My work explores how voices and bodies are shaped by the sounds, systems, and environments they move through and live within. I see listening as a trained, embodied practice—formed somatically through repetition, pressure, and place over time. Drawing on basketball, karaoke, polyphonic singing, and infrastructural sound, I am developing a practice I call diagrammatic listening: post-listening visual scores that trace strain, drift, density, breath, and breakdown without fixing pitch or form. Recently influenced by Georgian polyphonic traditions, my work examines how coordination can emerge without correction or mastery, and how collaborative listening environments can preserve breath, noise, and silence as forms of care and collective attunement.
Bio
Grace is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher working with sound, performance, imagery, and embodied archives. Her practice investigates how infrastructures— language, urban noise, sport and music pedagogy—shape the body, throat, and listening habits over time. Drawing from Filipino histories, karaoke culture, basketball, and environmental sound, her work proposes alternative modes of listening that resist pitch discipline, virtuosity, and assimilation. She is currently developing projects that treat the body as a living score shaped by colonial and ambient forces. Her current projects include mumulak; Interaural Space, a community installation turned WPRB radio broadcast on noise, migration, and oral history; ⎤⎤⎤ (Superpang & Notice Recordings); and collaborations with poet Andrew Riad and Drab. Her work has been presented with Morphine Records Berlin; Fridman Gallery NYC; the Black Mountain College Museum, NC; as community project with IONE + Pauline Oliveros Foundation, and in performances of works with Raven Chacon (For Zitkála-Šá & American Ledger #3) & live-video collaboration with Tyondai Braxton. Presentations of these works include Amant (NYC), Elbphilharmonie Kleiner Saal (Hamburg), Kiosk Radio (Brussels), The Broad / REDCAT (Los Angeles), Issue Project Room (NYC), ACT an MIT Media Lab (MA), and others.
Grace works with sound and oral history at Princeton University’s ViZe Lab (Anthropology), and is a 2024 Rema Hort Mann Community Arts Grant recipient, a 2025 Wide Rainbow Fellow, and an MFA graduate of Bard College in Music/Sound.
