Frequencies — Bhavisha Panchia

Frequencies
MOCA Tucson
Great Hall & East Wing Galleries
28 February - 29June 2025

Alluvium
Vivian Caccuri
Sofía Córdova
Tatiana Echeverri Fernandez
Nikita Gale
Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork
Sara Ouhaddou
Adrian Piper
Ana Paula Santana
Naama Tsabar
Karima Walker

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AGF
Maryanne Amacher
Jessica Ekomane
Christine Sun Kim
Katalin Ladik
Lime Rickey International
Audra Wolowiec

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Frequencies is an exhibition featuring a group of contemporary artists who explore the dynamic possibilities of sound. These artists attend to the audible and inaudible traces of the world to create works across sculpture, architecture, video, performance, and image.

Artworks on view foreground the physical, material, embodied, and affective dimensions of sound to amplify hidden histories and imagine possible futures. Some works are attuned to the built and natural environment, while others explore the resonant possibilities of materials like ceramic vessels, modified instruments, and aluminum tapestries. Together, these works invite us to experience sound expansively, beyond what is audible: listening through the body, material, movement, and sensation.

Artists included are Alluvium, Vivian Caccuri, Sofía Córdova, Tatiana Echeverri Fernandez, Nikita Gale, Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork, Sara Ouhaddou, Adrian Piper, Ana Paula Santana, Naama Tsabar, and Karima Walker.

Frequencies also features Channeling the Ear, a dedicated space for intimate listening experiences featuring a selection of albums by artists and musicians such as AGF (Antye Greie-Ripatti), Maryanne Amacher, Jessica Ekomane, Christine Sun Kim, Katalin Ladik, Lime Rickey International (Leyya Mona Tawil), Audra Wolowiec, and selections from the collection of Nothing to Commit Records, a research and publishing platform founded by guest curator Bhavisha Panchia.

This exhibition was initiated in collaboration with Julio César Morales. Generous support for this exhibition is provided by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Teiger Foundation; Kasmin, New York; PALMA; A Gentil Carioca; Arizona Commission on the Arts; and MOCA Tucson’s Board of Trustees, Ambassador Council, and Members. Program collaborators are Desert Drone and Tea House: Sine & Symbol, an intermedia arts festival; KXCI Community Radio; Tucson Noise Symposium; and Wave Archive.

In-kind support provided by Brick Box Brewery, BRINK Media, Danny Vinik & Mary Ann Brazil, Hotel McCoy, MODERN ANCIENT, The Downtown Clifton, and the University of Arizona School of Art.