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Fritz Welch [usa]
Engulfed in simulation I am seeking a perfect place for art to exist. Balancing heartless in perpetual darkness. Another psychic invasion with trees of information, towers of meaning, blackholes and a hole in the sky. It seems inevitable that my head should explode making my spine rocket downward into the swamp. Dreams that eat the flesh and drink the blood may provide brief moments of encoding through direct contact but the listener retains an advantage by eliminating a need for a physical environment. Fritz Welch is an artist whose practice is equally divided between the sonic and visual realms. These concerns have been manifested in sound/sculpture/drawing installations, live improvisation, performance art and studio recordings. He has exhibited in galleries and kunsthalles in the United States and Europe and has toured widely with groups including nihilistic improvisers psi and comedy/noise actionist Crank Sturgeon. His approach to non-specialization allows a cross-pollination feedback loop that heightens each creative act with clarity and immediacy. A nightmare contains the tools to sing the fields of focused chaos. Each individual work or gesture contains the sparse remnants of ruination that coexists within the rebuilt substructures of everyday life. He has received an Arts International Artist Exploration Fund (2002) grant for his collaboration in the Czech Republic with Matt Bua and Eric Boros and was a 2001 Special Editions Fellow at the Lower East Side Printshop. He has performed at ExperiementaClub Festival in Madrid, Cave 12 in Geneva, Tanz Quartier in Vienna as well as many lofts and low budget DIY venues in the US and Europe. |
