2017-2018 – John Roach

The Vein Flows below (2018)

Audio work created for the online project Earlid, curated by Joan Schuman that features recordings captured at the Marble House Project in Dorset Vermont, the site of an abandoned marble quarry in a village of abandoned marble quarries.

Pushing Buttons (2018)

Installation exhibited in the group show Pushing Buttons at Agnes Varis Art Center in Brooklyn, NY. It includes glass objects, dry ice, video, and viewer interaction that determines the playback of audio.

Silicate Soundscapes – with Ben Wright (2018)

Silicate Soundscapes co-taught with Ben Wright UrbanGlass Brooklyn, NY A one-week intensive class co-taught at…

Symbiotext – with John Burns (2018)

A collaboration with research Scientist John Burns for the LIGO Project. It is a sound installation that explores connections between language and the transmission of genetic information.

Frozen Words Hot Air (2017)

Live performance at UrbanGlass with glass blowing, percussion and sound manipulation. It combines the alchemical qualities of glass, Rabelais’ Gargantua and Pantagruel and the words of Donald Trump.

Stone Cold Groove (2017)

A series of related works created during a Family residency at Marble House Project in July 2017. The title alludes to the three-part structure of the work with each word of the tile acting as an organizing theme.

The Internal Machine – Curated by John Roach (2017)

An exhibition that I curated for the Center for Book Arts in NYC inspired by the work of Italian designer and artist Bruno Munari.

Ocean Imaginaries – with Emma Critchley (2017)

A collaborative installation with Emma Critchley for the exhibition Ocean Imaginaries at RMIT in Melbourne. It combines her video with my sound installation.