{"id":9025,"date":"2015-10-06T03:52:22","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T06:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/culturedarm.com\/?p=9025"},"modified":"2015-10-10T17:32:17","modified_gmt":"2015-10-10T20:32:17","slug":"cultureteca-04-10-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/cultureteca-04-10-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Cultureteca 04.10.15"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Cultureteca<\/a><\/p>\n

Back at the beginning of June,\u00a0Bj\u00f6rk began to release assorted media related to Vulnicura<\/a><\/em> via Dazed<\/em>. First, on 6 June, came the 360-degree virtual reality\u00a0video for ‘Stonemilker’<\/a>, one of\u00a0three\u00a0pieces filmed with director Andrew Thomas Huang in Iceland in the autumn of 2014, and showcased in connection with\u00a0Bj\u00f6rk\u2019s exhibition at MoMA earlier this year. ‘Stonemilker’ portrays\u00a0Bj\u00f6rk\u00a0<\/b>on the small islet of\u00a0Gr\u00f3tta, in Seltjarnarnes west of Reykjavik, on a beach with a lighthouse. Virtual reality headsets bearing the video were installed at\u00a0MoMA PS1 for the duration of the exhibition across the East River.<\/p>\n

This was swiftly followed on 9 June by the video for ‘Black Lake’<\/a>, which was commissioned directly by MoMA curator\u00a0Klaus Biesenbach, and served as the centrepiece of Bj\u00f6rk’s exhibition. It shows in a wide view\u00a0Bj\u00f6rk within a ravine and roaming the Icelandic highlands. Huang described it as ‘one of the most ambitious music videos I\u2019ve done, because of the emotional weight and power of the song, and the rigorous conceptual development that we had over many months in planning it\u00a0correctly’. And\u00a0Bj\u00f6rk accompanied the appearance of the video through Dazed<\/em> with the following thanks and thoughts:<\/p>\n

‘dear folks<\/em><\/p>\n

here comes the black lake video\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

a video me and andrew thomas huang did\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

i would like to thank him and james merry so strongly for going through with me the longest video process yet\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

especially to andrew for his talented elegant patience and to take my first visual impulses and weave into them his own magnificent vision :<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0im so honoured !!<\/em><\/p>\n

it was a complex yet adventurous process to synchronize with so many departments<\/em><\/p>\n

i would like to thank klaus biesenbach for commissioning the video\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

and ta to\u00a0the haxan cloak ,\u00a0the speaker collaborators , the architect david benjamin , marco perry\u00a0who all helped me make the most ideal sound room possible for that song\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

and then thank derek and emma birkett and tamsin . and iris and erna\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

and arca for producing the music with me\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

i guess its time for “stonemilker” and “black lake” to get out there into the world after a 3 month stint in a museum \u00a0….. ( after all the effort , stonemilker was like black lakes spontaneous baby sibling ha ha ha \u00a0) we tried to make it in a way it was both at home in an exhibition and also in the context of a no nonesense music video ( still my fav format) \u00a0and i hope you dont mind the wait’<\/em><\/p>\n