Chamber Made’s Hi-Viz Practice Exchange 2021 was an online event held over one day. We partnered with The Substation and were thrilled to have a team of Guest Curators, Stéphanie Kabanyana Kanyandekwe, Aviva Endean and Amos Gebhardt who crafted the curatorial themes, artists and shape of Hi-Viz 2021: Sound as Knowledge Exchange.
The day consisted of three sessions:
Session One Storytelling & Sensory Archive
Led by Guest Curator Stéphanie Kabanyana Kanyandekwe
Artist Presentations by Deborah Cheetham, Lucreccia Quintanilla and Mindy Meng Wang
Session Two Amplification & Entanglement
Led by Guest Curator Amos Gebhardt
Artist Presentations by Megan Cope, AM Kanngieser, Rosalind Hall, and Aarti Jadu
Session Three: Collectivity & Attunement
Led by Guest Curator Aviva Endean
Artist Presentations by Ayebatonye Abrakasa, Aarti Jadu, and Jennifer Walshe
Our writers-in-residence were:
Gail Priest: Hi-Viz Reflection: an alterspace for doing
Fjorn Bastos: Hi-Viz Reflection: PULSE IN WAVES AND FORM
'Hi-Viz is the one day I invest in practice development each year. It is so hard to carve out the time and the program is always to rewarding. Thank you.' PARTICIPANT
Sound as Knowledge Exchange: Curatorial Statement
Sound as Knowledge Exchange invites contemplation of sound as a relational medium operating across many registers and knowledge systems. Sound has a unique ontological ability to signal both presences and absences, in the large and small, of the past and present. It reflects the very contours of our world by shaping and being shaped by all phenomena from language, extinction, cultural meaning, storytelling, birth and ecologies.
Sound however is not heard equally. Our ability to know, connect and balance is impacted by dominant registers and perceptual hierarchies that habituate our sense of listening. This sensorial distortion can work at the intimate scale of the body, and echo out to a national, cultural and species level.
We are interested in individual and collective practices which disrupt the habitual, to ask how expanding an attunement to sound can generate cultures of change? Care and connectivity? Protest and survival?
Three key sessions addressing these ideas are Storytelling & Sensory Archive, Amplification & Entanglement and Collectivity & Attunement. Within these sessions, we invite a range of artists working at the nexus of sound, performance and music to reflect on how the sounds we choose to amplify impact who we are and how we share existence.