TONSPUR 91. Lee Ranaldo/Leah Singer

TONSPUR 91
Lee Ranaldo/Leah Singer
FERMATA
TONSPUR für einen öffentlichen raum 2022

29 Aug—10 Dec
TONSPUR_passage | Micro Museum for Sound
MQ Wien • Museumsplatz 1 • 1070 Vienna
(next to Architecture Center)
daily 10:00—20:00
Preview in the presence of the artists
Sun 28 Aug 17:00

TONSPUR_display
Lee Ranaldo/Leah Singer
IN CAMERA
TONSPUR für einen öffentlichen raum 2022

29 Aug—26 Nov
TONSPUR_display • showrooms Q21/MQ Wien
MQ Wien • Museumsplatz 1 • 1070 Vienna
daily 10:00—20:00
Preview in the presence of the artists
Sun 28 Aug 17:00

TAKING A BREAK • INTERVIEW LEE RANALDO / LEAH SINGER
FERMATA
8-channel sound work, 7 part series of A1 images, 2022
Fermata is a musical term that is simply defined as a pause or hold. The expression ultimately is a permission for the artist to freely decide how to react to a note, chord or rest in a charted score. This can be further interpreted to broadly mean something is empty or full, silent or sonic, moving or still. The freeze frame of a hand in motion is the equivalent of a pause or a prolonged note in the music. The durational and unrestrictive concept also relates to the TONSPUR_passage guest who can choose to pause, listen and look, or walk on.
—Lee Ranaldo/Leah Singer

IN CAMERA
Video, 6'13'', 2022
A walk in Vienna and the countryside becomes a self-contained journey confined to a form painted on the glass wall of the TONSUR_display — itself a contained space of odd angles.
In camera is a Latin term that means in my chamber or in my room. It is used in law to refer to a private meeting. This video was created in camera using an iPhone and a film app that allowed for live manipulation of focus and exposure.
Although TONSPUR_display is a public space you can imagine this walk as an act of solitude.
—Lee Ranaldo/Leah Singer