Artist talk with William Robinson, second of two
Fri., March 1/5 p.m.
Special Collections Room, fifth floor,
Killam Memorial Library
William Robinson, the inaugural artist-in-residence at the Killam Memorial Library, is a Halifax-based interdisciplinary artist and graduate of NSCAD (2004).
In this talk, William will discuss his past work and the concept he developed during his residency for a work titled Brutalist Song.
William’s residency at the Killam Library is presented in partnership with the Dalhousie Art Gallery. The residency began on January 28 and ends on March 1.
William’s piece Young Prayer (2012), an electronic based kinetic sculpture that functions as a guitar smashing feedback machine. Shown in the Metropolitan United Church during Toronto’s Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, Young Prayer strives to reflect on the sprigging of rock culture from religious practices as well as the repurposed use of architecture (church) from its original context. Young Prayer also aims to reveal the cliché and predictable nature the action of guitar smashing has assumed over its relatively brief history as well as commemorate its lineage and celebrate its unique auditory effects.
The residency is funded through HRM’s residency initiative, which benefits artists by providing them with resources including space, time, critical discourse and financial support to deepen their practices, create works, investigate ideas and experiment with materials.
William employs video, performance, sculpture, drawing and other media to investigate the culture of sound and social architecture. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, having shown in New York, Bergen and Berlin, as well as in Toronto at Nuit Blanche and in Halifax at Nocturne. His practice is conceptually based, often rooted in intimate encounters and immediate experiences.