Tashkeel’s programming will be adding a further and global distinction to their artist outreach programme when current artists in residence, Fari Bradley and Chris Weaver, participate in the 20th International Symposium for Electronic Art (ISEA) to be held on October 30-November 8 in Dubai.

Fari Bradley and Chris Weaver, as part of their 11-month New Media Artist residency, on Tashkeel’s Guest Artist Programme - will present ‘Variations for Rooms and a Tone’, a site specific installation.

Bradley and Weaver have, since starting the residency in June, been working towards this experimental work to be shown as part of ISEA.  The work explores the relationship between architectural spaces and sound. A performative and collaborative aspect of this work is the creation of a free-form, experimental choir mostly of inexperienced and untrained singers, all of whom work with space and buildings in some capacity in their daily professions. ‘Variations for Rooms and a Tone’ is a work now in its fourth iteration, which responds to the UAE’s culture of constant construction and reflects on the imagined permanency of manmade structures.

“The architectural spaces will be activated by the choir to ‘vocalise’ their own sounds,” says artist Fari Bradley. “Chris and I will install speakers and microphones in specific places throughout the space which will vibrate at their own natural frequencies, creating a programmed sequence when heard collectively.”

The “singers”, professionals connected to the construction industry (architects, planners or surveyors), normally dictate what a building will look like and then move on, this piece repositions them instead with those who experience the end product, in a wholly physical and relational way, through the medium of sound.

As part of the ISEA programme, Bradley will participate in a talk alongside two other sound artists on 3 November at Zayed University's Convention Centre. Entitled Audible Phenomena in the Everyday, Bradley will discuss and share concepts of hers and Weaver's work.

 “As experimental musicians, Bradley and Weaver, create work that engages the imagination of the listener to complete the piece. Collaborating since 2006, Bradley and Weaver have worked on projects employing the alternative sounds of electronics, acoustic phenomena, domestic and re-purposed materials. We are pleased to have them as part of Tashkeel’s New Media Artist Residency and participating in ISEA this year, where the unique elements of their practice can be shared with the growing and involved public here, enhancing the cultural infrastructure of Dubai,” said Anabelle de Gersigny, Tashkeel Strategy and Partnership Development Manager.

In September Bradley and Weaver curated a series of talks and screenings on sound art at Tashkeel, and in 2015, they will present an exhibition in January at Tashkeel, along with a major work during Dubai’s art season in March. The residency ends in April 2015. 

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