Cold Sky #1

Made entirely from field recordings taken in Svalbard, an archipelago in the Arctic Circle, during a residency in 2012.

This place feels like a real place

Field variation

EMPTY SPACE

the opening sound sequence to a 35-minute sound and projection show, "Timed travel: asystematic accounts of regular and geometrical timekeeping, orbital flight, repetitive rotations, and other journeys into actual time and slow space," originally put on in a high school planetarium in Richmond, VA.

Sky field, star-forming region

One four-minute year (counted by the hums of machines keeping official atomic time at the United States Naval Observatory, Washington DC)

part two of a 35-minute sound and projection show, "Timed travel: asystematic accounts of regular and geometrical timekeeping, orbital flight, repetitive rotations, and other journeys into actual time and slow space," originally put on in a high school planetarium in Richmond, VA.

all of the recordings for this piece were made from various official time-keeping machines at the US Naval Observatory in Washington DC – where the official atomic clock for the United States is kept. 

One four-minute year

the third sequence, and the first accompanying animation, to a 35-minute sound and projection show, "Timed travel: asystematic accounts of regular and geometrical timekeeping, orbital flight, repetitive rotations, and other journeys into actual time and slow space," originally put on in a high school planetarium in Richmond, VA.


Journey into the unknown machines attempt a construction of the skies

the fourth sequence, accompanying three projected animations, to a 35-minute sound and projection show, "Timed travel: asystematic accounts of regular and geometrical timekeeping, orbital flight, repetitive rotations, and other journeys into actual time and slow space," originally put on in a high school planetarium in Richmond, VA.


Activities in actuality  phase characteristic light codes

the fifth sequence, accompanying three projected animations, to a 35-minute sound and projection show, "Timed travel: asystematic accounts of regular and geometrical timekeeping, orbital flight, repetitive rotations, and other journeys into actual time and slow space," originally put on in a high school planetarium in Richmond, VA.


Activites in actuality  airglow, nightglow

the sixth sequence, accompanying three projected animations, to a 35-minute sound and projection show, "Timed travel: asystematic accounts of regular and geometrical timekeeping, orbital flight, repetitive rotations, and other journeys into actual time and slow space," originally put on in a high school planetarium in Richmond, VA.


Activities in actuality  space architecture in the Metabolist style

the final sequence to a 35-minute sound and projection show, "Timed travel: asystematic accounts of regular and geometrical timekeeping, orbital flight, repetitive rotations, and other journeys into actual time and slow space," originally put on in a high school planetarium in Richmond, VA.


Horizontal haze condition

Performance with Alfons Knogl at Sorbus, Helsinki, 21 Jan 2017 as part of my exhibition, Light Matter.

Scattering Like Light (performance with Alfons Knogl)

This piece was made during a residency at the Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago, IL. 

D—V

1201.2280v1

made from 2012 field recordings taken in Svalbard, various locations

Ice Is A Solid

Leah Beeferman works with landscape through digital image-making, photography, video, text and sound. Her work explores the relationships between observation and abstraction, natural and digital, physical and experiential. She has had solo exhibitions at Rawson Projects, New York and Sorbus, Helsinki. Recent two-person or group exhibitions include Fiskars Village Biennial, Finland; Sirius Arts Centre, Ireland; Klaus von Nichtssagend, New York; The Anderson, Richmond; Galaria Nara Roesler, São Paolo; Studio 17, Stavanger; Bass & Reiner, San Francisco; and Fridman Gallery, New York.

Beeferman has participated in many residencies, including LMCC Workspace, New York; The Arctic Circle, Svalbard; Mustarinda, Finland; Digital Painting Atelier, OCAD, Toronto; and Sirius, Ireland. Her work has been discussed in publications including BOMB, Objektiv, Temporary Art Review, Art in Print, Taupe Magazine and ArtPulse. In 2016 she published an artist book, Triple Point, with Lodret Vandret Copenhagen. She received an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University (2010) and a BA from Brown University (2004) and was the recipient of a Fulbright Scholar Grant to Finland (2016–17). Beeferman is now based in Providence, where she is an adjunct lecturer at Brown University and a critic at RISD.

Leah Beeferman

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