Bobby's Recital
Bryony Gillard & Jenny Moore
Exhibition: 8 May – 6 April 2013
What is an object that is used as 'prop' in a performance, but as a 'sculpture' in an ongoing exhibition? How does the word 'practice' change it's meaning between artist and musician? Where do we draw the boundaries between the protagonist / the participant / the audience / the event?
In bringing together artists Bryony Gillard and Jenny Moore, Bobby''s Recital will explore the intersection of performance and object, whilst considering social and historical customs of everyday life. Drawing on a mutual fascination with the practice and history of music-making, the exhibition and range of events intends to toy with current ideas around the interactivity and differential between music, action, text and performance. Together, the show puts forward playful and suggestive responses to our questions above, through research, storytelling, musical recitals, text, reading groups and helium balloons.
On the opening night, Jenny Moore will present The Succulents and Other Stories, or Life/Work Balance: a performance in seven movements for OHP, xylophone, guitar, voice, projection, balloons and literary heroes. The continuing exhibition will include instruments, logos, and books for both looking at and moving.
Bryony Gillard will install a baby-grand piano in the gallery, presented as both an instrument/device, and as item of furniture or pedestal. Through a series of 'Acts' (performance, sound, instructional and narrative texts, and ambiguous objects), the 'prepared piano' embodies the Classroom, Stage, Studio and Living room.
Live events ('acts') and interventions will continue throughout the exhibition, closing with a collaborative performance entitled Reading Group, including guest artists and musicians. More details for the events will follow by email and o our website.
Bryony Gillard is an artist and curator currently based between Bristol and London. Situated somewhere between performance, sound, text and object; Gillard's practice draws upon common social forms of interaction, traditional customs or accepted cultural exchanges. Recent of forthcoming projects/exhibitions include: 'In the boom of the tingling strings' - South West Showcase (solo exhibition), PCA (2013), Last Orders, (solo exhibition), Motorcade/FlashParade, Bristol (2012), Latent Exhibition (publication), 2012, To Arrive Where We Started (publication) CCA, Glasgow, A Circle, CtoO, Plymouth (2011), Risk Assessment, ViewTube, London (2011), Free School/Lecture Hall, Five Years, London (2010). Bryony is also Co-founder of artist-led projects such as Project Space 11, Salon Southwest, and Come to Ours.
Jenny Moore works across disciplines including sculpture, performance, writing, drawing and music. Born in Canada, she is now based in London where she frequently collaborates with Gandt, a collective publishing project which hosts events, performances, dinner parties and exhibitions and uses collective authorship as a stage for productivity. Moore graduated with a MFA Art Practice at Goldsmiths College in 2009 and has since worked with a number of projects and spaces in the UK like South London Gallery, The Hayward Gallery, Banner Repeater, Am Nuden Da, ANDOR and others abroad such as L.A. Pedestrians (Los Angeles), Art Mur (Montreal), Bergen Kunsthalle (Norway), and the Printed Matter Art Book Fair (New York).
Curated by Fiona MacDonald and Matilda Strang.