NYAB Event - “Sound Spill” Exhibition

“Sound Spill” Exhibition

Zabludowicz Collection New York

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The Zabludowicz Collection presents Sound Spill, a group exhibition curated by Thom O’Nions and Richard Sides, a curator and an artist who have been awarded a curatorial research grant to develop the exhibition after a research period in New York City. Sound Spill will bring together existing works from the Zabludowicz Collection by artists including Fischli/Weiss, Amalia Pica, Seth Price and Raphael Zarka alongside a series of new commissions and works by other artists selected by the curators in the lead up to the exhibition.

Sound Spill is an ongoing project by Thom O’Nions, Richard Sides and Haroon Mirza. This will be its fifth manifestation after versions online and in the UK at S1, Sheffield; Spike Island, Bristol and Seventeen, London as well as at West in Den Haag, The Netherlands. The project sets out to examine how sound inhabits an exhibition space, particularly the way in which it spills or bleeds into and between art works. The interaction of the sound made by each work dictates and structures their arrangement, creating a composition. This model allows for unexpected relationships to be highlighted between works in contrast to a traditional thematic approach to exhibition-making.

The curatorial research grant has enabled O’Nions and Sides to spend time in New York in order to seek artists outside the Zabludowicz Collection for inclusion in the exhibition as well as to extend their independent practices in an important contemporary art capital. Sound Spill will include new commissions made for the Collection’s dramatic Times Square location at 1500 Broadway. The resulting exhibition will extend their research interests in the threshold between art production and exhibition-making. Their research will form the basis for a publication and can be followed at soundspill.org

A new display of works from the collection will also be on show in the Tamares headquarters on the 24th floor. For the first time the full series of 18 Associative Photographs by acclaimed British artist Ryan Gander will be shown alongside a number of recent works from the Collection. This is open by appointment.

Sound Spill is the fourth project initiated by the Zabludowicz Collection in temporarily vacant spaces at 1500 Broadway, a working office complex owned by Tamares, the exhibition’s sponsor. Zabludowicz Collection are also grateful to premiere arts outlet Mana Contemporary who are kindly providing installation, technological and logistical support for the exhibition.

Due to the research nature of this exhibition the full artist list is still in development and will be announced in April at soundspill.org and zabludowiczcollection.com/newyork

Richard Sides is an artist based in London. He graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2012 and has exhibited throughout the UK and Europe. Recent exhibitions include Fortune tellers make a killing nowadays with Angharad Williams, Lombard Method, Birmingham; Stop Killing My Buzz, Invites, Zabludowicz Collection, London and Soundworks, ICA, London. Sides is based at The Woodmill in Bermondsey, London.

Thom O’Nions is a curator and writer based in London. He is co-director of Supplement. As well as the ongoing Sound Spill project, recent exhibitions include: A man is walking down the street. At a certain moment, he tries to recall something, but the recollection escapes him. Automatically, he slows down. with Luiza Teixeira de Freitas at Cristina Guerra, Lisbon; The Exact Weight of Lightness at Travesia Quatro Madrid and A Threepenny Opera at S1, Sheffield.

[Image: Tisha Baga “Hard Rock” (2012)]

Media

• Installation
• Media Arts

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