Michael Curran’s 2007 LAFVA-funded Look What They’ve Done to My Song will be showing at Matt's Gallery from 19 September until 18 November 2007 in what will be Curran’s first solo exhibition in London.

Look What They’ve Done to My Song is a site-specific installation exploring filmed spectacle, performance and the dynamic that is created between a sculptural composition and video projection.

Three songs; ‘The Devil is Afraid of Music’; ‘Look What They Done to My Song’ and ‘How does it Feel to Feel?’ were performed and filmed in the exhibition space of Matt’s Gallery making it into an open recording session and film set for a three-day period.

Through the subsequent editing process the material is subjected to radical temporal shifts in the form of loops, overlays, speeding, slowing and repetition creating a series of rhythms, counterpoints and silences, all exploring the construction of song and narrative expectation forming a drama (or crisis) of performance. The songs themselves are literally at stake, their survival questioned through these processes of translation.

The overall feeling is that of a séance in which the enquiry is - what have they done to my song?

This exhibition is accompanied by a free booklet published by Matt's Gallery. The film will subsequently tour to the Arnolfini, Bristol.

For more information visit the Matt’s Gallery website.