Acclaimed artist and musician Linder talks about her admiration of British sculptor Barabra Hepworth and Tammy Wynette...
"The British sculptor, Barbara Hepworth, died in a fire in her studio in May 1975. On the same day, beyond the confines of the studio, Tammy Wynette, the First Lady of Country Music was number one in the UK charts with Stand by Your Man. These two women’s lives at first glance have nothing in common with each other, Tammy had advocated standing by your man, whilst Hepworth had stood by her mallet for most of her life. Both women though had forged their careers within male dominated realms, both had D-I-V-O-R-C-E-D their husbands, raised children alone and never taken no for an answer professionally. Both Barbara and Tammy used their own language – each with elegantly elongated vowels – to carve a position for themselves in the world at large. 1975 was declared the first International Women’s Year by the United Nations, Hepworth and Wynette having been way ahead of the game all along."
"Both Barbara and Tammy used their own language – each with elegantly elongated vowels – to carve a position for themselves in the world at large"
Linder is an artist and musician whose early career was forged in the punk and post-punk scenes of Manchester in the 1970s, where her influence and involvement in these circles manifested itself broadly in music, performance, publishing and art making. In January 2013, Linder will have a retrospective at the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris, and is collaborating with Northern Ballet to create a new performance work which will premier there. For Latitude Contemporary Arts, Linder is creating Stringed Figure (Octobass for the 21st Century) (Version I). Historically, the octobass is a much larger version of the double bass and there are at most only four octobasses in the world, two of which were created in the late eighteenth century and are now in museums in Paris and the US. Recently two octobasses have been recreated in Europe, following the eighteenth century tradition. Linder's Octobass for the 21st Century departs radically in form and structure from its predecessors, it is far more sculptural and minimal. The lowest notes created by the octobass are inaudible to the human ear, the sound is experienced viscerally in the body. At LCA, the Octobass will be played away from the confines of the concert hall and will be located within the woodlands, a sonic Genius Loci.
Linder will perform at Latitude Festival which runs July 12-15.
