Antonia Barnett-McIntosh
Antonia Barnett McIntosh (Kāi Tahu, Pākehā) is a composer-performer, sound artist, editor, and curator based in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa. She collaborates in cross arts spaces, gently tapping on the borders between speech/music, performance/rehearsal, composition/writing, and juxtaposing the formalities of presentation with the aesthetics of failure.
Antonia’s works investigate speech as music: the pitches, rhythms, intonations and conversational overlaps of our everyday. In varying formats, these speech works loosen expectations around ‘final product’: from text piece, transcription piece, installation, live approximation of performance, performance of an artist talk, to instrumental concert.
Artwork credit: Antonia Barnett-McIntosh, Water Walk, 2012, North Norway Festival
