Forest/Flux/Frequency - Sum Gallery
SUM gallery (#425-268 Keefer St.), Canada’s premiere Queer-mandated art gallery, presents its first exhibition of the fall, FOREST / FLUX / FREQUENCY by Rafael Zen & Khalil Alomar: a Multimedia Installation + Sound Performance + Speculative Environmental Composition. FOREST / FLUX / FREQUENCY opens with a public reception on Thursday, November 7, from 7 - 9pm, and runs until November 16.
FOREST / FLUX / FREQUENCY is both a multimedia installation + sound performance. First, conceptually and fantastically – it is a conversation between an old tree + a cyber-bug through experimental electronic music, sound performance, hauntology, and eco-dreaming; then, materially, as an exploration of art fields that interest artists Rafael Zen and Khalil Alomar – multispecies collaboration (combining the sounds of humans + nature : birds > bugs > waves > wind), speculative environmental composition (by imagining a future when nature can only be accessed through screens and projections), and improvisational sound art (live performance of the speculative soundscape of an electro-forest).
Join us for the opening reception on November 7, from 7 - 9pm, when Zen and Alomar will present a live, improvisation-based performance in the gallery. A second performance with Zen and Alomar takes place on the last day of the exhibit, Saturday, Nov. 16 at 2pm.