GABI DAO, STEVE HUBERT, DB BOYKO: “Noise gives the listener duration as an artifact”
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Artspeak Gallery 233 Carrall Street, Vancouver, British Columbia V6B 2J2
Opening Friday, February 10, 8pm
The title of this show is borrowed from Lisa Robertson’s prose essay ‘Disquiet’.[1] I find myself returning to Robertson in her writings on how noise/sound can constitute a distinct social fabric; how the convergence of the sonic, temporal, spatial is materialized and tethered to place. In acknowledging and being attentive to understanding the ways that we are part of the soundscape, as observers and producers, how does our being simultaneous with it provide a means through which to translate the associations and experiences sound carries? What are the possibilities of listening as a practice that can inform our personal and political agency? In thinking about the systems through which sound circulates, which are the voices that we hear and which are the voices that we do not hear?
Works by Vancouver-based artists Gabi Dao, Steve Hubert and DB Boyko offer divergent approaches in their considerations of how the ‘intangible’ nature of sound can be materialized. Their practices navigate the space between transmission of information and reception, listening and response. How do we give and determine form to what is not immediately visually discernable?