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1/3/2007

GeoPhonoBox

Around the Coyote Gallery, Chicago

Sonic surveys of place. Group show

Around the Coyote is pleased to present GeoPhonoBox an exhibit curated by Chicago based visual and sonic artist Zoe Asta and Associate Professor in the Department of Film, Peck School of the Arts, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Rob Danielson. This exhibition will feature sound recordings about "place" created by sound artists, nature recordists, ethnographers, composers, pedestrians, geographers and other practitioners from around the world. Each submission in the show is to represent one geographic place within the realm of a cardboard shipping box.

This is the first sound art exhibition at the Around the Coyote Gallery, and one of the few contemporary sound art exhibitions held in Chicago. The importance of the use of noise or sound in modern and contemporary art can be traced back at least to the 1913 publication of The Art of Noise by Luigi Russolo; however, as opposed to the early sound artists who were rightly preoccupied with the political, social and art historical implications of noise as an artistic medium, contemporary sound artists can take an understanding of noise as medium for granted. The debate over musicalized or non-musicalized noise is no longer automatically relevant. GeoPhonoBox: Sonic Surveys of Place shows how sound, once we get beyond the conceptual debate over the medium, can be used like any visual medium to describe and evoke.

Each artist was sent a cardboard shipping box in which they could include visual cues, if they desired, along with their sound project. Each box is displayed in the gallery as it was returned to us from the artists, the box serving as a document of the distance the sound piece traveled as well as the container for the visual and auditory elements of the piece.

Bryce Beverlin II's project, Florida, combines recordings of southern gulf ocean waves infused with north central mainland thunderstorms. He has chosen to include a sun-bleached fish carcass among the visual cues used to further draw the listener/viewer into his chosen place. Beverlin is a multi-disciplinary artist residing in Minneapolis where he explores various forms of art including free improvisational music, contact improvisational dance, guerrilla public performance, film and video, poetry, public and private installation, and conceptual composition. Bryce started the record label, insides music, in 1999 along with psionic art publishing. He currently studies physics at the University of Minnesota. Bryce can be found on the web at: insidesmusic.com/bryce

Peter Goin's piece, Bravo 20, depicts a bombing range located within the Carson Sink near the Stillwater Wildlife Refuge, Nevada. This location has been used by the Navy as a test range for more than sixty years. Peter Goin's contribution reflects years of both visual and auditory documentation of this site, which is itself one of America's most bizarre landscapes. Goin is the author of Tracing the Line: A Photographic Survey of the Mexican-American Border (limited edition artist book, 1987), Nuclear Landscapes (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991), Stopping Time: A Rephotographic Survey of Lake Tahoe with essays by C. Elizabeth Raymond and Robert E. Blesse (University of New Mexico Press, 1992), and Humanature (University of Texas Press, 1996). Peter's photographs have been exhibited in more than fifty museums nationally and internationally, and he is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. Peter's video work has earned him an EMMY nomination as well as the Best Experimental Video Award at the 2001 New York International Film & Video Festival. At the turn of the new century, Peter was awarded the Governor's Millennium Award for Excellence in the Arts. His most current Public Art work is an exhibit of Narrative Photograms, Light Box Series, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Peter Goin is a Foundation Professor of Art in photography and videography at the University of Nevada, Reno

Exhibited Artists include: Tamara Albaitis (San Francisco), Jorge Bachmann and Jessica Resmond (San Francisco), Lori Beckstead (Toronto, Canada), Bryce Beverlin II (North Oaks, Minnesota), Scott Bowering (Vancouver, Canada), Emily Conrad (Brooklyn, New York), Sebastian Craig (London), MR Daniel (Princeton, New Jersey), Rob Danielson (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), John Davis (San Francisco), Martin Desloovere (Mariakerke, Belgium), Heribert Friedl (Vienna, Austria), Peter Goin (Reno, Nevada), Mike Hallenbeck (Minneapolis, Minnesota), Noah Jurcin (Evanston, Illinois), Jason Kahn (Zurich, Switzerland), Meri von KleinSmid (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada), Robert Major (Harlan, Kentucky), Danielle Martin (Chicago, Illinois), Robert Millis (Seattle, Washington), David Moré (Chicago, Illinois), Lance Olsen (Victoria, Canada), Heather Perkins (Portland, Oregon), David Rose (Toronto, Canada), Matthew Sansom (London), Justyna Scheuring (London), Scott Sherk (Orefield, Pennsylvania), Toby Sinkinson (Boulder, Colorado), Annette Sowell (Hollywood, California), Bruce Tovsky (Brooklyn, New York).

Opening Night Reception: Friday, March 2 from 7-11pm

Around the Coyote Gallery
1935 ½ W. North Ave. - Chicago

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