Sunday 5 November 2017, 7.30pm
Jana Winderen is an artist educated in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College in London, and with a background in mathematics, chemistry and fish ecology from the University in Oslo. She had an installation in Park Avenue Tunnel, New York City in the summer of 2014 and exhibited at MoMA, NYC in 2013. Winderen was recently an artist-in-residence at the TBA21 Academy and releases her audio-visual works on Touch. In 2011 she won the Golden Nica, Ars Electronica, for Digital Music & Sound Art. Amongst her activities are immersive multi-channel installations and concerts that she has performed internationally. Recent commissions for multichannel sound installation works include the pieces ‘Transmission’ for the V-A-C foundation, ‘Classified' for the Borealis festival, bára for TBA21 and 'Spring Bloom in the Marginal Ice Zone’ for Sonic Acts, all in 2017. She currently lives and works in Oslo.
“Winderen seems driven more by her own passion, rather than the strength of her concepts. This is immersive and powerful creation first, field recordings second.” – Dusted Magazine
“my work uses a variety of formats to explore place, sounds outside of our attention and our response to located elements and experience. Threads and traces, mapping fasination, self trust, community and sensory, intuitive response. Clearing the dust of bias and perceptions of place. I work extensively with micro and durational listening / traces of objects, spaces and situations, texts and photographic scores.”
Alongside performances and exhibitions Jez gives talks and runs workshops on listening / located sound as an art form and has developed a range of specialist microphones and techniques widely used across sound culture.
Work has included commissions and performances for Tate Modern & Tate Britain (UK), Paradise Air (Japan), MoT - Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (Japan), Spikersuppa Lydgalleri, Oslo (Norway), Baltic (UK), Steklenik (Slovenia), Catalyst Arts (N. Ireland), The Whitworth Gallery (UK) , Artisphere (USA), Harpa (Iceland), Mengi (Iceland), The Wired Lab (Australia), Mullae Art Space (Korea), q-02 (Belgium), Matsudo Science Art Festival / Ftarri & Permian (Japan) etc.
https://jezrileyfrench.co.uk
Instagram: @jezrileyfrench
