Marianne Halter and Mario Marchisella
The conductor's fear of the soloist – ten small pieces for violin
01/10/09 - 24/10/09
Marianne Halter and Mario Marchisella. The conductor's fear of the soloist – ten small pieces for violin. (2008) 3-channel video installation.
Marianne Halter (visual artist, Switzerland) and Mario Marchisella (musician, Switzerland) are presenting a video-installation at blank's new project space in October 2009.
During their stay in Johannesburg, the artists observed and engaged with the everyday rituals and practices they encountered in the inner city. In their attempt to interpret and understand these, their own position as strangers or newcomers remained in the foreground - as point of departure, fault-line and mirror.
In their work ‘THE CONDUCTOR'S FEAR OF THE SOLOIST’, Halter and Marchisella consciously stage the misinterpretation of an everyday situation: it comprises a performance piece at a four-way intersection in central Johannesburg that interferes and plays with the given order, leading to absurd moments. The 3- channel video-installation is based on the documentation of the performance.
Marianne Halter (1970) lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland. She studied visual arts at The Art School of Lucerne and works as a visual artist both in her own capacity and in different collaborations, including with Mario Marchisella. Her work comprises different media such as video, photography and installation and is regularly exhibited in Switzerland and abroad. She teaches at various Art Schools in Switzerland. Her interest lies in the constitutive relationship between society and architecture, how personal signs or relicts of people feature or impact on public space.
www.likeyou.com/mariannehalter
e-mail: nett@datacomm.ch
Mario Marchisella (1972) lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland. He studied classical music at the Conservatory in Zurich and has played as a percussionist at the local Opera Orchestra. He is now engaged on a freelance basis in a number of orchestras. He works as a composer (music/sound/final mixing) in theatre, radio and film and often collaborates with visual artists on specific projects. He is the founder of the electro-acoustic band ‘Elixir’, a music-project that is based on analogue and digital sound-scapes produced via self-made instruments. He is also the founder and singer of ‘Duo Belvedere’, a collaboration with Marino Bernasconi which ‘specialises’ in Italian songs from the 1960s. Halter regularly produces the visuals and designs the video-sets for Duo Belvedere’s performances.
e-mail: mario.marchisella@audioscope.tv
