Yolande Harris

Taking Soundings and Navigating by Circles (Sextant) in traveling group exhibition Ground Level by the Hayward London, curated by Kit Hammonds, exploring how contemporary art practice, mapping and cartography collide. 

featuring artists; Maria Thereza Alves; The Atlas Group; Ricardo Basbaum; Heath Bunting and Kayle Brandon; Center for Land Use Interpretation; Simon Evans; Yolande Harris; Christian Philipp Müller; Eyal Weizman and Stephen Willats.

Opening 17 September, exhibition 18 September – 31 October 2010  QUAD, Derby UK,

Marta Colpani from Masters of New Media at University of Amsterdam uses Sun Run Sun, Scorescapes and the walking piece experiments as case studies in a fascinating theoretical context in her thesis research “New Media Shaping of Perception and the New Space of the Body”

A special program Ruhrotronics: Klange der ISEA, by Marcus Gammel on DeutschlandRadio Kultuur. He has included excerpts from Yolande’s ISEA presentation Making the Inaudible Audible, Sun Run Sun and Pink Noise. 

3 September 2010, 00:05

Making the Inaudible Audible: Strategies and Disagreements (or Whale?) Paper presentation at International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA), Dortmund.

10:00, Tuesday 24 August, 2010

A series of semi-improvised performances coming out of the week long Deep Listening Retreat, directed by Pauline Oliveros, Ione and Heloise Gold. The retreat and final performances work with techniques of listening, meditation, movement and dream practice.

22:00 Saturday July 10, 2010, Nau Coclea Music Festival, Spain

Ground Level 
Hayward Touring Curatorial Open II, John Hansard Gallery
29 June – 21 August 2010

This exhibition brings together international artists who perform their own personal forms of cartography in their practice. The resulting works suggest maps and surveys, but rather than portraying a singular worldview they put forward idiosyncratic readings of place, drawing from the shared landscapes of language, peoples and signs as well as geography. Curated by Kit Hammonds, winner of the 2010 Curatorial Open.

Maria Thereza Alves | The Atlas Group | Ricardo Basbaum | Heath Bunting and Kayle Brandon | Center for Land Use Interpretation | Simon Evans | Yolande Harris | Christian Philipp Müller | Eyal Weizman | Stephen Willats

Yolande gives an artist talk called Sound Flares and Scorescapes, at concert/lecture series Certain Sundays curated by Chris Heenan and Christopher Williams. The evening also includes a lecture by Edward Shanken, Contemporary Art and New Media: Towards a Hybrid Discourse?

17:00 – 19:00, 6 June 2010, at Sowieso, Neukoelln, Berlin.

An evening performance exploring the edges between environmental recordings and acoustic improvisation, makes the second version of  S.W.A.M.P. (Some Wayward Attempts at Monitoring Prawns) (after Diapason Gallery, NY June 2009). Yolande Harris’ environmental and underwater sounds, with Christopher Williams (double bass), Morton Olsen (bass drum) and Werner Dafedecker (double bass).

21:00 at Galerie Mario Mazzoli, Berlin, 5 June 2010

The Sonic Acts XIII Festival on The Poetics of Space, was reviewed in the May issue of Wire Magazine by Rhama Khazam. She singled out Fishing for Sound in the concerts and performance section of the festival:

“Yolande Harris’s Fishing for Sound brilliantly exploited sound’s capacity to conjure up a sense of place. Associating underwater sounds with sounds used to treat stress disorder and sonified data from satellites, it connected outer space with mental and underwater spaces, inviting listeners to think back on their own experiences of such envrionments and their sounds.”

“Resonator is a procedural performance-workshop and idea exchange which investigates diverse artistic, materialist and spiritualist practices that converge around the importance of vibration as a means of making sense of the universe.”