Adrian Wood

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I am a sound artist working across media including video, printmaking and social practice. My works use sound, image and participation to open up cracks in the realities of capitalist extraction and techno-dissociation, creating space for the development of agency through imagination. I aim to reconnect audiences to themselves, their environments and each other through listening. To listen is to risk being transformed. I aim to create conditions where listening can disrupt and inform, making space for personal transformation that can break harmful patterns and spark collective joy. To me, this kind of transformation is the basis of positive social change and revolution.

Bio

Adrian has shown work in the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Union Docs, Institut für Alles Mögliche (Berlin), Hundred Years Gallery (London), the University of Virginia and the College of William & Mary. Adrian’s work has been featured in online broadcasts and publications including Hyperallergic, WHRO, small audio art, Viral Ecologies and Jupiter Review. Adrian has been recognized and awarded through institutions including UnionDocs, The University of Michigan, Experimental Sound Studio, Robert Wood Johnnson Foundation, Johns Hopkins Peabody School of Music and the University of Chicago.

Adrian plays music and live sound as Sugarlift. Find their music and live sound works here on Soundcloud.

In their role as Multimedia Producer with the University of Virginia's Repair Lab, Adrian wrote and produced the podcast The Repair Lab. Season 1, Wading Between Two Titans, won two 2023 Signal Awards in the categories of Sustainability & Environment and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion. Season 2, Crosswinds, was shortlisted for a Press Gazette Future of Media award in 2024.

Adrian received a Masters in Fine Art in Sound from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a BA in Art & Art History with a minor in Environmental Science & Policy from the College of William & Mary.

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