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Learn more: www.artssoutheast.org/putnamandbobierARTS Southeast is pleased to host Leslie Putnam and David Bobier (Ontario, Canada) in the ON::View Residency from June 13th - July 5th, 2024.
About the Project:
During their Residency, Putnam and Bobier will create a community space where vibrotactile elements can be explored and created with input from the public. As they explain, “vibrotactile artwork involves the use of transducers to change sound into vibration, allowing for the audience to experience what is known as haptic empathy: conveying emotional meaning through vibrotactile feedback.” Collecting sounds from the city and surrounding landscape, the artists will transform the Residency windows into vibrotacile speakers, allowing passerby to feel sound through vibration. They will also invite the community to contribute to a collaborative vibrotactile quilt, and to interact with vibrotactile pillows and wearables.
“Transducers are essential accessibility components that we explore in our own practices…This emphasis has evolved over many years of working with Deaf and disabled artists and arts organizations internationally, with a critical focus on imagining beyond the ‘normal’ in art making and art experiencing and questioning mainstream paradigms by asking ‘who is missing as artists, who is missing as audience.’
“Breaking down social, intellectual, emotional and physical barriers has been essential toward offering greater diversity and exchange of artistic experiences for both artist and audience. In exploring sensory transformation of language, information and perception from one modality to another with particular emphasis on the tactile as a form of creative expression, prompts consideration of multiple senses as channels of communication and exchange.”
– Leslie Putnam & David Bobier
Residency Period: June 13th – July 5th, 2024
Artist Talk: Saturday, June 29th at 2PM
First Friday Finale: Friday, July 5th from 5 - 9PM in conjunction with First Fridays in Starland
The ON::View Residency is made possible with investment by the City of Savannah.
This program is sponsored in part by Georgia Council for the Arts through the appropriations of the Georgia General Assembly. Georgia Council for the Arts also receives support from its partner agency - the National Endowment for the Arts.
Special thanks to our local Residency Sponsors: Starlandia Supply, SCAD Museum of Art, Telfair Museums,
Green Truck Pub and Starland Yard.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Sulfur Studios: A Project of Arts Southeast, 2301 Bull St,Savannah,GA,United States
