Diagram A (left), a vertical slice through the layers of a palimpsest, also resembles the interactions of ‘lines of sound’ in a composition and thus a compositional ‘score’—could this be a trace-extension in the legacy of Beuys’ social sculpture if it were to both mirror and embody social trace today? A score for a still-unfolding present-tense performance?
What happens when this has folded in on itself many times over until it has acquired an even more contemporary form via the sign of a labyrinth**—indeed a palimpsestian one—to become Diagram 2 (right)…? It is in fact within this new form, and not its predecessor, that we find ourselves today, where our signifiers and signifieds echo and feedback, devolved into safe-guarded corners the way frequencies pile up in areas of any architectural space. It is in this new technologically-mediated space—Baudrillard’s hyperreal?—with which we must contend, always in search of Ariadne’s thread.
**It is interesting that the anatomical definition of labyrinth is “a complex structure of the inner ear which contains the organs of hearing and balance.” [Oxford Languages]
Solo Exhibitions
…These Things That Divide The World In Two… (Los Angeles, CA), May 25 - June 22, 2024
PER/FORMATIVE CITIES | A Nest of Triptychal Performances (Rome, Italy), February 29 - March 15, 2024
Dandelye—or, Beneath this River’s Tempo’d Time We Walk (Los Angeles, USA), July 1 - 29, 2023
Installations
Habitat for the Human Animal, Ryan Fiorentino (Head of Advanced Strategy, NASA JPL) (Los Angeles, CA) Oct. 17, 2024
[0-I-RI-R] Wende Museum (Los Angeles, CA), April 27 - Sept. 15, 2024
Group Exhibitions
Irrational Exhibits 13: Juxtaposing Terrains (Los Angeles, CA) Oct. 26, 2024
Benefit 2023 I Chords2Cure (Los Angeles, USA), Sept. 29, 2023
Unfold NYC (New York, USA), April 12 - 14, 2023
Thinking MEDIA V, Incheon National University, South Korea (Incheon, South Korea), Nov. 28, 2022
Sound Sculptures
Let the Wind Speak, Let Water Turn to Grains of Sand, Into Gusts of Wind (2023)
Recorded Medium
Woven Histories (Traces and Ghosts) [Album] (2023)
Black Jade (Original Motion Picture Score) [Album] (2022)
In a Forest Dark [Album] (2019)
Selected Individual Visual Works
Extracción de la Piedra de Locura (Extracting the Stone of Madness) (2023)
Excavation (or The Vagaries of the Exposed) (2023)
There Once Was A Tree (2023)
Tic-Tac-Toe (2023)
Jadis tu détachas les grands calices… (You once unfastened giant calyxes…) (2023)
Preserved (2022)
Anchored (2022)
Compositions
Niccolò (commissioned by Christopher Janwong McKiggan) (as S. Peace Nistades) (2015)
SOLO WORKS
The Beckett Circle, “Footfalls-inspired multi-media performance in Los Angeles”, June 19 (online)
Curate LA, “This Week’s Must-See Art”, May 23-29 (online)
Lindsay Preston Zappas, KCRW Art Insider, Top 3 This Week [re: [0-I-RI-R] Current installation at the Wende Museum], May 21 (online)
Feargal Whelan, “Legibility and Excavation: An Interview with Saun Santipreecha by Feargal Whelan”, The Beckett Circle, May 22 (online)
RabbleRouse News, “Saun Santipreecha’s …These Things That Divide The World In Two…”, June 22 (online)
CanvasRebel Magazine, “Meet Saun Santipreecha”, May 20 (online)
Culver City Crossroads, “Wende Opens ‘Undercurrents’ with Artists Discussing Impact”, May 1 (online)
Culver City News, “Undercurrents at Wende Museum”, April 25 (online)
Per/formative Cities, A Nest of Triptychal Performances, Exhibition Catalogue, March 13 (online)
The Dreaming Machine, “Per/formative Cities”, March 20 (online)
Les Nouveaux Riches, “Interview. Saun Santipreecha”, March 9 (online)
Artribune, “Saun Santipreecha - Performative Cities”, March 4 (online)
Art a Part of Cult(ure), “Saun Santipreecha @ AOCF58: Per/formative Cities”, February 29 (online)
Juliet Magazine, “Una ragnatela di performances tripticali”, February 23 (online)
Exhibart, “Saun Santipreecha: Per/formative Cities”, February 29 (online)
IKT International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art, “Per/formative Cities, A Nest of Triptychal Performances”, February 7 (online)
Shoutout LA, “Meet Saun Santipreecha | Interdisciplinary Artist”, January 8 (online)
2023 Bold Journey Magazine, “Meet Saun Santipreecha”, December 28 (online)
Voyage LA Magazine, “Conversations with Saun Santipreecha”, November 20 (online)
The Art & The Artist, “Episode 41, Saun Santipreecha”, August 13 (online - video)
Curate LA, “This Week’s Must-See Art”, Sept. 28 - Aug. 4 Re: Benefit 2023 | Chords2Cure Group Exhibition, Reisig and Taylor Contemporary, Sept. 28 - Aug. 4 (online)
L.A. Art Documents, “Saun Santipreecha at Reisig and Taylor Contemporary”, July 20 (online)
Curate L.A., “This Week’s Must-See Art”, June 29, Re: Dandelye—or, Beneath this River’s Tempo’d Time We Walk”, June 29 (online)
2022 No Transmission, “Saun Santipreecha - Dandelye (Album Review)”, July 8 (online)
Volatile Weekly, “Interview with Saun Santipreecha”, July 7 (online)
Ryan Hall, “Santipreecha - “Dandelye”, Tome To The Weather Machine, July 6 (online)
Fame Magazine UK, “Saun Santipreecha’s album Dandelye focuses on the relationship between nature, humans, and technology”, June 29 (online)
Sinusoidal Music, “Saun Santipreecha-Dandelye | Thematic Experimentation”, June 29 (online)
We Write About Music, “Saun Santipreecha analyzes his latest record “Dandelye””, June 22 (online)
2018 IndiePulse Music Magazine, “IndiePulse Interviews: S. Peace Nistades”, February 10 (online)
2014 Film.Music.Media, “Composer Interview: S. Peace Nistades”, January 3 (online - video)
Music Connection Magazine, “Meet the New Breed of Film, TV & Game Composers”, November 3 (Print)
2011 Film.Music.Media, “FMM: Composer Interview-S. Peace Nistades”, December 1 (online - video)
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