Nicole Sebesta | living room room living
Exhibition Dates: 10/12 – 11/7
Gallery Hours: Work activated from sunset to sunrise each day, (7:30pm – 6:30am)
COSA Collective is proud to present living room room living, a sound work by Nicole Sebesta
From the artists: The everyday contains both control and chaos. What I am interested in is the idea behind releasing agency to these events in life to explore the space between control and chaos. My sound piece is lowercase music, that is, music focused on everyday sounds that are inaudible or subconsciously removed from our perception. My piece was made from sounds in my living room while working on my computer. I recorded the key clicks and edited them in a program called “Audacity.” The result is a steady pulse and repeated clicks from the keyboard which is intermittent and superimposed over a lighter wash of airy sounds from my AC.
Nicole Sebesta (b. 2001 in Austin, Texas; she/they) is an interdisciplinary artist studying sculpture at the University of Houston after transferring from Texas A&M Corpus Christi. When she was studying in Corpus Christi, Nicole exhibited her own installed work in the art building area as “self-installed miniature solo shows”. The work included traditional, performance, and digital media in combination with poetry, computer science, music, and electronics. From these areas of working, she strived to make art that engages people as much as these disciplines engaged with her. One major work made in Corpus Christi named Quantum Manic involved many of these ideas for a final class project. Quantum Manic used an LED light strip, two speakers, and other electronics along with computer programming to achieve the work, as well as fiber sculpting with different yarns. Additionally, Nicole’s sound piece from Corpus in 2021, living room room living, was shown in ICOSA Gallery in Austin, Texas. Currently, Nicole is focusing on the connections between her past practices in various media and sculpture as a meeting-ground for all of these methods. Her work now especially narrows in on the dialogue between sculpture and analogue/digital photography. In this way, her studio has moved beyond a single location in space and time and has transformed into the outside world and finding time to make these works. Nicole has self published books and zines on her photography and poetry, including publications such as Thresholder and NLS: A Prospective; and is the art section editor of the undergraduate art and literature magazine, Glass Mountain. Her poetry has been self published in Heap: A Way Out and published online in Heart and Coffin’s literary journal, TRUE GRIT[S].