Sarah Angliss, Hákarl & Friends

With Anna Franceschini’s Laws of Attraction exhibition as a focal point, and taking its name from Sarah Angliss’ recent essay on ventriloquism this live music, in-gallery event features musicians working within the realms of sound making as practice. Exploring the cinematic language and narratives present within Franceschini’s films, the performances present alternative scores and interpretations of the exhibition and the space it inhabits.

Sarah Angliss performs a compositional score for a one-off screening of Franceschini’s film Nothing is Mysterious a Fact that is Well Explained (2010) shot at the Pianola Museum in Amsterdam. A sense of the ‘unheimlich’ is present within both Franceschini’s and Angliss’ respective practices: Franceschini’s visual and meditative investigations of everyday objects and spaces and Angliss’ fascination and expansive research into folklore and its uncanny relatives. Presented in unison, the aural and visual connections elicit notions of things feeling familiar whilst being unsettling at the same time.

Hákarl & Friends take up their strings to lend a sonorous and harmonic quality resonating with the visuality of Franceshini’s films. Dispersed throughout the exhibition, their collective improvisational interpretations provide an immersive and encompassing score examining the expansive aural and acoustic qualities of the vast gallery space. The audience are invited to view Franceschini’s (mostly silent) films to sound for one night only.