Slave Pianos Pianology

PERFORMATIVE LECTURE
Slave Pianos Pianology: A Schema and Historio-Materialist Pro-gnostic
Presented by Victoria University of Wellington, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney and the Remembering the 20th Century Committee.
Adam Art Gallery
Friday 18 June 2010
8pm

In collaboration with the students of the New Zealand School of Music at Victoria University of Wellington, the renowned collective Slave Pianos will activate the installation Slave Pianos (of the Art Cult) 1998-1999 in an entirely new and unexpected configuration.

Riffing on the form of the university lecture and playing up the potential of the student community to create an ensemble, this event will present a very different kind of concert experience as another take on acoustic and discursive modes of address.

Slave Pianos is a collaborative venture undertaken by Danius Kesminas and Michael Stevenson in partnership with musical composers Neil Kelly and Rohan Drape.

Their project seeks to document the history and practice of sound art, in particular the music of artists who are known predominantly in the field of the visual arts. For this performance they are joined by recent member and inventor David Nelson.
http://slavepianos.org