Camille Norment: Plexus Published by Dia Art Foundation.
Preface by Jessica Morgan. Text by Nida Ghouse, Camille Norment, Legacy Russell, David Toop, Fred Moten. Interview by Kelly Kivland. “Norment’s ringing and vibrating sound system lets us experience a fragile interdependence of bodies and environments.” –New York Times Throughout her career, Oslo-based multimedia artist Camille Norment (born 1970) has probed and explored what she has termed “cultural psychoacoustics,” in particular the socio-cultural valences of three tones: the bell, feedback and the sine wave. Camille Norment: Plexus, the first US publication on the artist, unpacks those sonic phenomena, which together resonate with discrete yet overlapping ideas of time, spirituality and the drone (bell); the decentralization of power, political struggles and cybernetics (feedback); and purity and transcendence (sine wave). With an innovative all-vellum design, the book translates Norment’s sonic sensibility into print-specific terms.
In addition to a conversation between curator Kelly Kivland and the artist herself, the volume features contributions from curators and scholars Legacy Russell, Nida Ghouse and David Toop, as well as fragmented texts from a conversation between Fred Moten and Norment.
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