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Susan Philipsz, GB
Susan Philipsz, Location of the River Cycle (Neva), 2014. Photo © Manifesta 10.
Sound installation at Winter Palace
Scottish artist Susan Philipsz’s sonic installation was based on James Joyce’s novel Finnegans Wake. In 1929 Joyce was recorded reading an excerpt from the chapter “Anna Livia Plurabelle”. This recording was reinterpreted as a musical composition by Hazel Felman. The River Cycle (Neva) was inspired by the terrible floods that took place in St Petersburg in the 18th and 19th centuries. Philipsz recorded each note of Felman’s score separately, creating a twelve-channel piano recording. This was installed in the main staircase of the Winter Palace, one of the grandest settings in the Hermitage.