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Intermissions: Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork & Laetitia Sonami

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.

  • Sat, Nov 16–Sun, Nov 17, 2024

    SAT, 6–11PM
    SUN, 4–6PM

    Audience members may come and go throughout each day’s performance, from 6:00-11:00 p.m. on Saturday, and 4:00-6:00 p.m. on Sunday.

    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 affects 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 performer, sound artist, and electronic musician Laetitia Sonami. 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. For two days, Sonami and Gork mobilize and shape the sound within this environment across various listening zones.

    Curated by Karsten Lund with Michael Harrison

    Special thanks to Meyer Sound, Berkeley, CA.

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