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Energy Fields: Vibrations of The Pacific

Fall 2024 Exibition
September 15, 2024 - January 19, 2025

 Alba Triana, Music on a Bound String No. 2, vibrational sculpture | installation | visible sound interacting with a projected light beam 2015, Credits: Alba Triana Studio, Silvia Ros

 

The Pacific Rim is a hotbed of cultural, military, electromagnetic, and seismic activity. Energy Fields: Vibrations of The Pacific examines approaches to vibration, sound, and kinetic energy shared by artists and scientists working in the Pacific region across the 20th century to the present day. An international group of contemporary artists demonstrates the ways energetic waves operate on the senses, and how these often invisible forces have been considered by artists and scientists. Artworks such as Alba Triana’s sound sculpture Music on a Bound String No. 2 (2015) and David Haines and Joyce Hinterding’s Telepathy (2008)—a single-occupancy anechoic chamber—allow audiences to experience and contemplate their relationship to sound and vibration. Malena Szlam’s film ALTIPLANO creates visual rhythms against a soundscape generated from infrasound (below human hearing) recordings of volcanoes, geysers, and Chilean blue whales. Energy Fields also reflects on the contributions of Indigenous artists and traditional environmental knowledge across four continents connected by the Pacific Ocean.

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(Pictured above: Alba Triana, Music on a Bound String No. 2, vibrational sculpture | installation | visible sound interacting with a projected light beam 2015, Credits: Alba Triana Studio, Silvia Ros)


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Marcus Herse
Marcus Herse
Director, Guggenheim Gallery
herse@chapman.edu
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