Robbie Wing, Cross Ties Song. Courtesy the artist. Photo by Ryan Parker.
Overview
Exhibiting artist Robbie Wing joins artist Kite on Saturday, October 19 at 1pm as part of the closing celebration of Tinworks 2024 season and exhibition The Lay of the Land.
Wing will perform a live score of the sound composition featured in his 2024 installation for Tinworks titled Cross Ties Song. For this installation, Wing has woven together sound and sculpture using wooden railroad ties pulled from Tinworks' field. Working with the idea of vibrational histories—that the physical nature of sound can be frozen in time and the frequency elicited from inert material can act as a living entity that has agency—Wing mixed sound frequencies pulled through the railroad ties with field recordings of the passing trains in Bozeman's northeast neighborhood.
For the closing celebration, Wing will perform this sound composition live, joined by artist Kite, whose work was featured in Tinworks' 2023 season exhibition, Invisible Prairie. While Wing performs, Kite will move across the reclaimed railroad ties, playing an accompaniment on the violin.
About the artists
Robbie Wing is an artist, musician, and composer born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. His practice focuses on composition, sonic sculpture, psycho-geographies, and performance. Robbie has a master’s degree in urban design from the University of Oklahoma. Wing has presented his work and performed at various venues, including the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Tulsa Artist Fellowship Flagship Gallery, Philbrook Museum, University of Kent in Chatham, UK, Institute for Advanced Studies in Kószeg, Hungary, Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater and the Center for Arts, Research & Alliances.
Kite is an Oglála Lakȟóta artist, composer, and academic. She holds an MFA in Music and Sound from the Milton Avery Graduate School of Fine Arts at Bard College, and is currently completing her PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies at Concordia University, with a focus on Lakȟóta ontology (the study of beinghood in Lakȟóta philosophy), Artificial Intelligence, and contemporary art. Her artistic and academic research is interdisciplinary, Indigenous, and deeply interested in the development of ethical methodologies through art-making.