Soundscapes

Old Boat / New Money (soundtrack) by Magda Stawarska-Beavan for Lubaina Himid’s Old Boat / New Money consisting of 32 wooden planks, painted in shades of grey leaning like a wave on the wall. With the additional sounds of a tour guide discussing the artists work.

Cricket in Central Park at night

Mega Sonic Jingle: Maria Hupfield as part of the exhibition “Everyonce” curated by Mitchell Akiyama. Maria Hupfield will introduce workshop participants to the tin jingle as used on Anishinaabe Womxn’s jingle dresses in order to imagine new, listening bodies informed by pow wow dance, improvised movement and experimental sound. The recordings will be presented through a 3rd installation edition of “Everyonce”, using the existing 30-channel speakers composition.

Maximum Exposure is an annual year-end exhibition, held in May, that showcases the work of the best young emerging Canadian and international artists attending Ryerson University’s School of Image Arts. Featured as part of the Scotiabank’s CONTACT Photography Festival, Maximum Exposure exhibits multidisciplinary work produced by photography, film, and integrated digital students in a professional gallery setting.

Line 1 TTC Subway ride south during rush hour.

Listen to Black Womxn by Jamilah Malika Abu-Bakare. The audio piece ‘Listen to Black Womxn,’ Abu-Bakare’s work powerfully plays with language to make evident the verbal, gestural and embodied feats of dexterity that are performed daily by Black women as a means of survival. In speaking and listening to Black folk Abu-Bakare’s work seeks to create and support a community of care.

Closing of One of These Things is Not Like the Other by Pamila Matharu, Sister Co-Resister

The sounds of Nevet Yitzhak: WarCraft installation. In her three-channel video installation, WarCraft (2014), Yitzhak makes a poignant statement against war and aggression. The artist looks to the Afghan war rug, a unique product of the region’s traumatic history of conflict and foreign military presence, as a departure point in exploring the significance and potential of this unconventional medium to protest violence and occupation.

Sound record of Critical Distance Art gallery on Friday, April 19, 2019 at 3:20 pm. During Nicole Kelly Westman: a slight space amidst installation in partnership with the 2019 Images Festival.