Gail Priest

Most Recent Affiliation(s):

• University of Technology Sydney

ISEA Bio(s) Available:

• ISEA2024

  GAIL PRIEST is a sound artist, curator and writer living on Dharug and Gundungurra land now known as Katoomba, NSW. Her practice encompasses performance, recording, sound design for dance and theatre, installation, curation and writing. She has exhibited at events and galleries including: Audioblast, Nantes, France; Experimenta Makes Sense Triennial of Media Art, touring nationally 2017-2021; ISEA2016 Hong Kong Juried exhibition; Werkleitz Festival, Halle, Germany; the Sonoretum, Kapelica Gallery, Slovenia; Tokyo Wonder Site, Japan; Artspace, SNO Gallery and Our Neon Foe, Sydney; and Blindside Melbourne. Recently she has been collaborating with Thomas Burless (as The Institute for Non-Empirical Results) creating the multi-room exhibition Five Self-vibrating Regions of Intensities for The Substation, Melbourne (2023), a sequel to the performance project performed at Liveworks 2019, Performance Space. She has recently undertaken a 3-month residency at the Cité internationale des arts, Paris through the Power Institute, Sydney University. She releases music on her own label, Metal Bitch as well as Flaming Pines and room40 and has toured the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Norway, Finland, Iceland and The Netherlands. She was associate editor and online producer of RealTime and writes fictively and factually about sound and media art. She received a PhD through University of Technology in 2023.

  ISEA2019

  Gail Priest is a Sydney/Katoomba-based artist with a multi-faceted practice in which sound is the key material of communication and investigation. Her work spans solo electro-acoustic composition for performance and recordings, soundtracks for dance, theatre and video and gallery installations. She has performed at festivals and events nationally (Open Frame, the NOW now, Liquid Architecture, Sydney Biennale, MESS, MPavilion) and internationally (STEIM, Amsterdam; Experimontag, Berlin, Kammer Klang Café Oto, London; Kulturhuset, Oslo). Through her own label Metal Bitch she has released five albums, with Flaming Pines and Endgame Records also releasing solo CDs. In 2015-2016 she was the recipient of the Australia Council Emerging and Experimental Arts Fellowship which allowed her to develop her national and international profile as an electro-acoustic performer and sound artist.

  Forming part of this was her major project, Sounding the Future, a ficto-critical body of work offering speculations as to what art in the future will sound like with an interactive installation exhibited at .move On Werkleitz Festival, Halle, Germany, ISEA2016 Hong Kong and UTS Gallery Sydney. In 2017 she was commissioned by Experimenta and ANAT to create SonoLexic, touring nationally as part of Experimenta Make Sense Triennial of Media Art (2107-2020). She has undertaken residencies at Artspace, Performance Space, Bundanon, Tokyo Wonder Site, Bandits-Mages/La Box (Bourges, France), Bergen Centre for Electronic Art, Norway, Cove Park, Scotland (courtesy Cyrptic & The Substation) and Listhus, Olafsfjordür, Iceland. She curates and produces sound events and exhibitions including the experimetnal music series Pretty Gritty (2013-2017). She also wrote extensively about sound and media arts for RealTime magazine (1994-2018) and was the editor of Experimental Music: audio explorations in Australia through UNSW Press (2009). She is also the founder of Audible Women, an online directory for female-identified artists working with experimental sound. She is currently undertaking a Doctorate of Creative Arts at the University of Technology, Sydney.

Website:

• http://www.gailpriest.net/

Last Known Location:

• Sydney, New South Wales, Australia