Bowerbird is pleased to present MSHR with opening set by Grace Villamil at The Rotunda.
Curated by Eugene Lew, this performance brings together electronic sound artists who work with varied programs, hardware, and DIY lighting sensors to create electronic soundscapes dispersed over a quad speaker set up.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Grace is an interdisciplinary artist working with sound, performance, imagery, and embodied archives. Her practice tends to how infrastructures of language, urban noise, sport, and pedagogy shape how the body listens over time. Drawing from heritage: karaoke culture, basketball, and environmental sound, her work proposes alternative modes of listening that resist pitch discipline, virtuosity, and assimilation.
Current projects include mumulak; Interaural Space, a community installation turned WPRB radio broadcast on noise, migration, and oral history; ⎤⎤⎤ (Superpang & Notice Recordings); Her work has been presented with Morphine Records, Fridman Gallery, and Black Mountain College Museum, including community projects with IONE and the Pauline Oliveros Foundation. She’s performed works by Raven Chacon and collaborated live-visuals with Tyondai Braxton. Presentations include Amant, Elbphilharmonie Kleiner Saal, Kiosk Radio, BXL, The Broad / REDCAT, Issue Project Room, among others.
MSHR is an art collective that collaboratively builds and explores sculptural electronic systems.
Their performances and installations integrate electrical signals and human presence, weaving dense networks of causality to form audiovisual environments that babble with a life-like current.
They explore intuitive and technical gradients between sonic and sculptural forms, using analog circuitry and open-source software to sculpt mutually resonant hyperobjects.
MSHR was founded by Brenna Murphy and Birch Cooper in 2011 in Portland, Oregon, as an offshoot from the collective Oregon Painting Society.
The name MSHR is a modular acronym designed to hold varied ideas over time. It can be pronounced as an acronym or like one who meshes.