No Formula One No Cry - Anri Sala: From October 29, 2011, Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen, UK

Peacock Visual Arts – Centre for Contemporary Art, Aberdeen presents a festival within a festival. Not so much boutique as ‘guest house’. Some of the best new music in Scotland (and some from further afield) over three days in the intimate surroundings of our gallery. A mobile sound installation as part of sound festival 2011, the launch of “No Formula One No Cry” will be held on Saturday 29 Oct at the IMP & PVA sound music festival. “No Formula One No Cry” is an Anri Sala’s special project, curated by Fani Zguro. “No Formula One No Cry” explores the relationship between speed and space in the city. Presented in a city-centre taxi, “No Formula One No Cry” offers a multi-layered collage of images, sounds and emotions. The familiar, rhythmic cry of the Formula One car is interrupted by the unsettling sound of stray dogs barking. The ‘speed’ at which we perceive and experience the city becomes a central feature of the work; the imagined adrenaline rush of travelling in the racing car is frustrated by the sober reality of journeying in a taxi. “No Formula One No Cry” is an ongoing project already hosted in Tirana, Frankfurt, Birmingham, Kitakyushu, Miami, Paris, Vienna, Vlora, Milan, Vaasa and Medellin. Anyone interested can order the cab and ask the taxi driver to turn on the sound project for the duration of the trip.

Anri Sala was born in 1974 in Tirana. Lives and works in Berlin. After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Tirana, in 1996 Sala moved to France, where he was enrolled at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and the Le Fresnoy studio in Tourcoing. In 2001 he wins Young Artist Prize, Biennale di Venezia and in 2011 Absolut Art Award, Stockholm. He has exhibited at Tirana Art Center, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Kunsthalle Wien, 4^th Berlin Biennial, 29^th Sao Paolo Biennial, 50a Biennale di Venezia, Marian Goodman Gallery New York, Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, Hauser & Wirth Zurich, Galerie Chantal Crousel Paris, Centre Pompidou Paris, Pinakothek der Moderne Munich, MoMA New York and Serpentine Gallery London.