"Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller: Recent Works"
2004-02-11 until 2004-04-18
Sheffield Galleries and Museum Trust, Millennium Galleries
Sheffield, , UK United Kingdom

The first major contemporary art exhibition at the Millennium Galleries, featuring three stunning sound installation pieces. Janet Cardiff is best known for her numerous audio works and films, often created in collaboration with her partner George Bures Miller. Forty Part Motet is presented as one of the three pieces, featuring forty separately recorded voices played on forty separate speakers placed throughout the space.

The music used in Forty Part Motet is Spem in Alium nunquam habui, written by Thomas Tallis, one of the most influential English composers of sixteenth century.

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Still from The Berlin Files, 2003 film and sound installation dimensions variable courtesy the artists and Luhring Augustine, New York.

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