Homage to David Tudor

The Venet Foundation presents its summer exhibition in Le Muy, “Homage to David Tudor.” The exhibition, as part of the cycle of sound artworks which the Foundation inaugurated last summer, showcases Sea Tails (1983), the piece which the American composer created in collaboration with the artist Jackie Matisse and the experimental filmmaker Molly Davies. The piece utilizes Tudor’s conception of sound as raw material, Matisse’s colorful and experimental kite works, and Davies’s explorations of movement and light. The radiant, flowing kites are filmed underwater (in the Bahamas), with the work divided into three 20-minute films of six sequences each, which are looped and simultaneously shown with soundtracks created by Tudor from the seaside and underwater ambient sounds recorded while filming. The sounds and images in tandem form a whole which immerses and interrogates the viewer’s senses and perceptions.