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IcerocketLearn about current IMA events with Melvin and Bren Simon Director and CEO Maxwell Anderson. This episode features on-camera appearances by IMA Curator, Sarah Green and artist, Julianne Swartz.
So, here we are in an installation by Julianne Schwartz, and it's an installation of sound in a space where people are meant to come in the building
and walk up and find out what's going on in the museum. What are they experiencing as we are hearing around us right now?
They are experiencing what Julianne Schwartz has called a "landscape of gentle sound."
[Whispering]
She has recorded thirty-seven people. She asked them to whisper to someone who they feel some sort of tenderness for.
[Whispering]
In your sense, what's the public's reaction to having this in an entrance, as opposed to a gallery?
They will encounter artwork the moment they step into the space and they might not even know it until they look up and they see it and they notice that there's unusual sounds around them and I think it's a wonderful,
kind of, gradual way to understand that you're in a place to see and experience art.
[Whispering]
Thank you, Sarah. We are going to now have a chat with the artist, Julianne Schwartz.
Julianne, welcome! So glad you are working with us on this project.
Thanks!
Ya, I am curious to know what your sense was of this space and the challenges it afforded and the opportunities it afforded as a space.
The first challenge was to do a piece that was a sound piece in this very public space where there was a lot of interruption of the sound and try to figure out a kind of sound that would work
in this kind of situation, and I wanted it actually, the sound, to fit into this kind of environment which is that you are in a public environment, you might overhear somebody's conversation
so something just above ambient.
The piece really is negotiated by the movement of your body. It's all happening overhead and you negotiate it by the path you walk.
Thanks for joining us today and come back again soon for another episode of what's happening at the IMA. Thank you very much for joining us!
Oh my goodness, this is such a cool experience. Orley's interpetations of her sculptures in the IMA was very vivid and inspiring. She shines bright through her art. It just shows her intrueging personality as an artist.
This piece inspires me as well! Great piece of art!
Sounds kind of spooky. I like it!
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