Sound and Installation — Jessica Ostrowicz

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Jessica Ostrowicz

Jessica Ostrowicz

Sound and Installations

Flight Test
2017
Three part sound installation installed over three floors at Siobhan Davies Dance Studio

Three compositions of sounds collected with contact-microphones at Siobhan Davies Dance Studios from daily repetitions in the communal spaces d

Echolocation for protection against aural hypersensitivity
2020
Sound and a handful of stones
Sizes variable

In moments of hypersensitivity and anxiety, sight and sound can magnify themselves and present as a pressure on the body and a hinderance to

Pale Fire
2019
Steel, bin liners, fans, metal grate, collected sound Sizes variable

Pale Fire is an enactment of a London Tube train platform where everything seems counter to normal logic. Instead of taking in fluid, a water drainage grate emits so

Sonorous Bones - An Archive of Exhales
2020
1000 photographs of clay pipes on vellum, 1000 twenty second recordings of exhales through the 1000 pipes, 3000 measurements of 1000 pipes
Variable sizes

I amassed 2000 clay pipes from the Thames over two

Image 16-04-2020 at 13.57.jpg

Cleave
2018
Bone, resin, water, ash, motors, arduino boards, cloth, stones, thread, steel, pvc
Variable sizes

Cleave is made up of 5 steel bodies. Each one is made to the height of someone in my family, and comprises of a whistle that I have cast i

Ode to Yankee Jack

2019
Stone, porcelain, piano wire, pvc tubes
300cm x 140cm x 40cm

This piece was selected by Arts Council England to be built in the town centre of Watchet. Taking the notes of a song made locally famous by Captain John Short,

Flight Test
2017
Three part sound installation installed over three floors at Siobhan Davies Dance Studio

Three compositions of sounds collected with contact-microphones at Siobhan Davies Dance Studios from daily repetitions in the communal spaces d

Echolocation for protection against aural hypersensitivity
2020
Sound and a handful of stones
Sizes variable

In moments of hypersensitivity and anxiety, sight and sound can magnify themselves and present as a pressure on the body and a hinderance to

Pale Fire
2019
Steel, bin liners, fans, metal grate, collected sound Sizes variable

Pale Fire is an enactment of a London Tube train platform where everything seems counter to normal logic. Instead of taking in fluid, a water drainage grate emits so

Sonorous Bones - An Archive of Exhales
2020
1000 photographs of clay pipes on vellum, 1000 twenty second recordings of exhales through the 1000 pipes, 3000 measurements of 1000 pipes
Variable sizes

I amassed 2000 clay pipes from the Thames over two

Image 16-04-2020 at 13.57.jpg

Cleave
2018
Bone, resin, water, ash, motors, arduino boards, cloth, stones, thread, steel, pvc
Variable sizes

Cleave is made up of 5 steel bodies. Each one is made to the height of someone in my family, and comprises of a whistle that I have cast i

Ode to Yankee Jack

2019
Stone, porcelain, piano wire, pvc tubes
300cm x 140cm x 40cm

This piece was selected by Arts Council England to be built in the town centre of Watchet. Taking the notes of a song made locally famous by Captain John Short,

Paper and Drawing

Sculpture

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