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MCA Chicago Pritzker Director Madeleine Grynsztejn congratulates artist Susan Philipsz on winning the 2010 Turner Prize in London today. Susan Philipsz will be coming to the MCA in February for her exhibition, Susan Philipsz: We Shall Be All (February 26 - June 12, 2011).
Susan Philipsz is renowned for her sound installations for which she uses her own voice to explore how the sound and space connect and define one another. She has been researching Chicago's rich and complex history for a newly commissioned work created exclusively for the exhibition.
About Chicago, Philipsz says: "Against the backdrop of the modernist architecture of the city I see the voice as a means to infiltrate spaces, like a ghost in the machine, and return experience to a human scale. I also see the voice as a means to address people both individually and as a collective. Experiencing a lone disembodied voice in a public setting can produce a strange experience among an unsuspecting audience, like feeling alone in a crowd."
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Susan Philipsz
We Shall Be All