ABOUT
Melbourne based media artist and composer Courtney Blackney (she/her) is a Fine Art graduate from RMIT University. Courtney works within the realms of sound, composition, video and photography as well as sound design and installation. Through her practice, Courtney explores ideas of place, perception and vulnerability as well as the unnoticed and forgotten. A collector of sounds, her style is organic and her work is sculpted into soundscapes of environmental immersive experiences.
EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS
CURATION for LITTLE SONGS OF THE MUTILATED, Sound Art and Music Collaboration:
The merciless huskies drop nonchalantly beneath the little songs of the mutilated (Link)
LITTLE SONGS OF THE MUTILATED, Sound Art and Music Collaboration:
A Tightfisted Molten Sellout.(Link)
LITTLE SONGS OF THE MUTILATED, Sound Art and Music Collaboration:
A curious void mechanically pisstakes the little songs of the mutilated (Link)
VALUE, Short Film, Sound Design, 2020
LITTLE SONGS OF THE MUTILATED, Sound Art and Music Collaboration:
A colourful caramel sundae othered by then meaningless little songs of
the mutilated (Link)
CICA MUSEUM, South Korea, Experimental Film and Video 2019, Audio Visual Work (Link)
LITTLE SONGS OF THE MUTILATED, Sound Art and Music Collaboration: Skidding across vast perforated skin, the underwater bunker is flooded to knee height with my little songs of the mutilated (Link)
LITTLE SONGS OF THE MUTILATED, Sound Art and Music Collaboration: Dip inward and discover the creamy spaces at the center of each of these little songs of the mutilated (Link)
LITTLE SONGS OF THE MUTILATED, Sound Art and Music Collaboration: On amaurotic beams of plasma, we gracefully broadcast the sweet little songs of the mutilated (Link)
GALLERY PROTOCOL, Gaze Festival and A Thousand Tones Compilation Album Launch (Florida): Audio Visual Work
(Link)
A THOUSAND TONES COMPILATION ALBUM LAUNCH (Melbourne): Projection Work
BRUNSWICK STREET GALLERY, Video 2017 Exhibition, Audio Visual Projection and iPad Works (Link)
FOREVER NOW, MOFO Closing Ceremony: Video Work
(Link)
MELBOURNE LIBRARY SERVICE, White Night: Interactive Sound and Video Installation
BRUNSWICK STREET GALLERY, The Internet is a Cultural Object: Audio Visual Work and Prints
(Link)
BRUNSWICK STREET GALLERY, Residue: Solo Exhibition including Photography, Audio Visual Projection and Installation
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BRUNSWICK STREET GALLERY, CLICK 2014, Photography Entry, Solo Exhibition Prize Winner
SUBCARRIER, An Exhibition of Emerging Sound Artists:
5:1 Surround Sound Work, Audio Kinetic Composition using Motion Simulator, Headphone Sound Work
(Link)
RMIT EXERTION GAMES LAB, Internship, Sound Design and Composition, Games: Dr Giggles & X-Safari
CONTACT
EMAIL: courtneyblackney@gmail.com