Editing Janet Cardiff

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{{Infobox artist
| name = Janet Cardiff
| image = JanetCardiff Berlin2009.jpg
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| caption = Cardiff in [[Berlin]], [[Germany]] in March 2009.
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1957|3|15}}
| birth_place = [[Brussels, Ontario]], Canada
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| years_active = 1995&ndash;present}}
| nationality = 
| field = [[sound artist]], [[installation artist]]
| training = [[Queen's University at Kingston|Queen's University]], [[University of Alberta]]
| movement = [[Conceptual Art]]
| works = "Forty Part Motet", 2001<br/>''Paradise Institute'', 2001, with [[George Bures Miller]]
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| awards = [[National Gallery of Canada]] Millennium Prize; La Biennale di Venezia Special Award; the Benesse Prize; the [[Wilhelm Lehmbruck]] Prize
| spouse = [[George Bures Miller]]
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'''Janet Cardiff''' (born March 15, 1957) is a Canadian artist who works chiefly with sound and sound installations, often in collaboration with her husband and partner [[George Bures Miller]]. Cardiff first gained international recognition in the art world for her audio walks in 1995. She lives and works in [[British Columbia]], Canada.

==Early life and education==
Janet Cardiff was born in 1957 in [[Brussels, Ontario]], Canada,<ref>{{cite book |title=Great women artists |date=2019 |publisher=Phaidon Press |isbn=978-0714878775 |page=86}}</ref> and grew up on a farm outside of a small village. In 1980, she earned her BFA from [[Queen's University at Kingston|Queens University, Kingston]], Ontario. In 1983 she earned an MVA from the [[University of Alberta]], Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. While studying in Edmonton, she met [[George Bures Miller]] who would become her husband and collaborator. Cardiff's training is in [[photography]] and [[printmaking]] and her early works were large-scale [[silkscreen]]s. Her first artistic collaboration with Bures Miller, in 1983, was a [[Super-8]] film called ''The Guardian Angel''.  After this filmmaking experience, Cardiff's work began to include elements of narrative sequencing, experiments with sound, and movement.<ref name="CB monograph">{{cite book|last=Christov-Bakargiev|first=Carolyn|title=Janet Cardiff: A survey of works including collaborations with George Bures Miller|date=2003|publisher=P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center|location=New York, NY|isbn=0970442831|pages=14–15}}</ref>

==Solo works==
Her first major work based on recorded sound was called ''The Whispering Room'', a minimal work consisting of a dark space with 16 small round speakers mounted on stands that play the voice of individual characters. As visitors move through the space and the voices, a film projector is triggered playing a slightly slow-motion film.<ref>{{cite book|title=Janet Cardiff: The Missing Voice (Case Study B)|date=1999|publisher=Artangel Afterlives|location=London|isbn=1902201078|pages=5–6}}</ref>

Some of Cardiff's most well-known solo works are her audio walks. Her first was created somewhat serendipitously during a residency at the [[Banff Centre]] in 1991. In 1996, she was asked to create a site-specific piece for the museum grounds at [[Louisiana Museum of Modern Art|Louisiana Museum]] in Denmark.<ref name=NYTsMag /> Since then, she has created notable walks such as ''Her Long Black Hair'' (2004), in and around [[Central Park]], and ''Words Drawn in Water'' (2005) for the [[Hirshhorn Museum]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller {{!}} Walks|url=http://www.cardiffmiller.com/artworks/walks/|access-date=1 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130630074232/http://www.cardiffmiller.com/artworks/walks/|archive-date=30 June 2013|url-status=live}}</ref>

Cardiff has been included in exhibitions such as Present Tense, Nine Artists in the Nineties, [[San Francisco Museum of Modern Art]], NowHere, Louisiana Museum, Denmark, The Museum as Muse, [[Museum of Modern Art]], 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.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.artangel.org.uk/projects/1999/the_missing_voice_case_study_b |title=Artangel - The Missing Voice (Case Study B) homepage |access-date=2010-08-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923174030/http://www.artangel.org.uk/projects/1999/the_missing_voice_case_study_b |archive-date=2015-09-23 |url-status=live }}</ref> 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. Cardiff represented Canada at the [[São Paulo Art Biennial]] in 1998, and at the 6th [[Istanbul Biennial]] in 1999 with her partner George Bures Miller.
[[File:Lydinstallation ARoS.jpg|alt=Rows of speakers displayed in a gallery. |thumb|''Forty Part Motet,'' Photograph © Villy Fink Isaksen, Wikimedia Commons, License [[creativecommons:by-sa/3.0/|cc-by-sa-3.0]]]]
In her ''Forty Part Motet'' (2001) she placed 40 speakers in 8 groups, each speaker playing a recording of one voice singing [[Thomas Tallis]]' ''[[Spem in alium]]'', enabling the audience to walk through the space and "sample" individual voices of the [[polyphonic]] vocal music. This work is now part of the permanent collection of the [[National Gallery of Canada]] in [[Ottawa]], [[Ontario]], Canada.,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://cybermuse.gallery.ca/cybermuse/search/artwork_e.jsp?mkey=97229 |title=Cybermuse Gallery Artwork Page: Forty Part Motet(2001)  |access-date=2007-09-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100528154613/http://cybermuse.gallery.ca/cybermuse/search/artwork_e.jsp?mkey=97229 |archive-date=2010-05-28 |url-status=dead }}</ref> the [[Museum of Modern Art]] in [[New York City]], and of [[Inhotim]] in [[Brumadinho]], [[Brazil]]. This work was presented at [[The Cloisters]], September to December 2013, that museum's first presentation of [[contemporary art]]. The work was installed in the Fuentidueña Chapel, which features the late twelfth-century apse from the church of San Martín at Fuentidueña, near Segovia, Spain, providing a transformed acoustic experience.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Janet Cardiff|url=http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2013/janet-cardiff|publisher=The Metropolitan Museum of Art|access-date=1 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131207101857/http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2013/janet-cardiff|archive-date=7 December 2013|url-status=live}}</ref>

A mid-career retrospective, ''Janet Cardiff: A Survey of Works, Including Collaborations with George Bures Miller'', opened at [[P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center]], Long Island City, Queens, in 2001 and has travelled to Montréal, Oslo, and Turin. Exhibitions in 2006 include ''Good Vibrations–Le arti visive e il Rock'', Palazzo delle Papesse, Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena; ''Anticipation'', The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; and ''Sonic Presence'', Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway.

In ''Real Time'' (1999) was the very first video walk that Cardiff created.  It took place in the library of the [[Carnegie Museum of Art]] and begins with the participant donning a pair of headphones attached to a small video camera.  Upon playback Cardiff says to watch the screen and follow along with what we see and hear for approximately 18 minutes.  This piece relies on the discrepancies between what is seen on the video monitor and what is occurring in the library.

==Work with George Bures Miller==
"The Dark Pool" was the first multimedia installation collaboration Cardiff and Miller created and showed in 1995 in Vancouver. The work consists of a dimly lit room, furnished with cardboard, carpets, and collected ephemera and artifacts, through which visitors move, triggering sounds such as musical segments, portions of conversations, and bits of stories. Cardiff and Miller consider the work very personal and, despite offers, have not sold it.<ref name=NYTsMag>{{cite news|last=Wray|first=John|title=Janet Cardiff, George Bures Miller and the Power of Sound|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/magazine/janet-cardiff-george-bures-miller-and-the-power-of-sound.html?pagewanted=all|access-date=1 February 2014|newspaper=The New York Times|date=2012-07-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403100753/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/magazine/janet-cardiff-george-bures-miller-and-the-power-of-sound.html?pagewanted=all|archive-date=3 April 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> 
Cardiff and Bures Miller represented Canada at the [[49th Venice Biennale]] with ''Paradise Institute'' (2001), a 16-seat movie theatre where viewers watched a film, becoming entangled as witnesses to a possible crime played out in the real world audience and on the screen. Cardiff and Bures Miller have recently had exhibitions at [[Fraenkel Gallery]],<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://fraenkelgallery.com/exhibitions/janet-cardiff-george-bures-miller-poetry-machine-works|title=The Poetry Machine and Other Works {{!}} Fraenkel Gallery|work=Fraenkel Gallery|access-date=2018-05-02|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180503111231/https://fraenkelgallery.com/exhibitions/janet-cardiff-george-bures-miller-poetry-machine-works|archive-date=2018-05-03|url-status=live}}</ref> San Francisco (2018), the [[Art Gallery of Alberta]] (2010), [[Fruitmarket Gallery]], Edinburgh, Scotland (2008) the Miami Art Museum (2007) Vancouver Art Gallery (2005), Luhring Augustine, New York (2004), Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (2003), [[Art Gallery of Ontario]] (AGO) (2002), [[National Gallery of Canada]] (2002) and Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario (2000). In 2012, she took part along with her husband in the [[Documenta|Kassel’s Documenta]]. They proposed two installations:  the first one is an audio installation in the forest called ''Forest (for a thousand years…)'' of a 28 minute audio loop. The second one is a 26-minute video walk specially produced for Documenta and called ''Alter Bahnhof video walk''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cardiffmiller.com/ |title=Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller |access-date=2013-02-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130327141617/http://cardiffmiller.com/ |archive-date=2013-03-27 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2013, the Art Gallery of Ontario and Vancouver Art Gallery organized ''Lost in the Memory Palace: Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller'', a selected survey, which took as its focus Cardiff and Miller's work from the mid-1990s to 2013.<ref>{{cite web |title=Lost in the Memory Palace |url=https://ago.ca/exhibitions/lost-memory-palace-janet-cardiff-and-george-bures-miller |website=ago.ca |publisher=Art Gallery of Ontario |access-date=30 January 2022}}</ref> Recent projects include ''Thought Experiments in F♯ Minor'' (2019), a site-specific, immersive, video installation at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles; and ''Cardiff & Miller'' (2019), a solo exhibition at Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey in Mexico.<ref name="lehmbruck ">{{cite web |title=JANET CARDIFF AND GEORGE BURES MILLER WIN WILHELM LEHMBRUCK PRIZE |url=https://www.artforum.com/news/janet-cardiff-and-george-bures-miller-win-wilhelm-lehmbruck-prize-82202#:~:text=Canadian%20artists%20Janet%20Cardiff%20and,%2C%20Germany%2C%20announced%20on%20Thursday. |website=www.artforum.com |publisher=Artforum |access-date=30 January 2022}}</ref>

==Awards given jointly to Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller==
*[[National Gallery of Canada]] Millennium Prize (2001);<ref>{{cite web |title=Janet Cardiff: Forty-Part Motet |url=https://www.gallery.ca/whats-on/exhibitions-and-galleries/janet-cardiff-forty-part-motet#:~:text=Winner%20of%20the%20Millennium%20Prize,a%2016th%2Dcentury%20English%20composer. |website=www.gallery.ca |publisher=National Gallery of Canada |access-date=30 January 2022}}</ref>
*La Biennale di Venezia Special Award at Venice, presented to Canadian artists for the first time (2001);<ref name="mcasd ">{{cite web |title=Lost in the Memory Palace |url=https://www.mcasd.org/exhibitions/lost-memory-palace-janet-cardiff-and-george-bures-miller |website=www.mcasd.org |publisher=Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego |access-date=30 January 2022}}</ref>
*the Benesse Prize, recognizing artists who break new artistic ground with an experimental and pioneering spirit (2001);<ref name="mcasd " />
*the [[Käthe Kollwitz]] Prize, Germany (2011);<ref>{{cite web |title=Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller |url=https://artdaily.cc/news/48654/2011-K-auml-the-Kollwitz-Prize-Awarded-to-Canadian-Artists-Janet-Cardiff-and-George-Bures-Miller |website=artdaily.cc |publisher=Art Daily |access-date=30 January 2022}}</ref>
*the [[Wilhelm Lehmbruck]] Prize in honor of their life’s work, which has "opened up new perspectives for sculpture in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries" (2020)<ref name="lehmbruck " />

==See also==

*[[Rideau Street Chapel]]

==References==
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==Further reading==
*{{cite book|title=Art Now|editor-first1=Uta|editor-last1=Grosenick|editor-first2=Burkhard|editor-last2=Riemschneider|publisher=Taschen|location=Köln|edition=25th anniversary|year=2005|pages=52–55|isbn=9783822840931|oclc=191239335}}

==External links==
*[http://www.cardiffmiller.com Janet Cardiff and George Miller]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20051124075037/http://hirshhorn.si.edu/exhibitions/description.asp?Type=&ID=20 Words Drawn in Water]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070101135310/http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/exhibitions/janetcardiff/ Tate Liverpool]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927194430/http://www.ascentmagazine.com/articles.aspx?articleID=197&page=read&subpage=past&issueID=30 "Creating Worlds"] Excerpt of profile from ascent magazine
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20071016062540/http://kultureflash.net/archive/50/priview.html KultureFlash Interview (01/2003)]
*[https://www.3ammagazine.com/artarchives/2003/aug/whitechapel.html Gregory Mario Whitfield's Whitechapel Review]
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