30 Nov 2017

'The Institute of Signals and Noise and The Wail that Was Warning'

Aura Satz and David Toop, London Review Bookshop, London

Aura Satz and David Toop will be performing in the intimate downstairs venue at the Bookshop. Between noise and signals, alarms and dial tones, sirens and whistles, wails and howls, masked language and hidden voices, the evening's improvisations will uncover a variety of sound textures, anecdotes, calls to attention, imperatives and doubts.

LRB BLOG, a conversation between Aura Satz and David Toop

londonreviewbookshop.co.uk

7 Nov - 21 Dec 2018

'Listen, Recalibrate'

Solo show at Fridman Gallery, New York

The Wail That Was Warning (2018) is a sound sculpture in which five hand-cranked sirens are daisy-chained, each tuned to a different RPM to generate a spectrum of sounds that oscillates between a growl, a moan, a howl, a wail, a scream and a siren. The siren's ambiguous temporality, warning of future dangers and mourning of tragedies past, is enmeshed with its non-human associations, recalling different affective qualities of animal or non-verbal communication. The sculpture gives rise to different possible readings of the siren, beyond a simple call to attention or a marker of civil (dis)obedience. Exhibition catalogue with essays by Christoph Cox, David Crowley, Barbara London, and Aura Satz in conversation with David Toop.

fridmangallery.com/listen-recalibrate

26 June - 26 September 2020

'Art in the Age of Anxiety'

Group show at Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, curated by Omar Kholeif

Curated by SAF Director of Collections and Senior Curator Omar Kholeif, Art in the Age of Anxiety brings together a global group of contemporary artists to explore the ways everyday devices, technologies and digital networks have altered our collective consciousness. The exhibition presents more than 60 works spanning sculpture, prints, video, virtual reality, robotics and algorithmic programs developed by more than 30 international artists. Art in the Age of Anxiety conjures the bombardment of information, misinformation, emotion, deception and secrecy that invades online and offline life in the age of digital technology. It aims to illuminate the 'post-digital' condition - the manners and behaviours found in a world altered by the rise of digital technologies - and posits speculations for our future. The exhibition represents the culmination of more than a decade of research on the subject by Kholeif, who has previously curated internationally touring exhibitions such as I Was Raised on the Internet (MCA Chicago, 2018) and Electronic Superhighway (Whitechapel Gallery, 2016) and authored and edited seven books on the subject, including You Are Here: Art After the Internet (HOME and Space, 2018) and Goodbye, World! Looking at Art in the Digital Age (Sternberg Press, 2018).

Participating artists: Lawrence Abu Hamdan - Cory Arcangel - Jeremy Bailey - Wafaa Bilal - James Bridle - Antoine Catala - Douglas Coupland - Thomson & Craighead - Simon Denny - Aleksandra Domanovic - Constant Dullaart - Electronic Disturbance Theater - Cao Fei - Oliver Laric - Lynn Hershman Leeson - Rafael Lozano-Hemmer - Eva and Franco Mattes - Joshua Nathanson - Katja Novitskova - Trevor Paglen - Jon Rafman - Tabor Robak - Pamela Rosenkranz - Aura Satz - Bogosi Sekhukhuni - Jenna Sutela - UVA - Siebren Versteeg - Andrew Norman Wilson - Guan Xiao - YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES

sharjahart.org/art-in-the-age-of-anxiety sharjahart.org/wail-that-was-warning-2018