Solo Exhibition at Shepparton Art Museum
Park Run Results:
A sound based experience was created at SAM (Shepparton Art Museum) around the local phenomenon of Park Run, an event that attracts more than 24,000 runners annually to Shepparton’s Park Lake on Saturdays. Collecting data from the heart rates of competing runners, I transposed each athlete’s pulse into the musical device of the metronome.
Through a series of beats, the metronomes broadcast an auditory trace of how each runner’s internal body clock has experienced the race. The viewers can determine for themselves which individual has pushed their body to the furthest limit.
This work taps into the histories of sound art, endurance art and relational aesthetics, movements that often blur the gap between art and life. Hierarchies between artist and audience are disrupted, making art from the stuff of everyday life.
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A sound based experience was created at SAM (Shepparton Art Museum) around the local phenomenon of Park Run, an event that attracts more than 24,000 runners annually to Shepparton’s Park Lake on Saturdays. Collecting data from the heart rates of competing runners, I transposed each athlete’s pulse into the musical device of the metronome.
Through a series of beats, the metronomes broadcast an auditory trace of how each runner’s internal body clock has experienced the race. The viewers can determine for themselves which individual has pushed their body to the furthest limit.
This work taps into the histories of sound art, endurance art and relational aesthetics, movements that often blur the gap between art and life. Hierarchies between artist and audience are disrupted, making art from the stuff of everyday life.
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