Kika Thorne
Title: An Invitation to Singers to negotiate the distance of the planets
Medium: glow in the dark silkscreen on paper, portable black light
Dimensions: 21 x 29”
Date of Production: 2008
Estimated Market Value: $1200
Artist’s Comments:
Johann Kepler’s cosmological charts were a guiding force when Thorne was producing this body of work in 2008. Born in 1571 in Württemberg, Germany, Kepler published Mysterium Cosmographicum, (1596), Harmonice Mundi, (1618) and the Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae, (1618–1621). These works mapped the antique solar system, realized equations to calibrate planetary orbits, and proposed a physical explanation of the motions of planets, namely, “magnetic arms” extending from the sun.
In An Invitation to Singers to negotiate the distance of the planets (2008) Thorne employed his algorithm of planetary movement as a musical score, making legible the literal harmony of the solar system. Singers produced the drone of the planets, transforming Kepler’s notation into song. Their collective harmonies sound the years passing in space, the effect of being beyond the event horizon, inside the black hole.
Bio:
Kika Thorne received her MFA from the University of Victoria, BC and has exhibited extensively, including projects at Murray Guy, New York; the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; Portikus, Frankfurt; the Power Plant, Toronto and the Vancouver Art Gallery.
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