Waterworks 2023 – Weilu Ge: Resonant Bodies for multiple loudspeakers
Non-Event and the Metropolitan Waterworks Museum present
Waterworks 2023 – Installations:
Weilu Ge: Resonant Bodies for multiple loudspeakers
Wednesday, May 3 – Sunday, May 14, 2023
Resonant Bodies will be available during regular museum hours: Wednesday – Sunday, 11-4pm / Saturday, 11-3pm
Metropolitan Waterworks Museum
2450 Beacon Street, Boston
Free, but please consider making a donation to the Waterworks Museum
Non-Event is pleased to present Weilu Ge’s installation, Resonant Bodies for multiple loudspeakers as part of the Waterworks 2023 Festival.
Resonant Bodies is a site-specific sound installation that explores the imaginary sonic world of the Waterworks Museum and its surrounding urban environment. It seeks to create an immersive listening situation across space and time, subject and object, human and non-human, noise and silence. The soundscape is composed of a series of field recordings collected from inside the machines, around the Great Engine Hall, the nearby urban environment, found sound archives, and improvisations. The installation consists of a multi-channel audio system that is placed within the engines. Listeners can freely move around the space and experience the installation from different perspectives.
For a different perspective on the installation, which centers on Waterworks' giant Allis Engine, consider signing up for one of the museum's All Access Tours. These tours take place on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday afternoons. These tours take you into the sub-basement and up onto the machines. Check here for more information and to purchase tickets for the tours.
About the Artist
Weilu Ge is a composer and media artist based in Cambridge, MA. She works with various media forms, from concert music, installation to video and innovative technology. Her recent practice explores theatrical expressions of sonic, visual and spatial media in interactive and immersive spaces, taking composition and space as critical means to examine relationships between power, system, body, and technology in a social-cultural context. Weilu’s works have been performed and exhibited internationally. She is currently a PhD candidate in Creative Practice and Critical Inquiry at Harvard University. Weilu holds an Interschool MFA in Art and Technology & Composition & Experimental Sound Practice with a concentration in Integrated Media from the California Institute of the Arts.
Waterworks 2023 is presented with the support of a Live Arts Boston grant from The Boston Foundation, a Festivals Grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and a local cultural council grant from the Brookline Commission for the Arts.
Non-Event would also like to thank the sponsors for Waterworks 2023:
