The People's Republic is thrilled to welcome back from Berlin one of our great electronic improvisers for a unique evening of intense listening with a very special guest...
JASMINE GUFFOND
with
ALEXANDRA SPENCE
SUNDAY March 19th
at 7.30 p.m. [doors at 7]
JASMINE GUFFOND is an artist and composer working at the interface of social, political and technical infrastructures. Her practice spans live performance, recording, sound installation and custom made browser add-on. Through the sonification of data she addresses the potential of sound to engage with contemporary political questions.
Interested in providing an audible presence for phenomena that lie beyond human perception - via the sonification of facial recognition algorithms, global networks, or Internet tracking cookies - she questions what it means for our personal habits to be traceable, and for our identities, choices and personalities to be reduced to streams of data.
Jasmine has exhibited internationally including composing sound for Shulea Cheang’s installation at the Taiwanese Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 2019, and collaborating with Zorka Wollny on a sound installation for the Chicago Architecture Biennal, 2019. She completed her Sound Studies masters at the University der Künste in 2015, received the ‘Working Grant for New Music und Sound Art’ from the Berlin Senate in 2016, was featured in Wire magazine in 2019 and interviewed for ‘Listen to Lists’ a publication by Haus der Kulturen der Welt and Spector Books, 2021.
She has performed live internationally at electronic music and art festivals including opening for CTM festival in 2020. She has released solo records to critical acclaim with Sonic Pieces (2015, 2017), Karl Records (2018) and Editions Mego (2020). In 2021 Dr. Jasmine Guffond completed her PhD at the University of New South Wales Art, Design & Architecture department, where she conducted research into sound as a method of investigation into online surveillance cultures.
Listen to Jasmine here
ALEXANDRA SPENCE is a sound artist and musician living on unceded Wangal land in Sydney, Australia.
Through her practice Alex attempts to reimagine the intricate relationships between the listener, the object, and the surrounding environment as a kind of communion or conversation. Her aesthetic favours field recordings, analogue technologies and object interventions.
Alex has presented her work worldwide including BBC Radio; Ausland, Berlin; Café Oto, London; EMS, Stockholm; Punkt Festival, Kristiansand; Standards Studio, Milan; AB Salon, Brussels; Radiophrenia, Glasgow; Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid; Sound Forms Festival, Hong Kong; Destroy Vancouver; MONO, Brisbane; The Substation, Melbourne; Soft Centre, and Liveworks Festival, with Liquid Architecture, Sydney.
Listen to Alex here
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