centre d'artistes.artist run centre
April 3 – May 10, 2009
Opening : Friday April 3 at 7pm
Conference: Friday May 8 at 5:30 pm at Usine C, 1901 de la Visitation
In collaboration with Elektra Festival
Text by Curtis Collins click here
Ken Gregory's blog click here
Ken Gregory’s installation and performance work is centred around the exploration of the relationship between technology and humans. In an unscientific way, and with an artists creative eye, his artworks look at how this relationship is manifest. His work process is an improvisational and intuitive application of tools and ideas. Raw materials such as discarded technology, electronics, programming code and found objects are manipulated through various processes and reconstituted into new structures which play upon new meanings and interpretations. This practice started with an interest in audio sampling technologies and audio cut up methods, and has expanded to include almost anything : objects, electronic circuits, audio, video, computer code and mechanical systems. These elements are all combined using juxtapositions and other explorative processes in the creation of Gregory’s artwork. For his exhibition at articule, Ken Gregory will build an acoustic electro-mechanical system that poetically reproduces the processes involved in operating the Aeolian Kite Instrument in the field. Receiving the audio recordings from this outdoor instrument, his electro-magnetic sculpture in the gallery not only becomes a poetic and kinetic representation of a sound speaker, but also mirrors the different components of the Aeolian Kite Instrument used to capture the wind’s voice.
Winnipeg artist Ken Gregory has been working with DIY interface design, hardware hacking, audio, video, and computer programming for over 15 years. His creative performance and installation work has shown publicly in Winnipeg, other parts of Canada and many international media and sound arts festivals. His works are presented in the form of gallery installations, live performances, live radio broadcasts and audio compact discs. Recent career highlights, amongst others, are the acquisition of 12 motor bells, a large sound installation by the National Gallery of Canada, Cheap Meat Dreams and Acorns, a touring solo survey exhibition to the Art Gallery of Windsor, the Confederation Centre in Charlottetown PEI and The Art Gallery of Hamilton in Hamilton Ontario.