Edwina Stevens
SONIC ACTIVATION
22 March, 4pm
Site 9, Lorne Beach boardwalk
Edwina Stevens (Otepoti/Dunedin, Naarm/Melbourne) is an audiovisual artist working across composition, installation and live performance, focusing on environmental recordings, found acoustic elements, obsolete media and synthesised sound. Her work investigates audiovisual processes of engaging with places that are collaborative and improvisational, exploring chance encounters, tangential processes and unanticipated outcomes.
Sculpture+ Stevens will sonically activate Carly Fischer's sculptural installation When you strip everything away, it's just you looking out 2025. In this performative engagement, the metal components of the sculptures will be activated using surface transducers, transforming the sculptures into acoustic resonant bodies. Drawing on environmental recordings taken from Artillery Rocks as well as site-responsive synthesised sound, this sonic activation is intended to extend on generative dialogues between the materialities of the sculptures and the sites they respond to, through closer listening and quieter performative gestures.
This event will be preceded by an artist talk by Carly Fischer.
This project was made possible by the Australian Government Regional Arts Fund, which supports the arts in regional and remote Australia, and Regional Arts Victoria.
Image: Carly Fischer and Edwina Stevens, Velodrome 2022, installation view. Courtesy the artists.
