Nina Sarnelle - "Bruxer" Bone Conducting Device — $699.00
Bruxer is an edition of (3) handmade audio devices created to play a looping sound composition. Listeners bite down on a fleshy silicon transducer to hear the audio track inside their head. Using bone conduction, Bruxer transmits sound by vibrating the listener’s ear drums directly. Rather than receiving sound waves in the air, these vibrations move through the teeth, and into the skull to reach the cochlea, where they are heard as if coming from one’s own head. The 30-min soundtrack collages language from YouTube exercise videos, business seminars, self-care affirmations and social justice posts to explore everyday constructions of selfhood. In a relentless river of “I” statements, these voices agitate the tension between helping oneself and helping others (and even “other Others,” a la Sara Ahmed), deconstructing capitalist ideologies of self-improvement.
* Preview Bruxer.
* Read an interview with the artist about Bruxer.
· Limited edition of 3
· Audio device: 6.5” x 9” x 3” high, 1.1 lbs
· In box: 8.5” x 11” x 4” high, 3.5 lbs
· Materials: food-grade silicon, food dye, usb cables, audio player, transducer, epoxy putty, wood box with velvet lining
Package includes:
· Bone Conducting Device
· Wood box with velvet lining
· Operation Manual + Certificate of Authenticity
All proceeds benefit Black Cube Nomadic Art Museum’s programs.
About Nina Sarnelle
Nina Sarnelle (they/she) is an artist and musician living on stolen Gabrielino/Tongva land that is often referred to as Los Angeles. They earned a BA from Oberlin College and an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University. Her artwork includes participatory performances, music composition, video and sculpture, and interfaces with sites of neocolonialism(s), ecological destruction and labor exploitation in strange and intimate ways. In 2024, Sarnelle received a 1-year fellowship from the California Arts Council ($70K) to produce a community-based environmental justice project in Long Beach. They also are also a fellow at Metabolic Studio, and recently had a solo video exhibition at the New Museum. Learn more at http://ninasarnelle.com/.
Bruxer is an edition of (3) handmade audio devices created to play a looping sound composition. Listeners bite down on a fleshy silicon transducer to hear the audio track inside their head. Using bone conduction, Bruxer transmits sound by vibrating the listener’s ear drums directly. Rather than receiving sound waves in the air, these vibrations move through the teeth, and into the skull to reach the cochlea, where they are heard as if coming from one’s own head. The 30-min soundtrack collages language from YouTube exercise videos, business seminars, self-care affirmations and social justice posts to explore everyday constructions of selfhood. In a relentless river of “I” statements, these voices agitate the tension between helping oneself and helping others (and even “other Others,” a la Sara Ahmed), deconstructing capitalist ideologies of self-improvement.
* Preview Bruxer.
* Read an interview with the artist about Bruxer.
· Limited edition of 3
· Audio device: 6.5” x 9” x 3” high, 1.1 lbs
· In box: 8.5” x 11” x 4” high, 3.5 lbs
· Materials: food-grade silicon, food dye, usb cables, audio player, transducer, epoxy putty, wood box with velvet lining
Package includes:
· Bone Conducting Device
· Wood box with velvet lining
· Operation Manual + Certificate of Authenticity
All proceeds benefit Black Cube Nomadic Art Museum’s programs.