Marina Rosenfeld (US, 1968)
Residency period: May-July 2024
My residency projects were premised on a new body of work I would describe as a speculative ontology of sound inscription and listening. While at La Becque I finished ‘μ’ (or mu), a multidisciplinary body of work encompassing two-channel video, sculpture, performance and sound. I composed a sound score for the video in four channels that loops in an unpredictable manner, and developed a sculpture in the form of a large handmade magnifying glass that rotates on a hidden turntable. In the object’s interior sits a small copper object in the form of a stylus. I shared these works the residency’s Open Studios event and will exhibit them to the public at the Gwangju Biennale in September 2024. I also continued to develop a body of work titled ‘nulls’, imagining what could be the morphology of listening. Thinking through the idea of negative space as a way of revealing form, these new works on paper are made using the delicate material extracted from the initial cuts made in the record inscription process. — Marina Rosenfeld
Marina Rosenfeld is an American composer, sound artist, and visual artist based in Brooklyn. For over thirty years, her work has explored acoustic architectures and experimental forms of participation in sound performances and installations. She focuses on the staging of sound in specific locations, perception, the (female) body, and the diffusion of voice through a variety of sensory experiences. Her works are known for the complex integration of notation and improvisation as a basis for sculptural interventions in monumental spaces, and for a conceptual approach to the use of loudspeakers and musical forms.
Over the course of her career, Rosenfeld has collaborated with numerous artists and musicians, including Okkyung Lee, Marino Formenti, George Lewis, Christian Marclay, Greg Fox, Eli Keszler, and Ben Vida. She has performed regularly with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and created scores for choreographers Ralph Lemon and Maria Hassabi. Her work has been presented at major music festivals and art institutions and biennales around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum and the Park Avenue Armory in New York, the Fondacion Serralves in Porto, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Whitney Biennial and Performa in New York, and the Montreal and Liverpool biennales.
Marina Rosenfeld, La Becque, 2024, photo Matthieu Croizier and Aurélien Haslebacher