Banks Voilette

Maureen Paley, Herald Street, London
2 June – 23 July
I really wish I had seen the performance. According to the press release “Stephen O’Malley and his band sunnO))) [played] on stages, with the focus involving a singer named Attila Csihar in a sealed coffin, on vocals throughout”. Downstairs is the remains of the performance with shiny black stages dirty with dust stuck to dried beer and perhaps sweat. There are more remnants on the floor a battery, bits of paper, and more dust. As you go in right in front of you is the coffin that the singer must have been in, there was a piece of paper with words on it, but I couldn’t understand it. Upstairs all the musical equipment has been cast in salt, but it looks like it has been frozen and is covered in cartoon ice dusting. It was almost as if the band had been zapped by an alien and all that was left was their inorganic equipment was frozen in the process. There were also drawings of the band from photographs but you could see anything of them. They seemed to work like advertising posters in a concert hall. Fascinating show.