A documentary about Giske’s latest fee carried out in Oslo, created in collaboration with Bridget Ferrill and Theresa Baumgartner.
Bendik Giske is an artist and saxophonist whose observe often blurs the boundaries between efficiency, set up and music. Over two solo albums for Smalltown Supersound – 2019’s Give up and 2021’s Cracks – Giske has pushed his instrument and physique to the restrict by way of round respiratory methods that stretch and form his tender compositions.
In March 2021, Giske was commissioned by Oslo’s MUNCH Museet to create a brand new stay work, Not But. Created in collaboration with sound artist Bridget Ferrill and that includes lighting and bespoke scenography by Theresa Baumgartner, Not But is a efficiency that explores concepts of queer time and ecstasy, drawing inspiration from the primary passage of José Esteban Muñoz’s e-book Cruising Utopia, which references queerness as one thing glimpsed on the horizon that belongs to everybody.
“Queerness is just not but right here,” Muñoz writes. “Queerness is an ideality. Put one other method, we’re not but queer, however we will really feel it as the nice and cozy illumination of a horizon imbued with potentiality. We’ve by no means been queer, but queerness exists for us as an ideality that may be distilled from the previous and used to think about a future. The long run is queerness’s area.”
On this movie, directed and produced by Truth’s Pedro S. Küster and that includes unique footage from the stay efficiency of Not But, Giske discusses the various revolutionary methods that go into creating his work, from round respiratory to utilizing microphones mounted on the instrument to create totally different tonal qualities. Giske additionally discusses the inspiration behind Not But and the thought of ‘stepping out of the binary’ to create a singular tonal and spatial expertise, one which communicates with each the viewers and the efficiency atmosphere.
“Queerness won’t ever be right here,” Giske says. “It’s inherently one thing that exists sooner or later, and at all times will probably be. I like that thought.”
Credit:
Not But
Written and carried out by Bendik Giske
Movie directed and produced by Pedro S. Küster
Sound by Bridget Ferrill
Mild and stage by Theresa Baumgartner
Costume by Nicole Walker
Hair and make-up by Akischa Budd
Filmed by
Alice Sephton
Ingrid Styrkestad
Maja Wilhite Hannisdal
Pedro S. Küster
Sound blended by Bridget Ferrill
Not But was commissioned by MUNCH for MUNCH Dwell
Efficiency produced by Erica Berthelsen and Anette Engkvist
Further manufacturing by Sofie B. Ringstad
MUNCH Group
Inventive Director: Ingrid Moe
Senior Curator: Tominga O’Donnell
Mission Supervisor: Jonas Vebner
Technical Supervisor: Lasse Baklien
Manufacturing Supervisor: Kaja Langø Aasmoe
Not But is supported by Arts Council Norway, The Norwegian Composers’ Fund, The Fund for Performing Artists, Metropolis of Oslo and Fond for Lyd og Bilde, Norwegian Arts Overseas and The Norwegian Ministry of International Affairs.
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