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Fri, Feb 29 2008
Terence Hannum is inspired by sounds – the weirder and louder, the better.
Nine paintings in the multimedia artist's new show at Dallas' Light & Sie gallery derive from punk music videos from the '80s and mid-'90s. His sculptures are made from record sleeves. A video installation features music from New York City band Prurient.
The band combines high-pitched noises, screechy reverb and eerie, demonic-sounding voices.
Hannum, who lives in Chicago and plays in two bands, says he likes stuff that challenges the mainstream.
"If you're really trying to push a boundary, that's more important than what the end result is," the 29-year-old says.
Hannum grew up listening to hardcore punk. The paintings in his exhibition are taken from video recordings of various punk shows that he's collected over the years.
For the video installation, he traveled to the South Side of Chicago where Prurient was performing. The band makes what's called "noise" or "power electronics" music, an experimental genre.
Despite the band's intensity, the audience seemed to view it as a cathartic experience.
Hannum says he was intrigued by the idea of a rock concert as a religious experience, and set up the video installation as a sort of altarpiece.
"I was trying to re- create, in a sense, this religious approach to music and listening, and music and observation," Hannum says.
Lesley Téllez
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