Chris Kubick

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