Kevin Clancy, Babel | 2010 | 20min | Sound Performance | Canada
Babel is an electromechanical sound sculpture that translates language directly into sound. The keys of a manual typewriter are wired to a series of electromagnetic solenoids that strike corresponding keys on an acoustic piano. Babel is an instrument for text-based sound performances, which examine the possibility of universal communication, the barriers of language, and the encryption of meaning.
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Kevin Clancy was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1987 and currently lives and works in Boston, Massachusetts. He will complete his BFA with distinguished honors from the Studio for Interrelated Media at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2010. Clancy has exhibited work at Samson Projects (Boston, MA), AXIOM Gallery for New and Experimental Media (Boston, MA), Agni Gallery (New York, NY), Digging Pitt Gallery (Pittsburgh, PA), Trinity Gallery (Pittsburgh, PA), and Massachusetts College of Art and Design (Boston, MA). Clancy has received the National Endowment for the Arts John Renna Scholarship, the Stephen D. Paine Scholarship, the MassArt Presidential Scholarship, the MassArt Auction Award, and a MassArt Travel Scholarship to South Africa.
