Jules Gimbrone: The Whole is Also a Hole
presented as part of Resonance: A Sound Art Marathon
Walker Art Center, May 18, 2019
Photo: Malanda Jean-Claude
This whole though is also a hole: the whole individual is emptied out by the very thing that completes it. That is to say, language brings one into consciousness while deflating individuality by forcing it into its network, by making the “song of myself” accountable on the pages of a social text.
–Brandon LaBelle
NY-based artist Jules Gimbrone creates sonic installations that explore the phenomenology of resonance—a set of conditions or relationships between bodies, ideas, energy, objects, and sounds. The Whole Is Also a Hole (2019) is a corporeal sculptural machine comprised of glass vessels filled with organic matter that are charged and broken by sound. Phonetic utterances made by the artist are tuned and re-tuned until liquids jump, shake, and release, causing a disorientation of source, selfhood and direction. Performed live by Gimbrone or autonomously as an installation, the piece functions as a performer, instrument, ensemble, and stage.
The Whole is Also a Hole was commissioned by Allie Tepper for the Walker Art Center, as part of the ten-hour experimental music festival, Resonance: A Sound Art Marathon.
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Touching A Third Sound: Trans-Sensing in a World of Deep Fakes
Waxing Walker: Resonance in Review
