, witty and aesthetically striking, Greaud's work, his practice is distinct from his contemporaries. fluctuates between the fields of film, sound and installation and is orientated to ideas and processes rather than materials. He studied filmmaking and graphic design before being offered a place to study flute at the prestigious Conservertoire de Musique in Paris from which he was later expelled for setting up an alternative and 'anti-establishement' recording studio. He completed his studies at the Ecole des Beaux-arts de Paris Cergy. This varied background provides an expanded framework for his artistic practice and he often works alongside experts from diverse disciplines - scientists, geo-biologists, engineers, filmmakers, writers, sound and graphic designers. As Gréaud himself has asserted, his process is perhaps best understood in terms of the modus operandi of cinematic production: rather than seeing those relationships as collaborations he thinks them as forms of co-authorship and cross filtration.
Gréaud's enigmatic projects are often open-ended, liable to manifest themselves in different ways over time, and to move between rumor and fact. His exhibitions are often cryptic installations in which he challenges the expectations of the audience and the given characteristics of the medium. There is an almost philosophical touch to his practice and even though very precise, Gréaud's works of art are open to interpretation via a maze of ciphers and pathways of thought.
Gréaud's presentation for the Palais de Tokyo, Cellar Door, centres on a libretto written by the artist in conjunction with the curator Raimundas Malasauskas, and evokes the metaphor of the artist's studio as a space of imagination and potential. Cellar Door is a grand spectacle distended in time and space. It celebrates the creative place, constructing spaces of production and of distriWorking in a specially constructed space in the ICA's Lower Gallery, he will be challenging ideas of repetition and identity, as well as uniqueness and perception creating three identical rooms containing text pieces whilst speakers will play excerpts from the opera.
Gréaud (born 1979, lives in Paris) studied at the Conservatoire de Musique in Paris and at the Paris-Cergy art school. His solo exhibitions include Silence Goes More Quickly When Played Backwards, Le Plateau, Frac Ile de France, Paris (2005) and Devils Tower, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2006). His group exhibitions include the IX Baltic Triennale, CAC, Vilnius (2005), Notre Histoire, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2006) and the 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (2007).
EVENT DATES:
Stage Of The Art #1: February 2008
February 21st – ICA: Sebastien Tellier + Poney Poney
February 22nd - Palais de Tokyo:Carl Barat & Dirty Pretty Things acoustic and collaborations on stage with Paris Motel + special guests Laura Marling, Paris Motel and Denis Hopper Chopper
Stage Of The Art #2: April 2008
April 25th - Palais De Tokyo – Aidan .J Moffat + Black Affair
April 28th - ICA – Gonzales+ The Together Ensemble + Poni Hoax
Stage Of The Art #3: June 2008
June 6th - Palais de Tokyo - tbc
June 7th – ICA - Sierra Cassady – Cocorosie exclusive performance
Stage Of The Art #4: July 2008
Curated by Hedi Slimane
July 10th - Palais de Tokyo – The Kills
July 11th - ICA -tbc
TICKETS:
London ticket price: £10
Available from the ICA, London ( www.ica.org.uk) + Ticketmaster.co.uk and Seetickets.com
Paris ticket price: 20€
In France (in April, June and July) Eurostar and Stage OfThe Art will offer a promotion: a 2-day 'Eurostar Stage Pass' including round-trip travel on the newly opened Paris-London route and tickets to both concerts.
On sale only in France in APRIL
More information to follow.
VENUE INFORMATION:
ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts)
The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH
Tube: Piccadilly Circus/ Charing Cross
Tickets and Information: 020 7930 3647
Palais de Tokyo
Palais de Tokyo is a venue that tried since its opening to have all kind of publics meet with the best of the French and international contemporary art scene. Open from noon to midnight, endowed with a staff of mediators, offering a restaurant, a boutique and a bookshop, the Palais de Tokyo is a true living place that dares mixing conceptual art and chain saws, minimalism and zombies, ready-made and mutants, a position that shows the contemporary art in a current and laid-back attitude and, as often as possible, in the artists point of view. Therefore, the Palais de Tokyo welcomes young artists in residence (the Pavillon), sometimes giving them their first monograph (The Modules) or entrusts some artists to curate some of its exhibitions (Ugo Rondinone in 2007, Jeremy Deller coming soon). Aesthetic, sensitive to new trends, polymorphous, the Palais de Tokyo also exhibits abroad (The Chalets).
Palais de Tokyo
13, avenue du Président Wilson
75016 Paris
Tube: Iéna/Pont de l'Alma
Information:+33 1 47 23 54 01
www.palaisdetokyo.com
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