Record launch of Shift (2019) featuring a sound composition by Mani Mazinani, a synthesizer duo improvisation by Michael Snow and Mani Mazinani and album art by Sanaz Mazinani.
7pm - 10.30pm
Admission £5 in advance / £7.50 on the door / £20 in advance*
*includes a copy of SHIFT LP (2019) by Sanaz Mazinani / Mani Mazinani / Michael Snow
Mani will be present following a performance with Michael Snow at Tate Modern on February 13th. At The Horse Hospital, he will present video work by the artists and premiere a concert-video-work of the synthesizer duo’s performance edited/constructed by Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko.
Mani Mazinani
Mani Mazinani (b.1984, Iran) is a Toronto-based artist working in installation, video, film, photographs, multiples and sound. His practice evolved from an early interest in sound recording, and now explores the process of translating thoughts into recordings. His visual work is concerned with scale and perception, often combining subject matter and medium. In 2019, his Aerophone Recordings label will issue the LP Shift, made in collaboration with Sanaz Mazinani and Michael Snow. Recent exhibitions and performances include Tehran International Electronic Music Festival (2017); Suzhou Industrial Park Culture & Expo Square (2016); Asian Art Museum, San Francisco (2015); and CAB Art Centre, Brussels (2013). His collaborations with Michael Snow, including music, performance, video, installation and sound, have been ongoing since 2002.
Michael Snow
Michael Snow (b.1928, Canada) is an artist working in sculpture, painting, photography, holography, installation, bookwork, film, video, sound and public commissions, currently based in Toronto. Over the last six decades, his practice has explored the characteristics of a range of media, raising questions of time, movement and perception. As a professional jazz pianist, Snow performs solo as well as with various ensembles, including his long-standing collaboration CCMC. He has had extensive exhibitions and retrospectives of his films and art at prestigious institutions the world over. Snow has been honoured with numerous awards, including the Order of Canada, the first Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts for cinema and the Gershon Iskowitz Prize at the Art Gallery of Ontario. In 1995, he was made a Chevalier de l'ordre des arts et des lettres in France.