I think about how our 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, my work develops diagrammatic listening: post-listening visual traces of strain, drift, density, breath, and breakdown.

Through performance, sound, drawing, and collective listening environments, I question how coordination emerges without correction or mastery. A recent obsession draws from Georgian polyphonic traditions and collective attunement ~ how we attend to breath, noise, and silence as forms of care, attention and relation.

Bio

Grace is an interdisciplinary artist working across sound, performance, imagery, and embodied archives. Her practice attends to how infrastructures of language, urban noise, sport, and pedagogy shape listening over time. Drawing from heritage: karaoke culture, basketball, and environmental sound, she develops experimental approaches to listening that resist pitch discipline, virtuosity, and assimilation.

Recent work includes Interaural Space (iASpace), a community installation turned WPRB broadcast exploring noise, migration, and oral history. Her discography includes releases on Superpang (IT), Notice Recordings (NYC), and Flaming Pines (UK, forthcoming). Her work has been supported by Morphine Records (DE), Fridman Gallery (NYC), and Black Mountain College Museum, including community projects with IONE and the Pauline Oliveros Foundation.

Presentations include Amant (NYC), Elbphilharmonie Kleiner Saal (DE), Kiosk Radio (BXL), The Broad/REDCAT, and Issue Project Room, among others. She has performed works by Raven Chacon and collaborated on live visuals with Tyondai Braxton.

Grace works with sound and oral history at Princeton University's ViZe Lab (Anthropology). She is a 2026–27 Initial Research Fellow (NYC), a 2025 Wide Rainbow Fellow, and a 2024 Rema Hort Mann Community Arts Grant recipient. She holds an MFA in Music/Sound from Bard College's Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts.

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