Title: Audio Forensic
Location: IMT Gallery- Image Music and Text
Description: Comprising of ambitious works by nine artists who employ sound as the principle media of their practice, Audio Forensics demonstrates the breadth of engagement with sound in the arts, and how it can be re-evaluated in the context of an increasingly noisy world. The artists exhibiting are Libero Colimberti, Jan Hendrickse, Simone Izzi, Nitin Lachhani, Luc Messinezis, Maria Papadomanolaki, Vytis Puronas, Mark Shorey and Mark Wright.
I M T
UNIT 2/210 CAMBRIDGE HEATH ROAD
LONDON E2 9NQ UK
Audio Forensics is an exhibition and symposium presenting the final work of the first MA Sound Arts graduates of London College of Communication. The groundbreaking work in the exhibition demonstrates the high level of critical debate in sonic disciplines fostered by the university’s Department of Sound Art and Design since 1998. The exhibition is co-curated by ELECTRA and IMT
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2008-11-27
Sound art encompasses a wide range of forms and concerns and has its
precedence across many creative fields, yet, as these artists demonstrate, the
acknowledgment of sound’s significance in the arts is becoming of greater
importance as technologies develop, and as the public become ever more
aware of the interactions between sound, space and artistic practice.
Some of the works make one aware of interactions with sound that are often
overlooked, such as the effect of sonic frequencies on the body in Shorey’s
work. Puronas’s audiovisual installation immerses the visitor in questions
of reality, hyper-reality and the authenticity of digital technology, whilst Izzi
turns installation against the audience as an analogy of the psychological
pressures of contemporary society. Others, such as Messinezis’s collection
of sonic curiosities, in an audio equivalent to the Wunderkammer, or
Lachhani’s extraordinary 3D sculptures of sound waves, translate sound
into contexts more familiar in the visual arts presenting experiences that are
at once recognisable and alien.
Other work in the exhibition explores and re-evaluates major disciplines in
sound art, whether through Hendrickse’s compositional use of air currents
to play both musical and non-musical instruments, or Colimberti’s
subversion of the use of music and the sound effect in film. Likewise
Papadomanolaki and Wright explore the field recording as a discipline
through which to narrate place, the space outside the gallery and the Abbeys
of the north of England respectively, demonstrating the capacity of sound to
evoke absent environments in very tangible ways.
As a whole the exhibition provides an extraordinarily comprehensive enquiry
into how sound, and its manipulation, influences our experience and
understanding of our environment.
On Sunday 30th November there will be a symposium in which keynote
speakers Ben Borthwick, Assistant Curator at Tate Modern, and Steven
Connor, professor of Modern Literature and Theory at Birkbeck, will address
issues of sonic practice raised by the exhibition. This event will also give
visitors the opportunity to talk to the artists personally about their work.
Audio Forensics is an exhibition and symposium presenting the final work of
the first MA Sound Arts graduates of London College of Communication. The
groundbreaking work in the exhibition demonstrates the high level of critical
debate in sonic disciplines fostered by the university’s Department of Sound
Art and Design since 1998. The exhibition is co-curated by ELECTRA and
IMT.
