Aeolian Piano

Yass, Catherine (2017) Aeolian Piano. [Film]

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Aeolian Piano Portfolio (5MB)
Creators:
Yass, Catherine
Description/Abstract:

Aeolian Piano is a film and light box series of a grand piano suspended by a crane and circling above the BBC Television Centre during its conversion into residential property. The circular structure of the BBC TV Centre embraced the world and reached out to it, with the BBC aspiring to be a global voice. It also looked inward, suggesting the BBC as 'the living room of the nation'.
Over the building the sound of wind playing in the strings is ethereal and otherworldly. It is disembodied, fragile and vulnerable, singing a swan song to the departed BBC below. This departure is more than just a relocation; it is the departure of a vision, however misguided at times, replaced by Capital, luxury developments, self-interest, bubble news.
The cranes supporting the piano are symptomatic of the cranes probing the sky all around London. They are harbingers of new skyscrapers and apartment blocks about to fill the sky and turn it into real estate. They will change the horizon both physically and in terms of society's view of itself.

Item Type:
Art/Design Item
Other Corporate or Group Contributors:
RoleName
Other (technical support)Hughes Meyer architectural practice
Other (technical support)Techniker engineers
Date:
28 February 2017
Copyright Holders:
Catherine Yass
Material:
35mm film transferred to high definition digital video
Measurements or Duration:
20 '23"
Funders:
Arts Council, White Noise
Locations / Venues:
Location
From Date
To Date
London Festival of Architecture, UK
1 June 2020
30 June 2020
Ambika P3, London, UK
10 March 2020
13 April 2020
RIBA, London, UK
28 February 2017
Projects or Series:
REF2021
Depositing User:
Oriane Winship
Date Deposited:
02 Jul 2020 10:12
Last Modified:
08 Jun 2021 09:34
Art/Design Categories:
Film
URI:
https://research.uca.ac.uk/id/eprint/5433

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