{"id":29238,"date":"2018-02-15T15:19:52","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T15:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=29238"},"modified":"2018-02-15T15:19:52","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T15:19:52","slug":"sky-room-travel-time-space-via-performance-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/business-culture\/sky-room-travel-time-space-via-performance-art","title":{"rendered":"The Sky in a Room: travel through time and space via performance art"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>How will you be transported by Icelandic performance art?<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_29239\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29239\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29239\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/02\/Kjartansson-main-mod-625x351.jpg\" alt=\"ragnar-kjartansson-sky-in-a-room\" width=\"625\" height=\"351\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29239\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29239\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/02\/Kjartansson-main-mod-625x351.jpg\" alt=\"ragnar-kjartansson-sky-in-a-room\" width=\"625\" height=\"351\" \/><\/noscript> Kjartansson transforms the 18th century gallery space through repetition of Gino Paoli\u2019s \u201cil cielo in una stanza\u201d love song.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>An Icelandic performance art piece featuring an 18th century organ in the capital of Wales is not your average ending to a night of Italian passion.<\/p>\n<p>But Icelandic performance artist Ragnar Kjartansson aims to take the audience back to the room that inspired Italian singer Gino Paoli\u2019s 1960 hit \u201cIl cielo in una stanza\u201d through the repetition of song.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPaoli wrote the song after sleeping with a prostitute and falling in love with her. I think Kjartansson is trying to bridge the gap between this room in Wales and that room in 1960 in Genoa,\u201d says Stephen Phillips, Marketing and Communications officer for Artes Mundi.<\/p>\n<p>Kjartansson, a Reykjavik native, has removed all the publicly owned works from the 18th-century gallery and focuses the audience\u2019s attention on an 18th-century Welsh organ and a continuous performance of Gino Paoli\u2019s 1960 hit \u201cIl cielo in una stanza\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are seven different performers from a variety of musical backgrounds from opera to contemporary Welsh musicians. They all have their unique styles which gives the repetition some variation,\u201d says Stephen.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6>Kjartansson was inspired by his native Iceland, an 18th-century Welsh organ and an Italian love song.<\/h6>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">By performing the piece on a loop, Kjartansson is tapping into what musical psychologists term the \u201cexposure effect\u201d which <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">may explain how the performance transforms the space. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Typically, as a person continues to be exposed to a piece, they tend to like it more. This is because our attention shifts to different levels and aspects of sound so the piece starts sounding <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">different across repetitions,\u201d says Dr Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis, professor at the Cognition Lab of the University of Arkansas. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cBoundaries of time and space may begin to break away as people shift their <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">attention from one part of the music to another. For some kinds of music, it takes this repeated immersion to connect to the aspects of the sound that are most rewarding,\u201d said Dr Hellmuth Margulis. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6>You may feel compelled to stay and watch the performance due to the exposure effect.<\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kjartansson was inspired to create the work after seeing the organ during his year as a short listed artist of Wales\u2019 international Arts Prize, Artes Mundi in 2014. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cHe saw the organ commissioned by the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Welsh patron of the arts Sir Watkins Williams Wynn and fell in love with it. He <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">loves the kitsch and super romantic and decided he wanted to work with that organ,\u201d adds Stephen. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Sky in a Room\u201d is on at the <a href=\"https:\/\/museum.wales\/cardiff\/whatson\/9865\/Ragnar-Kjartansson-The-Sky-in-a-Room\/\">National Museum of Wales<\/a> until 11th March.<\/p>\n<p>Entry is Free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Repetitive song in Ragnar Kjartansson\u2019s performance art has a unique impact on perception. 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