Our installation A Model Studio
has been installed at The Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah, UAE.
This is the
studio in which Chris Weaver and I created the
audio for a limited edition vinyl record made in the UAE. The studio itself is decorated with imagery inspired by hacked Atari coding, which we also took as the
basis for a musical graphical score.
This artist’s edition, strictly limited
to 100 and decorated with a piece of handwoven music, is named after the
exhibition in which A Model Studio featured: Systems for a Score. Collaborations made in inside include vocals, school children making musique concrete, tanbura, oud and rababa laid over various forms of sound art and electronica.
Maraya Arts Centre is a three storey arts space of 1,500 square meters in the heart of Sharjah, in the Qasba.
Established in 2010, Maraya Art Centre is a non-profit
creative space
offering the public an innovative curated and its exhibitions programme features
leading Middle Eastern and international artists. Their multi-media
facilities include a video archive, an art library, a regular public programme of
workshops and events designed by its in house team and guest curators.
Maraya also has several public art park sites within its local vicinity
that feature interactive projects and sculptures and runs the new 1971 design space on Flag Island, Sharjah.
