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ERIC HALL
January 1 – December 31, 2012
Laumeier Sculpture Park is pleased to announce St. Louis-based sound artist Eric Hall as its first Composer-in-Residence. Throughout 2012, Hall will develop a new series of works and projects using sound in an open-ended exploration that will begin with field recordings from the Park. Hall will develop a series of new soundscapes, installations and performances to be staged at Laumeier. This 12-month residency is meant to encourage an active collaboration with Laumeier Sculpture Park’s permanent collection and its landscape. The residency, part of Laumeier’s curatorial focus on “archaeology of place,” will allow this sound artist the chance to respond to Laumeier’s unique geographic and cultural context.
“I am excited about the creative potential of expanding the type of artists-in-residence here, and I’m looking forward to Eric Hall’s sound based collaboration with Laumeier’s collection and the lush landscape within which it resides,” said Dana Turkovic, Laumeier’s Curator of Exhibitions. “Hall’s residency should help to inspire not only his own artistic practice but will also enhance our relationship to the Park’s diverse environment.”
“Laumeier continues to diversify the different art forms supported at the Park by naming Eric Hall our first-ever Composer-in-Residence,” said Marilu Knode, Laumeier’s Executive Director and the Aronson Endowed Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. “As we continue to dig deeper into an ‘archaeology of place,’ which we are using to guide our curatorial practice for the next few years, Hall will create a new series of lenses to understand the urbanized natural world around us. Because so many St. Louis residents reside in a suburban environment, we felt it would be relevant to have an artist look at the aural landscape we have created for ourselves in this particular social climate. Artists reveal things to us about our world that we miss—and I am eager for the different types of experiences our audiences will enjoy over the coming year.”
Hall, whose work is also currently exhibited as part of Laumeier’s Kranzberg Exhibition Series: Electric is the Love presented a Campfire Chat performance on Saturday, November 12 at Beverly Pepper’s earthwork, Cromlech Glen, on Laumeier’s Nature Trail. You can watch or listen to Eric Hall's performance by following these links:
Eric Hall is a St. Louis native who has created several sound-sculptures and interactive installations for St. Louis institutions including the Saint Louis Art Museum, the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis and White Flag Projects. He has composed and performed works commissioned by Washington University in St. Louis and Forest Park Community College, St. Louis and recently performed John Cage’s “First Construction (In Metal)” as a solo live-sampled electro-acoustic piece with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra.
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Museum hours are:Wedesday-Friday 10:00 AM-5:00 PM and Saturday-Sunday 12:00 PM-5:00 PM (Free)
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Download a copy of the Electric is the Love exhibition brochure and read more about Eric Hall and other featured artists (PDF, 2.4MB)
Laumeier receives operating support from St. Louis County Parks, the University of Missouri – St. Louis, the Regional Arts Commission, the Missouri Arts Council and the Arts and Education Council of St. Louis.
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