MAGNESITE NORWAY
1 February - 30 April 2020
Curated by Bridie Lunney
BLINDSIDE SATELLITE SCREENS IN-GALLERY at BLINDSIDE + ON PUBLIC SCREENS at BUNJIL PLACE, NARRE WARREN; HARMONY SQUARE, DANDENONG; LIVERPOOL, SYDNEY; BEENLEIGH, QUEENSLAND
IN-GALLERY LAUNCH | Thursday 6 February, 6-8pm
Kusum Normoyle with Mette Rasmussen
In the wake of the severe bushfires still raging, Magnesite Norway is an inversion. It’s lush, green scream a balm for all the burnt red and black we’ve been bombarded by. We witness Kusum Normoyle grounding herself through feedback and amplification. Throwing her body and her voice into a site with fierce potency. A giving of ecstatic energy without expectation of return. With Mette Rasmussen improvising on alto sax, they are drowned out in part by the authority of the landscape; an acknowledgment of the grandeur and tenacity of water, rock and air.
Kusum Normoyle is a musician and artist working with voice for performance, video and installation. She takes screaming, feedback, resonance and intervention and puts them to work in gallery, experimental and dance music contexts. Her work investigates aesthetic and literal expressions of the voice and body, through sound materials, noise making and their relationship to location and environment.
Her work has been included in numerous national and international galleries and events including TarraWarra Biennial 2018: From Will to Form, MAAS/The Wellcome Collection, The Substation, Bergen Kunsthall, Dark MOFO, Red Bull Music Academy, Artspace Sydney, Primavera: Young Australian Artists, MCA Sydney, Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize, ISSUE Project Room NYC, SuperDeluxe at Artspace for the 17th Biennale of Sydney, Liquid Architecture, N.K Berlin, UrBANGUILD JPN, Biennial of Graphic Art, Slovenia, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, City Gallery Wellington.
She has on-going collaborative music projects with Ivan Lisyak as techno HVISKE and Peter Blamey in Hard Hat.
IMAGES | Kusum Normoyle with Mette Rasmussen, Magnesite Norway, 2018. Stills from dual channel HD video, 4.1 sound, 23:00min. | Courtesy the artist + collaborators: Kusum Normoyle (voice and amplifier) & Mette Rasmussen (alto saxophone). Location videography: Nick Garner. Recording mix & master: Lasse Marhaug. Sound design & video edit: Kusum Normoyle. Colourist: Billy Wychgel. Project advisor: Mikhaela Rodwell. Locations: Hardangervidda National Park (various), Norweigen Museum of Hydro Power and Industry, Skjervsfossen waterfall, Utsikten lookout.