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Grainger - Jones uses a range of materials and processes to make  work exploring ideas of the unseen, the hidden and clandestine within an environment or space/ time and how these stimuli could effect us. How do they manifest and how can they be recorded? She is interested in the occult, parapsychology, archaeology, psychoanalysis, how traces of the past can ‘haunt’ the present and buried matter or forces can provoke unpredictable occurrences.


She works with intervention, performance, drawing, film, DIY materials and frequently uses found objects with an unknown history and dislocated function.


She has been a core member from the very beginning of R.V.C.C and co-curates events with lili Spain, as well as being a member of 'Folie a Trois'.




'Mills & Bloom' for Lust & Luxuria 2008


'Submersion' 2007




'L
unar Cycle of the Glass Armonica' -
Performance at the Whitechapel Gallery March 2008


A performance piece where she played a glass with her finger whilst peddling on an exercise bike.

The Glass Armonica was an instrument invented by Benjamin Franklin in 1761 as a means of playing the rim of multiple glasses with a wetted finger. This set up looks nothing like it. It is a misrepresentation that occurred when I tried to construct a mental image of what the instrument might look like whilst listening to a radio documentary on the Glass Armonica. This was the result of that mental mistranslation.

The frequency of sound from the Glass Armonica is such that the human ear cannot determine the exact origin of it, hence its disorientating and ethereal qualities. Just as the direction of the sound cannot be pin pointed, neither could my initial image of the instrument.
   
The actual Glass Armonica, or ‘ghost fiddle’, was used for phantasmagoria, or magic lantern, shows to create an atmosphere of the paranormal and ethereal, also by Franz Mesmer to mesmerize his patients and by numerous composers. However, this beautifully haunting sound was also accused of causing evil and bringing on madness and depression.

"The armonica excessively stimulates the nerves, plunges the player into a nagging depression and hence into a dark and melancholy mood that is apt method for slow self-annihilation. If you are suffering from any nervous disorder, you should not play it; if you are not yet ill you should not play it; if you are feeling melancholy you should not play it." 

Quote by Friedrich Rochlitz in Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung 18th  century



                                                                                         








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