9th Dec
Whitechapel Gallery Music: An Echoing Bell: Sacred Places, Bells And Percussive Sounds
Time 8pm -10pm
Fees £7/£6 conc
Venue Whitechapel Gallery
Address 80-82 Whitechapel High Street, E1 7QX
Tel 020 7522 7888
Fax 020 7522 7887
Email
info@whitechapelgallery.org
Web
www.whitechapelgallery.org
Whitechapel Lates presents An Echoing Bell: Sacred Places, Bells and Percussive Sounds an evening of art, music and spoken word curated by Kevin Quigley and Galvanised!
Working in association with the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, artist Kevin Quigley has invited avant garde drummer and percussionist Charles Hayward (This Heat), jazz experimentalist and vibes player Orphy Robinson and artist / performer Marc Vaulbert De Chantilly to devise and produce a series of performances evoking the magical energies and heart rending sounds of bells.
For An Echoing Bell, the collaborators have been exploring links between the 'Oranges and Lemons' 16th century nursery rhyme, its local East London origins and secrets of geomancy and Ley lines. The sixteen churches that are spoken about in the traditional London rhyme are said to mark out a series of churches which form the so called 'St Paul's Ley', which runs from St Mary Le Bow in the west of the City of London, through St Pauls Cathedral and then Whitechapel, out to St Dunstans in Stepney.
The four artists will transform one of the Whitechapel's galleries into a 'sacred bell shrine, using 17th Century Whitechapel bells, black ink drawings of the Ley lines of Londons churches, glass and steel etched plates of geomantic diagrams, text performances and interventional sound and musical performances.