Cheek to Cheek (A Family Portrait) | Allison Maletz
I had each of my six family members (and myself) sing Irving Berlin’s song “Cheek To Cheek,” from the 1935 film Top Hat. I recorded each of us separately singing the song to completion at our own paces. Then I overlapped the seven tracks so that we are all singing it together, as a family unit, made up of individuals. It perfectly demonstrates the push and pull affect I am trying to create within my art, of the subjects being so happy together that they are in heavenly bliss, while at the same time there is something unbearably uncomfortable, out of sync, and wrong. The installation of this sound work exists within a domestic setting, and all of the tracks are played simultaneously out of one Gramophone horn.
Allison graduated from the Slade MFA in 2009. Degree Show website.
For further information and work see allisonmaletz.com.
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