To hear on Sunday 25 September and 2 October 2016, 2pm - 9pm:
In the Throats of Trees
Sound installation (2016)
by Stephanie Loveless
Stephanie Loveless on 'In the Throats of Trees':
'In the Throats of Trees' is a sound installation with an accompanying booklet of listening instructions, that explores the “voices” of trees. The composition is built up of recordings the artist vocalizing with the sound of wind through the branches of five species of trees – larch, birch, pine, spruce, maple – making a dark forest of sound.
The listening instructions invite the audience to listen as trees. Trees operate within a completely different scale of time and movement from humans – what might we learn from them if we stopped to listen?
The piece is inspired by the conviction that life – and survival – in the age of the anthropocene will require the radical re-making of dominant human culture. In the Throat of Trees proposes a culture grounded in empathetic listening to the non-human, rooted voices of the world around us.
Audio Field Reports nos. 1-52:
Interviews since January 2014 with the artists, concept, questions, design by Knut Remond. Limited editions audio cassettes, each 8 copies numbered. Available at 'ohrenhoch, der Geräuschladen' (and heard on headphone in the ohrenhoch archive space).
Audio Field Report no. 53 / Sound activism 32: Interview with Stephanie Loveless by Knut Remond.
LABORATORY OF HEARING
Convey your thoughts relating to hearing and your experiences in the presentations of 'ohrenhoch Sundays' with the theme 'sound activism'!
With this action the Laboratory of Hearing starts on the occasion of "Dead or Ice Cream".
A sheet of paper is ready for you to write down your thoughts, questions or answers. Your statements remain in the Soundgallery and thus will be readable for all visitors and sound activists.
'ohrenhoch' is a place that tries to intensify its activities on both sides, with the artists on the one hand and the visitors on the other hand, who of course are active, too, and who can contribute to finally spur on together a social, Enlightenment discourse.
ohrenhoch - the Noise Shop | Sept. 2016
Stephanie Loveless is a Montréal-born artist whose reserach centers on listening and vocal embodiment. She makes soft-speakers out of paper cups, performance prescriptions for audience-identified ailments, and sound works that channel the voices of plants, animals, and musical divas.
Her sound, video, and performance work has been presented in festivals, galleries, museums and artist-run centers worldwide. She has received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the British Columbia Arts Council and el Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico; awards from Kodak, the International Festival of Cinema and Technology, and the Malcolm S. Morse Foundation; and has completed residencies at el Centro Mexicano para la Musica y las Artes Sonoras (Morelia, Mexico), the Coleman Center for the Arts (York, Alabama), and Studio XX (Montréal, Québec).
She holds MFAs from both Bard College and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a certification in Deep Listening. She currently lives and works in upstate New York.
Website Stephanie Loveless