Olivia Louvel
Key Facts
Olivia Louvel is an artist, composer and researcher whose interdisciplinary practice bridges sound and art, specialising in the expanded fields of voice and sculpture. Her work spans sound recordings, installations, video art and 3D voice prints. She earned a PhD in Arts and Communication from the University of Brighton (UK), with a thesis on the interplay between voice and sculpture.
She has received several awards, including the Ivor Novello Best Sound Art Award for “LOL” a sonic intervention broadcast via the public address system of Middlesbrough’s CCTV surveillance network, as well as grants from the Henry Moore Foundation and the Arts Council of England. She has held residencies at the Skaftfell Art Centre (Iceland) and at Fabrica (UK). She is a member of Sound Art Brighton.
Project info
Olivia Louvel will create an eight-channel composition for the TONSPUR passage at the Museumsquartier, accompanied by a series of seven A1 prints displayed in the lightboxes at the “Passage Gallery”, exploring the redaction of the autocratic voice, both sonically and visually.
TONSPUR J is curated by Kersten Glandien and produced by TONSPUR Kunstverein Wien.