Marcus Coates: Sound Reasoning - FULLY BOOKED

Sound Reasoning is a live commission in response to the exhibition Modern Visionaries: Van Dyck and the Artists’ Eye in which Marcus Coates will explore the potential of performance to seek insight into social and political problems. After inviting members of a live audience to ask questions, Coates will seek answers through improvised performance, collaborating with a multi-instrumental artist to test the scope of sound as a useful form of reasoning.

You are warmly invited to be part of the live audience for this commission, and are encouraged to come with a question prepared, although this is not compulsory. The question could be about anything that is important to you and you struggle to solve – whether global or personal, emotional or pragmatic – but cannot be the sort of question that has a simple yes or no answer, or an answer that can be looked up. The question you ask can be your own or on behalf of a community or group.

Please note: this event will be filmed by the artist for use in a self-contained video work. If you would prefer not to be filmed, please contact madeleine.kennedy@twmuseums.org.uk and you will be offered a seat out of view of the camera.

This event is programmed to accompany Modern Visionaries: Van Dyck and the Artists’ Eye at the Laing Art Gallery, 28 January – 4 June 2017. Van Dyck's self-portrait was acquired by the National Portrait Gallery following a major public appeal with the Art Fund and thanks to the generous support of the Heritage Lottery Fund and others.

Marcus Coates is represented by Workplace Gallery, Gateshead and Kate Macgarry, London.