Sound Installation by Janet Cardiff to be Presented this Fall at The Cloisters in NYC

ALPHA OMEGA ARTS
By Tahlib

The Forty Part Motet | Rideau Chapel National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

NEW YORK---As part of the year-long celebration of its 75th anniversary, The Cloisters museum and gardens—The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s branch museum dedicated to the art and architecture of medieval Europe—will present The Forty Part Motet (2001), a sound installation by Janet Cardiff (Canadian, born 1957). Janet Cardiff: The Forty Part Motet, which represents the first time a work of contemporary art has been shown at The Cloisters. Regarded as the artist’s masterwork, and consisting of 40 high-fidelity speakers positioned on stands in a large oval configuration within the Fuentidueña Chapel will play continuously an 11-minute reworking of the 40-part motet Spem in alium numquam habui (1556?/1573?) by Tudor composer Thomas Tallis (ca. 1505–1585). Spem in alium, translates as In No Other Is My Hope and is performed by the Salisbury Cathedral Choir.

The Cloisters/Metropolitan Museum of Art: "Janet Cardiff: The Forty Part Motet" (Sept. 10 – Dec. 8, 2013). Located in Fuentidueña Chapel, at The Cloisters. 99 Margaret Corbin Drive, Fort Tryon Park, New York City, 212-923-3700 or metmuseum.org