curatorial project: Aural Landscapes, group exhibition, 5-18 September 2014
featuring artists: Melissa Peacock Mark Kromodimeoljo Becky Richards Brett Jackson Rachel Bavich Kelly Sullivan Michael O'Dwyer Nigel Tan Annie Edney Ash Coates Russell Curr Dagmara Gieysztor collaborating with sound artist Myke Vescio Bruno Pasqualini Jillian Price and Edward Farrar Gauri Torgalkar Ree Hegh Darin Frankpitt
Considerations of landscape more often refer to visual perceptions. The palate of noise that accompanies any given moment and place is of course inseparable to the experience of landscape. Soundwaves create a visual field that exists as a landscape. Aural Landscapes approaches landscape depiction as integrative and encompassing of both the scape of vision, and the scape of sound. Aural Landscapes understands this connection, and also reflects on the relationship between the visual sound-wave, and it's landscape-esque shape. Encompassing considerations of new digital (land)scapes, the artists in Aural Landscapes involve sound, glitch, projection fields, cyber-culture, sound ecology and traditional landscape depiction. Aural Landscapes is a group exhibition consisting of interpretations and investigations of contemporary landscape depiction, discussing and how we can understand and forge a link between what we hear and how that corresponds to the landscapes that we see.