Photo by John Kennan 
Photo by Christian Pedersen 
Photo by John Kennan 
Photo by John Kennan | Power Plant (2008) |
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Calderstone Park, Liverpool 8 – 12 October 2008 A sound and light art installation event produced by Simon Chatterton for the Contemporary Music Network and Liverpool European Capital of Culture 08. Anne worked in collaboration with Phil Jeck to produce CRACK a piece in which splintering glass transmuted into crackly old records related to Liverpool; BLOOM a piece installed in the Memorial Gardens with phantom-like dresses and the voice of the head gardener pronouncing the names of the plants in Latin; BREATHING SPACE in which deflating weather balloons with harmonicas evoked the circular breathing technique used by players of wind instruments from around the world and EDEN where glowing apples floated alongside a video of apples rotting. The other artists were Mark Anderson, Jony Easterby, Kirsten Reynolds, z’ev, David Strang, Ulf Pedersen and the Rogue Wave collective. This project is based on an original commission by Oxford Contemporary Music for Oxford Botanic Garden (2005). www.powerplant.org.uk "Anne Bean’s Breathing Space offered another haunting animation of things inanimate: a pile of palely lit, giant weather balloons, gently deflating into squidgy emblems of inevitable decay... The point of it all, for me, was to promote a sense of amused mystery at a world we partly inhabit, partly create and, for better or worse, endlessly mess about with... Power Plant trashed the general view that abstract art and weird music are elitist pursuits designed to baffle the uninitiated. It will be a small tragedy if this show isn’t recommissioned elsewhere." Robert Sandall, The Sunday Times, October 2008 |
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