The Engine Room 2017: International Sound Art Exhibition celebrates the most exciting sound art being produced right now by emerging artists from across the world. Following an international open call for works, twenty finalists have been selected by an esteemed panel of judges including sound artists Janek Schaefer, Annie Mahtani and publisher of The Wire, Tony Herrington.
The exhibition takes you on a sonic adventure across a diverse range of sound art practice and will feature works from the following artists.
| William Aikman (UK) | Mathevet Frédéric (France) | Amirabbas Mohammadi (Iran) |
| Simon Bennison (UK) | John Grieve (UK) | Chris Pulley (USA) |
| Liliana & Rui Carvalho (Portugal/UK) | Myungduk Kim (South Korea) | Alexandra Spence (Australia) |
| Jason Charney (USA) | Dan Knight (UK) | Jojo Taylor (UK) |
| George Cloke (UK) | Otso Lähdeoja (Finland) | Xavier Velastin (UK) |
| Dirk D’Hulster (Belgium) | Nolan Lem (USA) | Samantha Taylor & Phil Wilson-Perkin (UK) |
| Laura Daly (UK) | Mara Marxt Lewis (Austria) & Tyler Lewis (USA) |
The Engine Room exhibition will also feature a newly commissioned work by established sound artist Tim Murray-Browne in collaboration with Aphra Shemza.
Post-Truth and Beauty – Engine Room 2017 Commission
Post-Truth and Beauty creates an immediate sensory analogue of the evolving, multi-faceted, ungraspable nature of truth. It responds to a post- Brexit, mid-Trump descent across the political spectrum into tribalist discourse of labels and otherness.
It aims to provoke the audience to question how authority, power, evidence and truth relate. Visitors are invited into a ring of eight speakers adjacent to a structure of interweaving luminescent rods. Inside, a 3D camera tracks their body to control sound and light. As they move, different perspectives onto an intangible abstract landscape emerge.
The work guides the visitor towards physical positions where the artist has crafted specific perspectives onto the audio-visual scene. These ‘sweet spots’ create a non-linear narrative of partial glimpses into an ungraspable truth
The Engine Room is a Morley College London initiative, continuing Morley’s legacy as a leading centre for experimental music and sound art. The competition and exhibition are supported by The Wire, IKLECTIK, HHB, Academia, Genelec, and Bigger Boat Distribution.
