Janet Cardiff

Janet Cardiff ( born March 5, 1957 in Brussels, Ontario (Canada) ) is a Canadian installation artist and filmmaker.

Career

Cardiff studied at Queen 's University in Kingston, Ontario, where they made ​​the 1980 bachelor's degree. Your studies at the University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, she graduated in 1983 with the MVA (Master of Visual Arts) from. She works artistically with her partner George Bures Miller. It created autonomous and joint works. Cardiff and Miller live and work in Berlin and Grindrod, British Columbia, Canada.

Work

In a first work, the Whispering Room, she put in a 1991 only dimly lit hall in the Art Gallery of Ontario sixteen, mounted on metal frames speakers. Was to hear a female voice in dialogues with different context from each of the speakers. The atmosphere of quiet voices in the darkened room was interrupted by the projection of a 30-second film loops, in which a young girl in red dress lists a tap dance in the woods.

In 2009, the pair Cardiff and Miller Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin showed in the museum a 30-minute sound installation entitled The Murder of Crows. In the empty main hall of the museum ( the Historical concourse ), they installed 98 speakers, over which they have grossed a composition of voices, music pieces and space sounds. Through a stereophonic method for recording and playback of the sound field ( Ambisonics ) the audience was confronted with an exaggerated spatial hearing and feeling. Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller continued with this, the most comprehensive piece, they embarked on in the mid-1990s study of the sculptural and physical properties of the sound images.

Since 2012, stands in the sculpture garden of the Städel in Frankfurt am Main, a bank with sound of the artist couple: The Bench.

Honours - Awards

  • 2011 Käthe Kollwitz Prize jointly with George Bures Miller

Exhibitions

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