| Helen Mirra |
Green break Exhibition/Cooperations
U-Bahnhof Klosterstraße
sound installation for Jackson Mac Low; stereo recordings, whistling, mouth organ, bass mouth organ, loudspeaker, CD-player. In cooperation with Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe and tesla-berlin e.V.
sound installation for Jackson Mac Low; stereo recordings, whistling, mouth organ, bass mouth organ, loudspeaker, CD-player. In cooperation with Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe and tesla-berlin e.V.
This sound work is composed in relation to the
greek elegaic poetry form, and functions as a kind of elegy for the Berlin
U-bahn specifically and urban train travel in general. Small human made
sounds - bass harmonica, whistling and mouth harp, are both reminiscent
of train sounds and the classic instruments of train travel. The title of
the work, Green break, as well as the green window coverings of the station
room, relate the work to the natural world and the railroad's uneasy relationship
to it.
Helen Mirra,
born 1970 in Rochester [USA], lives in Berlin and Cambridges [USA] Helen Mirra's
work occurs in varied media. One person exhibitions include Cloud, the, 3,
daadgalerie, Berlin; Kaüzchensteig, Galerie Nelson, Paris; 65 Instants,
MATRIX/Berkeley Art Museum; Declining Interval Lands, Whitney Museum, New
York; Sky-wreck, The Renaissance Society, Chicago. Group exhibitions include
the 50th Venice Biennale; Formalismus, Kunstverein Hamburg; untitled 654321,
Kunsthallen Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense, Denmark; Making the Making,
Apex Art, New York; Age of Influence, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Contemporary
Art, Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, the Dallas Museum of Art, the
New Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Whitney Museum. Recordings include
Stowaway (Herkimer 1996), Along, Below (Herkimer 1998), Field Geometry, (explain:
2000), with Ernst Karel: Maps of Parallels 41¾N and 49¾N (semishigure 2006)
, and with Fred Frith: Quangsi-Quail (semishigure 2006). Mirra received her
MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1996, a Louis Comfort Tiffany
award in 1999, and she is the recipient of a 2005 DAAD artist-in-residence
fellowship in Berlin. Mirra is represented by Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe,
and Nelson Galerie, Paris. www.meyer-riegger.de
