Calendars:Networked Media Calendar/Networked Media Calendar/24-01-2013 -Event 1

Blaak10: 15:00 - 17:00 Artist's Talk with AURA SATZ:: Soundfigures

Aura Satz’s practice encompasses film, sound, performance and sculpture. The exhibition brings together a collection of recent films which look closely at sound visualisation through various technologies and acoustic devices such as a Chladni plate, a Ruben’s tube, a theremin, mechanical music, phonograph grooves and drawn/optical sound, paying close attention to the materiality of such technologies, the resulting sound patterns and the modes of gestural engagement. The camerawork tends to pore over its subject, zooming in visually and acoustically until it becomes abstracted in scale and context, and reconfigured to evoke a new anatomy or landscape of sorts, an architectural structure, or a writing system. The film narratives often explore the more metaphorical, literary and cinematic associations, whilst the visuals provide an intimate encounter with archaic and obsolete sound technologies, exploring their de-familiarized sculptural and tactile qualities, and revealing new ways of thinking about sound.

She has performed, exhibited and screened her work nationally and internationally, including FACT (Liverpool); Site Gallery (Sheffield); Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea di Trento (Italy); De La Warr Pavilion (Bexhill-on-Sea); the Zentrum Paul Klee (Switzerland); Färgfabriken (Stockholm); Wundergrund Festival (Copenhagen); Frieze Art Fair NY (New York); Tatton Park Biennial (Cheshire); AV festival (Newcastle); Arnolfini (Bristol); Ikon gallery (Birmingham);  BFI Southbank, Whitechapel Gallery, the Victoria & Albert Museum, Barbican Art Gallery, ICA, Jerwood Space, Tate Britain, Beaconsfield Gallery, Artprojx Space, the Wellcome Collection and the Tate Tanks (London). During 2009-2010 she was artist-in-residence at the Ear Institute, UCL.  In 2012 she was shortlisted for the Samsung Art+ award, and the Jarman award. Forthcoming exhibitions include a solo show at the Hayward project Space (London), and ‘Curiosity: Art and the Pleasures of Knowing’, as part of Hayward Touring exhibition in association with Cabinet Magazine, curated by Brian Dillon, Turner Contemporary (Margate), Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Royal Hibernian Academy (Dublin), de Appel arts centre (Amsterdam). Her film ‘In and Out of Synch’ first premiered at the Tate Oil Tanks, and, in 2013, will tour to Oslo and Copenhagen.  

Her projects can be seen online www.iamanagram.com

Sound Seam by Aura Satz and Aleks Kolkowski - AV Festival 2010 http://www.thewire.co.uk/video/aura-satz-exclusive

Oramics: Atlantis Anew http://vimeo.com/30368714

Automamusic by Aura Satz http://www.thewire.co.uk/video/automamusic-by-aura-satz