Michael Clark ‘dialogues’ with Peter Doig at Serpentine

Last chance to see Peter Doig’s House of Music as the show closes on Sunday 8th February. Responding to Peter Doig’s exhibition House of Music at Serpentine South, groundbreaking Scottish choreographer Michael Clark will show Satie Studs. Known for blending rigorous dance technique with experimental movement born out of his coming-of-age punk, Clark’s work has been staged both in theatres and non-traditional settings.

“I’ve always felt that the Scottish dancer and choreographer Michael Clark is one of the most compelling artists of our generation. The music, the dancers, his collaborations with Leigh Bowery, BodyMap, Trojan and Charles Atlas, were extraordinary. It was our generation’s Ballets Russes.” Peter Doig said.

This solo piece, originally created and first shown in 2003, will be performed for the first time by dancer and long-time collaborator Jules Cunningham. Set to piano pieces by French composer Erik Satie, this iteration features garments by Phoebe Philo, whose designs Clark greatly admires. This programme builds on Clark’s long history of collaborating with artists, musicians and designers and expands his ongoing artistic exchange with Doig through their shared interests in music, art, dance, and fashion.

Presented during the final week of the exhibition, Satie Studs also expands Sound Service, the exhibition’s live sonic programme, through dance and movement.

Accompanying Doig’s paintings with sound for the first time, the exhibition highlights the significance of other disciplines to the artist’s practice, including music and film, alongside the importance of sites of communal gathering and creative exchange.

Envisaged as a multi-sensory environment, visitors are invited to pause and linger as they look and listen. House of Music transforms the gallery into a listening space, bringing together recent paintings by Doig and sound broadcast through two sets of rare, restored analogue speakers, originally designed for cinemas and large auditoriums. Music selected by the artist, from his substantial archive of vinyl records and cassette tapes accumulated over decades, plays through a set of ‘high fidelity’ 1950s wooden Klangfilm Euronor speakers.

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