Artist-in-residence:
Cédric Maridet
Cédric Maridet, as AAA's third local artist-in-residence, spends two months at AAA exploring the 'sound-scape' of the archive from November 2009 to January 2010.
Cédric Maridet is an artist based in Hong Kong since 1999. He received his PhD in media art at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong in 2009. His research aims at clarifying fundamentals in the heterogeneity of listening intentions in order to frame essential connections for sound art in a holistic, perceptual and theoretical approach.
His art practice in video and sound (recorded or in real time streams) relays his theoretical concerns on the act of listening taking the form of compositions, installations and audio-visual works. He has participated in many exhibitions and performances worldwide and was awarded Prize of Excellence in the Hong Kong Art Biennial 2005 for his video work Huangpu (collected in Hong Kong Museum of Art). He has also been invited in many residencies and workshops worldwide and is a contributor to the open microphones project of French-based research lab in audio art Locus Sonus (École Supérieure d'Art d'Aix-en-Provence, École Nationale Supérieure d'Art de Nice Villa Arson), as well as Advisor for the HK organization soundpocket. He published some of his works on monème, a platform that he has founded in June 2004.
On 27th November 2009, Maridet presented the first phase of research from his residency in which the artist surveyed documents from the Archive, reflecting on various aspects of sound. Maridet will now turn this research into audio texts exploring the different voices of the Archive.
Upon completion of his residency, Maridet created Archival Records, a sound installation at the Archive. Archival Records intends to articulate the Archive’s physical and material space through the medium of sound, and establish a new connection between the Archive’s ‘voices’. It focuses on the realm of bridging textual readings (of printed material) and their vocal counterparts, through multi-lingual audio recordings of excerpts from the collection, supplemented by ambient sounds at the Archive. This sound installation not only aims at exploring the idea of the Archive, but also rediscovering the mechanics of sensory experiences and aural cognition through a composed technological mediation of experience.
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| Cédric Maridet documenting the sound at the archive |
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| Cédric Maridet documenting the sound at the archive |
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| Sketches of Archival Records |
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