Exhibitions:
Sept 2024-April 2025 : “Atmospheres of Sound: Sonic Art in Times of Climate Disruption”, PST exhibition, Getty. Curated by Victoria Vesna and Anuradha Vikram, UCLA Art|Science Centre, California.
Sept 2023: Nuit Blanche Toronto 2023: Etobicoke Hub, Humber Lakeshore, Canada
July 2023: “Arborescent || Resistance”, University of Coimbra, Portugal.
Nov 2022: “Contact” the Ammerman Centre for Arts and Technology 17th Biennial Symposium. Connecticut College Commissioned Artist.
In Silence
In Silence . . . reflects on the ongoing work of the artist with community partners in Jane-Finch, one of the most economically challenged and racialized areas of Toronto and the stories embodied in them and their children. In its aesthetic form, it references the artist’s previous installation “Between us a Breeze” (2016) that explored the impoverished nature of communication across a visitation booth by visualizing speech as gusts of wind across a reflecting pool. In our social-distancing epoch, this interpersonal distance is especially felt through virtual conversations that deny us multisensory connection, and introduce artefacts of digital and network failure. The work takes a selection of these anecdotal stories and abstracts them through actors on a screen limited to non-vocal expressions, and a reflecting pool that is activated by cymatic visualizations of their speech, scored loosely against the text’s emotional intensity. The entirety of these stories is accessible through a bone-conductance railing (that forces the visitor into a position reminiscent of pain or anguish), and a phone hotline. Inspired by Salome Vogelin’s quote: In Silence, time does not move but vibrates gently on the spot. It is slowed down on my body whose time it has become, In Silence . . .pays tribute to the resilience of the community through the emotional turmoil of the pandemic that has made them feel they were in a perpetual suspension and immobility, and the stories of survival that have emerged.
Actors: Ayesha Khan, Joella Crichton and Jamie Robinson
Videographer: Michael Miroshnik
Fabrication support: Liz Tsui and Jacob Turola
