This summer the work has been adapted into a museum-scale exhibition showing across two venues - Haunch of Venison Yard and St. Olave's College - and presenting over 10 new works under the title Love/Death: The Tristan Project.
At St. Olave's College these are being shown over four feature areas in two separate halls - ranging from room-sized video projections of image and sound (in the main assembly hall and gallery) to three smaller projection screens an a plasma display.
The highlight is the back-to-back presentation of Fire Woman and Tristan's Ascension in the main hall. Here, the artist displays high-definition projection onto a 19ft x 10.7ft screen using a mirror rig to fold the light beam and an active quad sound system (with subwoofer) delivering the sonic FX.
The exhibition's production contracted Marquee Audio to supply Adam powered loudspeakers - four S4A's and a Sub12 to cover the main room and gallery and a true 5.1 system (using S3A's and a Sub12) in the Gymnasium, which showed The Fall into Paradise.
The Shepperton-based suppliers were selected in view of the progressive sound-scape they had supplied for Bruce Neuman's exhibition at the Tate Modern 18 months ago.
Marquee integrated the production's own Electrosonic HD Frend video server, which processed and delivered the hi-definition feeds, with their own signal processing, in two identical racks.
To the media server they linked a Marantz Dolby/DTS decoder which in turn feeds a BSS SW3088 Soundweb Lite; into this the room EQ and level control are programmed.
Marquee's Andy Huffer says: "We also designed an unobtrusive cabling infrastructure, and custom speaker clamps designed in-house and purpose engineered for the loudspeakers by Powerdrive were used, since this is a listed building."
The result is a truly mesmerising, almost zen-like experience focusing on the universal human experiences of love, death and the unfolding of consciousness, accompanied either by silence or complementary sound-scapes.
(Chris Henry)
