AHRC Fellow in the Creative and Performing Arts 2007-2010
An artist based in Whitstable, Jeremy Millar is currently halfway through a three-year AHRC Fellowship in the Creative and Performing Arts at the Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art and the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford.
Jeremy is exploring the relationship between art and anthropology in a number of works inspired by the fieldwork of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson in Bali in the 1930s. Another major project called Em i kam, em i go is based upon the work of Bronislaw Malinowski in the Trobriand Islands and will be exhibited at the National Maritime Museum in September 2009.
Jeremy is currently editing a film shot at the Pitt Rivers Museum and is developing further pieces based on the Pitt Rivers and anthropological museum displays elsewhere. Other new works look at approaches to shamanism and ‘sympathetic magic’ and their relationship to contemporary art practices. A project with the Ashmolean Museum called The Elements of Photography has also just got underway.
Jeremy Millar has exhibited and screened his work widely in the UK and abroad, including most recently at the Vigeland Museum in Oslo, Inverleith House and Sleeper, Edinburgh, and Tate Modern, London. He has curated numerous exhibitions internationally, including The Institute of Cultural Anxiety (1994) and Speed (1998), and has recently conceived Every Day is a Good Day, the largest-ever exhibition of the visual art of John Cage for Hayward Touring. His most recent books include Place (with Tacita Dean 2005) and The Way Things Go (2007), and he has contributed to numerous catalogues and publications, most recently Street and Studio (Tate 2008) and Roni Horn aka Roni Horn (Whitney Museum 2009).
For you, only you
Sonia Boyce’s project For you, only you arrived in Ireland over the weekend at the close of a four venue, international tour.
For you, only you comprises the fusion of a musical masterpiece of the 16th century Tu solus qui facis mirabilia (You alone can do wonders) by Josquin Desprez and contemporary sound art by Mikhail Karikis. Josquin is one of the most influential composers in the history of Western music, representing the pinnacle of compositional development in the early Renaissance period. Other composers of his generation, as well as those who flourished in the following decades, used his pieces as models or templates for their own work. The current project is a 21st-century response to Josquin’s seminal polyphonic inventions.
The relationship between classical music and sound art is the subject of ceaseless debate, and Sonia Boyce’s project explores that relationship further by juxtaposing the specific role and use of voice in the music of Josquin with interruptive vocal techniques in a newly commissioned work by Karikis. For you, only you is performed by the early music consort Alamire and Karikis under the direction of David Skinner, Director of Music at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.
Sonia Boyce is a British Afro-Caribbean artist, living and working in London. Her early pastel drawings and photographic collages address issues of race, ethnicity and contemporary urban experience, questioning racial stereotypes in the media and in day-to-day life. More recently her work has shifted to incorporate a variety of media that combine photographs, collages, films, prints, drawings, installation and sound. Boyce has worked with other artists in improvisational collaborations, bringing the audience into sharper focus as an integral part of the artwork and demonstrating how cultural differences might be articulated, mediated and enjoyed.
For you, only you has been organised by the Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art, University of Oxford in partnership with the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea, Locus+, Newcastle upon Tyne, Milton Keynes Gallery and The Model Arts and Niland Gallery, Sligo and with the support of Arts Council England.