Water World: Artist Talks at Alter Space

Featuring exhibiting artists Reenie Charrière, Re*Colectivo, Shane Myrbeck & Emily Shisko

An immersive multi-media exhibition, Water World takes viewers on a journey through environments that posits ideas about our physical state of water and into our deep consciousness that reflect our relationships with this important natural resource.

Reenie Charrière discusses her work in ‘Sirens’ that feature sounds and dress-like tapestries and seaweed and barnacle-like extensions from plastic found in the Oakland estuary linking the mythological Sirens from Homer’s Odyssey to the horrific ongoing accumulation of plastic in the oceans and waterways. Re*Colectivo talks about the personal and global implications in their ‘El Olor del Agua’ video installation which investigates access to clean water in our world through the eyes of women in rural Mexico. Shane Myrbeck & Emily Shisko present the concepts and technologies behind ‘Surface Tension’ a circular ambisonic loudspeaker array installation based on a central metaphor of the behavior of water when an object is dropped into it. Its narrative follows the impact (creation); the propagation (exploration and growth); the distortion (turmoil and conflict); and dissipation (peace, resolution); which ultimately has participants imagine concepts of life through immersive sound.

 

Reenie Charrière is a mixed media artist living in Oakland. She received her MFA in Studio Arts in 2009 from Maine College of Art in Portland,. Her work addresses environmental issues exposing the natural beauty as well as the synthetic trouble around us, and actively considers the consequences of our human conditions. Reenie was a resident artist at the La Napoule Art Foundation, Mandelieu la Napoule, France, where she created an installation, Wastelines and Sauvons La Planete, for a 2014 international exhibition, Her most recent solo installation, Floe, was exhibited in 2012 as part of Vast and Undetectable at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery.

RE*COLECTIVO is a newly formed arts collaborative founded by local filmmakers Bethynia Cardenas and Kapi’olani Lee. Former crewmates on several local short films, the members of RE*COLECTIVO aim to translate the formal conventions of traditional cinema into playful, interactive digital art installations that explore sound as much as image. Drawing on a shared interest in overlooked and forgotten histories, oral storytelling, sound design, and animation, RE*COLECTIVO brings a uniquely feminist, third and fourth-cinema perspective to contemporary arts performance.

Shane A. Myrbeck is a sound artist, composer and acoustician living in San Francisco. He operates in a variety of sonic contexts, including installation design, composition, architectural acoustics consulting, music performance, lecturing and sound recording. Shane’s work explores the visceral and immersive nature of sound through spatial audio display, architectural form and multi-sensory phenomena. His work has been exhibited at Fort Mason Center, Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, the Lab, California Academy of Sciences, Proxy, the ODC Theatre, Arup SoundLab, the Whitehaus, IBM Tokyo and on the streets of San Francisco. He is currently an Artist-in-Residence at the Exploratorium. Shane is an acoustics consultant at Arup, and is currently in charge of the San Francisco SoundLab, an immersive, full-sphere ambisonic sound studio used for composition and acoustic simulation.

Emily Shisko is a San Francisco based composer, performer and teacher. Her most current works live in the intersection between traditional compositional methods and experimental and electronic performance and installation practices. She serves as artist-in-residence at San Francisco’s Exploratorium, and as Junior Apprentice Director with the San Francisco Boys Chorus. A native of Long Beach, California, she earned her BA in Composition and Theory from her hometown school CSU Long Beach, where she studied under Carolyn Bremer, Robin Cox and Bruce Miller. She was awarded the Paul C. Lindsey III Memorial Scholarship for achievement in composition. In Boston, she earned her MA in composition at the Boston Conservatory where she studied under Andy Vores, Jan Swafford and Osvoldo Golijov. She was the recipient of the conservatory’s 2007 Roger Sessions Memorial Composition Award. Emily was a co-founder and artist with the Whitehaus Family Record, a performing arts collective and venue in Boston.

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