Chris Kubick is an artist, composer, and sound designer who works under a variety of pseudonyms, including Language Removal Services and Many Many More Than One. Kubick frequently collaborates with Anne Walsh, and together they have created ARCHIVE, whose best-known project, Art After Death, consists of interviews with artists who have died conducted through spirit mediums. Together their work has appeared in the 2002 Whitney Biennial; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and Royal College of Art, London. Kubick has been heard on public radio in the U.S., Canada and Great Britain.
Selected Exhibitions:
- Many Many More Than One, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, 2011
- Shouting Fire In A Crowded Theater, Experimental Intermedia, New York, NY, 2011
- Non-Cochlear Sound, Diapason Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2010
- San Francisco Plays Itself Pt. 2, San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, CA, 2010
- Unmonumental, New Museum, New York, NY, 2008
- Again For Tomorrow, Royal College of Art, London, England, 2006
- Bay Area Now, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francsico, CA, 2005
- Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 2002
Selected Publications:
(Discography)
- Playing With Words, Cornerhouse, 2009
- The Sound of Things, The New Museum, 2008
- Music Overheard, ICA, Boston, 2006
- Windpipe Moods, Mukow Records, 2004
- Agents of Impurity, Sonic Arts Network, 2004
- Visits with Joseph Cornell, vol. 3 of Art After Death, Archive, 2004
- The 100 Headless Diva, Language Removal Services, 2003
- Yves Klein Speaks, audio cd, vol. 2 of Art After Death, Archive, 2002
- Conversations with the Countess of Castiglione, vol. 1 of Art After Death, Archive, 2001
- Static Language Sampler, v. 2, Language Removal Services, 2001
- And Now You Want Me To Sing?, Banff Centre for the Arts, 1997
Education:
- MFA, Electronic Music, Mills College, Oakland, CA
- BA, Criticial Theory + Creative Writing, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI