Angie Reed

Location:
Berlin, Berlin, DE
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Artist / Band / Musician
Genre:
Western Swing / Hawaiian / Freestyle
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Angie Reed



Angie Reed is perhaps best-known as a pop performer signed to the "Chicks on Speed" label. Whilst her quirky electropop songs are more than capable of holding their own as pop music, Reed's musical practice is inseparably connected with her work as a visual artist. She has not, for example, ever released an album that was not, in effect, a pop opera. Both albums to date are effectively the track lists for two hour-long staged performances, "The Barbara Brockhaus Show" and "XYZ Frequency".



In Angie Reed's practice, her song writing comes out of forming the content for a performed experience –whether in galleries or more theatrical settings- intrinsically linked to the worlds she creates through the use of text and drawing. In the more recent of her two hour-long works, the projections of sequential drawings have given way to animations.



Always involved in the music scene from adolescence – for example she managed to play bass for "Stereototal" whilst successfully completing her visual art studies in Berlin- Reed's practice has always involved drawing and an interest in animation, an influence of the American pop culture of her youth. During the period that she studied under Katarina Sieverding, she explored a broad range of permutations these various practices. One result was the performance-based works. The other main form was the use of her idiosyncratic drawings –or animations made from them- in making installations. In some cases these have involved turning specific rooms into a form of three-dimensional storyboard. In others, the work is more sculptural, drawing on Arte Povera ideas of using cheap, found materials to create almost a suggestion of a narrative into which she inserts her video works. Perhaps it is the development of these more sculptural sensibilities that have led to her most recent choices to make sculpture, sometimes shown in relation to small paintings.



Angie Reed has shown in a range of spaces including Kunst Werke (Berlin), KunstBank (Berlin) Wolfsburg Museum (Wolfsburg). MAMA/Boijman's (Rotterdam) and Contemporary Art Center (Cincinnati). She is represented by The Agency Contemporary Gallery, London.



Angie Reed has produced two albums on Chicks on Speed Records. In addition to her work as a performing musician, she has produced soundtracks for theatre and film and appeared as an actress in a number of German films and stage productions.

Currently Eric D. clark is producing her new album.



- Ken Pratt
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