The piece is created in response to the modern architecture of the new opera house and both contrasts with and complements the beauty of the South Downs and the traditions of Glyndebourne’s past. In Auditorium the artists have been working towards a cinematic language that expresses the complex relationship between moving imagery, music and sound.
Auditorium is the central focus of the multi-layered PhotOperative project, which began in 2005 and which combines three main elements: performance, exhibition and documentation. All these aspects are linked by an education project involving twelve music and photography students from East Sussex Academy of Music and Brighton and Hove Sixth Form College, together with the South Downs Youth Orchestra. PhotOperative gives the students the opportunity to collaborate with and learn from Sophy and Ed’s diverse working processes and the students’ own work mirrors the artists’ cross art-form commission, pairing up to produce six new pieces alongside the work of the main artists.
Performance
The PhotOperative project will culminate in a showing of Auditorium at Glyndebourne on Saturday 17 November at 7.30pm. Auditorium will be the central piece in a programme which will include the work of the students of East Sussex Academy of Music and Brighton and Hove Sixth Form College, along with music by Rossini and Schumann played by The South Downs Youth Orchestra, conducted by Malcolm Warnes.
Exhibition
The installation Auditorium will also feature as part of the Triple Echo exhibition at the De la Warr Pavilion from 29 September 2007 (previews) to 6 January 2008.
Documentation
Photoworks will publish a book in spring 2008 on this special project, including essays about the art works by Nicholas Till (Senior Lecturer in Music and Director of the Centre for Research in Opera and Music Theatre, University of Sussex) and Chris Townsend (Senior Lecturer in Media Arts, Royal Holloway College, University of London), an extended interview with the artists, as well as full documentation of the project, the De la Warr exhibition and the Glyndebourne performance. A DVD of Auditorium will also be included.
Glyndebourne Box Office information
Photoperative Saturday 17 November 2007 at 7.30pm
Ticket prices – Adults £12 Students/concessions: £6
T: 01273 815025 or www.glyndebourne.com
Press contact
Glyndebourne – Emma Menniss
Glyndebourne, Lewes, East Sussex, BN8 5UU
t: 01273 812321 e: ,
Photoworks – Rebecca Drew
Photoworks, The Depot, 100 North Road, Brighton BN1 1YE
T: 01273 607 500 e:
De La Warr – Sally Ann Lycett
De La Warr Pavilion, Marina, Bexhill on Sea, East Sussex TN40 1DP
T: 01424 229137 e:
This project is grateful for the support of: Arts Council England, East Sussex County Council, The Henry Moore Foundation, The Foyle Foundation, Open Studio, University of Derby, Arts and Humanities Research Council and VET
Glyndebourne Press Office 19.7.07.