walking machine in Acoustic Territories by Brandon LaBelle
Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life offers an expansive reading of auditory life. It provides a careful consideration of the performative dynamics inherent to sound culture and acts of listening, and discusses how auditory studies may illuminate understandings of contemporary society. Combining research on urbanism, popular culture and auditory issues, Acoustic Territories opens up multiple perspectives – it challenges debates surrounding noise pollution and charts an “acoustic politics of space” by unfolding auditory experience as located within larger cultural histories and related ideologies.
Brandon LaBelle traces auditory life through a topographic structure: beginning with underground territories, through to the home as a site, and then further, to streets and neighborhoods, and finally to the sky itself. This structure follows sound as it appears in specific auditory designs, as it is mobilized within various cultural projects, and queries how it comes to circulate through everyday life as a medium for social transformation. Acoustic Territories uncovers the embedded tensions and potentiality inherent to sound as it exists in the everyday spaces around us.
Beyond/In Western New York 2010: Alternating Currents
Squeaky Wheel Gallery: Geoffrey Alan Rhoades, Barbara Lattanzi, Jessica Thompson
This international contemporary art exhibition—the product of a unique curatorial collaboration between twelve of Western New York’s museums and galleries—will showcase the work of over 100 extraordinary artists from the region and beyond. Works in an expansive range of media, all connected under a common theme, Alternating Currents, will be on display beginning with the Beyond | In WNY Opening Weekend September 24–26, and extending through the end of 2010. Installations by featured international artists will also become permanent parts of the region’s landscape, serving as lasting impressions of the biennial.
mobile performance device at Conflux Festival, NYC
mobile performance device is a flexible broadcast unit designed to facilitate performative situations in public spaces. The project consists of four umbrellas that generate and broadcast sound in response to architectural, electromagnetic and social stimuli. Each umbrella contains a simple analogue oscillator that calibrates to body capacitance. The piece generates sound in response to its proximity to other performers, members of the public and electromagnetic frequencies such as power lines, wifi networks, and cell phone towers. The mobile performance device transforms ordinary experience into a performative situation that places the user in a space that is both cinematic and fantastic and transforms the urban environment into a fluid interface of shifting sonic potentialities. The embodied actions of the user, which both contributes to and interrupts the acoustic ecology of the space, becomes a form of drawing. During the festival, audience members will be receive a set of directions to a location outside of Conflux Headquarters where they will be invited to participate in one of two parallel performances that use the devices as a starting point.
Interview with Trevor Howell, Fast Forward Calgary
Video Documentation of Bike Hack + Soundride, M:ST 4.5 Calgary
Residency — M:ST and Truck Gallery, Calgary
TR:AFICC ONE: RIDE ON
Jessica Thompson (Toronto, ON)
Runs from July 1, 2009 through to July 31, 2009
Reception: Wednesday, July 1 at 8:00 PM
TR:AFICC (Temporary Resident: Artists for Innovative Contemporary Culture)
This summer TRUCK is proud to introduce our new residency program, Temporary Resident: Artists for Innovative Contemporary Culture (TR:AFICC) that will be run out of CAMPER, TRUCK’s Contemporary Art Mobile Public Exhibition Rig. After three successful years of The Patch Project, CAMPER has been reinvented as a home away from home for artists, hosting three thematic residencies, with each lasting one month. During the summer months these residencies will provide a space for artistic exploration and public engagement by three contemporary artists.
Citizenband at Deep Wireless Festival — May 2009
May 29 and 30 @ 8pm $15/10
Deep Wireless Ensemble performance 1 and 2
+ Performance by Kristen Roos
The West Space, Artscape Wychwood Barns
601 Christie Street #170, Toronto
Internationally renowned performance artist Brandon LaBelle, multi-discipline artist Lisa Pijuan-Nomura, and sound artists François Girouard and Jessica Thompson collaborate together to create multi-media performance experiences using their various areas of expertise in performance and new media art responding to the theme Ecology: Water, Air, Sound and will be presented alongside works commissioned by CBC Radio’s Outfront by Hélène Prévost, Iain Reid, Paolo Pietropaolo and Andra McCartney.