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# Project Description native sea Maria Grigoriu Summary Final work Multimedia artist and researcher based in London, UK. Their work uses sound mainly in the context of installation and performance, to question ideas of intimacy, authenticity and mediation. Weaving both electronic and organic sounds, they seek the boundary between overbearing softness and violence. Multimedia artist and researcher based in London, UK. Their work uses sound mainly in the context... College London College of Communication Course BA (Hons) Sound Arts Graduation year 2024 native sea in an emerging body of work consisting of multimedia installation, sound and moving image. The project deals with themes of intimacy/extimacy, authenticity and the violence of exposure. The project was inspired by the Romanian play Iona , written by Marin Sorescu, which in turn is built on the biblical myth of Jonah. The Romanian spectralist movement served as sonic inspiration. Final work native sea: first movement Following the assertion that all life originates in the sea (Neimanis, 2019), native sea makes use of materials that can be regarded as remainders of the sea in its’ evaporation: salt, alabaster, plaster (the latter being both forms of gypsum, calcium sulphate). The act of evolving states, in particular those of evaporation and sublimation, is linked to ideas of movement and extraction. These are used metaphorically to point to a desire for uncovering and immediation that the ‘society of authenticity’ (Han, 2020) is characterised by. This installation seeks to bring forth the violence of this act of navel-gazing and exposure. The sound accompanying the installation is played through a single cone speaker placed in a plaster bauble cracked open. A composition of recordings of absorption glasses being blown into mimics a ‘whispered screaming’, a hissing oscillation between softness and violence. Partially encased by three vertical wood frames and white cotton gauze, the installation invokes ritual and sanctuary. The disappearance of ritual and its redundancy is intimately connected to the adversity to form that dominates the individualistic society. Yet, ‘mediation, signs, deferral are at the heart of the heart.’ (Dutoit, 2004) The navel, the original separation wound, encases this resonance. View Gallery View Gallery native sea: second movement Making use of similar materials, the second iteration introduces the element of movement through projection mapping. The sonic component combines trickling sounds of salt and water with that of blowing in a series of glass baubles made through a glass-blowing technique. The composition is played through two Genelec monitors positioned on the floor. Share this project native sea in an emerging body of work consisting of multimedia installation, sound and moving image. The project deals with themes of intimacy/extimacy, authenticity and the violence of exposure. The project was inspired by the Romanian play Iona</... A link to this page has been added to your clipboard Browse related work Body Materiality Privacy Story & Myth Multimedia Sound Video
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