ARTIST RESIDENCY :: RAÚL ROMERO :: Resonances
The RESONANCES workshops followed Raúl Romero’s art practice.He invited us to be open to the material aliveness of sound. He fashioned installations that theorized sound through physical contact, circuitry, texture, and materiality. He showed us that archives could live in the vibrations sensed when attuned to his practice.
In Raúl’s work, sound is potential sensory energy; his practice is an ongoing attunement and receptivity to this energy, with a desire to follow its lead. Another part of his practice - one that we’ll be with tonight - reimagines sound technologies as organisms. His practice invites us away from trying to “make sense” of sound, and towards being open to the aliveness of his materials, able to transmit sound and its multiple energies, stories, and the archives inherent in its vibrations that can only be sensed when we attune ourselves to his practice.
