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Featured Artists: PERRI LYNCH HOWARD / HANNAH VIANO: STRØMME | FLOW.
WVC MAC Gallery
January 3—February 21, 2025
With their exhibition Strømme | Flow, Methow-based artists Perri Howard and Hannah Viano collaborate to fill the MAC Gallery, MAC Foyer, and other spaces with sounds, large-scale drawings, tactile elements, and community engagements. The immersive gallery installation and soundscape invites audiences to reestablish intimacy with the sea at a time when our oceans and coastal communities are more vulnerable than we have ever known. This collaborative project weaves together art, science, and sense of place, using creative expression to address a pressing environmental issue.
PERRI LYNCH HOWARD / HANNAH VIANO: STRØMME | FLOW
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An immersive soundscape, large-scale drawings, tactile elements and community engagement comprise Strømme | Flow, a gallery installation and soundscape inviting audiences to reestablish intimacy with the sea at a time when our oceans and coastal communities are more vulnerable than we have ever known.
This collaborative work by artists, Perri Lynch Howard and Hannah Viano amplifies the ephemeral beauty of Arctic soundscapes and seascapes to confront a noisy future. This unique approach weaves together art, science, and sense of place, using creative expression to address a pressing environmental issue.
While the artists were in residence together on the island of Arnøya in Norway, they embarked on a cross-island journey to trace and record the sounds of a river from its mountaintop source through countless moods and meanders to the sea. By using unconventional drawing tools like driftwood, rocks, and moss, Hannah found new energies – expressive marks beyond those her hands had already made a thousand times. A stick of driftwood collected from the tideline brought forth the forms of its own birch and bracken, fjord and fjell. As Hannah gathered and sketched on frigid lonely beaches, Perri recorded the sounds of the incoming tide. This exhibition takes you on a journey over, under, down, and through their process – relearning the layered experience of our shared world in a changing climate.
