Opening Reception | HOW YOU SHIMMER: SOUND PORTAL FOR WHALE BUBBLES

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Opening Reception | HOW YOU SHIMMER: SOUND PORTAL FOR WHALE BUBBLES

Yolande Harris

PST ART: Art & Science Collide
10 Jan 2025 - 5:00pm

Please join us on Friday, January 10th, 2025, for the opening reception of Yolande Harris "HOW YOU SHIMMER: SOUND PORTAL FOR WHALE BUBBLES"

In How You Shimmer: Sound Portal for Whale Bubbles, Yolande Harris transforms digital traces of whales’ underwater movements into heavy bronze spirals, carves the outlines of their bodies on remnants of human bone using a scrimshaw method, and casts them in bronze. Blown glass sculptures evoke the bubble nets formed by the breath of whales working in concert. The installation is an imaginative dive into an otherwise inaccessible world, and a sound portal to join with another species. Accompanying this installation is a single-channel presentation of From a Whale’s Back, an audiovisual work that uses data from scientific tags from Ari Friedlaender’s lab at UC Santa Cruz to study the behaviors of whales to ask us to consider the whales’ relationships to each other as well as our relationship to them.

Location: CNSI Lobby and Art Sci Gallery, 5th Floor of the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI)
570 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095

Parking: Parking Structure 9
675 Charles E Young Dr S, Los Angeles, CA 90095

Navigation: After parking, proceed to the top floor of the structure. Take the gangway along the north side of the lot, then navigate around the CNSI building to its east entrance on the 3rd floor. From there, you can access the lobby and the Art Sci Gallery on the 5th floor.

>>Exhibition Dates:
Jan 10 - Jan 31, 2025

Hours:
Thursday & Friday: 2:00 – 5:00 PM
Saturday: 12:00 – 3:00 PM

Yolande Harris is a composer, sound, and video artist focusing on the transformative potential of sound and listening in times of environmental change.
She creates audio-visual installations, walks and performances, approached through a sonic sensibility. Harris’s projects relating to underwater sound aim to bring humans closer to this often inaccessible environment, encouraging connection, understanding, and empathy with the ocean.