Sam Belinfante

Commissioned by:

3rd Ear

Event date:

9th June 2012

Find out more by visiting:

www.thirdear.co.uk/projects/voice-artists-song-cycle

Third Ear is a trio of music professionals with extensive experience, expertise and networks across the new music scene. The Partners comprise Julia Haferkorn, Kate Halsall and Ed McKeon.

Developed with and led by artist and performer Sam Belinfante, The Voice – An Artists’ Song Cycle project is symptomatic of a growing interest in the voice in contemporary art. Though contemporary artists have been grappling with the voice as both medium and subject matter, few have the opportunity to explore the voice through collaboration with skilled vocalists of the highest calibre. Fundamentally, this project comes from a desire to encourage conversations between the contemporary arts communities, conversations that will elucidate art’s complicated relationship with the voice as well as generate new processes and strategies for engaging with it.

Since graduating from University of Leeds and the Slade School of Fine Art, Sam Belinfante has performed and exhibited internationally, including group shows in Frankfurt, Athens, BALTIC, and Tate Britain. He has combined performance and video works in a series of live events at leading public galleries and art centres, including Milton Keynes Gallery, ICA, Wysing Arts Centre, and the Hayward Gallery. He worked closely with Bruce Mclean on a major new opera where world-class improvisation is combined with choreographed objects, video and movement, and is currently developing a new body of work from video fragments captured on an Anna Mahler Fellowship in Spoleto, Italy.