In celebration of the wider sonic arts this NZ Music Month, Toi Auaha is hosting two sound exhibitions in May in its temporary Reception Space Gallery. Maree Quinn’s The Road is the Site of Many Journeys meditative quadraphonic field-recording soundscape The Road is the Site of Many Journeys opens on the evening of Thursday 14th May and runs until 24th May. This is followed by Erin “Rails” Voice’s multi-speaker sonic conversation installation that opens Thursday 28th and closes on 7th June.
Lyttelton based artist, Maree Quinn explores concepts of memory and place, perception and sound, in a creative practice that ranges from painting and drawing to soundscapes and time based media. In The Road is the Site of Many Journeys, Quinn retraces the sonic ghosts of her Whakapapa on the West Coast, inviting its audience to drop in and out of her road trip, in a form of temporal openness.
Erin ‘Rails’ Voice is an emerging music and audio artist and MAINZ graduate who describes herself as a gender-abolitionist, transgender, eco-anarcho-communist sonomancer. In Long to Join Your People; For You Matter to Me, and Already Have, the audience encounters a group of audio speakers, potentially eavesdropping on their private conversation.
Maree Quinn – Opening: 5.30pm Thursday 14 May Artist Talk: 6.30pm Thursday 14 May at the Auricle Listening Lounge Exhibition open 12-5pm Fridays (15 & 22 May), 10am-4pm Saturdays (16 & 23 May)
Erin ‘Rails’ Voice – Opening: 5.30pm Thursday 28 May Exhibition open 10am-4pm Saturdays (30 May, 5 June) & Sundays (31 May & 6 June) Toi Auaha, 5 Worcester Boulevard, Christchurch