Work samples

  • Dada Morte
    Dada Morte
  • Fenster
    Fenster

    performance, 15:41, 2021

  • Occupational Enterprises
    Occupational Enterprises

    performance, 30:00, 2016

  • Material Actions
    Material Actions

    performance, 30:00, 2016

About Carrie

Baltimore City

Carrie Fucile is an interdisciplinary artist and experimental musician whose work is performative and frequently collaborative. First and foremost a sound artist, she often incorporates movement and physical materials into her process. Her creative efforts interpret the effects of political power, technological shifts, and global economics on the human condition. Ultimately each piece explores traces of these events found in objects, architecture, and landscapes.

Dada Morte

Dada Morte uses musical interpretations of an IBM computer punch card found among Fucile’s late father’s possessions. It also features melodica, voice, and electronics. This performance was part of the exhibition Memento Mori at The Parlor in Baltimore, MD and included live video projections by artist Brenton Lim.

  • Dada Morte
    Dada Morte

    performance, 16:52, 2022

  • Dada Morte

    performance, 16:52, 2022

Fenster

Fenster uses field recordings of Fucile’s cat, Bocce, purring. It also features snare drum (played with a palm from a Palm Sunday with her aunt and mother in 2019), melodica, and voice. This performance was commissioned by The Red Room Collective for The Red Room in Your Room, in April 2021.

  • Fenster
    Fenster

    performance, 15:41, 2021

  • Fenster

    performance, 15:41, 2021

Birds, Bees

Birds, Bees is a performance that utilizes with amplified objects and live sound pulled from multiple audio technologies. Rooted in the noises and materials of Fucile's grandmother's beloved Lowcountry South Carolina, it is a reflection on a place and the passing of time.

 

  • Birds, Bees
    Birds, Bees
    performance,12:30, 2018
  • Birds, Bees
    performance,12:30, 2018

Occupational Enterprises

Occupational Enterprises is a performance where Fucile rearranges 200 white bricks into a series of structures for sixty minutes. Each one is toppled before building another. The sound of the moving, stacked, and collapsed bricks is transmitted by a contact microphone attached to the floor and distorted by a series of effects.

In addition to Fucile's Italian immigrant ancestry, the work was informed by several texts. The first, Hito Steyerl’s essay: “Is a Museum a Factory?,” observes that many places where employees worked on factory lines have recently been transformed into sites of artistic labor. Indeed, many cultural institutions and artist studios are in former industrial spaces. The second, Pietro DiDonato’s novel Christ in Concrete, tells the story of an Italian immigrant bricklayer who is killed on the job due to unsafe conditions and whose eldest son is forced to leave school to support his family.

  • Occupational Enterprises
    Occupational Enterprises
    performance, 01:00:00, 2017
  • Occupational Enterprises
    Occupational Enterprises
    performance, 01:00:00, 2017
  • Occupational Enterprises
    Occupational Enterprises
    performance, 01:00:00, 2017
  • Occupational Enterprises
    performance, 01:00:00, 2017

Material Actions

Material Actions is a performance created with video artist Mark Brown. The piece was originally developed for the Dutch Cabinet at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland and premiered as part of their 2016 ART/SOUND/NOW series.  It has subsequently been performed at School 33 Art Center in Baltimore, MD.

In this performance Fucile used a series of contact microphones to "play" common, modern materials such as bricks, coins, and a fan. Brown projects a sound-reactive video behind me. The work  work considers the economics of the Dutch Golden Age and the modern museum.

  • Material Actions at the Walters Art Museum
    Material Actions at the Walters Art Museum
    performance, 30:00, 2016
  • Material Actions at the Walters Art Museum
    Material Actions at the Walters Art Museum
    performance, 30:00, 2016
  • Material Actions at the Walters Art Museum
    performance, 30:00, 2016
  • Material Actions at School 33
    Material Actions at School 33
    performance, 20:00, 2016
  • Material Actions at School 33
    Material Actions at School 33
    performance, 20:00, 2016
  • Material Actions at School 33
    performance, 20:00, 2016

Sync

Sync is a performance created with programmer Dan Zink. Performer Autumn Breaud's heartbeats are transmitted and manipulated live in quadraphonic sound via iPad. Audience members are invited to lie around Breaud as a wave of throbbing, meditative sound washes over them.

A recording of the work is available on Ehse Records.

  • Sync
    performance, 30:00, 2014
  • Sync
    Sync
    performance, 30:00, 2014
  • Sync
    Sync
    performance, 30:00, 2014
  • Sync, official recording
    released on Ehse Records