Pierre Huyghe, A Forest of Lines, 2008
A 24 hour event in the Concert Hall at Sydney Opera House for the 16th Biennale of Sydney.
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)
Images
Image credits:
Pierre Huyghe, A Forest of Lines, 2008
A 24 hour event in the Concert Hall at Sydney Opera House for the 16th Biennale of Sydney.
Courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York and Paris.
Videos
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Artist Spotlight: Pierre Huyghe. 2008 Artistic Director, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev discusses Pierre Huyghe's artwork for the 2008 Biennale of Sydney – A Forest of Lines. |
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Pierre Huyghe, A Forest of Lines, 2008. (Timelapse footage): Watch this extraordinary 24 hour event unfold from beginning to end in the Concert Hall at Sydney Opera House for the 16th Biennale of Sydney. |
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Watch: Artscape: The Art Life at the Biennale of Sydney: Pierre Huyghe, A Forest of Lines segment (21.2 MB)
Excerpted from: Artscape: The Art Life At The Biennale Of Sydney. Broadcast 10:00pm Tuesday, 22 Jul 2008 on ABC television. |
EVENTS
View Pierre Huyghe's archived events for the 2008 Biennale of Sydney.
e-flux
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Press
| The Australian |
"Blink and you'll miss this forest" 10 July, 2008 Download
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| The Daily Telegraph |
"If opera is sung in a forest does it make a sound" 10 July, 2008 Download
"Opera House concert hall now forest of trees for Biennale" 10 July, 2008 Read online article |
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Description
Pierre Huyghe, A Forest of Lines, 2008
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
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)
