Jingle.
Citation Summary:
Evans, C. (2016-2019) Jingle. Exhibited iterations: Jingle (Markus Luettgen), Village Lawyer [solo exhibition]. Markus Luettgen Gallery, Dusseldorf (07/09/19 - 26/10/19); Jingle (Hong Gah Museum), Chris Evans & Pak Sheung Chuen, Two Exhibitions, [exhibition]. Hong Gah Museum, Taipei (1/06/19 - 28/07/19); Jingle (Centre d’art Neuchatel), Village Lawyer [solo exhibition]. Centre d’Art, Neuchatel. (26/05/2018 - 10/07/2018); Jingle, (Kunsthall Oslo), The Oslo Museum of Contemporary Art [exhibition], Kunsthall Oslo (18/11/17 - 21/01/18); Jingles (Grazer Kunstverein, spring, summer, autumn, winter, 2017-2020), multiple commission of four sets of six works per year 2017-2019, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz; Jingles (Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria, 2017-2020), (2019) [published artwork, composer, arranger, artistic director of suite of compositions (with Morten Norbye Halvorsen), long-play vinyl and digital recordings] Grazer Kunstverein, Graz; Jingle (Grazer Kunstverein). [Performance. Composer, arranger, artistic director, performing artist of suite of compositions performed (with Morten Norbye Halvorsen.), Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria (14/06/19); Jingle (Para Site). Chris Evans & Pak Sheung Chuen, Two Exhibitions, [exhibition], Para Site, Hong Kong (23/09/2017 - 03/12/2017); Jingle (Fundação Eugénio de Almeida), Good luck with your natural, combined, attractive and truthful attempts in two exhibitions [exhibition]. Fundação Eugénio de Almeida, Evora (07/05/2017 - 01/1017); Jingle (Juliette Jongma). I ikigai [exhibition], Juliette Jongma Gallery, Amsterdam (08/04/17- 13/05/17).
- Submitting institution
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Liverpool John Moores University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 32CE3
- Type
- J - Composition
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- Year
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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1 - Contemporary Art Lab
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This ongoing series, titled ‘Jingle’ is a response to the question of how the experience of an exhibition might be framed through bookending the arrival and departure of each visitor with bespoke musical compositions, inspired by melodies used for interludes in American sitcoms, which connote scenic transition. The short musical compositions envisage the physical space of the institution as a musical instrument itself (it’s ‘klang’) and are activated by sensor upon entry and egress to cumulatively broadcast the arrival and departure of each visitor to the exhibition. Characterising this artwork is its collaborative nature: I first ask after a host’s economic stability to which the stability or vulnerability of the institution is indirectly disclosed. If the host gallery’s financial situation is stable, a local livestock farmer is asked to mimic a non-specific percussive phrase, if it is unstable, an accountant is asked to do the same. I chose these vocations with the thought that we each carry a personal inner soundtrack in our minds which, to some extent, is dependent on what we do in life. For the vocations of livestock farming and accountancy the sounds we anticipate are distinct and tangible and consequently we might be able to hear associations in the non-verbal noises elicited. A bass-line is then added and the Norwegian artist/composer Morten Norbye Halvorsen is commissioned to produce a composite from the recordings from which the jingle is published. A collection of a four-season cycle of ‘Jingle’, extending over four years, and produced in sequence for each of the six doors at Grazer Kunstverein was published by the institution in an edition in 2020. The publication, titled ‘Jingles (Grazer Kunstverein, spring, summer, autumn, winter) 2017-2020’ has been distributed worldwide, played on national radio, and performed live as part of the public summer festival in Graz, Austria.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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