MARTA BEAUCHAMP
Marta Beauchamp (UK/IT, *1990, based in Vienna) is a sound artist, musician and artistic researcher. Marta studied Cello (Conservatorio di Cuneo), Neuroscience (BSc Cardiff University, MSc Université de Strasbourg) and Sculpture and Sound Art (BA FH Bielefeld, MA ArtScience KABK). She holds a PhD scholarship at the department of Interface Cultures Kunstuniversität Linz, where she is currently working as part of the bottom-up Research Collective graduate program. She is also part of the international collective “A meeting place for sounds” and of the micromuseum for sound “TONSPUR”, MQ Wien. Marta plays cello and bass in the electronica and improvisation duo beauchamp*geissler, with whom she performs internationally; she has released albums on Quadratisch Rekords, Goldgelb Records and sama recordings. She has published articles in peer-reviewed journals, including a first author publication on evolutionary anatomy and chronobiology.
Her sound installations and compositions develop around data drawn from publications about biological rhythms. Tubes play a central function in her installations, both as resonant sounding bodies as well as sculptural objects. In her sound performances, installations objects are often employed as instruments, thus melting the border between the materiality of installations and performances.
In her PhD in practice project “Tipping points in transmediation” she investigates how to shed light on her transmediation methodology by analysing chronobiology texts, using intermedia studies tools, and by contextualising her work within the wider artistic landscape of transmediation practices. She is interested in the difference between understanding based on keeping-in-mind and understanding through experiencing. Sound and objects allow her to inflate dense scientific topics to room-scale installations which offer more space and dimensions for comprehension.
© Stefan Geissler