INHABIT #9 // Victoria Keddie
Photo: Lauryn Siegel, 2023
March – June 2023
Victoria Keddie is an artist working within cross disciplines of sound, video, installation, and performance. Recent projects include customized software to visualize and sound space debris, the sounding of a Utopian landmark building, and a televisual installation within a vacant flagship retail store.
Keddie is Co-Director of E.S.P. TV, a nomadic TV studio and cable access series, that realizes synthetic environments and deconstructs the televisual for live performance.
During her residence at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics she will be working to sound impossible architecture. How can sound realize the impossible pertaining to unrealized architecture - particularly spaces that imagine a radical future or a significant shift in our collective place of being? Her research and practice focus on a series of unrealized works that challenge not only the laws of physics, but how we as a society move, interact and understand our spatial and sonic worlds. With this practice-based research project, she wants to investigate how sound moves in impossible spaces. She aims to understand how sound plays a significant role in understanding the places we inhabit, the structures we reside in, and specifically the speculative utopian environments designed for human interaction.
Biography
Victoria Keddie holds a BA in Painting from the University of the Art, Philadelphia and a MA in Museology / Ephemeral Collections from New York University, New York City. Keddie has performed live productions, with commissioned compositions, and exhibited internationally at: The Barbican (London, UK); Fridman Gallery, Performa Arts, The Swiss Institute, Pioneer Works, The Kitchen,The Museum of Art and Design, Queens Museum of Art, Anthology Film Archives (New York, US); Human Resources, (Los Angeles, US); KØS Museum, (Kuge, DK); Espace de l’art Concret (Paris, FR); The Goethe Institute (Bogotá, CO); Syros International Film Festival (Syros, GR); Sight + Sound Festival (Montreal, CA), among others. Video works are distributed through Light Cone, (Paris, FR) and The Filmmakers Co-op (NYC, US). Sound work released with Chaikin Records, (NYC, USA); In Context Music (Toronto, CA); Fridman Gallery (NYC, USA) and Acoustic Atlas (Venice, IT).
