Anticipations From A Near Future is a new exhibition by Tauranga based multi-disciplinary and recording artist Kyle Sattler. The exhibition features two new audio-visual works, Spheres Of Our Effective Action and Waves Colliding. Playing in unison, these works generate spontaneous sonic and visual compositions which reach across the exhibition spaces at the Audio Foundation constituting a single installation reflecting on notions of perception and the interaction of aural, visual, and temporal experience.
Drawing from the writing of film theorist Michel Chion, Sattler’s works enable an exploration of synchresis – the perceptual fusion of concurrently occuring visual and sonic phenomena in film. As planetary orbs rotate across video monitors, the relationship between audible and the visual material is set against additional notions such as flow, intuition, and rhythmic anticipation.
Opens: Thursday 18 April, 5.30pm, with refreshments by Liberty Breweries
Hours: 12 – 4pm, Tuesday – Saturday
Closes: Friday 10 May
Special event:
Live performances by We Will Ride Fast at Preauricular Pit
Friday 19 April, 8pm @ Audio Foundation
Artist bio:
Kyle Sattler, is a Tauranga based multi-disciplinary artist and musician, working across a broad range of fields.
Sattler’s work includes an underlying investigation of ontological themes and the study of the metaphysical. His video works consider the influence of rhythm and flow on human experience, reflecting upon the ‘real present’. Sattler’s recent installation artworks have focused primarily on sound and video using any number of semi-autonomous systems working incommensurably to mimic the aleatoric nature of our privileged human instants.
He also masquerades as synth-punk solo artist, We Will Ride Fast, a singer/multi-instrumentalist/multimedia side project described as, “what Robocop’s band would be if he was allowed to express feelings”. WWRF’s genre-straddling style deploys fuzzy guitars/keys, pulsing new wavey electronics and often loping, goth-tinted grooves as an aural backdrop for Sattler’s philosophical lyrical musings.
Sattler holds a master’s degree in visual arts and is currently employed as a visual arts tutor on the Bachelor of Creative Industries Degree, at Toiohomai Institute of Technology, in Tauranga, New Zealand.