Film and Video Umbrella

PROJECTS

a couple thousand short films about Glenn Gould

2007

Cory Arcangel

For the two-screen installation a couple thousand short films about Glenn Gould, Cory Arcangel has arranged selected sections of Johann Sebastian Bach's 1741 composition The Goldberg Variations (BWV 988) for the massed ranks of hundreds of online amateur instrumentalists.

Given the popularity of video sharing websites, the web is now home to countless homemade videos of people showing off their instrumental skills. To produce a couple thousand short films about Glenn Gould, Arcangel has taken numerous examples of these videos and re-edited them note by note into sections from Bach's composition, each screen carrying a separate melodic line.

This new commission will be accompanied by different selection of Arcangel's other works at each of the touring venues.

Associated Projects with Cory Arcangel:

Interactive Lecture/Product Demonstration, 2007
Interactive Lecture/Product Demonstration, 2007

Associated Publications with Cory Arcangel:

Cory Arcangel: a couple thousand short films about Glenn Gould

Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, 07-Dec-07 to 26-Jan-08
City Library and Arts Centre Fawcett Street Sunderland SR1 1RE

Spacex Gallery, 15-Dec-07 to 23-Feb-08
45 Preston Street Exeter EX1 1DF

Castlefield Gallery, 08-Feb-08 to 23-Mar-08
2 Hewitt Street Manchester M15 4GB