Meredith Haines

Artist in Residence2022Sound artDanceNew media

Dec 1

she/her/hers

Maggie Bridger, a white woman with short red hair, bangs, dark eye liner, and a septum ring stares directly in the camera. She is wearing a green high-collared shirt with a brass necklace, sitting on a green velvet couch against a white wall. — Meredith Haines | Artist in Residence 2022 | Photo Credit: Sarah Dodge

Meredith Haines is a multidisciplinary artist and educator working with sound, installation, performance, and video. Her work engages the political capacities of sound, and explores noise as a method of social resistance. She uses sound art as part of an ongoing exploration into how trauma and abuse materialize in relation to the self and others. She is a critical community-builder who makes collaboratively and performs publicly for people to heal from violence, with violence.

A woman with dark braided hair wearing a long black cloak is crouching with her head on a large wooden paddle, her hands cupped under her head, feet spread wide. She is surrounded by four black megaphones on a wood floor against a light grey wall. — Artist in Residence 2022 | Photo Credit: Still from Video by Zack Sievers. *I am Walking into a Wall*, 2021, private filming

The Project

HCL is supporting Meredith as a Fellow for the final development and presentation of a sound and video installation and performance, (untitled), which is confirmed for Saturday & Sunday, 14 & 15 April 2023. In addition, the residency supports a regular series of skillshare sessions co-organized by Meredith with and for identified female and queer artists in the sound art and production field, and companion public concerts featuring artists from the community.

2022 Open Labs: No One Wants to Talk About It

On April 8 Open Labs, Meredith Haines performed 15-minute excerpts and discussed her work “No One Wants to Talk About It” in early development.

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Open Labs April 8, 2022 | Photo Credit: Grace Pisula, 2022

About the Artist

Meredith Haines’s work as a musician and dancer has garnered wide attention and been reviewed in publications such as Bandcamp, New Noise Magazine, Substream Magazine, and The Key. Her choreographic works have been selected for performances at the DUMBO festival in New York, and the New Boone gallery in Philadelphia. She holds a BFA in Dance from Temple University and a Master’s in Sound Arts and Industries from Northwestern University.