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Chevrolet commissions drum kit sculpture and performance
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- Category: Current News
- Published on Tuesday, 27 September 2011 21:17
- Written by George Lawrence
Chevrolet has commissioned two new works by artist Camilla Singh one of which is a sculpture made from a Chevelle and a drum set that will be involved in a performance with live drummers on October 1st. Camiila Singh is an artist working in Toronto who has transformed a 1969 Chevelle muscle car into a drum kit that will be played by drummers for 12 hours straight on October 1st in Toronto. A major street in the heart of the financial district is being closed to traffic and the sculpture installed in the middle of the street suspended by a huge truss structure. It is named;
Cardiac Combustion Chamber, 2011
A performance Installation with live drummers.
As a reflection of the impermanence of the human body and all that it
encounters, a car’s parts are suspended in space becoming a drum kit
propelled by the drummer’s amplified heartbeat. This vehicle is of the
subterranean realm of things mysterious and hidden. It is interwoven with
components of a drum kit and heralds what occurs below the threshold of
consciousness like a newly formed neural pathway between states of
transformation. Throughout the evening an eclectic mix of musicians
animate this piece, fueled by the beat that everyone carries within.
