Sonic

NOVEMBER 2009

@ THE STATE HERMITAGE MUSEUM                  
St. Petersburg, Russia
www.hermitagemuseum.org

In association with:
Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography
National Center For Contemporary Art
www.ncca-spb.ru
and Cyland MediaLab
www.cyland.ru
Saint-Petersburg Branch
St. Petersburg, Russia

The Sonic Self - An exhibition exploring sound related art, curated by Jolanta Gora-Wita, Anna Frants, Yaro, Koshek Swaminathan, Koan Jeff Baysa, with guest curator Maciej Zygmunt Czarkowski, will present works by selected pioneering artists, who use sound as their medium, encompassing a spoken word, field recordings, computer generated sound, video projection, interactive art, sound performance, avant-garde theater, live music and DJ sampling. The Sonic Self artists will collectively examine forms in which we communicate with each other and with the world around us by way of articulate sounds, music, dialog, visuals and motion - transforming the perception and transporting the mind through an internal sound experience.

The curators of the Sonic Self will bring this unique international sound project to St. Petersburg, Russia, in November 2009. The Sonic Self project (initiated in the spring of 2003 by Jolanta Gora-Wita) was recently presented  at the Chelsea Art Museum, NYC - July/August 2008. More information at:

http://chelseaartmuseum.org/exhibits/2008/sonicself/index.html