In collaboration with James Rushford
2019
Curated by Joel Stern for Octopus 19: Ventriloquy at Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne Performed at Meat Market Stables with live vocals by Sage Pbbbt, Kate Brown, Carolyn Connors and Jenny Barnes
The work is an experiment in misheard, barely-caught, and residual moments occurring at the intersection of technical capture and human interpretation. - Joel Stern
And Laid Him On The Green is a 40-minute multimedia performance incorporating four live voices, text, electronics and three-channel video, exploring cultural examples of ‘mishearings’, from the innocuous to the injurious. The work is the first major collaboration between Melbourne-based experimental musician James Rushford and Los Angeles-based visual artist Ryat Yezbick. Rushford and Yezbick re-enact a conversation between Yezbick and forensic audio specialist, Susan Wilson as they explore cognitive perception at play around misheard speech and the distrust of Voice ID in court rooms. Through a combination of live mediums, Rushford and Yezbick look at the performance of morality at play in the pursuit of truth. The work premiered at Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, in a group exhibition on ventriloquism titled Octopus 19: Ventriloquy, curated by Joel Stern. Funding was provided by the Australian Council for the Arts and Liquid Architecture.
And Laid Him On The Green_Teaser from Rachel Yezbick on Vimeo.
Upcoming | Current
Tactics of Erasure at ReflectSpace, Glendale
Recent Exhibitions
Collision Practice at Human Resources and the LGBT Center
growth lies, pack of truth at Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles Opening October 1st - January 8th
Spillover, Durden and Ray at the Bendix building, Los Angeles
It’s kind of a scary feeling, LAXART for X-TRA Summer Launch Party
Contact: ryat.yezbick [at] gmail.com
Photography: Hagen Betzwieser, Keelan O’Hehir, Jessica Wittman, Panayiotis Tsangas, Cedric Tai, Eleni Maligoura, Zach Korol-Gold, Gabriel Sweet
Copyright @2022 Ryat Yezbick. All rights reserved.
Tactics of Erasure at ReflectSpace, Glendale
Recent Exhibitions
Collision Practice at Human Resources and the LGBT Center
growth lies, pack of truth at Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles Opening October 1st - January 8th
Spillover, Durden and Ray at the Bendix building, Los Angeles
It’s kind of a scary feeling, LAXART for X-TRA Summer Launch Party
Contact: ryat.yezbick [at] gmail.com
Photography: Hagen Betzwieser, Keelan O’Hehir, Jessica Wittman, Panayiotis Tsangas, Cedric Tai, Eleni Maligoura, Zach Korol-Gold, Gabriel Sweet
Copyright @2022 Ryat Yezbick. All rights reserved.