[curatorial.net] SOUND THRESHOLD NEWS: new website + Leif Elggren DVD launch, London, The Showroom, 20.11.09

[Sound Threshold]

*Sound Threshold *presents

*DEATH TRAVELS BACKWARDS*

In celebration of the DVD release of *Leif Elggren *on *Errant Bodies Press*
Performance and screenings by
Leif Elggren
Brandon LaBelle

*Friday, 20 November 2009, *6.30pm*
The Showroom*, 63 Penfold Street, London NW8 8PQ
www.theshowroom.org*
admission free*

Active since the late 1970s, *Leif Elggren *is one of the most constantly
surprising and mysterious
conceptual artists to work in the combined fields of audio and video. A
writer, visual artist, stage
performer and composer, he has numerous audio releases to his credit,
working individually and also
with the Sons of God (along with Kent Tankred). His music, often conceived
as the soundtrack to
visual installations or experimental stage performances, presents carefully
selected sound sources
over a long stretch of time and can range from mesmerizingly quiet
electronics to harsh noise. His
wide-ranging and investigative body of work consistently involves dreams and
mysterious narratives,
often inverting social hierarchies to ultimately subvert the real with
poetical matter.*
Death Travels Backwards *documents Elggren's ongoing engagement and use of
video. Cataloguing
a collection of works from 1999 to the present, *Death Travels
Backwards *delivers
an important
overview of the artist's pursuit of the hidden secrets and spectral enigmas
found within the everyday.
What marks Elggren's video works is an understanding of how image and sound
work together to
infuse the electronic material with an element of the uncanny, and to supply
the imagination of the
viewer with a glimpse onto infinity.

Leif Elggren, *Death Travels Backwards*
DVD digipack with text, Errant Bodies Records #05
<http://www.errantbodies.org/> <http://www.errantbodies.org/>
www.errantbodies.org

*Brandon LaBelle *is an artist and writer, working with sound, people,
places and contextual
strategies. He is the editor of Errant Bodies Press, and a participant
within the Surface Tension
project, a platform for collaborative and locational research and activity.
His work explores the space
between sound and sociality, using performance and on-site constructions as
creative supplements to
existing conditions.

*Sound Threshold *was established in 2007 by curators Daniela Cascella and
Lucia Farinati, as a
long-term research project which explores the relationships between site and
sound. The project is
grounded on a shared background and interest in literature, experimental
music, art history, and over
a decade of experience in writing and in curating visual and sonic arts
projects.
Sound Threshold investigates the idea of threshold as an extended metaphor
of boundary, frontier,
track, border and difference - not only visual traces but also natural
elements, literary references,
acoustic phenomena.
Since its inception Sound Threshold has initiated and developed a programme
of events and artists’
commissions in collaboration with international scientific research centres,
as well as with museums
and art galleries: *Music and Sound through the landscape*, Trentino - Italy
2007-2008; *The Listening
Project*, London, forthcoming.
www.soundthreshold.org
soundthreshold at gmail.com

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