27 October - 1 November 2015
'Chromatic Aberration' Screening as part of the Fascinations Competition at the 19th Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Jihlava, Czech Republic http://www.dokument-festival.com/
12-17 November 2015 'Chromatic Aberration' Screening as part of the International Competition at the 17th International Film Festival Bratislava, Slovakia http://www.iffbratislava.com/
1 October 2016
'Her Marks, a Measure' solo show at Fridman Gallery, New York
Exhibition opening and catalogue launch, with newly commissioned essays by Justine Ludwig, Erika Balsom and Omar Khalif Artist in conversation with Justine Ludwig 1st of Oct 5pm (addition film screenings 26th Oct and 2nd Nov 7pm) http://www.fridmangallery.com/aura-satz
28-29 October
'Kepler's Trial' An Opera by Tim Watts based on Ulinka Rublack's book 'The Astronomer & the Witch', with film elements by Aura Satz Premieres at St John's College, Cambridge http://keplers-trial.com/
10-20 November 2016 'Where there is Sea, there are Pirates / The Imagination is a Political Act', group exhibition at 3137 gallery, Athens http://www.3137.gr/pirates
13 April - 27 August 2017 'As Above, So below: Portals, Visions, Spirits & Mystics', group exhibition at IMMA (Irish Museum of Modern Art), Dublin http://www.imma.ie/en/page_237202.htm
3-14 October 2018 'Entangled Nightvisions' shortlisted for Les Nouveaux Alchimistes competition at Montreal Festival du nouveau cinéma (FNC), Montreal http://www.nouveaucinema.ca/en/
Wed 23 Jan 2019
Slow Looking at Art, broadcast on BBC radio 3s 'Free Thinking' Ways of
Seeing with artists Michael Craig-Martin & Aura Satz, scientist Daniel Glaser and art writer Kelly Grovier. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00023jf
8th March 2019
To coincide with International Women's day, Jo Hutton and Louise Gray are
joined by Fari Bradley, Aura Satz and Beatriz Ferreyra discussing women’s
place in the history of electroacoustic music, Resonance FM
https://www.resonancefm.com/schedule/2019-03-08
24 Feb - 1 March 2021 Visiting artist in residence, School of Arts Institute of Chicago, including artist talks and film screenings http://www.saic.edu/cate
15 Sep - 28 Nov 2021 'Aboard my floating house' 10e Triennale d’art contemporain, le Centre culturel d’Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium https://www.magmatriennale10.be/
16-17 March 2022 'Preemptive Listening' talk and screening as part of 'Ages of Receivership: On Generous Listening' at Institute Art Gender Nature, FHNW, Academy of Art and Design in Basel on site and online. With Caroline Bergvall, Merve Yesilada Caglar, Bill Dietz, Nina Emge, Jazmina Figueroa, Virna Gulzari, Ayesha Hameed, Kate Lacey, Nour Mobarak, Dylan Robinson, Aura Satz, Stas Sharifullin, Li Tavor & Nicolas Buzzi, and Hannah Weinberger. Moderated by
Chus Martínez and Quinn Latimer. Research associate: Marion Ritzmann. https://www.artandeducation.net/announcements/451535/ages-of-receivership-on-generous-listening https://dertank.ch/en/we-explore/gender/#ages-of-receivership
19 June 2022 'The Grief Interval' screening as part of The London Contemporary Music Festival (LCMF), Woolwich Works https://lcmf.co.uk/
24 July 2022 'Rock Talk: A conversation towards Geologic Listening: A conversation with Kodwo Eshun, Anjalika Sagar, Sukhdev Sandhu, Aura Satz, Cauleen Smith & Deborah Stratman', Union Docs, NY https://uniondocs.org/event/2022-07-24-rock-talk/
15 Nov 2022 'Quantum Listening' Ignota book and prints launch at Reference Point, London, with artist Aura Satz, curator and writer Irene Revell and NTS creative director Tabitha Thorlu-Bangura, hosted by Ignota’s Sarah Shin and Susanna Davies-Crook https://ignota.org/products/quantum-listening-launch
7 Dec 2022 Screening 'The Future Waters of the Storm Surge' (2022) at Kino Moviemento, Berlin as part of Kontraklang. Films and music by Olivia Block, Gunilla Sköld Feiler & Dror Feiler, Martin Grütter & Aron Kitzig, Christian Kesten, Patricia Martínez & Luis Paris, Makiko Nishikaze, Michiko Ogawa & Manuel Pessoa de Lima, Lis Rhodes, Julia Rommel, Aura Satz & BJ Nilsen
https://kontraklang.de/concert/movie-night-nr-2/
3-4 Feb 2023 Exhibition of 'The Trembling Line' as part of Strom festival for electronic music at Berliner Philharmoniker - including Aura Satz, Blawan, Hauschka + Kai Angermann, Juan Atkins, MARCEL DETTMANN, Nidia, Studio Robert Henke pres. CBM 8032 AV, transformed acoustix (members of Berliner Philharmoniker + Simon Stockhausen), Stefan Goldmann, upsammy, Wolfgang Voigt pres. GAS https://www.berliner-philharmoniker.de/strom/
August 2023 - October 2024, Her Luminous Distance' on display as part of permanent collection, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.2017.56
Artist page on the website of The Wire: Adventures in Modern Music: thewire.co.uk to accompany the cross-platform feature on my work in the September 2010 issue:
An excerpt of the filmic installation 'Sound Seam' thewire.co.uk
An excerpt of 'Automamusic' thewire.co.uk
An excerpt of 'Oramics: Atlantis Anew', thewire.co.uk
An excerpt of 'Vocal Flame', thewire.co.uk
Short film on the Theremin virtuosa Lydia Kavina, thewire.co.uk
Listen to an excerpt of 'Dial Tone Drone' on thewire.co.uk
Excerpt of 'The Trembling Line' on thewire.co.uk
A short extract of 'Automamusic' the film is now available online at The Wire: Adventures in Modern Music, to coincide with the cross-platform interview in the September 2010 issue.
Automamusic, film still by Aura Satz, Cibachrome print, 2008
Aura Satz's 'Automamusic' project has at its core a film about mechanical music. Intricate views of self-playing violins, accordions, drums, pianolas, and orchestrions are offset by scenes in which floating musical instruments are played by invisible hands. The film highlights the similarities between the beginnings of musical reproduction in the 19th century and spiritualist invocations of the dead through sound. 'Automamusic' breathes the ghost back into the machine, inhabiting the figurative space between sound and source, when music had not yet become abstracted into the grooves of the gramophone record. In addition to the series of hand-printed cibachrome photographs which recall spiritualist photography, the project includes drawings inspired by early patents for mechanical or hybrid musical instruments (small selection online here).
The film 'Automamusic' was developed with support from Film and Video Umbrella, funded by Arts Council England and Artsadmin, with kind assistance from Film London Artist's Moving Image Network and a special thanks to the Museum of Music Automatons, Seewen, Switzerland.
Exhibitions:
8 July - 16 August 2008, Preview 9th July 6-9pm
Aura Satz, solo exhibition at Artprojx Space
Weds 16 July 6.30-8.30pm
Andrew Renton (art critic/curator and Director of the Curatorial Programme, Goldsmiths University) in conversation with Aura Satz on the withdrawal of authorship in relation to sound, sound technology and sound art, with live mechanical music performance by Aura Satz.
RSVP required to info@artprojxspace.com
Artprojx Space
53 Beauchamp Place
London SW3 1NY
Tel: 020 7584 0717 or info@artprojxspace.com www.artprojxspace.com
5 August - 3 September 2011
Automamusic photographs included in the group exhibition IN SEARCH OF ALCHEMIC TIMES
Artists: Aura Satz, Charlesworth, Lewandowski & Mann, Jennifer Walshe, Liliane Lijn, Nathan Witt, Peter Lewis and Makiko Nagaya, Rowena Harris, Steven Ounanian, Tom Badley, Unrealised Projects.
Curated by Cecilia Wee.
Thursday - Saturday 12-6pm
Wednesdays by appointment
4–7 May 2012, performance on the 5th May 2pm Group exhibition 'The Sight of Sound', Deutsche Bank VIP Lounge, Frieze Art Fair
Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating.
John Cage Group exhibition including John Cage, Christian Marclay, Jorge Macchi, Jenny C. Jones, David Ellis and Aura Satz.
Selected works feature artists from the Deutsche Bank Collection who reference music in a variety of ways: as a structural or notational device, a vehicle for chance and improvisation, or as a social platform for communicating identity. These artists from different generations share a trajectory of using musical forms as a source and framework. The theme underscores Deutsche Bank’s global commitment to supporting art and music, and promoting cultural advancement through the intersecting worlds of ideas and practices.
The historical influence of musical sound on visual artists is immeasurable, but its effect upon form, process, and conceptual art has clearly become more prevalent in modern times. From Piet Mondrian’s painting, “Broadway Boogie Woogie,” his homage to jazz, to John Cage and Nam June Paik’s experiments with performance-driven work, to real-time musical interactions via satellite, video and digital interfaces, the relationship between the aural and visual arts are continually shape-shifting.
23 January - 3 February 2013
'Soundfigures' exhibition Solo retrospective at Blaak 10, as part of the 42nd International Film Festival Rotterdam
curated by Edwin Carels
Spiral Sound Coil (2010) is an immersive psychoacoustic installation. Automamusic (2008) looks at self-playing instruments such as the pianola, wind-up music boxes and organs, filmed at the Museum of Music Automatons in Switzerland. Theremin (2010) is part of a series of videos characterised by their unusual sculptural relation to their performer. Sound Seam (2010) uses microscopic close-ups of gramophone grooves and the anatomy of the ear, while the accompanying music includes wax cylinder recordings and otoacoustic sounds emitted by the ear. Oramics (2011) is a homage to Daphne Oram, pioneer of British Electronic Music and creator of hand-wrought, drawn sound. Vocal Flame (2012) is a sound sculpture made using a Ruben's Tube, an acoustic device that visualises sound as a standing wave of small flames, with music by Steven Severin (of Siouxsie and the Banshees).
Blaak 10 Gallery
Witte de Withstraat 7
3012 BL Rotterdam
The Netherlands
15 February - 11 May 2014
'BOOSTER - Art Sound Machine' Group exhibition curated by Nik Nowak in conjunction with Marta Herford, Herford Germany
From the barrel organ and the ghetto blaster to the large speaker vehicles at parades or demonstrations, right up to acoustic warfare - regardless of the context in which mobile sound systems are used, we are directly impacted by their equally fascinating and threatening effect. The exhibition "BOOSTER" inquires into the cultural significance of these constructions and their use in the creative arts. Since the start of the 20th century, artists have been producing breathtaking sound machines, again and again stretching the boundaries between different disciplines. The special combination of sculpture, movement and sound takes the visitor into a world that addresses many different senses at once: whether as fragile mechanisms or monumental objects, the mobile sound sculptures generate a pulsating world of (sub)cultural spheres in a choreography of gentle tones and high-volume sounds.
Against a background of spectacular installations and sculptures, the exhibition also traces the global roots of mobile sound systems.
Artists: AUDINT / Toby Heys und Steve Goodman, Massimo Bartolini, Lothar Baumgarten, Benjamin Binder, Katie Callan, Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Tamara Grcic, Mark Leckey, Olaf Mooij, Nomadic Sound System / Ben Newland, Nik Nowak, Tintin Patrone, Aura Satz, Wolfgang Tillmans, Jean Tinguely, and more.
Marta Herford
Goebenstr. 2-10
32052 Herford
Tel +49 5221 9944300
Germany www.marta-herford.de
13 April - 27 August 2017
'As Above, So below: Portals, Visions, Spirits & Mystics'
Group exhibition at IMMA (Irish Museum of Modern Art), Dublin
Including Hilma af Klint | Kenneth Anger | David Beattie | Nora Berman | Annie Besant | Agnieszka Brzezanska | Alan Butler | James Lee Byars | Cameron | Marcus Coates | Ira Cohen | Ithell Colquhoun | Matt Copson | Stephan Doitschinoff | Hayden Dunham | Stephen Dunne | Susan Hiller | Koo Jeong A. | Alejandro Jodorowsky | Wassily Kandinsky | Rachid Koraichi | Emma Kunz | Frantisek Kupka | Paul Laffoley | Liliane Lijn | Linder | Josiah McElheny | Steve McQueen | Henri Michaux | Pascale Montandon-Jodorowsky | Padraic E. Moore (curatorial advisor) | Bruce Nauman | Austin Osman Spare | Sigmar Polke | The Propeller Group | Patrick Pye | John Russell | Eoghan Ryan | Aura Satz | Suzanne Treister | Grace Weir, amongst others. Curated by Sam Thorne and Rachael Thomas.
A fully-illustrated book is published to accompany the exhibition which features contributions from Erik Davis, Jennifer Higgie, Alejandro Jodorowsky and Pascale Montandon-Jodorowsky, Dr Tina Kinsella, Linder, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Rachael Thomas, Sam Thorne and Maurice Tuchman, amongst others. Price €20 available to buy from the IMMA shop.
Automamusic, film still by Aura Satz, Cibachrome print, 2008
Screenings:
23 January 2008
Screened with a talk by Aura Satz at the Photographer's Gallery
The Photographer's gallery
6-8 Newport Street
London WC2H 7HY
Free, booking recommended www.photonet.org.uk
6 June 2008
Automamusic was screened as part of Late at Tate Britain: Rehang Artprojx Presents... STILL FILM
A selection of artist's films with a sculptural sensibility. The films share a fixed camera gaze, an inherent quality and lingering effect despite their simplicity. Including films by Matt Calderwood, Ryan Gander, Michael Nyman, Aura Satz, Richard Wilson.
Compilation selected by David Gryn, Artprojx.
16-18 January 2009 Screened as part of Museumsnacht, Museum for Music Automatons, Seewen, Switzerland, and Museum of Music, Basel
Also as part of Museumsnacht the Automatic Ensemble will premiere at the Church of St. Leonhard (Basel) and the Museum for Music Automatons (Seewen)
Museum for Musikautomaten,
Sammlung Dr.h c. H. Weiss-Stauffacher
Bollhobel 1
4206 Seewen, Switzerland
Tel. +41 61 915 98 80
Fax +41 61 915 98 90
E-Mail: musikautomaten@bak.admin.ch www.landesmuseen.ch www.museumsnacht.ch
4 & 5 March 2009 Screened as part of Artprojx Presents... STILL FILM at Site Gallery, Sheffield
A selection of artist's films with a sculptural sensibility. The films share a fixed camera gaze, an inherent quality and lingering effect despite their simplicity. Including films by Matt Calderwood, Louise Camrass, Andrew Cross, Ryan Gander, William Hunt, Michael Nyman, Aura Satz, Richard Wilson.
Compilation selected by David Gryn, Artprojx.
Site Gallery
1 Brown Street
Sheffield S1 2BS
Tel:+44 (0)114 281 2077
Fax:+44 (0)114 281 2078
Email: info@sitegallery.org www.sitegallery.org www.artprojx.com
9 May 2009 16.00-23.00pm Screened as part of SonicRecycler5
Reduce, Re-use, Recycle
A unique evening of provocative, entertaining and experimental music, presented by Sprawl, Brentford Recycling Action Group and Watermans. SonicRecycler5, the fifth in an annual series, is an event showcasing the many different strands of eclectic ideas in music, and promoting recycling concepts. With performers, DJ's, films, stalls and interactive presentations, it's a packed evening of radical sounds in a lovely Thameside venue, overlooking Kew Gardens - Think: Reduce, Re-use, Recycle.
Films by Aleks Kolkowski & Aura Satz will be shown from 3pm to 4pm at the Musical Museum
22 - 31 May 2009
Screened as part of Artprojx presents OPERA & STILL-FILM, LOOP festival, Barcelona, Spain
OPERA is a selection of films by contemporary artists who have utilised, investigated and celebrated opera and contemporary classical music. Including films by Alice Anderson, Martha Colburn, Haris Epaminonda, Karen Knorr, Rut Blees Luxemburg, Tania Mouraud, Michelle Naismith, Mariele Neudecker, Jayne Parker, Sophy Rickett, Susanne Winterling.
STILL FILM is a selection of artist's films with a sculptural sensibility. Including films by Matt Calderwood, Louise Camrass, Andrew Cross, Ryan Gander, William Hunt, Michael Nyman, Aura Satz, Richard Wilson.
Compilations selected by David Gryn, Artprojx.
Friday 22 October 2010 Screened as part of Mikhail Karikis' 'Love Songs for Broken Machines', Kings Place, London
This event is a spectacle of music and video bringing together the hitch and glitch of failed technologies with the humour and romance of love songs. Contemporary vocal trio juice present the English premiere of specially commissioned songs by leading composers and pop artists including Gavin Bryars, Micachu, Dai Fujikura, Phillip Neil Martin, Anna Meredith, Damien Harron, E.laine, Roxanna Panufnik, Errollyn Wallen and Jim Moray. They are joined by Ensemble Scratch the Surface who feature, amongst others, an audiovisual performance for modified piano by pinaist extrodinaire Leon Michener, a (re)construction of hybrid pianos by 'better known as' aka Lemon Drizzle the alter egos of composer Claudia Moliter and pianist Sarah Nicolls and films by visual artist Aura Satz and collective Flat-e.
This event is curated by Mikhail Karikis with Conall Gleeson and juice. Love Songs is a new commission funded by Arts Council England.
31 Jan - 5 Feb 2012
Automamusic screened with Q&A session as part of Transmediale 2012, In/Compatible video programme, curated by Marcel Schwierin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin
