Sandra Volny

About

b. 1986, HK.

Sandra Volny, Radio Jove 2015.

Sandra Volny, Radio Jove 2015.

 

Sandra Volny (French/Czech) is a contemporary artist, researcher, and educator. Her sense-based artistic practice revolves around the perception of aural space. Working across diverse media such as sound, moving images, photography, sculpture, and text, she produces installations, instruments, and videos. Volny completed a PhD in Art Sciences and Aesthetics at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne (December 2017) by conducting a thesis research on “Surviving Aural Spaces,” which explores the persistence of sound in space in its material, sensory and social constellations. Her current research and practice interests lie in navigating spaces through sound, sonic residues, “sonic fossils,” and connecting with other humans and non-humans by the act of listening. She is particularly interested in these occurrences where the intrinsic process of consciousness is built through sound into space itself and she considers the use of aural spaces as vectors that allow for individual and collective imagination to emerge. Volny founded Sound and Space Research, an international art research platform focusing on sound, space, and its resonances within the social and environmental context. She has led research groups in Chile, Greece, Canada, and the United States in collaboration with artists, scientists, architects, anthropologists, choreographers, and musicians. Her most recent works explore “aural soilscapes” in collaboration with researchers in biology and environmental sciences. This collaborative approach aims to develop a new field of expertise in sound, space, and the body, by focusing on the experimental and innovative study of sonic soils as witnesses of climate changes from a non-anthropocentric perspective. Volny is currently an artist in residence at Fonderie Darling, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Biological Sciences, Université de Montréal, and at Canada Research Chair Médiane-École des arts visuels et médiatiques, Université du Québec à Montréal. She is also the recipient of the PRIM residency 2021 “carte blanche”. She has been published in academic journals, including most recently Passepartout, a peer-reviewed research journal of Art History (Aarhus University, 2021). She was a speaker at various conferences and symposiums, such as the Festival Espacios Resonantes at Museo de Arte Contemporaneo in Santiago Chile (2022), the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA, 2020), Uncommon Senses III (Centre for Sensory Studies, Concordia University, 2021), Hearing Landscape Critically (Harvard University, 2015). Her work has been presented, among others, at Musée d’art de Joliette (Montreal, Canada), Fonderie Darling (Montreal, Canada), SBC Gallery (Montreal), Centre d’exposition de l’Université de Montréal, Galerie Michel Journiac (France) Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture (Kefalonia, Greece), FOFA Gallery (Montreal), Dazibao (Montreal), Centre CLARK (Montreal) and Raumlabor-267 Quartiere für zeitgenössische Kunst und Fotografie (Braunschweig, Germany). 

Sandra Volny’s works are also part of public and private collections, most notably the Museum of Contemporary Art of Montréal (MAC Montréal) Collection and Majudia Collection—Arsenal Contemporary. 

Sandra Volny would like to thank the Conseil des arts et des Lettres du Québec, Canada Arts Council, and Fonds de Recherche Québec Société Culture for their generous support throughout the years. She would also like to thank Anne-Marie & Pierre Trahan, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Québecor, and Romany Eveleigh’s gift for generously sponsoring her studio at Darling Foundry in 2019–2020, 2020–2021, 2021-2022, and 2022-2023 respectively.

CV available upon request. Contact sandravolny[at]gmail[dot]com


 

Sandra Volny, studio 2020.Sandra Volny (French/Czech) is a contemporary artist and researcher. Her sense-based artistic practice revolves around the perception of aural space. Working across diverse media such as sound, moving images, photography, sculpture, and text, she produces installations, instruments, and videos. Volny completed a PhD in Art Sciences and Aesthetics at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne (December 2017) by conducting a thesis research on “Surviving Aural Spaces,” which explores the persistence of sound in space in its material, sensory and social constellations. Her current research and practice interests lie in navigating spaces through sound, sonic residues, “sonic fossils,” and connecting with other humans and non-humans by the act of listening. She is particularly interested in these occurrences where the intrinsic process of consciousness is built through sound into space itself and she considers the use of aural spaces as vectors that allow for individual and collective imagination to emerge. Volny founded Sound and Space Research, an international art research platform focusing on sound, space, and its resonances within the social and environmental context. She has led research groups in Chile, Greece, Canada, and the United States in collaboration with artists, scientists, architects, anthropologists, choreographers, and musicians. Her most recent works explore “aural soilscapes” in collaboration with researchers in biology and environmental sciences. This collaborative approach aims to develop a new field of expertise in sound, space, and the body, by focusing on the experimental and innovative study of sonic soils as witnesses of climate changes from a non-anthropocentric perspective. Volny is currently an artist in residence at Darling Foundry, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Biological Sciences, Université de Montréal, and at CRC Médiane-École des arts visuels et médiatiques, Université du Québec à Montréal. She has been published in academic journals, including most recently Passepartout, a peer-reviewed research journal of Art History (Aarhus University, 2021). She was a speaker at various conferences and symposiums, such as the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA, 2020), Uncommon Senses III (Centre for Sensory Studies, Concordia University, 2021), Hearing Landscape Critically (Harvard University, 2015). Her work has been presented, among others, at Place Publique, Fonderie Darling (2021), Centre d’exposition de l’Université de Montréal (2019), Galerie Michel Journiac (France, 2017), Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture (Greece, 2017), FOFA Gallery (2017), Dazibao (2016), Centre CLARK (2016) and Raumlabor-267 Quartiere für zeitgenössische Kunst und Fotografie (Germany, 2013). It is also part of public and private collections, most notably the Majudia Collection—Arsenal Contemporary. Sandra Volny would like to thank the Conseil des arts et des Lettres du Québec, Canada Arts Council and Fond de Recherche du Québec Société Culture for their generous support throughout the years. She would also like to thank Anne-Marie & Pierre Trahan, and Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal for generously sponsoring her studio at Darling Foundry in 2019–2020, and 2020–2021 respectively.CV available upon request. Contact sandravolny@gmail.com

Sandra Volny, studio 2020.