Tianyi Sun and Fiel Guhit

Helena Anrather is pleased to announce Warmer Layers, an installation and performance by Tianyi Sun and Fiel Guhit, whose ongoing collaborative practice explores the shape and life of sound as material and metaphor for our simulated present. The artists invite you to an evening of interactive listening and live recording performance on February 23rd at 7 PM, followed by a subsequent performance on March 21st at 7 PM to close the recording session.

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Tianyi Sun (b. 1996) explores the re-creation of embodied experience and its inevitable failure. By integrating painting, sculpture, time-based mediums, poetry, and software, she creates responsive environments to delve into the affects of technology and probe digital interfaces, communication systems, and archival structures as intertwined networks of power. Her work has been exhibited at Artist’s Space, New York; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles; Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, New York; among others. Tianyi received her MFA in Fine Arts at Parsons, The New School, New York, and was recently an artist in residence at 99 Canal, New York; and NARS Foundation, Brooklyn.

Fiel Guhit (b. 1986) is an artist based in New York City who explores systems and their peripheral experiences. He builds software objects to simulate and invert the ways in which innovation has distanced the human experience. Relation to the dematerialized characteristics of technology is central within Guhit’s work as he uses it to guide and situate oneself within emerging non-physical worlds. Through developing experiential software, Guhit brings new animacies to human-computer interaction that break away from normalized patterns—exploring margins of “error” as margins of possibility.