Ian William Craig, Because it Speaks of Nothing Speaking Everywhere | 2010 | 15min | Sound Performance | Canada
We are objects that are only relatively stable, vibrating into existence: forms that are a pattern of movement rather than autonomous structures. Because it Speaks of Nothing Speaking Everywhere is a live performance of a fifteen-piece choir comprised of tape recorders, each housing a cassette loop that plays endlessly. The sound they contain comes from operatic vocal improvisations that will be performed live by the artist and recorded onto the loops, sunk deep beneath the interference generated by semi-functional analogue equipment. The loops create a choir that phases in and out of harmony and time with itself, creating formations that ebb and flow underneath a field of tape hiss and mechanical disturbance. (There is nothing more common than to lose information.)
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Ian William Craig weaves into his creative tapestry diverse manners of thread: he is a visual artist, a sound artist, an educator, a graphic designer, a writer, and a photographer. He currently resides in Vancouver, but received both his BDes in Visual Communication and MFA in Printmaking from the University of Alberta. His research has been exhibited and published internationally, and he has participated in various residencies and performances across Canada, Sweden and Germany. Being fluent in variegated disciplines has given him a profound regard for the manners in which these different fields sift together. He has used this mediation to reveal poetic spaces where they mesh with one another. His practice is an attempt at using these overlaps to focus attention and thereby illustrate an eternal, wondrous and ultimately human sound: a poetic contemporary universe where we can simply allow ourselves to become.
