CALLY SPOONER

British artist, born in 1983 in Ascot, United Kingdom, lives and works in London.

Using theory and philosophers as alibis to help her write, and casts of arguing characters to help her perform, she produces plotless novellas, disjunctive theatre plays, looping monologues, and musical arrangements to write, then stage, the movement and behavior of speech. Recently, she has been exploring how high performance economies have affected speaking and writing as a live, undetermined event. Her work includes writing, film, live performance, and broadcasting.

Recent solo exhibitions and performances include And you Were Wonderful, On Stage, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2013); POST Show: Seven Thirty Till Eight, Kunsthal Charlottenburg, Copenhagen, Denmark (2013); Collapsing In Parts, International Project Space, Birmingham, UK (2012); Cally Spooner: Footnote 5, (with Dulcie Lewis and Peter Joslyn), ICA, London, UK (2012); It’s 1957, andThe Press Release Still Isn’t Written, Hermes und der Pfau, Germany (2011). Group exhibitions include Relaunch, KW Institute, Berlin, DE (2013); A Spoken Word Exhibition, Jeu De Paume, Paris, France (2013); Memory Marathon, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK (2012); And Yet There They Still Are, with Sidsel Meineche Hansen, LUX, London, UK (2012); I Proclaim You Proclaim We Proclaim, Stroom, The Hague, NL, curated by Capucine Perrot (2012); Outrageous Fortune, Focal Point Gallery, Southend on Sea, UK (2011) The Department Of Wrong Answers, Residency and Exhibition, Wysing Art Centre (2011); Une Exposition (du) Sensible, Synagogue Du Delme, France (2010);Session_6_Lecture, Am Nuden Da, London (2009); Two Lectures, Neue Alte Breuke Gallery, Frankfurt (2008).

She is currently being commissioned a produce a new production for Performa 13, New York City, USA this autumn (in collaboration with Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

She is represented by MOT International.

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CALLY SPOONER'S WORK
FOR LOVETRIANGLE 2013 :

Cally Spooner
Due To The Weather, Due To The Delay, Due To No Soundcheck,
I Did Not Feel Comfortable Taking The Risk

2013
Color, lambda print
65 x 45 cm
Sold with their certificate of authenticity
Ed. 5 + 2A.P

Edition 1/5 available
Edition 2/5 available
Edition 3/5 available
Edition 4/5 available
Edition 5/5 available

Prices will be made public on the occasion of ART-O-RAMA art fair and Triangle France GALA, on 31 August, 2013. Online purchase will then be available for our members and friends!

ABOUT THE WORK :

Due To The Weather, Due To The Delay, Due To No Soundcheck, I Did Not Feel Comfortable Taking The Risk (2013), is a work especially produced by Cally Spooner for LOVETRIANGLE.

The edition comes from a larger series of poster works, the orginals being around 3 meters tall, made from of newspaper collages of an automated performer, with their performance ripped away, and their gesture left in place. This is over-laid with script sampled from an advertising agency's meeting notes on how to harness and deliver employees 'real life' stories for economic gain, now rendered as a distorted, illegibly inflated piece of jargon.

The edition arrives out of a larger body of work; an itinerant evolving , musical production, originally commisioned by the Stedelijk Museum, titled "And You Were Wonderful, On Stage". Drawing on the form of Broadway musical, the musical production, the project explores and stages a loss of live delivery in contemporary life, which is relinquished in favor of automation, technical precision, and public success, to the detriment of improvisation and speech.

Material and protagonists from the musical arrive in the form of current affairs, where public figures trade the unmediated space of improvisation for an automated performance, starring prominent figures who have stumbled at a moment of liveness or authenticity appear episodically; Beyonce's lip-synching at Obama's inauguration, say, or Lance Armstrong's doping scandal, become ways of dramatizing public moments of standardization or mechanization.