Everything I Have Is Yours
Eileen Simpson and Ben White (Open Music Archive)

Wednesday 3 July 2019, Preview 6 - 8pm

Refreshments served

The University of Salford Art Collection is pleased to invite you to the launch of our latest co-commission Everything I Have Is Yours a mesmerising new artists' film by Eileen Simpson and Ben White (Open Music Archive) that looks back to the first decade of the UK pop charts (1952-62), hosted by Salford Museum and Art Gallery.

Working with a group of older musicians from Greater Manchester, many of whom are the 'original teenagers' now in their 70s and 80s, Everything I Have Is Yours focuses on individuals from the group as they engage with top ten hit recordings from 1952 - 1962. Working together, sampling fragments of music from the formative era of the 'birth of pop', the artists and musicians make new music from timeless sounds, that have been digitally processed for the project to release out-of-copyright samples. As the group trigger sounds from the past, the camera continuously tracks through the assembled musicians, echoing the circular loops of the music. The resulting 30-minute artists' film is presented as an ambitious art installation screened on a loop in Salford Museum and Art Gallery.

Exhibiting at Salford Museum and Art Gallery Everything I Have Is Yours has been commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella, Contemporary Art Society, University of Salford Art Collection and Castlefield Gallery. Presented by Contemporary Art Society, Mbili Foundation and the University of Salford.

To coincide with the launch of Everything I Have Is Yours, Castlefield Gallery is pleased to present the first UK survey show of Eileen Simpson and Ben White: Open Music Archive (14 June - 18 August 2019). The exhibition brings together a selection of projects developed over the last ten years in which the artists explore the performative potential of the archive by reanimating copyright-expired archive material.
Castlefield Gallery preview: Thursday 13 June 2019, 6 - 8pm.

For directions and parking information please visit the Salford Museum and Art Gallery website.

Image: Eileen Simpson and Ben White, Everything I Have Is Yours (Ungraded film still 1) 2019 (cc) by-sa 4.0. Image courtesy of the artists.