live archive
audio installations
2009

Created during an IN SITU residency at AXEnéo7 gallery, live archive encompassed a <live> audio installation employing a low watt FM transmitter, a multi-channel <archive> installation of localized recordings made during the residency in the Gatineau area, and an exhibition of drawings and related research materials. Globally, the project allowed a sustained sensory exploration of the lived environment of Gatineau (formerly Hull).

live archive press release

Photo: AXENéo7

live archive
drawings and reserach redsidue
2009

An exhibition of drawings and reserach materials related to the <live archive> installations. Collaborators from the Gatineau community included Josée Dubeau, Andrée Préfontaine, Jonathon Demers and Martin Simard.

Photo: AXENéo7

(im)permeable
audio installation
2008

A very portable and adaptable live audio installation developed for The New Gallery, Calgary, in their temporary location in a shopping arcade. Tiny speakers stitched into the upholstered linings of four overcoats played live audio from the mall space. The installation resembled a minimal boutique display, gently confusing art and commerce, and pointing to a predominantly feminine presence in the mall.

(im)permeable review by Amy Fung

(im)permeable review by Anthea Black

Photo: Artist

untitled (in arcadia)
audio installation
2007

A site specific live audio installation created at the Walter Phillips Gallery for the Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art. Untitled (in arcadia) brought together interior and exterior sounds, giving rise to a subtle spatial disorientation. Plaster, audio components.

Photo: Artist

the outside of sound
audio installation
2007

the outside of sound consists of two textile panels with embedded arrays of small speakers, on which two unique montages of sound are audible. Acting as minimal paintings, the outside of sound invites viewers to engage tactilely and aurally in deciphering the work. Textiles, bleach, whitewash, audio components. Each panel 60 x 60 in. (In Caught up in Disappearing, Trianon Gallery, Lethbridge AB)

review of caught up in disappearing by Ken Allan

Photo: David Miller and Petra Mala

buried worlds
2007

A series of mixed-media interventions on musical manuscript, addressing musical notation as texture and surface. (In Caught up in Disappearing, Trianon Gallery, Lethbridge AB) Gesso and mixed media on recuperated musical manuscript, textile.

Photo: David Miller and Petra Mala

nervous space
audio installation
2007

A site specific live audio installation created at the Art Gallery of Alberta for the Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art. nervous space brought live sound from several locations in the building into a small structure, creating a wash of sound open to visitors’ associations. Building materials, plaster, audio components. 8 x 8 x 8 ft.

review of alberta biennial and interview with Annie Martin

Photo: AGA, Artist

found listening walk
2007

Two walks held in conjunction with the exhibition Found at the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery. These walks wove a path in and out of the iconic Erickson University Hall building, allowing for a heightened awareness of thresholds and transitions in the soundscape.

Photo: Ken Allan and Jane Edmundson

sensitive room
audio installation
2006

A live audio installation created for Résider II , a collective site-specific residential installation project in Montreal , 2006. Seven microphones were installed on the exterior of the house, bringing live sound into an interior room via intricate wiring.

Photo: Paul Litherland

ciel
audio installation
2006

ciel was presented as part of Résider II , a site-specific residential installation project sponsored by Galérie B312, Montreal, 2006) Four microphones installed on the exterior of the building brought sound into the space in real time.

Photo: Paul Litherland

vues d'ensemble
working drawings for résider installations
2006

Ongoing series of collage drawings exploring space and site. Mixed media, app. 22 x 30 inches.

Photo: Paul Litherland

St-Henri Listening Walk
2006

In conjunction with Résider II , I conducted a listening walk in the neighbourhood of the installation, providing participants with the opportunity to take in the audio environment as part of a meditative shared activity.

Photo: Karilee Fuglem

relaxations: songs for city dwellers
audio installation
2005

relaxations: songs for city dwellers is a sound installation and CD multiple exploring the space of relaxation as one of detached experience. (Exhibited in Aural Cultures at the Walter Phillips Art Gallery , 2005, and in Found at the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery , 2007)

Photo: Artist

le moindre brut
installation: Jacquard textiles, wood, sound element
2005

le moindre bruit (listening to the fashion plaza) is a reflection on the fashion plaza, an aging textile manufacturing building in Montreal , as a constructed and lived environment. What would happen if we were to listen to our buildings? These sounds suggest an accumulation, not unlike the accumulation of small quotidian gestures that make up an experience of time and place, and contribute to our sense of location and belonging. (Galerie Diagonale, Montreal, 2005)

Photo: Artist

meewasin listening walk
performance
2004

A sound walk created for the Mendel Art Gallery , in the Meewasin River valley in Saskatoon . This work was created after extensive research into acoustic ecology and the creation of sounds walks by other artists, most notably Hildegarde Westerkamp.

Photo: Mendel Art Gallery

noisy room
installation
1999

Noisy Room/Chambre bruyante was created for 48 rooms/ 48 hours, an installation event in a former rooming house in Montreal slated for condominium development. A montage of sounds from the surrounding urban environment engulfed the visitor. A scrim over the windows blurred the sense of sight, making the aural experience even more acute.

Photo: Paul Litherland

gardens
audio installation
1998

Gardens /jardins was a sound installation created at Galerie La Centrale in Montreal , presenting three textile enclosures that are body sized, but cannot be physically entered. Wax-covered decorative objects are arrayed within in the gardens, and three sound montages evoke the imaginative life of the objects, and their cultural trajectories as images, partly real and partly fictional.

Photo: Galerie La Centrale

doors
audio installation
1997

Doors is an installation in three parts, three covered panels which lean against the walls. Each has a peculiar sound element which emerges from behind it. The panels are human body size. They look very minimal, but the sound makes them strangely friendly and enigmatic. (Exhibition at Galerie Optica Montreal )

Photo: Paul Litherland

duo
audio installation
1997

duo consists of two similar textile sculptures that “speak” to one another other through a series of tones, as if in the process of teaching and learning language. (Exhibition at Galerie Optica, Montreal )

Photo: Paul Litherland