Wet Sounds presents: Kristina Guison

November 29
4:30 – 6:00pm
ImprovLab – Room 108 MacKinnon Bldg
Trent Lane – University of Guelph

Presented in collaboration with the 2025 Improvisation Festival, this matinee event will feature a conversation with multi-disciplinary artist Kristina Guison, and a performance from Guison in collaboration with Colby Richardson and Colin Cudmore.

Kristina Guison is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work draws from philosophy, psychology, biology, and culture. Her sound art practice involves the creation of sound sculptures which often incorporates modified time-keeping devices, tools, and other objects. Thematically, her work explores ideas that shape our experience and perception of temporal realities through materiality and sound.

Colby Richardson is a Toronto-based media artist working within experimental film, sound art, performance, and installation. Richardson utilizes unconventional materials to create his auditory and visual works: compact fluorescent light bulbs, microsoft powerpoint, discarded children’s toys, etc. His work aims to embrace chaos in a playful, structural, and exploratory manner.

Colin Cudmore (he/him) is a Toronto-based percussionist and improviser. His fascination with the objects around him has led to some precarious musical moments, re-experiencing the discovery of tossing things around and reveling in their sonic capabilities. He is a local representative for the Ministry of Phonic Services.

Wet Sounds is a conversation and performance series centring artistic practice from within a decolonial, queer, and feminist framework.  The series invites sound artists to share how they see their work in the context of the interconnected, cascading crises unfolding around us and the larger crisis of meaning underpinning them. To learn more about the series, visit Wet Sounds’ project page.