If the Source is Open (Megamix)

Solo Exhibition
February 18th — April 9th, 2022
Locust Projects, Miami, FL

4 Channel Sound Installation — 60 mins
Sculptural platform
Risograph prints
Chainlink fence
Sandbags
Spray paint

If the Source is Open (Megamix) continues our exploration of the role sound and noise play in the structuring of life, particularly as ideas about sound and noise are leveraged in the struggle over cultural consensus, social power, and public space. This site-based work reflects on sound norms and noise regulations as a form of politics, the acoustics of gentrification, as well as the role sound and celebration play in the formation of communities of practice and opposition. If the Source is Open materializes ongoing research into a long-form four-channel sound collage broadcast from a directional speaker system situated on a sculptural platform. Miami-focused sounds and sites are featured throughout, including site recordings, experimental compositions, lectures, fragments of conversations, DJ mixes, archival audio and more. The work featured a series of programs and activations utilizing the platform and the exhibition duration as a site for live performances and dialogues centering Miami-based participants and contributors.

Programs

Reading the Air — Fereshteh Toosi
Conversations on Sound and Power: Jillian Hernandez & Fredo Rivera — watch
A Higher Power: Miami’s Sovereign Storyteller Will ‘Da Real One’ Bell — Arsimmer McCoy