OPENING RECEPTION: Katie Grinnan “The Sensitives” | Amber Stucke “Talking To Plants”

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OPENING RECEPTION: Katie Grinnan “The Sensitives” | Amber Stucke “Talking To Plants”

Katie Grinnan | Amber Stucke

4 Oct 2024 - 4:00pm

**UCLA Art|Sci Center Presents "Atmosphere of Sound: Sonic Art in Times of Climate Disruption"**
>> Performances, exhibitions, and talks will run Sept 14, 2024, through June 7, 2025

EXHIBITION | Katie Grinnan “The Sensitives”, Amber Stucke “Talking To Plants” as a feature of "Atmosphere of Sound: Sonic Art in Times of Climate Disruption"
Opening reception: October 04, 2024, 4–7 pm

Amber Stucke’s Talking to Plants is a sound art installation inspired by knowledge of how Ojibwe people talk to plants for medicine as well as by John Cage's Works of Chance Operations and Indeterminacy. Each sound piece placed onto vinyl is created in response to two questions: what is the idea of a plant and how would you talk to it? The edition of six records will alternate and play in the gallery on a set schedule.
SAVE THE DATES
12-1pm, Saturday, October 5, 2024 - Talking to Plants Listening Hours

12-1pm, Saturday, October 12, 2024 - Talking to Plants Listening Hours

12-1pm, Saturday, October 19, 2024 - Talking to Plants Listening Hours

The Sensitives are copper sculptures studded with oxidizing suckers. Each sucker is touch-sensitive (echoing the chemo-tactile nature of an octopus’ sensory system) and plays a tone when pressed. The sequence of tones derives from a fragment of an octopus’ genetic material. The iterative score generates an expanded signaling: a conversation that operates outside of, but parallel to, human syntax. Sculptures can be activated by visitors when gallery staff are present.

Location
ArtSci Gallery, 5th Floor of CNSI
570 Westwood Plaza,
Los Angeles, CA

Hours
Thursday & Friday: 2:00 – 5:00 PM
Saturday: 12:00 – 3:00 PM
RSVP REQUIRED:
https://soundofatmosphere.com/event/exhibition-katie-grinnan-and-amber-s...

Parking
Parking Structure 9
LINK:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/540+Westwood+Plaza+Parking+Structure+9...@34.068077,-118.4438129,16z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x80c2bc8616c3d43f:0x4ceaf67d2e264f79!8m2!3d34.068077!4d-118.4438129!16s%2Fg%2F12hk18dvw?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MDkyMi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

Navigation
Walk to the top floor of the parking structure.
Take the gangway along the north side of the lot.
Navigate around the CNSI building to its East entrance (3rd floor).

>>About "Atmosphere of Sound: Sonic Art in Times of Climate Disruption:"
Atmosphere of Sound: Sonic Art in Times of Climate Disruption is a series of exhibitions and performances, an app, and a publication highlighting eight Art|Sci artists in residence: Sholeh Asgary, Patricia Cadavid, Bill Fontana,Yolande Harris, Anna Nacher, Joel Ong, Iman Person, and Robertina Šebjanič; along with five local artists: Katie Grinnan, Rachel Mayeri, Christina McPhee, Amber Stucke, and Nina Waisman.
https://soundofatmosphere.com

About the artists:

Katie Grinnan is an artist and educator who lives and works in Los Angeles. Her work is invested in the relationship between visual, kinesthetic, and cognitive experience.
She is fascinated by the ways in which these intricate and finely calibrated knowledge systems provide inherently subjective and unique perceptions of reality, emotion, and self. Grinnan is interested in the occupation of different states of consciousness, including meditation and dreaming, and how they differ from the state of wakefulness and full cognition.

Amber Stucke is an interdisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles, California. She identifies her work within ideas of social relationships situated between artistic research, science, and imagination.
Using sound and language as material for performances, installations, embodied and appropriated drawings, scientific prints, and DIY artist books; her research interests include questions of symbiotic and rhizomatic relationships, Native American ethnobotany, local knowledge systems, plant-human relationships, evolutionary biology, consciousness, and artistic appropriations of visual scientific classification structure.