| Description | The documents gathered from Lina Dzuverovic (formerly known as Lina D. Russell), director of Electra Productions and Her Noise co-curator, partially chart her development through the Her Noise project whilst also highlighting samples of her work prior to Her Noise, in which can be seen a development of her concerns regarding the politics of gender and the arts (HN/2/1/3). A good example of this is Dzuverovic's involvement in the City of Women festival held in Ljubljana in 1996, in which London's ICA (where Dzuverovic was then New Media Curator) and No Alternative Girls participated. (HN/2/1/3/14)
Dzuverovic began working and collaborating with Anne Hilde Neset in the 1990fs when they were each working at the ICA and the LUX respectively. No Alternative Girls was the name of a short documentary by Tamara Davis, which consisted of interviews with various women working in the New York nowave
and punk music scenes in the 1980's, one of whom was Kim Gordon. Noaltgirls, importantly, was the first incarnation of the Her Noise project conceived by Dzuverovic & Neset, the archived web pages of which are contained in this file and which chart the very early development of the Her Noise concept (HN/2/1/3/13). The two worked together on the Interference series, held at the LUX in London from 1998-2000, which hosted audiovisual performances from people such as Christian Marclay
and Brandon Labelle (HN/2/1/3/09). At a London party in 2001 the two women met David Metcalf who had recently launched his own arts and performance
company, Forma. It was with Metcalf that they first shared their ideas for the development of a project that would focus exclusively on exploring the work of women in sound and music. Metcalf on behalf of Forma, commissioned Dzuverovic and Neset on July 26th in 2002, to develop their concept and create the
program that was to become Her Noise (HN/2/1/3/01). It was agreed that Forma would be responsible for fundraising for the project and as a company, would assist in submitting proposals to relevant arts organisations. (See HN/ for a copy of the proposal submitted through Forma for the Banff New Media residency)
As Metcalf's company Forma gradually grew, less time was allocated to the location of funding for the Her Noise project. Frustrated with the slow pace and unable to submit proposals individually due to the requirement of many commissions only accepting proposals from registered companies, Dzuverovic registered Electra Productions as a company in her own name. This enabled her and Neset to professionally approach arts organisations for commissions. In total sixty]four different
organisations were approached over the period of 2001 to 2004, until the final program proposal was accepted by the South London Gallery in 2004 (HN/2/1/3/08).
Also included here is a selection of miniDv footage, including Dzuverovic and Neset's trip to New York in 2003 to conduct artist interviews for inclusion in the Her Noise program, and various events attended as research for the artists, Ikue Mori, Kevin Blechdom and Le Tigre. Le Tigre were approached, but declined, to be included in the Her Noise project. The file also contains archive lists and some of Dzuverovic’s professional writings for The Wire, Mute, Res, Contemporary and Artforum.
The original proposal for the Other Woman project which was to be a collaboration with Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore and
Andrew Kesin is also documented here. Initially it was envisioned that Kesin, who was a film maker working with Gordon and Moore in New York, would conduct interviews and collect works for the archive representing the American music scene, but this proposal dissolved when Kesin began working at Ecstatic Peace. |