Colchester Round

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Colchester Round

An edition of 10,000 audio compact disks and a series of live music performances. Four groups of musicians based in Colchester, UK, chose one of their own pieces and passed it to the other three groups to cover in their own musical style. Featuring The Band of the Parachute Regiment, medieval shawm band The Colchester Waits, heavy metal band Sanctorum and world music community choir Quire. 7,000 compact disks were given away door-to-door as gifts in central Colchester town. Commissioned by firstsite, Colchester.

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Grennan & Sperandio

“Mr Grennan and Mr Sperandio tweak our notion of what art is and who it is for.” Roberta Smith, New York Times Simon Grennan and Christopher Sperandio met at the University of Illinois, Chicago in 1988 and have worked together exclusively as a team since 1990. Grennan works from north Wales, and Sperandio works from Houston, Texas. Two things remain constant in their practice: they always work together and their work invariably involves the authorial or editorial participation of other people – other members of the public. Their work often utilizes media that are culturally compromised: chocolate, comic books and television, appearing at social sites of consumption in the home and store and on the street.
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