Louise K Wilson is a visual artist who makes installations,
live works, sound works and single channel videos. Processes of research are
central to her practice and she frequently involves the participation of
individuals from industry, museums, medicine and the scientific community in
the making of work. Previous associations have included the Montreal Neurological Institute, the Science Museum, the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training facility in Moscow, the RSPB and the Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service.
Her current research uses the medium of sound to ask philosophical and
material questions about the spatio-temporal physicality of certain sites and
our perceptions of them. She has traveled to numerous (military and scientific)
sites including nuclear submarines, US listening stations, university halls,
marine research environments, rocket launch sites and disused RAF bases in
pursuit of the acoustics of resonant spaces. She has explored the ways in which
technologies of the audible create new ways of engaging with lost traces of
institutional places.
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