Harvestworks is pleased to partner with Experimental Intermedia to present Jenn Grossman. A night of (im)material resonance — First, a live performance rendition of her multichannel sound object installation: Fenestra (Transparencies), made of acrylic panels and surface transducers; We listen through physical surfaces, like a sonic skin, a connective membrane. Followed by a screening of recent audiovisual collage work; ephemeral, transportive.
DATE: Monday, Dec 16, 2024
TIME : 7pm
LOCATION: Harvestworks 596 Broadway Suite 602 NY NY 10012
Suggested donation $10
Part 1
A performance version of Fenestra (Transparencies), a multi-channel sound installation made acrylic panels and surface transducers. It references the openings in the inner wall of the middle ear, a connective tissue membrane, a transparent spot, and the Latin term for ‘window’. The piece evokes the moment of looking, feeling, and listening through a physical membrane. Sounds resonate through these surfaces that virtually become speakers, both muted and shaped by materials. Both musical and found sounds move from panel to panel, like a sonic skin, creating both a physiological and psychological experience for the listener.
Part 2
A screening of audiovisual collage works, many of the videos are made from recorded and layered video artifacts, light patterns, abstract imagery that have a particular synaesthetic resonance with audio compositions, and function as audiovisual ‘meditations’. These works are ongoing and adaptive, have been performed as live visuals, existing both as videos and projection installations.
• BIOS
Jenn Grossman is an audiovisual artist, experimental composer, and sound sculptor based in Brooklyn, NY. She is concerned with the expansive physical and psycho-spatial potentials of sensory experience within a culture of commodification, turning the mundane into the transportive and other-worldly. With sound sculpture, she expands “every-day” industrial objects and materials into affective, emotive, expressive vessels, by giving them a voice or spirit-hood through sound. In her audiovisual works, she creates sublime, ephemeral experiences working with media to stretch time and space. Her work has ranged from sound and video sculpture to audiovisual installation, light events, experimental music composition, public architectural interventions and live performance.
She’s held residencies at I-Park Foundation, Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, presented audio works & research at festivals, museums and conferences such as the Black Mountain College Museum, the Museum of the Moving Image and the New York Transit Museum, the Megapolis Audio Festival, the Cistern Dreams at the Deep Listening Institute, the Global Composition Conference, the Women In/Women on Sound Symposium, galleries such as Microscope Gallery and Arete Gallery, and unconventional public locations for Make Music NY, She’s recently presented at SARC’s Sonic Lab with the Irish Sound, Science, & Technology Association, Roulette’s MATA festival, the Light Matter Film Festival, and the Re-Embodied Sound Symposium at EMPAC. She independently curates live performance and art events with her organization, WISE (Women Innovating Sound Experience), which highlights women and non-binary artists working experimental sound and media arts.
WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS
https://jenngrossman.bandcamp.com/,
IG: jenn8grossman
FB: https://www.facebook.com/jenn.grossman.31/
The Fifty-First Anniversary of EI performances, the Fifty-Sixth Anniversary of the Founding of Experimental Intermedia, the Fifty-Sixth Anniversary of the 224 Centre Street loft, and, notleast, The Thirty-Fourth Annual Festival with no fancy name, Part Two (or B). Katherine Liberovskaya, curator.