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Project Web Sites
Silent Sound
Iain and Jane's largest project to date, Silent Sound is a major new commission for the Liverpool Biennial. The project features a live performance at St. George's Hall and a ten-week installation at Greenland Street. This site documents and accompanies the work.
Anyone
else isn't you
An online project commissioned by JJ Charlesworth, exhibitions curator
at the University College for the Creative Arts as part of Iain and
Jane's exhibtion Anyone
else isn't you at the George Rodger Gallery, Maidstone.
File
under Sacred Music
Created in 2003, Iain and Jane's File
under Sacred Music regularly features in screenings and exhibitions
throughout the UK and Europe. For further background on the project
and up to date screening info visit the web site.
This
will change my life
This will change my life is the project web site for Change
My Life, a project initiated in Dublin by Iain and Jane, now
touring to different venues. People are invited to swap an item that
has changed their life for something that has changed the life of a
stranger.
The
Thirds
The Thirds is a project initiated by Iain and Jane. Essentially a series
of musical collaborations, each time a third person is brought into
the mix creating, with Iain and Jane, The Thirds. This particular track,
If I Can't Change
Your Mind, was created with Simon Ballard and released on the
Resonance FM compilation album Flatpack Antenna.
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Galleries, Exhibitions and Projects
Kate
MacGarry
Iain and Jane are represented by Kate MacGarry, a London-based gallery.
Greenland Street / A Foundation
Greenland Street is three former industrial buildings in the heart of Liverpool's Baltic Triangle which have been transformed by A Foundation into one of the largest exhibition spaces for contemporary art in the country. The 2006 Biennial will launch the newly refurbished Greenland Street site and Iain and Jane's Silent Sound will feature in The Blade Factory for the inaugral programme.
Jerwood Space
Iain & Jane presented a solo show at Jerwood Space as part of the
In Brief series curated by Paul Hedge of Hales Gallery.
Hales
Gallery
Paul Hedge of Hales Gallery curated In Brief at Jerwood Space, a series
of 4 solo shows. Iain & Jane presented a new work, Walk
With Nauman (Re-Performance Corrid0r) alongside Walking
After Acconci (Redirected Approaches)
MARCO
Vigo
Switch on the Power! Noise and Policies on Music featuring Iain &
Jane's File under
Sacred Music opened at the Museo De Arte Contemporánea
de Vigo, before touring.
Xabier
Arakistain
Curator of Switch on the Power! Noise and Policies on Music.
Loop
Barcelona
Kate MacGarry made a solo presentation of Iain & Jane's work at
the Loop Video Art Fair in 2006.
Embassy
Gallery
The Embassy Gallery organised Et Tu Tribute - An evening of performance
and video art at Edinburgh College of Art. Iain & Jane were invited
to present their work prior to the event and participate in the programme.
Colony
Gallery
Anyone else isn't
you featured in a group video exhibition at Colony.
Metropolis
Rise: New Art from London
An exhibition and index of the current London scene curated by Anthony
Gross and Jen Wu (temporarycontemporary). The exhibition opened in Shanghai,
before touring China.
/seconds
Published quaterly, /seconds is an online publishing project edited
by Derek Horton and Peter Lewis. Iain & Jane contributed to the
second issue.
W-Art
Magazine
Iain & Jane were invited to contribute a project to issue 8 of the
magazine. They produced 'I thought about you the whole time'.
Dundee
Contemporary Arts
Music For People at the DCA in Scotland featured Iain and Jane's
File under Sacred
Music in a screening programme of artists' films about music
and performance.
Showroom
MAMA
Iain and Jane's File
under Sacred Music was featured in an exhibition at the MAMA
Showroom for Media and Moving Art in Rotterdam.
Galleria
Paolo Bonzano
Walking
After Acconci (Redirected Approaches) was shown in Italy for
the first time at Galleria Paolo Bonzano in Surfing
The Surface, an exhibition curated by Cecilia Canziani.
Espai
Ubú
Video London, an exhibition of young video art from London and the UK
curated by Keith Patrick and Jennifer Thatcher, featured File
under Sacred Music in November - December 2005.
George
Rodger Gallery
Originally presented at The Hospital in London, Anyone
else isn't you tours to George Rodger Gallery, Maidstone in
October - December 2005.
The
Hospital
The Hospital presented Iain and Jane's Anyone
else isn't you alongside earlier related works, Everybody
else is wrong and Fucked
up lover.
Institute
of Contemporary Arts, London
Since 1997 Iain and Jane have worked with the ICA on several occasions,
including major commissions of new work, most notably A
Rock 'N' Roll Suicide.
Biennale!
Originally situated at Temporarycontemporary in London, Biennale! featuring
Iain and Jane's Everybody
else is wrong, is curently on tour at various venues in China.
This
Much Is Certain
Exhibition and film programme curated by graduating students on the
MA Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art.
Pavilion
Projects
A Montreal based nomadic cultural centre, with whom Iain and Jane presented
their first Canadian exhibition, Everybody
else is wrong.
Modern
Love
An exhibition featuring Iain and Jane presented at Hobbypop Museum in
Dusseldorf and VTO Gallery in London.
Shooting
Live Artists 2003
Iain and Jane's File
under Sacred Music was a Shooting Live Artists commission,
supported by the BBC and Arts Council England.
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Selected Online Articles
'Anyone
else isn't you' is featured on Zerom3
'My
Fidelity', Steve Lamacq, The Guardian, 4th June 2005
'Anyone
else isn't you', Mike Clewley, VisitBritain, 3rd June 2005
'Biennale'.
Smiths Online, 25th January 2005
'We
Love Each Other'. Craig Taylor, The Guardian, 17th April 2004
'Recording
Romance'. Lorraine Carpenter, Montreal Mirror, 5 February 2004
'It
Beats Bingo!'. Iain Aitch, The Guardian Unlimited, 17 March 2003
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Co-Conspirators
J Spaceman
Best known as leader of his current band Spriritualized, Jason was also formerly a member of Spacemen 3. But you knew that, right? We're thrilled to be working with Jason on the composition of the music for Silent Sound, our project for the Liverpool Biennial 2006.
Ciaran O'Keeffe
Ciaran lectures in psychology at Liverpool Hope University and can also regularly be seen on paranormal TV shows such as Most Haunted. We are collaborating with him on the psychological and parapsychological aspects of our Silent Sound project.
Charles Poulet
We met Charlie at the ICA, where he handled the live sound for File under Sacred Music. We're delighted to work with him again on Silent Sound, where he's our audio consultant, overseeing the live sound and ambisonic recording/installation.
Chris Bigg and Vaughan Oliver at V23
What the fuck does Silent Sound look like? When we asked ourselves that question, the only people we could think of who might understand how to visualise it was Vaughan and Chris. That's exactly what they did, and we salute them.
John Bell at FXV
Our Silent Sound project starts with a live performance at St. George's Hall in Liverpool, but when it comes to taking that live experience and creating a physical installation for 10 weeks at Greenland Street we needed help with designing the space, so we worked with the brilliant John Bell at FXV architects.
Nikki
Trow
We worked with Nikki, a professional dancer, on Walk
With Nauman (Re-Performance Corridor). She's toured with Kylie
and Blue and can be seen in numerous music videos.
StudioTonne
A Brighton-based interactive design agency headed by Paul Farrington,
who we worked with to produce Anyone
else isn't you - our online project commissioned by
JJ Charlesworth for the George Rodger Gallery in Maidstone.
Plan
B
We worked with 21-year-old Ben AKA Plan B on Walking
After Acconci (Redirected Approaches). He's an enormously talented
musician and performer. Plan B is signed to 679
Recordings, home of The Streets and Futureheads.
The
Field Mice
Bobby from the band and Matt from Sarah Records kindly gave us permission
to use the song Anyone
else isn't you in our film of the same name.
Momus
We first met Momus in 1994, when he wrote the first ever preface to
Words & Pictures
for us. He also wrote the epilogue to the final issue and played at
the ICA during the farewell party. More recently Nick wrote The
music is all that matters and love is everything, a text for
our Anyone else isn't
you catalogue.
Steve
Lamacq
Steve wrote Tape Me I'm
Yours, a great text for our Anyone
else isn't you catalogue. An edited version also appeared in
The Guardian Guide under a different title.
JJ
Charlesworth
Anonymous Lovers
by JJ was published in the Anyone
else isn't you catalogue. JJ also presented a gallery talk
on our work at The Hospital during the exhibition.
Epic
Soundtracks / Nikki
Sudden
When we made Everybody
else is wrong in Montreal we really wanted to use the song
of the same name by the late Epic Soundtracks as the title music. Epic's
brother, Nikki Sudden, very kindly allowed us to.
Tom
McCarthy
Tom attended the filming of File
under Sacred Music, chaired the panel discussion that took
place immediately afterwards and wrote an extensive essay on the project
for the This Much
Is Certain catalogue titled Nests,
Puke, Frames and Baby Faces.
Holly
Golightly
A former memeber of Thee Headcoatees and a legend in her own right,
Holly performed the role of Poison Ivy in File
under Sacred Music. Our film also featured Bruce Brand and
John Gibbs from Holly's own band.
Bruce
Brand
Bruce plays with Holly and a gazillion other bands. In his spare time
he makes excellent record sleeves for bands like The White Stripes.
For File under
Sacred Music he stepped into the role of Bryan Gregory.
The
Parkinsons
Afonso Pinto, former lead singer with The Parkinsons, took on the role
of Lux Interior for our film File
under Sacred Music.
Core
Arts
Members from the mental health organisation Core Arts took part in the
filming of our film File
under Sacred Music. Bands, DJ's and film makers from the organisation
also performed at the ICA debut.
Robin
Mahoney
Robin worked closely with us on the editing and directing of our film
File under Sacred
Music. We spent many hours together experimenting with degrading
film and damaging VHS players.
Simon
Ballard
Simon is a good friend and superb musician. Thanks entirely to his help
we produced If
I Can't Change Your Mind, the first track by The Thirds, the
3rd person invariably being the one with musical talent.
Chris
Starling
Having been fans of The Starlings, we were delighted when Chris asked
us to create artwork specially to be used for his solo album Sounds
Like Chris Starling, released by Popchild Records.
Pretty,
you may be...
During the making of our film Made
in England in 1998 we hooked up with Toby and Dom, who created
the extensive graphics needed.
The
Contemporary Wardrobe
This amazing collection of street fashion owned by Roger K. Burton first
provided costumes for us in 1998. Since then they're supplied many impossible-to-find-elsewhere
items for various projects.
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Friends
Alison
Wonderland
Excellent photographer, amazing friend, obsessive bag buyer and very
lightweight wine drinker. Three glasses? Must try harder...
Circlemakers
Need a crop circle? Who you gonna call...?
Damaged
Goods
Punk-tastic, pop-picking, garage-heavy brilliant record label - home
to Holly Golightly, Billy Childish and millions more. Run by the best
bloke we know.
The
Flowers of Hell
A really promising nu-gazing, shoe-gazing band starring some of our
friends - catch them at Club AC30, before they make it big.
Piney
Gir
Wholly delightful music from a lovely lady.
Holly
Golightly
She's the fearless, crowned Queen of garage rock and lovely to boot!
Do you own a Holly Golightly record? Yes - top work! No - you've brought
shame on your family name, make it right, get your mits on My First
Holly Golightly Album from here.
Kirk
Lake / Yonco &
Co.
If you haven't read Kirk's novel Never Hit The Ground your
life is empty and worthless. Make up for it by buying stuff from Yonco.
Live
Here Now
Official live concert recordings. Fast.
Pre
New band from our dear, dear friend - Kevin 'Jimi' Hendrick.
Dan
Rhodes
The finest writer this generation and this country has. Buy everything
he's ever written right now.
Then write to his publisher demanding they make him write more, more,
faster, faster...
Seafood
The fine people of Camp Seafood.
Trash
Money
Chris and Joe are Trash Money. Chris and Joe are the nicest chaps you
could ever know.
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Iain & Jane's "Stuff
We Like..."
Apple
- because who else would you buy a compluter from?
British
Pathe - a unique and priceless archive
Buddyhead
- a damn good read
John
Cale - Excellent John Cale fan site
Canongate
- a damn fine publisher
Colorwhore
- far, far too much time could be spent here
Nick
Cave & The Bad Seeds - just because
Clap
Your Hands Say Yeah - yeah!
Creation
Records - gone but not forgotten, well, not all of it
Design
is Kinky - design info and resources
Dumbstruck
- a cultural history of ventriloquism
eMusic
- a fab subscription-based music download site
The
Fall
- what else can you possibly say?
Simon
Fisher-Turner - sit back and listen...
Garlic
& Shots - where else can you eat this much garlic?
Gobo
Restaurant - where else can you eat like this?
Johannes
Greber - communications with the Spirit World
Bob
Gruen - a great photographer who really was 'there'
Bill
Hicks - the smartest American you never did meet
I
Love Everything - and so do all these people
Infowars
and Alex Jones - it may not be true, but who's asking?
Daniel
Johnston - The Museum of Love - wonderful drawings
KCRW
- wonderful radio - especially Morning Becomes Eclectic
Last.fm
- fascinating and completely addictive
Life
Without Buildings - find the album and buy it now
Mass
Observation Archive - compelling, important stuff
Neil
Mulholland - Got a problem? Need criticism?
Ocado
- because who wants to actually go to a supermarket?
Other
Music - London has Rough Trade, New York has...
PETA
- just because
Pitchfork
Media - your daily bread
PunkCast
- Iwish I was there
Jon
Ronson - a rare thing, a journalist worth reading
Patti
Smith - a rarer thing, a true pioneer
Spriritualized
- something very special
Tindersticks
- music you should always make time for
The
Vegetarian Society - just because
You
Whores - buy, notice, sell...
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Site Credits
Design by Any
Other Name
Photography by:
Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard and Arnold
Bogerth, David
Campany, David Cowlard, Dan Howard-Birt, Jet,
Maryse LaRiviere,
Claire Norman, Joseph Ortenzi, Matthew Thomas, Alison
Wonderland.
Copyright:
© All artwork Copyright Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard 1994 - 2006.
Photographs Copyright of the respective photographer and / or Iain Forsyth
and Jane Pollard. Any reproduction, in whole or part, without prior
permission is illegal, so please ask
first.
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