Janet Cardiff
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March 15, 1957 Brussels, Ontario |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Education | Queen's University, University of Alberta |
| Known for | sound art, installation art |
| Notable work | "Forty Part Motet", 2013 Paradise Institute, 2001, with George Bures Miller |
| Spouse(s) | George Bures Miller |
| Awards | National Gallery of Canada Millennium Prize |
| Years active | 1995–present |
Janet Cardiff (born March 15, 1957) is a Canadian artist who works chiefly with sound and sound installations; especially a form she calls audio walks. She works in collaboration with her husband and partner George Bures Miller. Cardiff and Miller currently live and work in Berlin. Janet Cardiff first gained international recognition in the art world for her audio walks in 1995.
Janet Cardiff was born in 1957 in Brussels, Ontario, Canada, and grew up on a farm outside of a small village. In 1980, she earned her BFA from Queens University, Kingston, Ontario. In 1983 she earned an MVA from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. While studying at Edmonton, she met George Bures Miller who would become her husband and collaborator. Cardiff's training is in photography and printmaking and her early works were large-scale silkscreens. Her first artistic collaboration with Bures Miller, in 1983, was a Super-8 film called The Guardian Angel. After this filmmaking experience, Cardiff's work began to include elements of narrative sequencing, experiments with sound, and movement.
Her first major work based in recorded sound was called The Whispering Room, a minimal work consisting of a dark space with 16 small round speakers mounted on stands that play the voice of individual characters. As visitors move through the space and the voices, a film projector is triggered playing a slightly slow-motion film.
Some of Cardiff's most well known solo works are her audio walks. Her first was created somewhat serendipitously during a residency at the Banff art center in 1991. In 1996, she was asked to create a site-specific piece for the museum grounds at Louisiana Museum in Denmark. Since then, she has created notable walks such as Her Long Black Hair (2004), in and around Central Park, and Words Drawn in Water (2005) for the Hirshhorn Museum.
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