Description
The National Gallery’s bicentenary celebration in Derry/Londonderry. Turner prize award-winning artist Jeremy Deller presents “The Triumph of Music,” the first in a series of UK-wide public art events culminating in Trafalgar Square in July 2025.The Art of Noises: Collaborative Exploration of Electronic Music's Legacy in Northern Ireland. As a pivotal artistic output within Jeremy Deller's international Triumph of Music (2025), The Art of Noises manifests as a rigorous, immersive collaborative session that interrogates the socio-cultural and historical ramifications of electronic music in Northern Ireland. Drawing inspiration from Luigi Russolo's seminal 1913 manifesto The Art of Noise, this project reimagines noise as a transformative sonic force, celebrating the 25th anniversary and the closing year of Celtronic—a landmark electronic music festival that bridged post-Troubles cultural divides through both underground and overground electronic music events in Derry/Londonderry and surrounding counties. Supported by the Art Fund and The National Gallery, London, the open access session united interdisciplinary practitioners, including electronic musicians, historians, and visual artists, in a performative dialogue that fused historical research with live electronic music and visual experimentation.
Positioned at the nexus of contemporary art, musicology, and cultural heritage, The Art of Noises advances a critical positioning of electronic music, and Celtronic in particular, as a resilient agent for social cohesion in Northern Ireland's fraught history. Through encompassing histories from Celtronic pioneers, mapping of Derry's underground venues, and sound workshops—the project unearths overlooked narratives of technological innovation amid a landscape of political and social turmoil. This approach not only highlights the genre's evolution from 1980s rave culture to global electronica but also critiques its local role in fostering cross-community dialogues, challenging dominant historiographies that marginalise peripheral scenes.
| Period | 19 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|
| Event type | Exhibition |
| Degree of Recognition | International |
Keywords
- Music
- Installation
- Social & Humanities
- Electronic