TEXTURED SOUND
Rebecca Bruno + Mak Kern, 2020
Digital Exhibition 02
”He (John Cage) wrote with the microphone attached to the pen, so the sound of the pen moving on the surface of the paper is what you heard.”
- Robert Storr. "The Cage Series: Paintings by Gerhard Richter." 2009, www.gerhard-richter.com/en/videos/works/the-cage-paintings-40.
Rebecca Bruno + Mak Kern, 2020
Digital Exhibition 02
”He (John Cage) wrote with the microphone attached to the pen, so the sound of the pen moving on the surface of the paper is what you heard.”
- Robert Storr. "The Cage Series: Paintings by Gerhard Richter." 2009, www.gerhard-richter.com/en/videos/works/the-cage-paintings-40.
kind of round and maybe flat
as we move around the object, we notice an edge, from a distance it appears to be a line, slightly convex in the middle from one side and slightly concave from the other. As we step closer, the line, like that drawn from a pencil, is not smooth, but chatters, it’s not mechanical, but sculptural, it’s not haphazard, but intentional. The line begins to sway back and forth and with a twist it reveals an ellipse, tall from the top and wide to the side.
a ripple in the line swallows light
an object comes into view heavy handed as it strikes the ellipse, a delay, then a sound that echoes with closed eyes of cathedral bells. The object, rectangular in form is mitered at one end with a hue of green in its vein. A twist, a strike, another echo that reverberates down lost and silent Sunday streets.
a reflection outward
as we move around the object, we notice an edge, from a distance it appears to be a line, slightly convex in the middle from one side and slightly concave from the other. As we step closer, the line, like that drawn from a pencil, is not smooth, but chatters, it’s not mechanical, but sculptural, it’s not haphazard, but intentional. The line begins to sway back and forth and with a twist it reveals an ellipse, tall from the top and wide to the side.
a ripple in the line swallows light
an object comes into view heavy handed as it strikes the ellipse, a delay, then a sound that echoes with closed eyes of cathedral bells. The object, rectangular in form is mitered at one end with a hue of green in its vein. A twist, a strike, another echo that reverberates down lost and silent Sunday streets.
a reflection outward
Video Courtesy of Objects for Others
Self-isolated screening of TEXTURED SOUND in Little Italy, Omaha:
Photos Courtesy of Dan Schwalm
Video Courtesy of Ross Miller
About the Artists:
Rebecca Bruno is a dance artist working across performance and visual art. In 2013, Bruno founded homeLA, a performance project dedicated to dance process in private space partnering with body-based artists and Los Angeles residents. Bruno is half of Objects for Others with Mak Kern. Her works have been presented at such venues as The Hammer Museum, The Norton Simon Museum, The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, REDCAT Theater, the Bootleg Theater, Tin Flats with FLAX, The Pit Gallery, Honor Fraser Gallery, Movement Research NYC, and the LAB, Jerusalem. Bruno collaborates with artists such as Yann Novak, taisha paggett and WXPT, Flora Wiegmann, Julien Previeux, Pablo Bronstein, Samantha Mohr, Emily Marchand, Andrew Mandinach, Lynn Ellen Bathke.
www.rebeccabruno.net
Mak Kern was born in New York in 1969 and lives in Los Angeles. She received her Bachelors of Fine Arts from the New York State College of Ceramics and Art and Design. As an artist Mak creates works that are both sculptural and functional. Her work ranges in scale and scope from Sculptural Sound Pieces that are shown in Galleries and Public Art Spaces to functional furniture made for the Home and Commercial Spaces.
www.objectsforothers.com
Rebecca Bruno is a dance artist working across performance and visual art. In 2013, Bruno founded homeLA, a performance project dedicated to dance process in private space partnering with body-based artists and Los Angeles residents. Bruno is half of Objects for Others with Mak Kern. Her works have been presented at such venues as The Hammer Museum, The Norton Simon Museum, The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, REDCAT Theater, the Bootleg Theater, Tin Flats with FLAX, The Pit Gallery, Honor Fraser Gallery, Movement Research NYC, and the LAB, Jerusalem. Bruno collaborates with artists such as Yann Novak, taisha paggett and WXPT, Flora Wiegmann, Julien Previeux, Pablo Bronstein, Samantha Mohr, Emily Marchand, Andrew Mandinach, Lynn Ellen Bathke.
www.rebeccabruno.net
Mak Kern was born in New York in 1969 and lives in Los Angeles. She received her Bachelors of Fine Arts from the New York State College of Ceramics and Art and Design. As an artist Mak creates works that are both sculptural and functional. Her work ranges in scale and scope from Sculptural Sound Pieces that are shown in Galleries and Public Art Spaces to functional furniture made for the Home and Commercial Spaces.
www.objectsforothers.com