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Genelec and ArtAV support Hannah Perry exhibition at Gateshead’s Baltic

Gateshead’s Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, a repurposed flour mill along the city’s Quayside, opened in 2002 as part of a local regeneration effort. The gallery has hosted work from artists including Yoko Ono and Anish Kapoor. Now, Baltic has worked once again with integrator ArtAV to showcase a new exhibition by British artist Hannah Perry. Utilising Genelec’s 8330 studio loudspeakers, Perry’s work delves into themes of labour, motherhood, and class in an experience that is as auditory as it is visual.

A long-standing collaborator with Baltic, ArtAV specialises in integrating audiovisual components into artistic presentations. “For this exhibition, we coordinated with the Baltic team and Hannah Perry herself to deliver precisely what she envisioned,” says Simon Weightman, project manager at ArtAV. Perry’s Baltic debut, “Manual Labour”, combines sound, sculpture, and film, to probe the physical and emotional weight of labour. Her mechanical sculpture, choreographed to evoke the strain and rhythm of manual work, is paired with a film that explores the personal and collective dimensions of motherhood. Through textures, reflective imagery, spoken word, and sound, the piece invites viewers into a contemplative journey.

At the heart of the exhibition is a 12.1 Genelec sound system, comprising twelve 8330 loudspeakers and a 7070 subwoofer. Each loudspeaker emits a unique soundscape - from deep rumbles to ringing chimes and piano music. Genelec’s GLM loudspeaker management software intelligently fine-tunes the frequency response, playback level and distance delay of each loudspeaker to compensate for the gallery’s acoustics.

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