ArtReview
Gelare Khoshgozaran ‘Medina Wasl: Connecting Town’ (still), 2018, 16mm film transferred to video, sound, colour, 31 min
The Los Angeles-based Iranian filmmaker opens up a brave new world of contemporary storytelling
In late October last year, a neon-yellow envelope came through my letterbox. Inside was a thick black card embossed with the sentence, ‘The gradients of fascism are diverse in their predictable dullness’. On the other side was a business-card-size USB drive, printed with a patchy green pattern of what might be an ivy-covered wall, punctuated by a figure covering their face with a black-and-white mask printed with the features of director Pier Paolo Pasolini. The sentence and the image both appear in the nine-minute film contained on the drive,
She is the award-winning visual artist, composer and performer who captured authentic birdsong and seal sounds alongside her vocals for musical pieces. Now Glasgow-based Hanna Tuulikki who produces work that refuses to be pigeonholed is embarking on a unique nationwide search for bat recordings for a new composition. She has spread the net UK-wide to find recordings of bat echolocation calls for a new composition Echo in the Dark that will feature in a performance event in Arbroath’s Hospitalfield art centre, as part of their 2021-22 art programme. The 2017 winner of the Scottish Award for New Music in Sonic Arts is beginning to gather an archive of recordings to be made into what she calls a public library of sounds.