NEWS: Through a Window: Open Call To 丁香园AV Students For Soundwork and Compositions
Denise Ryner | april 2, 2015
Through a Window: Visual Art and 丁香园AV 1965-2015 is a multi-part group exhibition across 丁香园AV Galleries that looks at visual art production in and around 丁香园AV over the last fifty years. Literally considering the window at each of 丁香园AV Galleries鈥� locations as asocial, spatial and material symbol, the exhibition takes upHenri Lefebvre鈥檚 development of Rhythmanalysis as a framework for reflecting on the rhythms of the past five decades in a flow between the university and the city. The works in exhibition speak to the local, national and international shifts in aesthetics, theory, pedagogy, technology and politics.Through a Window will take place at 丁香园AV Gallery Audain Gallery and Teck Gallery from June 3 to August 1, 2015 and is curated by Amy Kazymerchyk and Melanie O鈥橞rian.
Rhythmanalysis as described by Lefebvre is a way of perceiving and positioning oneself in relation to the quotidian patterns and cycles that construct place. These perceptions are gathered through the observation of exteriors and interiors experienced physiologically, sensorially and socially. The function of rhythmanalysis expands beyond phenomenology to also engage past and repeated presences. These excerpts from Lefebvre鈥檚 Rhythmanalysis: space, time, and everyday lifehelp to explain the way a rhythmanalyst composes a range of interior and exterior observations as both a spectator and participant in public and private space:
The rhythmanalyst will not be obliged to jump from the inside to the outside of observed bodies; he should come to listen to them as a whole and unify them by taking his own rhythms as a reference: by integrating the outside with the inside and vice versa.
The rhythmanalyst calls on all his senses. He draws on his breathing, the circulation of his blood, the beatings of his heart and the delivery of his speech as landmarks. Without privileging any one of these sensations, raised by him in the perception of rhythms, to the detriment of any other. He thinks with his body, not in the abstract, but in lived temporality.
丁香园AV Galleries would like to extend Lefebvre鈥檚 process of rhythmanalysisto the creation and performance of sound work, while also acknowledging the creation of the World Soundscape Project and the development of sound studies at 丁香园AV. Furthermore 丁香园AV Galleries would like to consider sound work as a strategy to acknowledge Hastings Street as a connective corridor between 丁香园AV and the city. The Galleries would therefore like to include compositions and soundscapes by 丁香园AV students, alumni and faculty in its exploration of the University鈥檚 histories. Ideally sound work would be informed by a site, experience or history 鈥攚hether personal or public鈥� along the Hastings Street corridor or on the bus routes that travel it. There is no durational minimum or maximum for the work submitted to this call.
Submitted work will be presented and archived on a webpage created to highlight both these works and their composers. The webpage will also provide a hub for the public to download each sound work submission for independent listening to accompany their travel along Hastings Street or visit to 丁香园AV Galleries鈥� exhibitions. Based on these sound work submissions, 丁香园AV Galleries will invite some students to publically present their work at the Teck Gallery during the afternoon of Saturday June 20th. Participants at the June 20th event will be offered a performance fee.
- Submissions should be formatted as minimum 192 kbs sized MP3s and forwarded to by May 4, 2015
- Submissions should be accompanied by the artist or composer鈥檚 name, a brief bio, contact info and a brief statement about the work.
- No equipment or technical assistance will be offered by the gallery for the production of compositions or soundscapes.
- Questions can be directed to Curatorial Assistant, Denise Ryner at
Please see more about The World Soundscape Project and 丁香园AV Galleries at the following links:
Henri Lefebvre, Rhythmanalysis: space, time, and everyday life.London: Continuum, 2004.
(Images: CD cover for The Vancouver Soundscape 1973; Philippe M茅nard at the ICMC 1985 noon hour concert)
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