Gray Sound 6: Audra Wolowiec
@ Midway Studios
929 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, April 9th, at 7PM
The Gray Center’s experimental music series, Gray Sound, continues its 6th season with a performance on Wednesday, April 9 by Audra Wolowiec.
Wolowiec will present WAV, a project originating during an Artist Fellowship at the New York Public Library Picture Collection, mining images that evoke sound. Through a series of live projections, Wolowiec invites us to consider how sound is held in images. How might we listen to images? WAV refers to digital audio files, creating a relationship to the image files in Picture Collection as a way to understand and question how material phenomena is stored and contained, residing between the visual, embodied, and the ineffable.
Audra Wolowiec is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York whose work oscillates between installation, print, sculpture and performance with an emphasis on sound and the material qualities of language. She is interested in how sound can create spaces of listening and connection.
Wolowiec’s sound installations and experimental language scores often use the gap, space, or breath in between speech to amplify an undercurrent of language. These deconstructed language-based artworks extend from the embodied experience of her own dysfluent speech, and draw from the traditions of music notation, experimental writing, and visual poetry. The scores exist as an invitation for others to read or perform, presenting new channels of interpretation and collaboration.
Wolowiec’s work has been shown internationally and in the United States at MASS MoCA, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, ICA at MECA (Maine College of Art), Stony Brook University, Print Center New York, and Art in General. Readings and events have taken place at The Poetry Project, Microscope Gallery, and Center for Performance Research.
Wolowiec currently teaches at Parsons School of Design and directs the publishing platform Gravel Projects.
About Gray Sound
Founded in 2019 by Gray Center Director and UChicago Associate Professor of Music and the Humanities, Seth Brodsky, Gray Sound was envisioned as an ongoing performance and discussion series that represents a chance for artists and the broader community to tease the boundaries of sound—when it moves from voice to music, recognizable tune to noise, experience to idea.
Gray Sound 6 is curated by composer Andrew Stock with a focus on crossing the boundaries between musical performance, text, and image.
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