Gail Priest is a sound artist, writer and curator.
On this site you will find information on upcoming activities, an archive of past projects in live audio presentation, curation, sound design for performance and radio. You can also find a selection of critical and creative writings.
News & Events
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In mid-November the book Experimental Music: audio explorations in Australia, will hit the streets. I was the editor and contributed some chapters. More information can be found on the new site www.experimentalmusicaustralia.net Written by artists, producers and participants in alternative music-making, and including a companion CD, Experimental Music: audio explorations in Australia explores the development of forms, ideas and scenes from the 1970s to the present. |
January & April 2009 director Reginia Heilmann and I will commence work on a creative development, Sonic Selves. This is will be sound driven performance installation exploring the ideas of modern martyrdom with Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya as the starting point.
February/March 2009 will see the Sydney leg of the exchange with Artspace and Tokyo Wondersite as the Japanese artist will be in residence here. The exhibition will open at Artspace, March 13.
What's been happening
2008 has been a year for travelling. Starting with ten days in Vancouver running a writing workshop with RealTime for the PuSH festival. June was spent in Europe, mainly Berlin, just checking out things and presenting a gig with Sam James (video) at the Electronic Church. In Aug-Sept I had the wonderful opportunity to be in residence at Tokyo Wonder Site creating works for Diorama of a City: Between Site & Space. The main work created is called 28 Songs for a City: Tokyo.
See & hear more…
In the midst of this, I've worked as the sound collaborator with Martin del Amo on 2 stages of the creative development It's A Jungle Out There, for production in mid-2009. I also worked on the next stage creative development of Karen Therese's Riot Act due for production at Campbelltown Art Centre mid-2009, and the final stage of Nalina Wait's Dual, a 20 minute dance work, was presented at Performance Space as part of the Live Works festival.