Janet Cardiff
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Janet Cardiff (born 1957) is a Canadian installation artist.
She was born in Brussels, Ontario. She studied at Queen's University (BFA) and the University of Alberta (MVA). She currently lives and works in Lethbridge, Alberta.
Her artworks, whether they are installations or walking pieces, are mainly audio-based. She has been included in exhibitions such as: "Sculpture Projects", Muenster, 1997, "Present Tense, Nine Artists in the Nineties", SFMOMA, "NowHere", Louisiana Museum, Denmark, "The Museum as Muse", MOMA, Sao Paulo Bienal '98, 6th International Istanbul Biennial, The Carnegie International '99/00, "The Tate Modern Opening Exhibition" as well as a project commissioned by Artangel in London. This project ("The Missing Voice (Case Study B)") was commissioned in 1999 and continues to run. It is an audio tour that leaves from the Whitechapel Library, next to the Whitechapel tube stop and snakes its way through London's East End, weaving fictional narrative with descriptions about the actual landscape.
Another similar project is a rendition of Thomas Tallis' Spem in alium, in Cardiff's "Forty-Part Motet" (2001), on exhibit in the Rideau Street Chapel at the National Gallery of Canada. Forty speakers are set around the Chapel, each one featuring a single voice of the forty-part choir. The result is a highly-enhanced stereophonic effect, as visitors may hear each individual voice through its corresponding speaker, or listen to the voices of the entire choir blending in together with varying intensities, as one moves around the Chapel. The recording was made in the Medieval Hall, Salisbury, England, and features the augmented Choir of Salisbury Cathedral.
In 2005, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden of the Smithsonian Institute commissioned and exhibited her work "Words Drawn in Water".
Her other works are included in private and public collections in Canada, the United States and Europe.
Janet is represented by Luhring Augustine Gallery, NYC, and Barbara Weis Gallery, Berlin.
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