Installation view of Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork: Poems of Electronic Air at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 2024. Courtesy of Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. Photo: Julia Featheringill.
Installation view of Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork: Poems of Electronic Air at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 2024. Courtesy of Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. Photo: Julia Featheringill.
Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork, who lives in Los Angeles, is an artist working with sound, sculpture, and architecture. Recognizing the physical, temporal, and experiential aspects of sound, her work often blurs the line between installation and performance as it offers activations of sonic space for audiences to explore or settle into. While embracing the fact that there isn’t a single uniform listening experience for different people, Gork’s work draws out how the presence of our bodies in a space also affect the behavior of sound, whether it’s music, noise, or voices.
At the Renaissance Society, Gork develops a new project for the Intermissions series in collaboration with Laetitia Sonami, a legendary performer, sound artist, and electronic musician who has lived in San Francisco since the late 1970s. Directly engaging with this unique setting, Gork introduces new physical elements into the empty gallery space, positions multiple sound sources, and experiments with the room’s unusual acoustics using spatialization software and other methods. For two days, Sonami and Gork mobilize and shape the sound within this environment in a durational performance that extends across various listening zones.
Curated by Karsten Lund with Michael Harrison
Special thanks to Meyer Sound, Berkeley, CA.
