Activating the unique Kensington industrial warehouse annex with sound, Botello and other sound-artists-in-residence are filling the Icebox’s white cube with unusual sounds during the year of 2016. In contrast to Jane Carver’s analog performance, Botello and the others are “painting” multiple sound images in the Icebox using digital computer software and electronic voices. Echo, feedback, movement, and tonal reduction in the high-ceilinged cinder-block and concrete space make sound almost physical, palpable, synesthetic.
Read MoreVia International Center for Photography – Mary Ellen Mark Memorial Scholarship
Closer to home, Icebox Project Space is looking for your 2016 predictions for their publication. For more information visit the Icebox Project Space website.
Read MoreThe Icebox says — You Can Curate! You Can Curate is a project by the curating team that run the Icebox Project Space, Tim Belknap and Ryan McCartney. They want you to come to the Grey Area at Crane Arts (outside the Icebox) and use the 10ft x 20ft scale model and the materials they’ve provided for you to create your own suggested installation for the big box itself (500 sq. ft.)
Read MoreThere are many excellent works in Begin Where You Are, a sweet kiss on the cheek to Philadelphia art and artists. The curators did a fantastic job of including a very broad range of artists and showing their works with great dignity. There’s a spirit of generosity in Begin that embodies the curators love of the community. Begin also encapsulates the Philly art scene, which is small when you come right down to it, and filled with artists who have big hearts.
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