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About
Inspired by Nancy Elizabeth Prophet’s sculptures and diary entries, Kamari Carter and Will Johnson create spaces of imagination and possibility. After examining Prophet's time spent in Paris, Carter and Johnson produce sounds and images using archival and new material. This 30 minute projection and sound performance is followed by a conversation with the artists and museum staff about research processes and creative practices.
Free. Registration is requested for this in-person program.
Kamari Carter is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Music and Multimedia Composition at Brown University. Carter works with sound and found objects and his practice circumvents materiality and familiarity through a variety of recording and amplification techniques to investigate notions such as space, systems of identity, oppression, control, and surveillance. Carter’s work has been exhibited at Automata Arts, MoMA, Mana Contemporary, the RISD Museum, Microscope Gallery, Lenfest Center for the Arts, and Wave Hill and has been featured in a range of major publications including Artnet, Precog Magazine, Flash Art, Level Ground, and Whitewall. Carter holds a BFA in music technology from the California Institute of the Arts and an MFA in sound art from Columbia University. Carter is represented by Microscope Gallery in New York City.
Will Johnson is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Music at Brown University. Themes from his work include Black digital memory, phantom archives and the latent poetics of audio engineer speak. His proposed dissertation project centers on composition for trunk subwoofers and conceives of automobile collectives as orchestras-in-motion. Throughout his work, particular attention is paid to sub frequencies and the left-most regions of the frequency spectrum. Here, “bass” is explored as a vibrotactile substance that challenges the formality of “music” as a purely auditory phenomena. Johnson is a visiting researcher at the Rhode Island School of Design and the University of Johannesburg’s Visual Identities in Art and Design (VIAD) Research Centre. He is the recipient of the Jerome Foundation’s Composer and Sound Artist Fellowship and the McKnight Fellowship for Musicians.