Photo: Edouard Plongeon
Sabisha Friedberg’s composition, performance and installation work draws upon a chimeric arcane, exploring perceptual delineation of space through sound, sculpture, and low-end experiential thresholds. As part of her practice and exploration of Sound Art, as a formal tradition, Friedberg renders related drawings, texts, photography, and film for site-specific presentations. She has performed and exhibited internationally, and received commissions through residencies at institutions including ISSUE Project Room, EMPAC (Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, RPI), and the Clocktower Gallery (Directed by Alanna Heiss). She has had solo shows at the Swiss Institute, Audio Visual Arts, and EMPAC. In 2015, she released a double LP entitled The Hant Variance on the label Distributed Objects, and along with Yasanao Tone, was included in the MoMA LP There Will Never Be Silence, in relation to the John Cage exhibition. Friedberg received her MFA from Bard College in Music/Sound, and her BA in Fine Arts, with an emphasis on sound and installation, from the New Genres Department at the San Francisco Art Institute. There she studied experimental film with Ernie Gehr and recording and electro-acoustic/tape music composition with Don Llloyd, Paul de Marinas and Chris Brown (of Mills College of Contemporary Music). At Bard, she continued her studies with Richard Teitelbaum and David Behrman. She is currently, as of 2021, in residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts and resides in France.