|
|
|
|
|
|
|
"Strange and wonderful..." United Daily News, Taiwan
"Visually and sonically stunning..." Liberty Times, Taiwan
"Important environmental work. Remarkably beautiful..." China Times,Taiwan
|
Exhibitions/ Performances
|
|
2004
|
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Aboriginal Drum Festival, Sault Ste. Marie, Canada
|
|
|
2003
|
Music Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Junction Arts Festival, Toronto, Canada
Celebrate Toronto Festival, Canada
Sault Ste. Marie tour, Ontario, Canada
Thunder Bay tour, Canada
|
|
2002
|
Art Gallery of Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie, Canada
Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Ontario, Canada
MacLaren Arts Centre, Barrie, Ontario, Canada
|
|
2001
|
The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Canada
Art Gallery of Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Ilan Cultural Centre, Ilan County, Taiwan
Art Gallery of Peterborough, Canada
Academy Theatre, Lindsay, Ontario, Canada
|
|
2000
|
Riverfest, Lindsay, Ontario, Canada
Mariposa Millennium Celebrations, Canada
|
|
|
|
|
|
Created by Canadian artist Amanta Scott,
Arising Phoenix is a unique syncretic art experience
integrating visual art, music, theatre, mythology and archaeology.
Arising Phoenix integrates the dramatic assembly of a sound sculpture installation
with exciting percussion music played upon found objects, haunting vocalizations and movement.
|
"Wonderful... The vocal and percussion combination is haunting."
"The sculpture itself is visually stunning and evocative."
"Great to see such non-precious material come to life!
"The performance was ritualitstic."
"It would be fascinating to see and hear in the moonlight."
Michael Burtch, Director/ Curator,
Art Gallery of Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie, Canada
|
|
|
|
In a mesmerizing ceremony of sight and sound a magnificent phoenix arises before your eyes.
Transfixed in wonderment, audiences are compelled, fascinated and intrigued.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Arising Phoenix is spectacular, interactive
and uniquely designed for exhibition in art galleries and museums
with optional weekend and evening performances for general public and daily performances for school tours;
Arising Phoenix offers a fantastic performance experience
for special events, theatres and festivals!
|
|
|
|
|
Arising Phoenix is ideal for event programming
and suitable for audiences of all ages.
|
Full performances
— for art galleries, museums and theatres,
captivate audiences with the absorbing assembly of the phoenix sculpture,
hypnotic arias for voice and bells and a rousing chorus of drums.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Excerpt performances
— for transient audiences, special events and festivals
present the assembled sculpture with compelling music for bells and percussion.
|
|
|
|
|
Arising Phoenix features essentially two distinct sound sculptures
created out of one and the same materials.
The first sound sculpture, entitled "Circle of Bones",
represents the phoenix bones scattered amongst the ashes of its funereal pyre.
During full performances this initial sculpture is transformed into a second sculpture "the Phoenix".
The standing phoenix sculpture symbolizes the phoenix arisen from death through the wizardry of two vulture-like beings.
Check out the Phoenix Bones
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Created entirely out of found objects culled from rubbish heaps and recycle centres, the phoenix's vast arching wings and tail derive from a gigantic trampoline. Bicycle wheel rims, sauce pans, pot-lids, heavy cast metal pots reincarnate into sonorous bells and drums.
|
|
|
Following the performance the artists chat with the audience and invite them to interact with the sculpture.
 
The optional Question/ Answer/ Interaction period may be formal or informal depending on the setting, following which the audience is invited to walk around the sound sculpture for a closer look. Audiences enjoy identifying each object used in the creation of the sound sculpture.
What made those fabulous wings? . . . a giant trampoline! Gnarled talons? farm machinery! Look closely and you will see . . . a motorcycle gas tank, a television antenna tower, boiler lids . . . and much, much more.
The artists may also provide mallets (drum sticks) so that people may make music upon the sculpture themselves.
In addition the artists like to invite local musicians and dancers of host countries to improvise with them and the sculpture thus facilitating an impromptu collaboration. This is usually very popular with the artists as well as with the audience.
Everyone likes to see the spontaneous meeting of minds.
These activities are very popular with audiences of all ages.
|
|
|
Travelling through Germany before and after the Berlin Wall came down artists Amanta was intrigued to observe the process of reunification and the rebuilding of a country. During the same period the she travelled through Yugoslavia, then on the brink of war.
Inspired by the myth of the phoenix rising from the ashes, Ms. Scott decided to create a work which could be assembled in performance.
The phoenix is explored as a symbol of resurrection and rebirth. Arising Phoenix addresses the fate of our planet, which has suffered more environmental damage in the past hundred years than in the entire history of mankind.
Picking over society's discards, selecting objects for their inherent sculptural form and sonic potential, Amanta's work has been likened to a contemporary archaeological dig.
In Egyptian mythology vultures pick clean the bones of the phoenix and release its soul for rebirth. In Arising Phoenix the artist and performers adopt a similar role infusing soul into the bones of the sculpture, inspiring rebirth through compelling performances.
|
|
|
Durations
Full performance: forty-five (45) minutes
Excerpt performance: fifteen (15) minutes
Interaction sessions: fifteen – thirty (15 – 30) minutes, depending on venue requirements
Exhibition/ Performance Space Requirements
minimum floor area: 500 sq feet (20 feet x 25 feet) or 46.5 sq metres (6.1 metres x 7.6 metres )
minimum ceiling height: 3.66 metres (12 feet)
Phoenix Sculpture dimensions
Height: 3.5metres (11 feet 6 inches)
Length: 6.1metres (20 feet)
Wingspan: 4.27 metres (14 feet)
Installation and Dismantle
The exhibition is installed, assembled and dismantled by the artists.
Installation (i.e.: arrange circle of objects for exhibition/ performance): ninety (90) minutes
Partial dismantling (i.e.; clearing performance area): fifteen (15) minutes
Dismantling (i.e.: from full assembly to packed crate): forty-five (45) minutes
Phoenix Crate Dimensions
1.39 metres height (55 inches)
2.51 metres length (99 inches)
0.63 metres width (25 inches)
Total Weight: 324 kg (714 lbs)
Total Volume Weight (for air shipment): 376 kg
|
|
|
Critically acclaimed as "cutting edge," "ground breaking" and "strikingly innovative"
Amanta Scott has exhibited and performed extensively
in art galleries, museums, theatres, dance, concert venues and festivals
throughout Asia and North America.
Since 1985 Amanta has been exploring the contemporary relevance and
power of universal mythological symbols through Syncretic Art works
integrating visual arts, music, theatre, movement, multi-media,
mythology and contemporary archaeology.
|
|
|
|
|
© 2000 - 2006 Leading Tone Arts Productions Inc.
Revised: Fri, Jan 27, 2006
|
