"Let Us Take You There: Susan Philipsz and Paul Rooney"
2003-12-06 until 2004-01-31
Site Gallery
Sheffield, , UK United Kingdom

This exhibition brings together artists Susan Philipsz and Paul Rooney whose work has a shared interest in the way sound can be a trigger for memory and the emotive charge that voices and music bring to a space. Philipsz and Rooney have both been commissioned to produce a new work for the exhibition which is shown alongside earlier sound and image based works.

For his new work Rooney films the view out of the Bradford and Bingley Building Society in the centre of Sheffield, where a lone female singer sings a song, based on 'Sound of the Crowd' by The Human League. The window in question is where the entrance to The Crazy Daisy club used to be, the spot where Jo and Susanne of the Human League were 'discovered' by Phil Oakey.

Philipsz' similar interest in popular music has become a source of inspiration for her work. Included is a sound piece of Philipsz playing the chimes, reminiscent of those heard in Joy Division's 'Atmosphere' and a new film loop depicting a journey in Berlin to find places that relate to political activist Rosa Luxemburg.

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Susan Philipzs
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