Evicshen

Victoria Shen is a sound artist based in San Francisco. Shen's sound practice is concerned with the spatiality/physicality of sound and its relationship to the human body. Her personal identity; her body; is the space her work utilizes to restructure sonic meaning. The appendage-like instruments and objects she makes, exemplify Shen’s ability to embody her interest in the tension created by opposition: control and chaos, the unique and the mass produced, the practical and the absurd. Shen’s multimedia practice extends beyond composition/performance to include installation and sculpture. Her approach to deconstructing notions of “materiality, value and mass production” both integrate and re-contextualize the readymade and assemblage. She pioneered the use of Needle Nails, acrylic nails with embedded turntable styluses, which allow her to play up to 5 tracks of a record simultaneously. These sculptural elements invite the viewer to unpack one’s relationship with material possibilities for creating sound.

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