Anish Kapoor: Void #13

a musical response to Void (#13) of Anish Kapoor

In celebration of its 104th birthday and of the acquisition of Void (#13) the gallery is commissioning a work from improviser/performer Timothy O'DWYER.

O'Dywer's composition Sige for bass saxophone and prerecorded materials draws heavily upon Kapoor's strategies for enacting, for suggesting the void. The artist's use of pigments, organic materials, and sculptured forms are almost duplicitous; the eye is defeated as it gazes upon this particular work and the longer the duration of the focus, the more intense this failed subjectivity becomes. Like a automated projector unable to establish itself in relation to an image, the viewer cannot easily take a position with respect to the Kapoor.

Likewise O'Dwyer's use of trilled multiphonics, harmonics, circular breathing, and vocalisations both disturb and create unusual patterns of difference tones within a heavily polyphonic performance style. He creates within the listener a sense of multiplicity that in its very ceaselessness provokes a paradox, a uniformity of texture that is enveloping in the same way the Kapoor's Void is.

This project continues on and builds from the experience of O'Dwyer's earlier participation in the Lim/de Clario Bar-do'i-thos-grol project and Lament of Desire with Araya RASDJARMREARNSOOK.