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Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork: Olistostrome at Empty Gallery


  • No. 3 Yue Fung Street Tin Wan, Hong Kong Island Hong Kong SAR China (map)

Empty Gallery is pleased to present Olistostrome, our 2nd solo exhibition with Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork (formerly known as Gordon). Often aiming to reconfigure received hierarchies between audience, performer, and exhibition architecture, Gork's hybrid practice exists in the slippery disciplinary interstice between sculpture and sound installation. Simultaneously drawing on and subverting the legacy of cybernetics – arguably a dominant logic of our contemporary moment – Gork's systems of embodied feedback seek to mobilize the emancipatory potential latent within both everyday materials and infrastructures, as well as the simple act of listening.

Taking its name from a geological term for a rock mass created through the chaotic sliding and accumulation of semi-fluid sediments, Olistostrome consists of a series of new acoustic sculptures set within a complex sound installation developed for the gallery. At once resembling sacred rocks, greco-roman statuary, and topological formations, these enigmatic structures– dispersed like islands within a reservoir of dry pebbles– function simultaneously as sculptures in the classical sense, and as sonic modifiers for Gork's psychoacoustic environment.

Gallery address: 18th and 19th Floor Grand Marine Center, No. 3 Yue Fung Street, Tin Wan

Earlier Event: September 11
Open Studio at Batten and Kamp