Masha Kouznetsova
San Francisco, California ⌁ London, Ontario
masha[dot]kouz[at]gmail
PhD, Art and Visual Culture, Western University, London, ON, 2023-2028
MFA, Visual Arts, Western University, London, ON, 2023
BFA, Studio Art/Textiles, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, 2012
For CV and additional images & videos of work please email me.
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performance at Open Source Hardware Summit, Edinburgh, Scotland, May 30, 2025
THE END: The First Five Years, group exhibition at Westobou Gallery, Augusta, GA June 6 – August 2, 2025
_recent_
Temper (Length Wave) performance (Christof Migone with Masha Kouznetsova and Ellen Moffat, presented by Futura Resistenza) HOUR 8 of Water, live at Artlab Gallery, London, ON, online, and broadcast on Wavefarm Radio, December 12, 2024
-> performance description, event info
over an over and group exhibition (Tia Bates, Masha Kouznetsova, Danielle Petti, curated by Katie Lawson) at Artlab Gallery, London, ON October 10 – 31, 2024
-> images, exhibition info
37-point hot spot phantom performance (Nathan Corder, Anthony Janas, Masha Kouznetsova, Chris Latina, Connor Tomaka) at the Center for New Music and Acoustic Technologies (CNMAT), University of California, Berkeley, CA July 21, 2024
-> images, video
coordinates / sweeping solo exhibition at THE END Project Space in Atlanta, GA January 5 - February 25, 2024
-> images 1, 2, 3
sweeping the forest floor of frequencies solo exhibition at Artlab Gallery, London, ON July 27 - August 11, 2023
-> documentation, MFA thesis
hard ground / long road solo exhibition at Satellite Gallery, London, ON October 9 - 29, 2022. Review by Kim Neudorf on Akimbo.ca.
-> https://akimbo.ca/akimblog/masha-kouznetsova-at-satellite-gallery-london-on/
california road / bach cut-up, 2021
Cut-up of radio and voice recordings on found tape.
August 2-19, 2021 I drove from San Francisco, California to London, Ontario. During the seventeen days on the road, I recorded radio noise, (AM static, FM picket-fencing, and my voice describing the environment surrounding the road. The radio and voice recordings were transferred to a tape I found on the side of the road in San Francisco in 2019. Then, the tape was cut up and spliced by hand, resulting in an aleatoric composition.
-> listen side a, 09:22 min
-> listen side b, 09:22 min
live performance, November 23, 2021
94.9 Radio Western, London, ON.
Masha Kouznetsova (tape loops) with Tim Glasgow (co-host the synthesizer, vinyl) during Tim’s radio show Secret Location.
-> listen performance segment, 25:29 min
live performance, July 30, 2022
Electric Eclectics festival, Meaford, ON.
Masha Kouznetsova (AM radio, tape loops of lightning map sounds, tape recordings of Daphne Oram’s An Individual Note of Music, Sound and Electronics and Clarice Lispector’s Água Viva) with Tim Glasgow (modular synthesizers, Schumann resonances).
-> listen performance segment, 38:00 min
hard ground / long road, 2023
Infinite loop casette tape.
As an installation, california road / bach cut-up tape is played back through two tape decks simultaneously. The tape is transferred onto two cassettes and runs through slits in the sides of the two decks, from one player into another. The tape decks are connected to old speakers and amp found on the side of the road during a walk in London, Ontario. Each time the tape passes through the two players, the sound disintegrates, becoming increasingly noisier and unpredictable. The infinite tape loop archives one unedited playback of this installation.
-> listen, 08:43 min
moscow recordings, July 21, 2024
Live performance at CNMAT, Berkeley, CA.
Sequence of 12 tape loops with field recordings from Moscow performed live on four tape decks. Sound spatialization on 16 channels by Connor Tomaka.
-> listen, 17:00 min
Temper (Length Wave), December 12, 2024
Live performance (Christof Migone with Masha Kouznetsova and Ellen Moffat, presented by Futura Resistenza) during HOUR 8 of Water, live at Artlab Gallery, London, ON, online, and broadcast on Wavefarm Radio.
-> listen, 35:00 min
