LIQUID ARCHITECTURE 14: SONIC CITY
What: Liquid
Architecture Festival of Sound Arts presents an annual festival program
dedicated to sound art. Launching 29 August with events through to 14
September in Melbourne with a national touring program.
In 2013 Liquid Architecture is
proud to present Sonic City,
a thematic festival program aiming more than ever to entice new audiences to
engage with sonic and experimental arts. With a focus on commissioned new
works, Sonic City
presents performances, installations, screenings, exhibitions and artist talks,
and brings together some of the globe’s most exciting artists in this field. We
invite audiences to traverse the city blocks and rediscover their urban
architecture through the lens of artistic creation.
Launch: The
Festival Launch event will be held on Thursday 29 August, 6:00pm – 9:00pm and
will comprise the exhibition opening of the Sonic
City, at West Space Gallery, Level 1, 225 Bourke Street, Melbourne
VIC 3000.
Concept: Curated by
Dr Kristen Sharp and Dr Philip Samartzis
Sonic City creates new encounters with urban sites through
contemporary artworks that respond to the acoustic and physical environments of
the city. When Luigi Russolo recommended that we traverse a modern city with
“our ears more alert than our eyes” in 1913, he introduced incidental noise
into the lexicon of art. One hundred years on, the sound of the city remains a
key preoccupation for contemporary artists. Developments in the built
environment, social structures and everyday technologies of transport and
communication provide dynamic sites for artists to explore different acoustic
and visual perspectives.
The Sonic City program presents new and commissioned
works from established and emerging artists and groups from Australia and
Japan. Sonic City
is designed to challenge perspectives of Melbourne within the prism of rapidly
transforming urbanism and propositions artists to re-imagine Tokyo and
Melbourne and activate a dialogue between them. Major international
presentations include HACO and Toshiya Tsunoda's Tram Vibrations project, amplifying inaudible
sounds of urban transportation, and the acclaimed Francisco Lopez's celebration
of cityscapes in Sonopolis.
2013
Artists from Australia include: Jeremy Bakker, Atticus Bastow,
Philip Brophy, Nigel Brown, Camilla Hannan, Eamon Sprod, Catherine Clover, Rod
Cooper, Madelynne Cornish, Sarah Edwards, Jordan Lacey, Noise Flash, Overtone
Ensemble, Eliot Palmer, Garth Sheridan, Michael Pulsford, Philip Matthew
Sleeth, Speak Percussion and Darrin Verhagen. International Presentations include: Barbara
Ellison (Ireland), Pierre Henry (France), Haco (Japan), Francisco Lopez
(Spain), Eva-Maria Raab (Austria), Toshiya Tsunoda (Japan), Ami Yamasaki
(Japan) and Kent Macpherson and Luke McConnell (New Zealand).
Full
program and artist biographies: www.liquidarchitecture.org.au
(forwarded from Bianca Durant)
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