“Choir”
Linda Tegg
1 Aug → 30 Aug 2014
Choir is video work by Linda Tegg focused on the interplay between ‘real’ and performed behaviour, as well as the struggle to find one’s own voice amongst others. By containing a series of oppositional forces within the structure of the choir and image, the artist am exploring relationships between the group and the individual.
Choir was developed through the Georges Mora Foundation Fellowship at the Centre Intermondes d’Art, La Rochelle with Coup de Chœur. There, Tegg began exploring the structure of choirs and recalling my own silent experiences within them. Over the course of two months she worked with Coup de Chœur and confronted many of her own anxieties around speaking French and participating in massed singing activities.
Linda Tegg is an Australian artist who makes work out of inhabiting and reconfiguring the conditions of spectatorship. Within her immersive installations, plants, animals, images, and the built environment are brought into unlikely proximities to generate new points of orientation and relation. This speculative work questions the impulses and methods used to frame the world as resource and seeks new forms of coexistence. Tegg’s work engages with cultural institutions as well as public space and has been widely exhibited in Australia, the United States, and Europe. In 2018, Tegg was the Co-Creative Director, with Baracco+Wright Architects, of Repair, the Australian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale.