The video sculptures that make up the installation were constructed using found objects, wood, paper and cardboard, string and tape, elements of drawing and photography. These simple and everyday materials of production reflect the homemade qualities found in the house. Percy Grainger was not only a composer, but a designer, maker, and repairer. Joel Sherry
This April, the Percy Grainger Home and Studio was alive with motion, video, and music, together with the many visitors who arrived at the house to experience the temporary installation, Restless Corners by artist Joel Sherry. Overlapping sounds filtered through house from 10 original sculptural video objects installed throughout the 1st and 2nd floors.
A temporary installation, Restless Corners is a series of movement-based objects exploring memory, time and space. Inspired by both the building and the Graingers’ lives, the works incorporate performance, sound, photography, drawing, found objects and Percy Grainger’s own musical compositions. Excerpts from Ella Grainger’s poetry were used as titles of the artworks.
I have used movement in my work as a choreographer, dancer and designer. Movement for me is a way to record space and time within the body, muscles and bones. Joel Sherry
Joel Sherry worked with performance artists Cynthis Bueschel Svigals and Michelle Kelly Wurf, spending time in the house and responding to the spaces, environment, and history. The performance videos they created were incorporated into the objects created for those spaces, displayed on monitors within the pieces or through projection. The objects were set within the existing display of objects and furnishings in the house.
Installation Video: Click here to see a walk-through of the installation!
To document the exhibition, the artist created a short video-- a walk-through of the installation. The video, approximately 7 minutes long, gives a brief look at each of the 10 pieces as a walk-through of the Grainger house.
Restless Corners was made posssible through a generous ArtsAlive Independent Artist Grant with ArtsWestchester. Additionally, the Percy Grainger Society is grateful to Joel Sherry, Cynthis Bueschel Svigals, Michelle Kelly Wurf and Stewart Lee, for their time and dedication.
