Crone Music presents two new, interconnected films by British artist Beatrice Gibson, alongside an expanded events programme featuring the artists, poets, musicians and wider community with whom the films have been made.
Borrowing its title from American composer Pauline Oliveros' 1990 album of the same name, the exhibition seeks out an explicitly feminist lineage through which to recast the syncretic, collective and participatory nature of Gibson's practice.
Made as a companion piece, the second film Deux Soeurs Qui Ne Sont Pas Soeurs (Two Sisters who aren't Sisters) is based on Gertrude Stein's eponymously named screenplay, written in 1929 as European fascism was building momentum. Gibson's adaptation, set almost a century later in contemporary Paris, deploys Stein's script as a talismanic guide through a contemporary moment of comparable social and political unrest. An original soundtrack, written especially for the film by British composer Laurence Crane, responds to the repetition, duplication and duality at play in Stein's script. Both a fictional thriller and an act of collective representation, Deux Soeurs proposes empathy and friendship as means to reckon with an increasingly turbulent present.
Alongside the films, Gallery 3 will host an expanded programme of readings, screenings, performances, talks, workshops, meetings and residencies led by the films' collaborators. Rooted in feminist and queer discourse, these will include a Radical Reading Sit-In with Eileen Myles; one-to-one Personalized (Soma)tic Poetry Rituals with CAConrad; a special performance by Thurston Moore and a week of experimental music composition and concerts with Laurence Crane, drawing on the work of Pauline Oliveros. Also presented is a screening programme curated by Gibson of moving image works by filmmakers and friends from whom Gibson has drawn inspiration, including Basma Alsharif, Mary Helena Clark, Ana Vaz, Mati Diop, Laida Lertxundi, Barbara Hammer, Chantal Akerman, Chick Strand, Public Access Poetry, Kenneth Anger, Leslie Thornton, and others.