Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork
Olistostrome
Sep 11 – Nov 20, 2021
Empty Gallery
18 & 19/F Grand Marine Center
3 Yue Fung Street, Tin Wan
Hong Kong
+852 2563 3396
Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 7pm
Empty Gallery’s second solo exhibition with Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork, Olistostrome, is closing soon on next Saturday, November 20.
Often aiming to reconfigure received hierarchies between audience, performer, and exhibition architecture, Gork’s hybrid practice exists in the slippery disciplinary interstice between sculpture and sound installation. Acutely sensitive to the ways in which the sonic world regulates and molds our sense of subjective interiority, Gork both draws on and subverts the legacy of cybernetics—creating systems of embodied feedback which seek to mobilize the emancipatory potential latent within everyday materials and infrastructures, as well as the simple act of listening.
The visual and sonic (Solutions to Common Noise Problems) landscape is punctuated by a series of sculptures known as Attenuators. At once resembling sacred rocks, greco-roman statuary, and topological formations, these enigmatic structures– dispersed like islands within a reservoir of dry pebbles– function simultaneously as sculptures in the classical sense, and as sonic modifiers for Gork’s psychoacoustic environment. Formed out of felted wool through a laborious hand-needling technique, they continue her long-term exploration of the shared vocabulary common to handicrafts, fiber art– specifically in it’s feminist and post-minimal incarnations– and industrial sound-proofing textiles.
Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork在Empty Gallery舉行的第二個 個展《 Olistostrome》將於下星期六11月20日結束。
Gork 多元混雜的藝術實踐往往意在重整觀眾、表演者和展覽建築間的 接收分類等級制，她的作品存身於雕塑和聲音裝置間含糊多變的規界縫隙中。Gork對聲音世 界如何規範和塑造我們的主體內在性有敏銳的察覺，故她運用和顛覆遺存的控制論，創出多 個反饋具現化系統，試圖動用存在於基礎建設、日常物料以及聆聽行為中有助解放的可能潛力。
介入這個視覺與聲音景觀的是Gork另一組雕塑作品Attenuators。乍看之下，這組作品讓人想起聖石、希羅式雕像以及地誌學排列式，當中如謎般的結構（像是在河石儲存庫上分散的島嶼）是古典意義上的雕塑，但亦同時是Gork心理聲學環境的音波定語。作品以氈毛加上巧心的人手針織技巧製成，Gork在當中貫徹了她對手工藝、編織藝術（特別它的女性主義及後極簡典型）和工業隔音物料的持續探索。
