In her series ‘Desire Lines’ Isabelle Vigier has documented composer Kate Moore’s artistic research entitled “A Beautiful Path Plein Air Composing.” The photographer accompanies Kate Moore throughout a year long project, where the composer is seeking a dialogue with ever changing surroundings through long distance walking. The photographic series unveils how persistence was at the heart of this walk, and a hidden key for the artist to come close to her own, inner landscapes, through embracing the realities of the contemporary landscape.
“A Beautiful Path: Plein Air Composing is a research project by composer Kate Moore about composing in the landscape. Here the land is both the atelier of the composer and the stage upon which the composer performs. Over a period of 12 months, Kate is walking from Oss in the Netherlands, all the way to Skellig Michael, Ireland, captured through the lens of visual artist and photographer Isabelle Vigier who joins Kate along the journey. During this long-distance walk, Kate captures the environments and experiences using voice and instruments associated with traveling musicians, including the lyre, lute, vielle and violin.”
A Beautiful Path Plein Air Composing is fully documented in this website.
- The series was exhibited during Gaudeamus 2024 along with The Ox Way, a sound installation by Kate Moore (Movement Exposed Gallery September 2024)
- It was also shown as a preview at the PleinTheater in Amsterdam in parallel to Kate Moore’s summer residency in August 2024.
- The project is made with financial support by AFK Amsterdam Fond voord de Kunst, and was made thanks to the kind support of Gaudeamus, Movement Exposed Gallery Space, Utrecht, Plein Theater, Amsterdam, NPO Radio4 Vrije Geluiden.