My article ‘Lukas Kühne’s Tvísöngur: Sculpture for a Concrete Voice’ has now been published by Divergence Press, Centre for Research in New Music (CeReNem), University of Huddersfield. Thank you to Patrick Valiquet. This is the first output of my research in Seyðisfjörður, Northeast Iceland, thanks to the Henry Moore Foundation research grant. http://divergencepress.net/2024/08/06/lukas-kuhnes-tvisongur-sculpture-for-a-concrete-uncompressed-voice/
Photo: Olivia Louvel
The edition on Sonic Architectures by Neue Zeitschrift für Musik features on the front cover my picture of Lukas Kühne's Tvísöngur, which I photographed during my artist residency in Seyðisfjörður, Northeast Iceland
The photo accompanies Kersten Glandien’s article ‘Die Vierte Dimension. Über die Beziehung von Klangkunst und Architektur’. Find out more here https://musikderzeit.de/ausgabe/sonic-architectures/
It was very nice to return to Eastbourne for ‘Artist films: Human Outlooks on Precarious Coastal Lands’, a screening matinée curated by performance and media artist Claudia Kappenberg at Towner Cinema.
We presented moving image relating to the coast, performance and the Sussex landscape.
With films by Claudia Kappenberg and Julieanna Preston, Marcia Teusink, and Amy Cunningham.
I presented my video art doggerLANDscape (2023): a search for the remnants of the submerged forest of Doggerland on the Lincolnshire coast, when the river Thames was connected to the Rhine. We were not always an island.
Thank you to Emily Medd.
A University of Brighton series of events to coincide with Emma Stibbon's 'Melting Ice | Rising Tides' exhibition at Towner Eastbourne.
Last night, I was awarded with LOL the Ivor Novello Award for Best Sound Art at The Ivors Classical Awards!
The jury remarked: “LOL is a provocative, disruptive and impactful work, deftly constructed with humour”.
The award was presented by interdisciplinary composer and audio visual artist Esmeralda Conde Ruiz.
I am very grateful to the jury, to the Ivors Academy, to Kersten Glandien, artistic director of Sound Art Brighton, and to the Auxiliary who commissioned the work (directors Anna Byrne, Kyp Kyprianou, and Liam Slevin).
LOL is a site-specific sonic intervention delivered through the public address system of Middlesbrough’s CCTV surveillance network, reflecting the current state of political affairs in Britain. On dedicated sites in the centre of town, passers-by heard political slogans, and news headlines read by the AI voice ‘Kate’.
LOL was broadcast at specific times over four days 22-25 September 2022.
You can watch an excerpt of LOL on Vimeo
THANK YOU. MERCI.
Photography credit Hogan Media / Shutterstock
I have been nominated for an Ivor Novello Award for Best Sound Art with 'LOL'.
Press release 18 October 2023:
The fifth Middlesbrough Art Weekender (2022) titled power POWER endeavoured to question how official power is wielded and how unofficial power is expressed.
LOL is a site-specific sonic intervention delivered through the public address system of Middlesbrough’s CCTV surveillance network, reflecting the current state of political affairs in Britain. On dedicated sites in the centre of town, passers-by heard political slogans, and news headlines read by the AI voice ‘Kate’.
LOL was composed by Olivia Louvel, and produced in collaboration with Kersten Glandien, artistic director of Sound Art Brighton, an independent initiative that celebrates the presence of sound art in Brighton.
The three-part collage includes a field recording ‘Climate Justice’ by Swiss artist Stefano Christen.
Commissioned by The Auxiliary, 2022. Thank you to The Auxiliary directors Anna Byrne, Kyp Kyprianou, and Liam Slevin. Thank you to the Middlesbrough surveillance team for their participation.
The Ivors Classical Awards, judged and presented by The Ivors Academy, will take place on 14th November at the BFI/Southbank.
LOL, photographed by Rachel Deakin
I have reinstalled the work!
Doggerland Channels is retracing the rivers that used to connect us to the continent. When the river Thames flowed into the Rhine. Read more here.
Until 7th of October at Centre Square, Albert Road, Middlesbrough TS1 2QJ. The programme https://middlesbroughartweek.com/programme
A Sound Art Brighton production
Artist in front of her installation Doggerland Channels, Middlesbrough Art Week, 2023, photography Yuhao Chen.
Doggerland Channels, Middlesbrough Art Week, 2023, photography Yuhao Chen.
Went to Towner Eastbourne this week as I had not attended the opening, being in remote Iceland. I am delighted to have ‘The Sculptor Speaks’ exhibited alongside ‘Barbara Hepworth Art & Life’. Thank you to Emily Medd for making this happen!
‘The Sculptor Speaks’ is an audiovisual work based on the resounding of an archival tape with the voice of Barbara Hepworth. On loan 27th May to 25th June.
https://townereastbourne.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/olivia-louvel-the-sculptor-speaks
Tvisöngur, my working space, this is where I have spent the last month, hiking there every day or every other day to sing, record and reflect. A very special and privileged time to experiment, create, write and engage with the site-specific sculpture and the surrounding land. Post production is going to take me a while, I need to live with the work in my studio for a long time.
Conceived by Lukas Kühne, Tvísöngur is a site-specific sound sculpture consisting of five interconnected domes of different sizes. Located in the mountainside, it is overlooking the fjord of Seyðisfjörður. It was installed in 2012 in cooperation with the Skaftfell Center for Visual Art.
Takk Skaftfell Visual Art Centre. Thank you to Pari Stave. Kiitos to Victoria Torboli. Viel danke Lukas Kühne. Thank you to the Henry Moore Foundation for their travel and research grant.
