open lab_Ahreum Lee

In residency at perte de signal since may 2020, as part of the “Scholarship for Internship in a Practice Environment” program by the Fonds de recherche du Québec as well as by a Hexagram Student Grant, Ahreum Lee presents the results of her work at the rustines_lab. The artist will also participate un a live presentation of her work, hosted by Erin Gee and with Lynn Hughes, that will be broadcasted on our Twitch page on Thursday, February 11, at 2.30 p.m.

Multiple Selves is a 3-channel video installation of a performance in which 3 choir members mimicked the sound generated by the text-to-speech application created by the artist. The text-to-speech application was based on the International Pronunciation Alphabet of English Words. The syllables are exaggerated by randomly alternating pitch, length and tone of the pronunciations. Based on research on the gender hierarchy of voices, the artist aims to state that each syllable with different pitches and tones represent the glitched self and multiple selves. Songs were generated by typing some text from the artist and some quotations from the book Glitch Feminism by Legacy Russell. These 3 songs are titled “Glitch Ghosts” “Glitch is Error” and “Ghost Echoes.”