Mineral Park #1/An open letter to the Cocteau Twins.

by Alex Hetherington, 17 Jun 2008

For the next show at the Park Gallery I am working on bringing four US-based artists work for a kind of group show commingled with my work, filmed materials shot in the US and voice-overs sourced from a series of materials and writing, reports (more on media, interpretation and relationships to information) and mid-air collisions, the voice psychology of why gay men often speak with an effeminate accent, and the idea to create a sort of new language for which I am referencing the work of the Cocteau Twins. The video materials come from a baseball game, footage shot at the Grand Canyon and the interior of Robert Dollar’s house in San Rafael, now the Falkirk Cultural Center, and a thank you to the very elegant Jane Lange who runs the house.

I also wanted to include a number of artists from here and the US so that this show doesn’t feel like an immediate repeat of Meddle with the Devil, that we have something brand new, that we have made connections to this place beyond itself. I’ll be confirming these artists soon.

In the gallery this week I will be Elizabeth Fraser from the Cocteau Twins, singing (using voice technologies) versions of her lyric base, her freeform, flexible, mutating song structures and pronunciations, this is all bound to fail. It has a connection of course to the recreation of Kate Valk’s voice from House/Lights. I shall be performing works from Bluebell Knoll and Heaven or Las Vegas. More on Mineral Park and Garlands from us soon.

Dear Cocteau Twins. Far from Grangemouth now? I love you and always will. I’m glad you’re not doing so much cocaine. I wear your ring. Alex Hetherington