| Documenting
a project by Sonia Boyce
A film by David Bickerstaff
Video | 16:9 | 26 minutes
This film records the making of a project by the artist Sonia Boyce
called For you, only you, where she brings together the world of
early Renaissance music with the contemporary voice of the Greek
sound artist Mikhail Karikis.
Mikhail’s encounter with Josquin Deprez’s
motet Tu solus qui facis mirabilia (You alone can do wonders), involves
a deconstruction of the original score as the basis for a totally
new piece of music. This composition imagines a dialogue between
two characters: the voice of an old master and a contemporary troubled
voice.
The former is sung by Alamire consort under
the leadership of David Skinner and the latter is represented by
Mikhail Karikis himself. The performance is filmed in the Chapel
of Magdalen College, Oxford and finally presented in the form of
a three screen video installation.
This film documents how Sonia Boyce works
with Mikhail Karikis and David Skinner to develop the project’s
core ideas and presents a single screen version of the first performance
of For you, only you in Magdalen College Chapel.
For you, only you: A project by Sonia Boyce
is organised by the Ruskin
School of Drawing & Fine Art, University of Oxford in partnership
with the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea, Locus+, Newcastle
upon Tyne, Milton Keynes Gallery and the Model Arts and Niland Gallery,
Sligo and with the support of Arts Council England and Magdalen
College, Oxford
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