Pierre Huyghe, A Forest of Lines
Music by Laura Marling
9 July–10 July 2008
Event from noon to noon
SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE, CONCERT HALL
Session Times:
Wednesday, 9 July 12 noon to 3 pm; 6 pm to 1 am
Thursday, 10 July 5 am to 12 noon
Recommended viewing time is 10-15 mins per person.
At
the Sydney Opera House a unique experience occurs throughout the course
of a day and a night. An event with no beginning and no end, no
division between stage and public, no specified path to take – it is a
theatre liberated from rules. From the stalls to the circles to the
stage, a forest of trees has grown and spread throughout the entire
Concert Hall. The light of dawn barely shines on this valley obscured
by clouds. This is an in-between reality, an image of an environment, a
fact that appears for a brief moment just before vanishing.
Someone
walking between the trees tells a story. As the voice draws the
audience into the forest, the lyrics of the song tell how to find a way
out; out of the Concert Hall and into the reality of a place elsewhere.
The
Concert Hall presents a geographical displacement. This image is a
diversion, an extension towards another world and yet it is the same.
The song is a map for a journey towards what constitutes the image. It
is a line following a chain of events in the life of an environment.
The cloud of narratives obscures the necessity to find an ecology between the image and its environment.
Huyghe has been creating a variety of artworks and collaborative projects
since the early 1990s. Interested in the exhibition as a moment where
potential new realities can emerge, in the freedom of non-productive
actions, in the layering of interpretations, both factual and
fictional, and in experience as a territory of infinite possible
narratives, Huyghe’s practice has earned him a reputation as one of the
most experimental artists of his generation. Evident in his works is a
recurring desire to introduce a space of speculation and play into art,
and the impulse to consider art as a landscape in which to make
manifest the way people can, and do, react to the homogenising attempts
embedded in consumer culture by encouraging the dynamic reconstruction
of their everyday lives.
Made possible through the generous
support of The Ellipse Foundation – Contemporary Art Collection,
Portugal and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York and Paris. Presented by
the Biennale of Sydney (2008) in association with the Sydney Opera
House.
A Forest of Lines has been produced with
assistance from CULTURESFRANCE, the Embassy of France in Australia,
Lumens Arte, Rent-A-Garden (Terrey Hills) and the Technical Direction
Company of Aust (TDC). Poster M/M (Paris)
Pierre Huyghe, A Forest of Lines, 2008
WHEN:
Wednesday, 9 July 2008
12:00pm - 01:00am
WHERE:
Sydney Opera House
Benelong Point, Macquarie Street, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia
GETTING THERE:
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HOW MUCH:
Free
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