Podcast | A brush with… Haroon Mirza

Ben Luke talks to Haroon Mirza about his influences—from writers to composers and musicians, film-makers and, in fact, artists—and the cultural experiences which have formed his life and work.

Mirza, born in London in 1977, creates installations utilizing sound, mild, objects and video. These complicated and evolving experiences immerse the viewer in diverse sensory phenomena whereas constructing fascinating connections between their supplies, formally and within the meanings they produce.

He displays on his early curiosity in Salvador Dalí’s sense of area and time; the impression of seeing the exhibition Sensation in 1997 on the Royal Academy in London; the connection between science and science fiction; and the complicated strategy of translating concepts from his head to a sensible language. We acquire perception into Mirza’s studio life and every day rituals and he solutions the last word query: what’s artwork for?

• Haroon Mirza, Lisson Gallery, London, 24 February-8 April. You possibly can hearken to Haroon’s Modular Opera EP at haroonmirza.bandcamp.com

This podcast is sponsored by Bloomberg Connects, the humanities and tradition app.

The free app provides entry to an enormous vary of worldwide cultural organisations by a single obtain, with new guides being added usually. They embrace a number of museums by which Haroon Mirza has had notable displays, like Yorkshire Sculpture Park, The Hepworth Wakefield and Camden Artwork Centre within the UK and the Museum of Trendy Artwork in New York. The MoMA informationhas quite a few options with in-depth audio content material, together with these on present exhibitions, like Guillermo del Toro: Crafting Pinocchio, and the gathering shows throughout a number of flooring of the museum. It additionally contains detailed verbal descriptions of main MoMA works designed for audiences who’re blind or have low imaginative and prescient.