'Wet Matter', 2020 was one of two major new commissions produced for 'Agatha Gothe-Snape: The Outcome Is Certain' at Monash University Museum of Art, the first survey exhibition of Sydney based artist Agatha Gothe-Snape.
'Wet Matter', 2020 was an augmented sonic reality experience that bridges the embodied experience of performing with the act of being a witness. Based on the artist's understanding of the body as being both physically and metaphorically porous—continuous with the fluid world around us—the work comprises a wall painting, cloud points applied by members of Google’s Creative Lab, exhibition furniture and approximately 140 sounds ranging from field recordings to spoken monologues that can be experienced by wearing headphones and a harness fitted with a Smart Phone.
Featuring sound by Evelyn Ida Morris and contributions by Lizzie Thomson and Brian Fuata, the work is driven by the Sounds in Space app made by Google's Creative Lab and reveals collaboration as an important site for experimentation—where new ideas and languages are created, and where the previously unimaginable is made actual.
