Spillage
January 2020
Averill Park, NY, United States
“spillage” is a sculptural interpretation of Yixuan’s album “two breaths forward, one breath back,” exploring the effect of displacement of sound and the impermanence of materiality. Using sound, light, found objects, fabrics, and ink, it invites conversations and reinterpretations of preexisting surroundings, realigning the tension of contemporary politics and history.
Yixuan Shao is a composer and multidisciplinary artist. Her works explore the notion of the archive as a collection of things and beings, and the impact of the Institution on the cultural, social, economic space we take up. Her practice uses sound and sound-studies as an all-encompassing atlas, and intimate and interior listening as an approach to build relations outside of the frame of time. Her collaboration with California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography was featured in San Diego Tribute. She received the Farrell Prize in 2019. Her works were performed and shown at Betalevel, The FRONT Arte Cultura, the Athenaeum Art Center, and The Conrad Prebys Music Center. She is currently undertaking an MFA in Sound Art at Columbia University in New York.
Photography Hyunbae Chang & Jennifer Park
Post Production Jennifer Park
