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Austrian-born, Los Angeles-based conceptualist Mathias Poledna deconstructs and reconstructs recent pop, political and media history. The film Western Recording (2003) takes as its starting point the recording of a vocal track on the 1969 song City Life by the singer-composer Harry Nilsson, and projects a complex panorama of historical and spatial references.
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This work contains essays by Alexander Alberro and Nora M. Alter, Tom Holert, foreword by Nicolaus Schafhausen and an introduction by Matthias Michalka. Mathias Poledna's artistic practice is informed by historical research, by archives and collections. In his work, he develops his interest in the histories of avant-garde cinema, of modernism in architecture and design, and of the crossovers between popular culture and high art. In recent years, his projects have taken the form of highly formal filmic reconstructions that suggest ephemeral moments from 20th century culture, often popular culture. In the 16mm film installation Western Recording (2003) we see a young man rehearsing the song "City Life" (1969) by singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson. This song was originally recorded in the famous Western Recording studio in Los Angeles, where the Beach Boys recorded their seminal album "Pet Sounds". Instead of simply recreating this historical moment, Poledna singles out every element from its background. Rather than adopting a nostalgic attitude towards this fragment of pop culture, he puts it formally under the microscope."Western Recording" is an unusual representation of music history in that it depicts the rehearsal process, with all its flaws and repetitions, and not the polished end result that we have come to expect from cultural production. It features English, German and Dutch text.
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- PublisherWitte de With Centre for Contemporary Art
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 9073362679
- ISBN 13 9789073362673
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- Number of pages206
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