Open Labs
Deepening the creative process through community exchange
Co-presented and produced by High Concept Labs and the Monira Foundation in Joint Residency at Mana Contemporary
*Proof of vaccination and masks are required.
Open Labs is a flexible, monthly platform for High Concept Labs' Artists in Residence to share, test ideas, and develop perspective on their work.
Open Labs: Soft Noise Skillshare Series #1 - Hali Palombo
August 8 @ 7:30pm-9:00pm
Monthly skillshare series hosted by HCL Residency Artist Meredith Haines with invited artists.
Presented by High Concept Labs (HCL) in Joint Residency with the Monira Foundation at Mana Contemporary
At this time, Soft Noise Skillshares are only open to women, non-binary, and trans participants in an effort to encourage equity in sound and audio spaces.
Meredith Haines: Soft Noise Skillshare
The Soft Noise Skillshare, a monthly series hosted by HCL Residency Artist Meredith Haines that welcomes open dialogue, community, and trade amongst women, trans, and non-binary sound artists, musicians, and audio specialists.
For the first installment, invited artist Hali Palombo will be sharing her process working with short wave radio compositions. While all levels of skill and experience are welcome, this workshop is currently only open to women, trans, and non-binary participants at this time, in order to foster equity in sound and audio spaces.
For the workshop, participants will need a working radio. If you don’t have a radio and would like to participate, please contact Meredith through email (meredith.f.haines@gmail.com). Space is limited to 10 participants, welcome to arrive early to join in.
Donations to the artists are strongly encouraged.
About the Artists
Hali Palombo is a composer and visual artist who works with found audio and lost media. She crafts most of her music from a large personal library of cb and amateur radio recordings, morse code, wax cylinder samples and field recordings taken at various Midwestern points of interest. She lives and works in Illinois.
Meredith Haines is a multidisciplinary artist and educator whose current work engages sound art’s capacity to disrupt, challenge, rupture, and unearth social realities. The process she is developing explores how trauma and abuse materialize in relation to the self and others, and uses a DIY aesthetic, the notion of noise as violence, interpersonal communication, and her postmodern dance training. Her artwork is a critical community-builder. She makes and performs her sound art publicly for catharsis, for people to heal from violence, with violence.