Andrea Roberts: The Stridents

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Andrea Roberts, " The Stridents," Invitation

The Stridents is a multidisciplinary installation featuring vocal incantation, drone, and repeating patterns in text and textile. Informed by histories of hermetic medieval nuns and early recording techniques, prints, sculptures, and sound installation explore ritual lament and retreat as shadow forms of feminist resistance in the context of neoliberal capitalism.

Andrea Roberts is a Winnipeg based multidisciplinary artist whose practice incorporates sound, print, sculpture, video, and performance. Roberts has exhibited and performed at galleries and festivals internationally, with recent shows at Plug In ICA (Winnipeg), Film Pop (Montreal), CT-International Print Biennial (Santiago de Cuba), aceartinc (Winnipeg), Whitdel Arts (Detroit), and SomArts (San Francisco). Roberts writes on issues of sound, technology, gender, and the voice, and has performed in a number of noise and experimental music projects including their solo project VOR. A recipient of the Murphy & Cadogan Contemporary Art Award, Roberts holds an MFA in Sculpture from California College of the Arts (2014) and a BFA Hons. from the University of Manitoba (2011).