Gemma Crowe
Artist in Residence, May 2021
Gemma Crowe is a new media artist and recent graduate of Emily Carr University of Art + Design’s full-residency MFA program. Crowe holds a bachelor’s degree in contemporary dance and has professional experience in filmmaking and video art, which influences how she approaches an audience of viewers and listeners. Her thesis research is concerned with the illusory potential of sound and the sensory apprehension of movement.
Crowe has received Canada Council and British Columbia Arts Council funding for her research into spatial sound and the bodily experience as well as a research award through Emily Carr University. Crowe’s residency at Lobe studio initiated an exciting new chapter in the study of embodied sonic design and she has presented her research at the 2022 International Seminar on Sonic Design.
How Do You Here Me?
To hear something is to encounter it physically, but to see something is to be removed from it, at a distance. How Do You Here Me? explores the physical presence of sound and offers a felt sense of proximity where it does not exist materially.
Gemma Crowe’s art practice explores different ways of knowing, beyond cognition, by encouraging feeling through aesthetic affect. This sound project is motivated by research in how the removal of the visual body, as a template for human experience, might facilitate an embodied experience.
Working with sound as a felt sense and for the creation of physical presence, How Do You Here Me? explores the potential for bodies re-manifested in space, through sound.