Sounding Space
send + receive v18 presents:
Sounding Space
Adam Basanta (QC) & Eleanor King (NY/CAN)
September 29–November 26, 2016
Gallery 1C03, University of Winnipeg
Winnipeg, Canada
In partnership with Gallery 1C03, send + receive presents Sounding Space, a two-person exhibition that explores the playful relationships between sound, implied sound and architectural space.
Employing amplification techniques to make the physical relationships between microphones, reclaimed speaker cones and the gallery’s acoustic environment audible, emerging Montreal-based artist Adam Basanta presents his poetic sound installation A Room Listening to Itself. The gallery becomes a giant resonator, amplifying acoustic activity and inactivity as a product of spatial relationships. As the audience moves through the space they become part of the piece by absorbing, reflecting and generating sound, which continuously integrates into the work.
Eleanor King, Canada’s newest recipient of the Glenfiddich Artist in Residence Prize, will present her work in Winnipeg for the first time in this exhibition, which features a selection of her Wormhole drawings as well as her sculptures Redacted Stack and cd Worm. King’s vivid, tunnel-like drawings constructed from cd tracings reference the physical magnitude of space in its abstract and concrete forms, serving as whimsical blueprints for otherworldly structures. Her sculptural works also utilize this sound media—the cd and its case—to generate pieces that embrace concepts of failure, obsolescence and cultural production while also existing as metaphoric sound works that engage with the gallery space as unique architectural forms.
PHOTOS by Robert Szkolnicki
Sounding Space
send + receive v18 presents:
Sounding Space
Adam Basanta (QC) & Eleanor King (NY/CAN)
September 29–November 26, 2016
Gallery 1C03, University of Winnipeg
Winnipeg, Canada
In partnership with Gallery 1C03, send + receive presents Sounding Space, a two-person exhibition that explores the playful relationships between sound, implied sound and architectural space.
Employing amplification techniques to make the physical relationships between microphones, reclaimed speaker cones and the gallery’s acoustic environment audible, emerging Montreal-based artist Adam Basanta presents his poetic sound installation A Room Listening to Itself. The gallery becomes a giant resonator, amplifying acoustic activity and inactivity as a product of spatial relationships. As the audience moves through the space they become part of the piece by absorbing, reflecting and generating sound, which continuously integrates into the work.
Eleanor King, Canada’s newest recipient of the Glenfiddich Artist in Residence Prize, will present her work in Winnipeg for the first time in this exhibition, which features a selection of her Wormhole drawings as well as her sculptures Redacted Stack and cd Worm. King’s vivid, tunnel-like drawings constructed from cd tracings reference the physical magnitude of space in its abstract and concrete forms, serving as whimsical blueprints for otherworldly structures. Her sculptural works also utilize this sound media—the cd and its case—to generate pieces that embrace concepts of failure, obsolescence and cultural production while also existing as metaphoric sound works that engage with the gallery space as unique architectural forms.
PHOTOS by Robert Szkolnicki