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Paige Alice Naylor is a Chicago-based multimedia artist, experimental musician, and curator working within the realms of sound, light, performance, multichannel sound installation, technology, acoustic ecology, listening practices and writing. Her work aims to bend time, transform space, and create new social and emotional realities for/with others. She constructs environments that are vulnerable, direct and interpersonal to make space for others in which to feel and heal. Paige is a classically trained vocalist and performs in a range of projects and genres: ambient, drone, pop, dance, rock. She recently released her solo album, The Unearthing, through Chicago label, Monastral.
Paige has exhibited work at Onion City Film Festival, Chicago Cultural Center, Terrain Biennial, Experimental Sound Studio, Elastic Arts, Hyde Park Art Center, Mana Contemporary, Constellation, ADDS Donna, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Gene Siskel Film Center, Zhou B Art Center, Links Hall, the Empty Bottle, Public Works, The Plan, Vox Populi (Philadelphia, PA), Recess (NYC), Black Iris (Richmond, VA), Baltimore Theatre Project (Baltimore, MD), Granite City Art and Design District (Granite City, IL), Live Arts (Charlottesville, VA), D.C. Arts Center (Washington, D.C.), as well as through programs such as The Quarantine Concerts, Chicago Park District’s Night Out in the Parks, and Lumpen Radio.
Her work has been featured in the Wire Magazine, Longform Editions, Newcity Art, surgeryradio, WHURK Magazine, and the Documentarian.
Paige holds an MFA in Sound from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Certificate in Deep Listening from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is a curator for Elastic Art’s Elastro Series, the program director for the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology’s Summer Soundwalks in the Park Series, co-founder of Chicago Sonic Commons, and Sound Sculptor’s Union.
contact: paigenaylor(dot)studio(at)gmail(dot)com
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