- Year of birth, place
- 1953, Wichita, Kansas, United States
- Biography
- John Duncan is a pioneer of performance art and experimental electronic music. He refines his oeuvre into detail-rich drones and conceptual performances, and works, among others with Zbigniew Karkowski, zeitkratzer, or the Finnish duo Pan Sonic.
John Duncan has realized performances and installations, among others, at the following places: Performa in New York, Färgfabriken and Gallery Niklas Belenius in Stockholm, The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in Boston, die NoorlandsOperan in Umeå, Netmage 07 (with Leif Elggren) in Bologna, Cut and Splice (with CM von Hausswolff) in London, and at the 2nd Gothenburg Biennial. He made a joint appearance with Ensemble Phoenix (in Basel and Bern, and at the Angelica Festival in Bologna), and with Ensemble zeitkratzer at the Musica Nova in Tel Aviv and in Berlin. His CD releases THE CRACKLING (1996 with Max Springer), PALACE of MIND (2001 with Giuliana Stefani), PHANTOM BROADCAST (2002), THE KEENING TOWERS (2003), and NINE SUGGESTIONS (2005 with Mika Vainio and Ilpo Väisänen) were works of experimental music highly praised by critics. His works of radio art and performances have been on show in museums such as the CCA Kitakyushu; the Getty Center and the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles; the Österreichische Museum für Angewandte Kunst (MAK), Vienna; the Museu d'Arte Contemporani, Barcelona (MACBA); and the Museum Museum of Tokyo (MOT). John Duncan lives and works in Bologna.
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