metrics.isolation.home (2008)

a bell always rings
calling
the ultimate critic
take me too
I thought I heard
equal parts, sound 

Sound concept, composition, production and visual concept: Susan Hawkins

Bass clarinet performance and additional improvisation: Matt Engells

This sound and image installation was designed as a companion piece to 37 isolated events. It consisted of 23 laser printed transparent 9 x 6 envelopes with stereo speaker placements. The piece was shown at the Counter Pulse Theatre as apart of the San Francisco International Arts Festival in May 2008.

tension_release (2008)

Video: Virginia Mawer
Sound: Susan Hawkins

Full duration: 14:25 minutes

This collaboration with Sydney visual artist, Virginia Mawer, developed while in residency at The Bundanon Trust (Australia). Showed at the Milkbar International Film Festival (Oakland, CA, USA) September 2008 [www.milkbar.org/]. 

buddha’s lightbulb  and music of the spheres
(in collaboration with Wesley Mulvin) (2007)

 Group exhibition curated by: Jo Cook

Open Space Gallery, Victoria, BC, Canada

 And thus you too, my dear, see magnetic man while he is still bound to the body and thus to the world of the senses, emerging with extended antennae into another world of which he will be your witness.

                                      Justinus Kerner, Die Seherin von Prevorst, 1829

buddha’s lightbulb (stereo speaker placement) and music of the spheres (4 stereo speaker installation with sculpture) were two installations created in collaboration with Wesley Mulvin for this group exhibition.

we are not alone is a multi-disciplinary, collaborative approach to installation that is evocative rather than instructive. Six artists, Emily Goodden, Susan Hawkins, leannej, Wesley Mulvin, my name is scot, and Frances Zorn created a space to accommodate shifting relationships between diverse works where the non-linear, non-unified nature of experience is acknowledged. Whether as a fragment or a fully-formed story, narrative is inherent in the configuration of sculpture, music, text, and still and moving images the artists presented.