Looking for choir singers to collaborate with Julia E Dyck, November 2023

Collaboration with the artist
Julia E Dyck

Image: Julia E Dyck.

Drawing from the cleansing, relaxing, vul­ner­able and trans­for­ma­tive poten­tial of both public bathing and col­lec­tive sonic expe­ri­ences, Julia E Dyck is approaching the gallery as a public sound bath house. Dyck will host col­lec­tive prac­tices including sound bath, noise med­i­ta­tion, group hyp­nosis and par­tic­i­pa­tory work­shops using sound and voice to relate to and care for others.

Members of the choir are invited to par­tic­i­pate in col­lec­tive vocal prac­tices and exer­cises with myself and the vis­i­tors of the gallery. We will follow exper­i­mental scores with the inten­tion of playing with col­lec­tivity, com­mu­ni­ca­tion, rela­tion­ality, and queer ways of being together through sound. The scores are gen­er­ally quite open to inter­pre­ta­tion without lin­guistic meaning or clas­sical musical nota­tion. Curiosity and open­ness to engage and con­nect are the only require­ments.

The public is invited to join the two Sound Bath ses­sions on Saturdays, November 11 and 18, from 4pm to 7pm.

BIOGRAPHY
Julia E Dyck is an artist, hyp­no­tist and radio pro­ducer orig­i­nally from Treaty One Territory/ Winnipeg who cur­rently works and lives between Brussels and Montreal/Tiohtià:ke. Dyck’s rela­tional and spec­u­la­tive prac­tice explores the pos­sible con­nec­tions between the body, (sub)con­scious­ness & tech­nology through per­for­mance, com­po­si­tion, instal­la­tion and trans­mis­sion. By offering ser­vices and acts of care, Dyck cre­ates spaces, sit­u­a­tions, and expe­ri­ences of trans­for­ma­tion. Julia often works col­lab­o­ra­tively and is a member of the ffiles radio col­lec­tive, Audio Placebo Plaza and artistic duos Future Perfect and Platitudes.