Details

Title

Coronation Theme: Organon

Artist/Maker

Nadine Robinson (American, born England, 1968)

Date

2008

Medium

Speakers soundsystem and mixed media

Dimensions

175 x 18 1/2 x 174 inches

Credit

Gift of John F. Wieland Jr. in memory of Marion Hill

Accession #

2008.175

On View

Currently not on view

Nadine Robinson’s large-scale installations often rely on sound to explain complex narratives that address historic moments. For Coronation Theme, Robinson was inspired by the 1963 Project C (Confrontation) demonstration in Birmingham, Alabama, when nearly 1,000 children and young adults were fire-hosed by police for protesting segregation with a sit-in. The thirty loudspeaker cabinets issue a chorus of sounds: organ music, sermons, songs, prayers, and protests. The architectural arrangement of the speakers recalls a large pipe organ and is loosely based on the façade of Atlanta’s historic Ebenezer Baptist Church.