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DR MICHAEL GRAEVE

 

SAAC RESEARCHER

DR MICHAEL GRAEVE is a Castlemaine-based sound and visual artist. He exhibits and performs internationally and has held over 25 solo exhibitions and numerous performances. His installations feature in curated exhibitions surveying sound art, visual music and non-objective abstract painting. His work has been reviewed in Artforum International, Eyeline, Real Time and Art/Text as well as in books by Ros Bandt and Caleb Kelly. He is a senior lecturer at RMIT University. He was a Samstag scholar studying at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and has been awarded residencies in Vienna and New York. Committed to artist-run culture, Michael has been a board member of Liquid Architecture Sound Inc since 2007, and was previously board member and program manager at West Space Inc and founding committee member of Grey Area Art Space Inc.

 
 

 

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MICHAEL GRAEVE CURRENT RESEARCH

In my research I engage sound art and painting practices in dialogue, continually shifting frameworks for their creation and experiencing. My instrumentation consists of dozens of aged hifi turntable systems, performed or recorded as distributed patterns of hisses, hums, tones and rhythms. In performance and installation these sources are composed into spatialised multi-channel installations. When juxtaposed with site-specific easel and wall-painting works these installations are staged to create awkward oscillations of conjunctive and disjunctive relations that foreground audio-visual and spatio-temporal complexity. My studio practice contributes to the fields of visual music, concrete abstraction, sound art and turntablism.

Recent Research, example 1.
Michael Graeve
Die Relation der Unschärfe
23 Jan – 30 June, 2020
A sound & painting exhibition created for Das Esszimmer, Raum für Kunst+. Bonn, Germany

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.

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Recent Research, example 2.
Michael Graeve
SoundColourinG.ColouringsoundinG, 2019
Lot19 Artspace

Main image: Michael Graeve
Disjunctive Relations: Painting, Sound and Space, 2013
Installation view, Place Gallery Richmond
Photo: Michael Graeve