| Description | Kubisch discusses her trajectory of early beginnings in sound through to her training and
education in art, music & electronics and the Zurich Improvisation scene and networks
with Pauline Oliveros, John Cage and Annea Lockwood. She discusses her first
audio/video works from 1975/76 and early installation work from the 1980's and magnetic
induction, yameni speaker systems and solar systems. She addresses how she
approaches the nature of documentation, constructions of nature, interactions/ slippages
between the placement of electronic installations in natural/public spaces and the 'natural'
environment. She continues to discuss how she began creating the Electrical walks, and
specifically electro-magnetic induction and human made natural electro-magnetic waves
which lead to the 2003 private walk in Tokyo, and 2004 first public electrical walk in
Cologne through which she highlights her understanding of different electro-magnetic
fields in different environments and over time, and in brain waves. She discusses specific
equipment and the development of the headphones used in her electrical walk
installations. Kubisch responds to questions of if and how gender manifests in her work,
and of her position as an artist in relation to these issues. In response she discusses
some different approaches to techniques of women working in electronics, the nature of
collaboration, definitions of sound art and issues of payment & funding. |