The Gallery at SARC is a new space for immersive, audio-visual and physical interaction artistic practice. An intimate space, with concealed equipment offers four-side projection and surround sound. The gallery programme for Sonorities was curated from an overwhelming response to the exhibition and installation open call. Six works were selected and are programmed throughout the festival running continuously during gallery opening times. The selection of works represents a variety of contemporary practices in the audio visual and immersive space. These range from everyday experiences, mediation through technologies, audio visual abstraction and generative materials, to the exploration of land and environment. All works invite the audience to immerse themselves in the artist’s world, through captivating sound and image, story-telling and site.
The programme was curated by SARC Gallery curator, Pedro Rebelo.
Schedule
Wednesday 15th April
Short Cycle by Possener, Douton and Bradley-Baker draws inspiration from Fluxus text and graphic scores. Emerging from a first COVID-19 lockdown experience, the piece is a performative exploration of the life (cycle) of a washing machine.
Collateral Landscape by Chilean sound and visual artist Rodrigo Romero Flores is a multichannel audio-visual work based on AI generative processes, digital manipulation and generative poetic fragments.
Thursday 16th April
Matthew Wilcock’s Cycles | Playback places a play-head in the real world and reveals patterns of movement, rhythms of nature and animals creating a compelling at times hypnotic audiovisual world.
Abstract Elements II by Donegal artist and composer Anderinna Gooch is conceived as a moving abstract painting exploring line, colour, movement and rhythm as inspired by artists such as Wassily Kandisnsky and László Moholy-Nagy.
Friday 17th April
I am 164cm. متسه رتم یتناس۱۶۴ نم.’ from the ‘Patient #17301’ is a two-channel video work by Canada based multidisciplinary artist Nazanin Oghanian. The work is a spatial and temporal focus on the artist’s’ ‘precocious puberty’ using a combination of archive footage and generated 3D models to expose an experience of medical language and institutionalized environment.
Saturday 18th April
Dowsing / Collóireacht by Tim Feeney consists of ten repetitive sonic interventions in the eroded landscapes of the Burren, Co Clare, Ireland. The work is a kind of sonic divining inviting the audience to share the physicality and aurality of the site.
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