AUDIO GHOSTS: Illusive perceptions – Perceptual illusions
Monday, October 14, 2024 @ SP•CE, 19:00-22:00
Christine Schörkhuber: AUDIO GHOSTS 1 – ththbrsh
Sound Installation (Opening)
Further opening hours: October 15 to 18, 2024, 18:00-20:00, October 19 and 20, 2024, 16:00-20:00
AUDIO GHOSTS 1
Christine Schörkhuber: ththbrsh – Sound Installation
Acoustic illusions often occur randomly, ghostly, and unassignable in everyday life, consciously or unconsciously accompanying us throughout our days. Since the advent of electrification, electricity has been associated with supernatural phenomena.
The acoustic illusions generated by electrical currents frequently serve as harbingers of delusion or metaphysical events in cinematic narratives. Christine Schörkhuber has placed these phenomena at the center of her reflections and selected the electric toothbrush as the research subject. The artist manipulated these widespread, overtone-rich electrical household devices so that they can be deliberately and precisely brought into various vibrational states through programmed current control via microcontrollers. This way, specific acoustic illusions are intentionally generated and can be reproducibly retrieved.
Christine Schörkhuber
Christine Schörkhuber studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. She primarily works with sound, electronics, and spatial installation, creating large-scale interventions and subtle sound performances, kinetic objects, video art, and compositions. The artist is interested in listening at the intersections of visual art, concept, and auditory art. Her work delves deeply into the dynamics of relationships and systems of order on social, physical, and technological levels. She has participated in national and international exhibitions, including at Rockbund Museum Shanghai, Paraflows, Tricky Women, Crossing Europe, UnOrtnung V, Soundart Konfrontationen Nickelsdorf, Pixxelpoint Media Art Festival Nova Gorica, cheLA Buenos Aires, das weisse haus, Forum Stadtpark Graz, Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Unconscious Archives Festival, ACF London, Galerie 5020, Warsaw Biennale, Wien Modern, Kunstradio Ö1; Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Parallel 23, esc Medienkunstlabor, steirischer herbst23; Musikprotokoll 23, Heidi Horten Collection 24. She received the 2013 Start Scholarship from BMUKK for New Media and Video Art, participated in the 2014/15 New Austrian Sound of Music program of the BMEIA for Experimental/New Music, and won the 2019 Recognition Award for Media Art from the State of Lower Austria. In 2021, she received the SKE Publicity Award, and in 2023, the Shape+ Residence. Formerly a IG Kultur Austria board member, the Cultural Network Lower Austria, and the feminist hackerspace Mz. Baltazar’s Laboratory, she is also a co-founder and curator of the Klangmanifeste sound art festival with Ulla Rauter since 2010 and of the non-proprietary streaming platform echoraeume. She currently serves as the director of the Symposium Lindabrunn Association and holds a teaching position at the University of Art and Design Linz for time-based and interactive media.