Details of the 2013 Festival Exhibition
A collaboration between visual artist Susan Haire & composer Stephen Dydo
Exhibition of multi-faceted installations exploring Indra’s Net, an infinite lattice encrusted with glittering jewels all reflecting each other, an ancient Buddhist metaphor for the interconnectedness of all things.
This exhibition formed part of Reflection shown in 2012 in Peterborough Cathedral and Western Connecticut State University, honouring a visit by the Dalai Lama.
Further details about the artists:
dydo-haire.com | susanhaire.com | dydomusic.com
Further details:
Reflection: looking beneath the surface took place in May and June last year in Peterborough Cathedral – an ambitious solo exhibition that ranged across the Cathedral with one work spanning the nave and another reaching 30m up to the top of the tower. Major elements of the show then toured as Reflection: Indra’s Net to Western Connecticut State University in October, honouring a visit by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Dydo and Haire have now brought the exhibition to London where it embraces the double height of The Cello Factory.
London visual artist Susan Haire and New York composer Stephen Dydo and have been working together since 2006 making collaborative installations. They have had seven previous exhibitions including riverrun at Hammond Museum, North Salem, NY in 2008 and International Water House, The Hague in 2010 and Watermusic at outLINE in Amsterdam also in 2010.
Dydo has written a large number of pieces for media ranging from ancient Asian instruments, contemporary chamber and orchestral ensembles, to electronic and video resources which have been performed throughout the US, Europe and Asia. He also appears as a classical guitarist and qin (Chinese lute) player. Haire has had 20 plus solo shows, almost all of which have been installations often incorporating large scale works. She has collaborated with composers, poets and playwrights since 1997 and recitals and performances often take place in her exhibitions and so it is highly appropriate that Indra’s Net will be the backdrop for some of the recitals in the London Ear Festival of Contemporary Music and she is delighted to be involved with the launch of such a prestigious music festival.