Fox Fridays: Space as Sound / Sound as Space
Space as Sound / Sound as Space focuses on recording and editing short sound compositions, exploring spatial qualities of sound and sonic properties of space. Welcoming beginners and advanced practitioners in sound/music, this workshop meets at Media Studio, home to new BFA studio area, Time Based + Media Art. Take Weil Hall elevator to G-level. Turn right, walk to the end of the corridor. TB+MA door is on your right.
Takeaways
One short sound piece saved as AFF/Wav or/and MP3 files, ready to be shared as a sound piece (for space or headphones) or as added to another medium of choice such as film/video.
Cross-disciplinary connections
This workshop in sound art is closely related to new music but also to installation art, film, video art, dance, performance art and other hybrid forms of creative output. Music-oriented, performance-minded students will gain from this workshop the initial ability to make sound as part of their practice. Equally, the more solitary activities of composing/recording and editing on your own, will also be a possibility during this workshop.
Instructor
Over the past twenty-five years, the internationally recognized Polish-American artist Monika Weiss has developed a transdisciplinary practice composed of moving image, sound, sculpture, performance and drawing. Recurring material and conceptual motives include sound, water, the body, stillness, doubling and gestures of lamentation. Important across her oeuvre is a relationship to history and collective remembrance, which the artist’s work approaches in profoundly affective ways. Her synesthetic art resists closure as it explores states of transformation and oscillates, as Mark McDonald (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) noted, “between proposal and presence, the allusive and the tangible”. Based in New York, the artist holds professorship at Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts. Her work has been featured in over 90 exhibitions, numerous publications and collections internationally, including solo shows at CAA Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw, Lehman College Art Gallery, New York, and Museum of Memory & Human Rights, Santiago, Chile. Dedicated to victims of gendered violence, the artist’ forthcoming outdoor monument/antimonument Nirbhaya will open in 2023 for six-month duration on Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, New York, a gateway to United Nations. Permanent sister version of the project is planned as part of the Sculpture Park at the Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko.