Artist statement

My work investigates listening and communication practices as active, participatory, multi-sensory performances which are distributed throughout a variety of human, material and technological agencies. By interrogating points of intersection between sensorial and conceptual dimensions of technological communication, I aim to draw the viewer?s awareness towards undiscovered facets of their own experience.

I employ various commercial technologies as my main sculptural vocabulary. Through disruption of their ostensible technical and economic functions, these objects are transformed into sculptural centerpieces. By using and subtlety upsetting their conventional functions, I aim to reveal their material agencies as contemporary prosthetics.

Arranging these readymade objects into reconfigured scenarios, I create spaces in which the interplay between viewer and mass produced sonic communication technologies can be re- imagined.

Bio

Adam Basanta (b. 1985) is an independent artist, composer, and performer of experimental music. Born in Tel-Aviv (ISR) and raised in Vancouver (CAN), he currently lives and works in Montreal (CAN).

His installation and sculptural works have been recently exhibited in galleries and institutions including Carroll/ Fletcher Gallery (UK), Fotomuseum Winterthur (CH), National Art Centre Tokyo (JPN), American Medium Gallery (NYC), New Media Gallery (CAN), V Moscow Biennale for Young Art (RUS), Serralves Museum (POR), Edith-Russ-Haus fur Mediakunst (GER), Villa Brandolini (ITA), Vitra Design Museum (GER), York Art Gallery (UK), and The Center for Contemporary Arts Santa Fe (USA). His sound installations have been awarded several prestigious international prizes, and have been positively reviewed in publications such as Artforum, Hyperallergic, ETC Media, Neural magazine, Blackflash magazine, Musicworks, Creator’s Project, The New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. He is currently represented by Ellephant Gallery (Montreal, CAN).

His experimental concert music has been presented worldwide, including appearances in the MATA Festival (NYC), Gaudeamus Musicweek (NL), CTM Festival (GER), Akousma Festival (CAN), and Mutek Festival (CAN), and have been awarded multiple national and international prizes. His music has been released on Kohlenstoff Records (Montreal), Farmacia901 (Italy), Important Records/Cassauna (USA), and Tsuko-Boshi (FR).

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