Blog – Ali Miharbi

Exhibition: PneumoMachinic

New Media Gallery, New Westminster BC :: June 9 – August 18 2024

PneumoMachinic is a sound-art exhibition which considers the influence and cultural impact of breath, from the earliest human speech, to installations evoking the ancient music of Peru and Spain. Three artists have created air-driven, sound installations through exceptional research and complex technologies. Their works explore, expand and compress breath; evoking, mechanizing and instrumentalizing it in meaningful flows, beats, currents and code.

I am participating with the installation Whispering I which utilizes compressed air flowing through 3D-printed acoustic resonators designed after the forms that human vocal tract takes during speech. The sounds that the viewer hears while walking around the space resemble human whispering, as well as breathing.

Participating artists: Cristhian Ávila Cipriani, Ali Miharbi, Xoán-Xil

Curated by Sarah Joyce and Gordon Duggan

30/06/2024

Exhibition: Reveries, Truths

14.04-16.07.2023 :: Casa Botter, Istanbul

Botter Apartment, Istanbul’s first Art Nouveau building (constructed in 1901), opened its doors under the name of Casa Botter Art and Design Center. Its first exhibition “Reveries, Truths” will be on view between April 14 and July 16.

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02/07/2023

Solo Exhibition: Degrees of Freedom

10.09 – 22.10.2022 :: Pilot Galeri, Istanbul

The exhibition takes its name from control theory where “degrees of freedom” refers to the variety of possible motions in a system. By widening this concept to any system including humans and their social spheres, various pieces in the exhibition explores different ways we can have or lack control, and reminds the viewers of their own potentials.

20/10/2022

Exhibition: Metamorphoses from Causal Relations to Indexical Signs

29.04 – 05.06.2022 :: Sanatorium, Istanbul

Curated by Yağız Özgen, “Metamorphoses from Causal Relations to Indexical Signs” looks into causal relations between events that are the building blocks of the world surrounding the human being.

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30/04/2022

Exhibition: Tempo Incognito

03.03 – 18.04.2021 :: Depo, Istanbul

“Tempo Incognito: On Flows, Rhythm, and Movement”, curated by Rana Öztürk, intends to examine the experience and conceptualization of temporality in contemporary societies, exploring how our sense of time can clash or be in tune with natural, ecological and universal cycles.

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Exhibition: Intergalactic

03.09-20.10.2019 :: Anna Laudel, Istanbul

Curated by İpek Yeğinsü, “Intergalactic” departs from the question of what the future will be like if we manage to bring and sustain our civilization beyond the confines of our planet.

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Exhibition: Anger is a solution, if anger means kittens

15.09 – 21.10.2018 :: D21 Kunstraum Leipzig

The project Anger is a solution, if anger means kittens examines manifestations of anger, frustration and exhaustion in post-digital, late-capitalist societies. It was realized in the context of “Curator’s Lab” as part of the D21 annual program “Emotional States” focusing on the politics of emotions.

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Exhibition: Machine Culture

21.09-09.12.2018 :: SPACE Gallery Pittsburgh

Curated by Murray Horne, “Machine Culture” introduces a group of artists fascinated by the mechanical. Operating with varying degrees of autonomy, control, function and dysfunction, these artists orchestrate materials, re-configuring them into “objects of fascination.”

Artists: Samuel St. Aubin, Zoro Feigl, Ujoo & Limhee Young, Kristoffer Myskja, Henrik Menné, Oz Malul, Keny Marshall, Kausik Mukhopadhyay, Ali Miharbi, Peter Flemming

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Interview: Wind Organ

“Wind Organ”, co-commissioned by Delfina Foundation and Horniman Museum with support from SAHA, is inspired by the museum’s musical instrument collection which I visited during my residency at Delfina Foundation in Winter 2017. The piece forms part of a series of works commissioned as part of Delfina Foundation’s thematic programme Collecting as Practice.

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Solo Exhibition: Pneuma

16.04 – 03.06.2017 :: Pilot Galeri, Istanbul

“Pneuma” focuses on air, breath and wind. Air circulates, it travels, it spreads, it blocks, it communicates, it whispers. It transmits and guides. Air is not there only as the mass of gases that surrounds the Earth and allows life to exist but beyond this, it is there as a tool of communication or a converter.

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