John Roach is an American, New York-based interdisciplinary artist with a particular interest in sound and multisensory experience who builds audio-visual environments that blur the line between what we see and what we hear. His work moves fluidly between intermedia installation, radio transmission, performance, object-making, and image-making. It is guided by a playful embrace of uncertainty – something that is often fully activated through collaboration. Many projects focus on themes related to ecological systems, biodiversity, and climate.
The exact hour-long When We Bow Down Our Heads investigates and celebrates the resonances of the wind, its frequent and indiscriminate, borderless nature, in much broader social and political contexts, but also as an elaborate, organic wind-section of an imaginary orchestra. This thought-provoking work promises that you
