I AM A RECORD dissects and reveals the artist's personal, geographic and imagined environment. The work draws on everything Georgina Starr has ever recorded (on audio) since she began hearing "voices" aged 5 years old. The range of this audio archive covers; the rumbling of a broken radiator which she thought was speaking to her, re-enactments of secretly recorded stranger's conversation, field recordings, melancholic singing voices, paranormal telephony, family dinner conversations, spirit messages, air eddies transformed into music, interviews with psychics and forgotten film stars, collected whistles, friend's messages from beyond the grave, love letters played via heavy metal drumming and the sound of a childhood record collection on fire.
From this extensive archive Starr has constructed a record collection. Over 80 one-off pressed vinyl records with unique artwork including drawings, paintings, photographs and text.

A limited edition book I AM A RECORD accompanies the exhibition. In the book Starr writes about her relationship with the voices and sounds and reveals the real and imagined encounters with the many characters who inspired her work.

 

 

Georgina Starr, I am a Record, installation

80 soundworks on vinyl record with cover artwork, 5 listening booths, archive boxes & books

Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, 2010

 

 

 

 

Exhibition review in Libération, May 2010

I AM A RECORD publication

Vinyl Limited Edition