Closing soon: Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork ‘Olistostrome’ at Empty Gallery
Jacqueline Kiyomi GorkOlistostromeSep 11 – Nov 20, 2021 Empty Gallery 18 & 19/F Grand Marine Center3 Yue Fung Street, Tin WanHong Kong+852 2563 3396Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 7pm http://www.emptygallery.com 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 …