Ithaca College

Ithaca College Complaints Choir
FINAL PERFORMANCE
(taking place during the exhibition opening reception of NO/GOOD PLACE)
Thursday, March 24, 2016
6:00-6:05 pm

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As part of the exhibition, NO/GOOD PLACE (March 23-April 22, 2016), the gallery hosting a final performance community participants in an international project called The Complaints Choir, by artists Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen. 

www.complaintschoir.org

This social-practice artwork calls for the formation of an amateur community choir to work with a local composer and conductor to rehearse and perform a choral song with lyrics comprised of locally crowd-sourced complaints.  The project is both critically engaged and politically revolutionary, but it is also infused with humor, tenderness, and empathy. The Complaints Choir creates a patriotic and democratic shape for the ownership, sharing, and accountability of grievances.

The compendium of international Complaints Choirs can be watched, to great enjoyment, on YouTube—with participating communities from Tokyo, St. Petersburg, Chicago, Singapore, andbeyond. Soon, the Ithaca College Complaints will join in the ranks.

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