Lis Rhodes: Light Music

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Lis Rhodes (born 1942, London) is a major figure in the history of artists’ filmmaking in Britain and was a leading member of the influential London Filmmakers’ Co-op. She currently lives and works in London, where a survey exhibition of her career, Lis Rhodes: Dissonance and Disturbance, was held at theICA from January to March 2012. Her films are distributed by LUX.

 "LIGHT MUSIC" by Lis Rhodes 

How would you like to become a work of art on display in Tate Modern? Now you can! In the summer of 2012 London's premiere modern art gallery opened The Tanks - the world's first museum galleries permanently dedicated to live art - performance art. 

Among the works on display was "LIGHT MUSIC" by Lis Rhodes. I went along to have a look - and take part. 'You are the Artist,' said the gallery. 'You are the Artwork. You are the Audience.' 

For a few fleeting seconds I became a huge work of art up on the walls of Tate Modern along with thousands of other people.

How does it work?

Two film projectors flash black and white lines on screens at opposite ends of a smoke-filled room. You - the viewer - take part in the action and enjoy it. Moving between the flickering and flashing light beams you cast shadows - ghostly images in the fog - images from another world.

Tate Modern says "LIGHT MUSIC" is a classic example of expanded cinema.

In Japan the audience sat down and watched. In Athens they got up and danced. You can see how I and other people in London reacted to "LIGHT MUSIC" if you look at the photos I took in that smoke-filled room.