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solo exhibition and sound installation by Audra Wolowiec
Studio 10
Brooklyn, NY
March 11 - April 3, 2016
if not, waves
sound installation with 10 speakers, 5 channels
featuring Max Murray (tuba) and Megan Forbes, Hannah McMurray, Sal Randolph, David Richardson (voice).
2016
There is a deep, low tone – a tuba, in fact – evoking a foghorn at night. Layered over that are the sounds of voices, men and women, playing word-association games about the sea, verbal connections devoid of narrative and emotion.
“If not, waves” occupies a central position in the exhibition. With its downward-facing speakers, each suspended at an equal height above the floor, it creates an implied interior space, an obliquely invoked seascape enclosed by invisible walls.
—Thomas Micchelli, Hyperallergic
Wolowiec used Studio 10 as a recording lab and played the results on several clustered speakers, which sporadically emitted soft incantatory sounds and words associated with the sea. I was placed in a pleasant reversal—not leaning over or walking toward "the ocean," but on my toes, looking up at the speakers dangling like clunky seaweed strands above me. I was at sea. Or under it? The unending loops of ocean waves and brain waves came to mind. Wolowiec wasn't attempting to capture pauses. Rather, she allowed us to linger in the quieter moments of speech and movement.
—Emmalea Russo, BOMB Magazine
between the sea and the sea
screen print with correction fluid
24 x 18 inches each
(h)ear
cast ear in plaster, embedded in the wall
2 x 1.5 inches
will you bring us seaweed from the moon?
scent collaboration with Tara Pelletier
glass bottle of Sea 006 with printed card
[scent notes of clary sage, vetiver, violet leaf, ylang ylang, sea kelp, salt water. title by Pablo Neruda, from the poem To E.S.S.]
edition of 20
2016