SUBJECT

We – pianist Kate Ledger and composer Mark Dyer – began collaborating remotely during the winter lockdown of 2020.

Our project unequivocally explores identity, specifically, what it means to be a musical performing body.

We use the keyboard music of J.S. Bach as a catalyst for scrutinising embodied connotations, sense-memories and an evolving pianistic touch. This incorporates a wildly imaginative landscape and the personal memories of a pianist – Kate. As isolated fragments of Bach’s music reveal various versions of “Kate”, we interrogate how they form her identity, and whether these memories are permitted into her artistic space. We also consider their place as interpretative tools and what this means for Kate as a performing body.

We present and combine artefacts to create monuments as the traces of a performing body colliding with her instrument and repertoire, uncoupled from the music itself, but transferring an embodied sensation of touch. 

We present three aspects of our project:

Subject 880 (c. 1999) Subject 876 (c. 2004). Subject 912 (c. 2007)

(Pending Objects)

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