Artist Statement/ Biography

Attracted to objects with absurd functionalities and designed for oddly specific scenarios, Sarah K Williams creates short intimate performances engaging time as object and gesture as an effective mode of communication. Using a series of audio commands or invented notation systems, these progressions of gestures, movements, sounds, or object alterations offer possibilities for future iterations, exploring themes of obsession, meditative repetition, and the fruitless aim for genuine perfection in an era of invented truths. Williams founded the collaborative project Sprechgesang Institute, made up of visual artists, scientists, journalists, composers, cooks, writers, and activists, committed to upsetting the routines within their respective fields. She directs lectures, workshops, and performative dinners to facilitate discussion of the unexpected parallels between seemingly disparate practices.

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Sarah K Williams is a multi-disciplinary artist working between sculpture and performance, exploring the musicality of instruction and the theatricality of the mundane. Recent fellowships and residencies include Target Margin Theater Institute, Studios at MASS MoCA, AIM at the Bronx Museum, Vermont Studio Center, and the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program. Raised in Virginia and based in Brooklyn, she received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and studied experimental music at the Universität der Künste in Berlin on a Fulbright Fellowship. She is the founder and director of Sprechgesang Institute, a collaborative project-based platform for artists working in an in-between language of two or more disciplines.