Inspired by the French Medieval “crieur public”, ScreamNow is the first
public screaming booth of an upcoming series. The artwork takes a fundamental yet
repressed human expression to generate visuals. ScreamNow: Inside/Out reflects our
current social distancing and deeply transformative times. The new set up expands in
space with a studio, adding the concept of Inside/Out to the project’s original
purpose of offering a sanctuary for people to scream their heart out. The screams
generated from inside are released outside, shielded by the open booth structure.
Recorded via a microphone in the booth, the screams are processed inside of the
studio. Flower petals picked outside are covering the walls of the studio where the
recorded screams are transformed into visuals and projected back in and out of the
booth. The screamer can instantly visualize the power generated by her voice.
Hallier’s work explores how control and its release color the dynamics between the
natural, the human and the technological realms. Her multimedia work aims to break
away from the patriarchal hegemony of vision as our primary sense. By stimulating
all senses, the artist’s goal is to offer spaces where meaningful experiences can be
created and new scenarii on being can be imagined. Hallier’s early multimedia work
has received prizes at ACM Siggraph (FL), SCAN Arts Symposium (PA), Ars Electronica
in Finland and Anima Mundi in Brazil. She has shown her work internationally, in the
US with most recently a solo show at NARS Foundation this past February 2020, at
BRIC Arts Media, MediaNoche gallery and CAS Arts Center in New York. In Europe, solo
shows venues include the ESAM in Caen, France and Nadiana Idriss gallery in Berlin,
Germany. Group shows in the US include Trestle gallery, A.I.R. gallery, BRIC,
Brooklyn Council for the Arts and Dumbo Arts Center in Brooklyn, SVA Flatiron
gallery and Tribes galleries in Manhattan, and The Housatonic Museum (CT). Hallier
worked on a commission for the Drawing Center (NYC) and was selected for BRIC’s
first edition Biennial in Brooklyn. Residencies include LMCC Swing Space artist
residency on Governors Island, Pioneer Works, NARS Foundation, Trestle Art Space and
currently Harvestworks New Work Residency in NYC.
