Richard Sides
Richard Sides uses a variety of media, including audio, to explore the relationship between people, music, and technology. The artist views his installations as “time-based, expanded collages.” These simultaneously combine materials such as moving image, sculpture, and sound to create environments for others to inhabit or, in the artist’s words, “intrude upon.” Sides often works collaboratively, for example Sound Spill, his ongoing project with artist Haroon Mirza and curator Thom O’Nions which examines how sound inhabits exhibition spaces and interacts within other art works.
Sides’ documentary don’t blow it in the vector (2014) brings together the artist’s interest in computer music and subcultural scenes. Exploring both the documentary genre and the work of producers, DJs, artists, musicians and composers, the film presents a montage of music samples alongside clips from conversations with four musicians–Theo Burt, Roc Jiménez de Cisneros (EVOL), Mark Fell, and Lorenzo Senni. In conjunction, Sides created as an ongoing catalogue of texts and paraphernalia specifically generated for the project on bus-editions.com/bus012, a publishing project created and organised by the artist.
Solo exhibitions of Sides' work have been presented at Kunsthalle Winterthur, Frieze New York, Carlos / Ishikawa in London, and Ravenna Planetarium. His work has also …
Richard Sides uses a variety of media, including audio, to explore the relationship between people, music, and technology. The artist views his installations as “time-based, expanded collages.” These simultaneously combine materials such as moving image, sculpture, and sound to create environments for others to inhabit or, in the artist’s words, “intrude upon.” Sides often works collaboratively, for example Sound Spill, his ongoing project with artist Haroon Mirza and curator Thom O’Nions which examines how sound inhabits exhibition spaces and interacts within other art works.
Sides’ documentary don’t blow it in the vector (2014) brings together the artist’s interest in computer music and subcultural scenes. Exploring both the documentary genre and the work of producers, DJs, artists, musicians and composers, the film presents a montage of music samples alongside clips from conversations with four musicians–Theo Burt, Roc Jiménez de Cisneros (EVOL), Mark Fell, and Lorenzo Senni. In conjunction, Sides created as an ongoing catalogue of texts and paraphernalia specifically generated for the project on bus-editions.com/bus012, a publishing project created and organised by the artist.
Solo exhibitions of Sides' work have been presented at Kunsthalle Winterthur, Frieze New York, Carlos / Ishikawa in London, and Ravenna Planetarium. His work has also been included in group exhibitions at London’s ICA, Warsaw’s Museum of Modern Art, and The Drawing Center in London, among other institutions.
Courtesy of ICA London
