Miriam Stoney
Do Fight But Fight Thunder , 2021
Sound, 3 min 17 sec
Courtesy of house of spouse and the artist
Do Fight But Fight Thunder (2021) is a 3:17 minute-long sound work in which one voice speaks the consonants of an undefined language, which another voice then emulates. Through the composition, we perceive the dynamic between the two positions shift between process of call-and-response and conversation, waltz and pursuit, syncopation and harmony.
Miriam Stoney (*1994, Scunthorpe, UK) is an artist, writer and translator based in Vienna, Austria. Having studied art history at the University of Oxford and architectural history at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, her writing developed into readings, which became performances, which then prompted installations and ultimately exhibitions. Her first solo exhibition, Indebtedness: “Die Haftung der Geschenknehmenden” took place at Kunstverein Kevin Space in Vienna in 2021. Since then, she has taken part in numerous exhibitions and performance programmes internationally, including Austrian Cultural Forum, London; Kunstverein München, Munich; Kyiv Biennial 2023, Vienna; Belvedere 21, Vienna; Klosterruine Berlin; Tanzquartier Vienna; house of spouse, Vienna; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Bergen Assembly; mumok, Vienna; Österreichisches Kulturforum, Berlin; Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich; Institute of Contemporary Art, London; and others.