On Friday, September 27, Pratt Manhattan Gallery will open Seeing Sound, an expansive group exhibition that explores the recent trajectory of sound as a dynamic branch of contemporary art practice, curated by Barbara London — one of the world’s most influential curators of new media art and the founder of the Video-media Exhibition & Collection Programs at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York.
Seeing Sound features 10 artists — Seth Cluett, Juan Cortés, Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, Auriea Harvey, bani haykal, Yuko Mohri, Marina Rosenfeld, Aura Satz, and Samson Young — who are based in New York, Bogotá, Tokyo, Rome, Singapore, and Hong Kong. Barbara London brings this group of artists together in Seeing Sound as the culmination of many years of research and devotion to presenting media art. To London, “media art in its many forms continues to evolve and develop in tandem with new audio-visual tools and new ways of experiencing art, whether online, in museum and gallery spaces, or in new art venues we can barely imagine.”
The exhibition includes decomposing sound sculptures, audio-video installations, specialized listening devices, and the use of responsive technologies. The artists in the exhibition create environmental experiences, using sound as a sensorial and pliant material that enchants as an intangible but integral component of art and daily life. They incorporate this fluid medium into their experimental practices by working across disciplines and moving between music and composition, video and performance, sculpture, and installation.
Through the integration and interrogation of sound, Seeing Sound aims to challenge ideas about what art in a perpetual state of flux may be.
Seeing Sound will be open from September 27 through December 17 at 144 West 14th Street in New York City, with a public reception on Thursday, September 26, from 6 to 8 pm. Pratt Manhattan Gallery is free and open to the public.
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Seeing Sound is a traveling exhibition curated by Barbara London, with the support of Research Assistant Kristen Clevenson and produced by Independent Curators International (ICI). This exhibition and tour are supported, in part, by Nokia Bell Labs Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) program and with the generous support of ICI’s Board of Trustees and International Forum. Crozier Fine Arts is the Preferred Art Logistics Partner.
