January 6 – February 4, 2017

Opening Reception: Friday January 6,
7-10pm

Calder Harben

Download Text by Shannon Webb-Campbell

Off of the east coast of Sicily, lowered into the depths of the the Mediterranean Sea, is a hydrophone. It listens 24 hours a day, 7 days week. This source provides material for Bodies of Water, a low-frequency audio installation pushing the thresholds of perceptibility, through sound and body, to ask: What are the limits of what we can sense? How do we relate to a body that is not our own? How do we relate to a soundscape we do not inhabit?

The artist acknowledges the support of the Ontario Arts Council for this exhibition.

Bodies of Water is part of the Toronto Design Offsite Festival 2017

Image: tympanic ear bone of a minke whale, collection of the artist.

Documentation by Yuula Benivolski