Rob Flint
United Kingdom
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Rob Flint is an artist whose practice explores immersive sensory experience, and the idea of ‘voice’, in spoken, written, printed, projected form. His work appears in diverse contexts, including galleries, music venues and gatherings more difficult to classify, such as the 'Convocation' events hosted by the SAR Language-Based Practices Special Interest group in Venice in 2019, and again in 2023 in Vienna, or the the Incidental Assembly event at the South London Gallery, organised by the Artist Placement Group and Flattime House, London. This work is engaged with the collective voice, as experienced in ritual, theatre, and celebrations where unified declamation is used to add emphasis and rhythm to utterances.
His practice includes audiovisual performance using projected image and electronic and digital audio, and he is currently developing a fusion of this context with the more socially engaged impromptu voice 'choirs' assembled for the events cited above, using electronic non-human voices.
Past works include The Bill Burroughs Memorial Choir, and Conversation Piece in 'Hlysnan' at Casino Luxembourg, in the City of Luxembourg in summer 2014 with artist Christine Sullivan. Other solo work includes sound wall composition Flock Mnemonics at The Collection in Lincoln in October 2015, Sky Blue, Hyson Green, at New Art Exchange, Nottingham in 2016 and a pair of solo exhibitions following a residency in 2016/17 under the title The Authorities, curated by Jennie Syson at Syson Gallery in Nottingham, and Division of Labour, London. These explore connections and differences between the optical imperative of the image, and the social imperatives of language, optically and sonically embodied in the materials of vision, light, and sound.