Assisting composer, performer and sound installation artist, Laetitia Sonami with her Multimedia gallery installation, WIRE RAP IV: If Walls Could Talk, was a transformative experience for Multimedia students: Tsveta Dimitrova, Kyle Mirro, Brigid Walsh, and Andrew Zahn. In addition, Jessica Kramer from the Crafts department and Multimedia alumna, Angela Latini, also assisted.
“Working with Laetitia was wonderful! To be able to help her out and talk to her on an artist-to-artist level was something I am very grateful for. She is intelligent, kind, and very creative. My time spent with her was inspiring!” – Jessica Kramer
Laetitia followed up her performance and the opening of her gallery exhibition at The University of the Arts with a performance at SFMOMA the following week.
Laetitia Sonami’s installation, WIRE RAP IV: If Walls Could Talk, was on display until May 14th in the Multimedia Gallery on the 12th floor of the Terra Building. In a set of panels, the wires are “pulled out of the walls,” forming letters from an unknown language, conveying important information, declarations, edicts or love letters. They are the giant pages of a book extricated from the sheet rock. The sounds coming from each panel through the spooled bobbins of wires are of voices from war-torn countries taken from YouTube, our collective billboard. These sounds are modified as to retain just a vague imprint of their origins and can be thought of as a sonic translation of this mysterious language.
Assisting composer, performer and sound installation artist, Laetitia Sonami with her Multimedia gallery installation, WIRE RAP IV: If Walls Could Talk, was a transformative experience for Multimedia students: TSVETA DIMITROVA, KYLE MIRRO, BRIGID WALSH, and ANDREW ZAHN. In addition, Jessica Kramer from the Crafts department and Multimedia alumna, ANGELA LATINI, also assisted.
“Working with Laetitia was wonderful! To be able to help her out and talk to her on an artist-to-artist level was something I am very grateful for. She is intelligent, kind, and very creative. My time spent with her was inspiring!” – Jessica Kramer
Laetitia followed up her performance and the opening of her gallery exhibition at The University of the Arts with a performance at SFMOMA the following week.
Laetitia Sonami’s installation, WIRE RAP IV: If Walls Could Talk, was on display until May 14th in the Multimedia Gallery on the 12th floor of the Terra Building. In a set of panels, the wires are “pulled out of the walls,” forming letters from an unknown language, conveying important information, declarations, edicts or love letters. They are the giant pages of a book extricated from the sheet rock. The sounds coming from each panel through the spooled bobbins of wires are of voices from war-torn countries taken from YouTube, our collective billboard. These sounds are modified as to retain just a vague imprint of their origins and can be thought of as a sonic translation of this mysterious language.
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