Gilles Aubry works between sound and visual arts, experimental music, and academic research. His practice relies on experimental research methods and transdisciplinary knowledge from across the arts, humanities, and technology studies, including film, performance, installation, and radio art. Aubry’s latest book Sawt, Bodies, Species (2023, Adocs) provides an in-depth exploration of sound and aurality in Morocco.
Recent art projects include The Gramophone Effect, a sound piece with Robert Millis and the Indian collective “Traveling Archive”, commissioned by Documenta14 (2017, Kassel and Athens); Black Anthenna, a performance with Nathalie Mba Bikoro for the Tuned Cities Festival (2018, Messene); Salam Godzilla, a film essay shot in Agadir on the 1960 earthquake, premiered at FID Marseille in 2019, and showcased in the exhibition “Love and Ethnology – The Colonial Dialectic of Sensitivity” at HKW Berlin; Atlantic Ragagar, a film exploring ecological voices on the Moroccan Atlantic coast (Special Mention at Ji.Hlava IDFF 2022); The Whistle, a sound installation by the VACUT Group (Voices Against Corruption and Ugly Trading), commissioned by OTO Sound Museum in Zurich (2022); and L’Makina (2023), a body of works exploring critical technical knowledge in North Africa commissioned by KW and IFA Berlin for the exhibition School of Casablanca.
Past exhibitions, performances and screenings include IFA Berlin (2024), Sea Art Festival Busan (2023), Rewire Festival The Hague (2023), FIFA Montreal (2023), Norient Festival Bern (2023), TENT Rotterdam (2022), Ji.Hlava Film Festival (2022), OTO Museum Zurich (2022), Taiwan International Documentary Festival (TIDF 2021), Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid (2020), Marseille International Film Festival (FID, 2019), Mosaic Rooms London (2019), Film Festival Visions du Réel Nyon (2019), Radiophonic Space Exhibition at House Of World Cultures HKW Berlin (2018), Casablanca Art Biennale (2018), Tuned City Festival (2018), Le 18 Marrakech (2018), documenta_14 in Kassel and Athens (2017), Tinguely Museum Basel (2017), Alhamra Art Center Lahore (2017), café Oto London (2017), Kunstraum Bethanien Berlin (2016), Clark House Mumbai (2016), Art Council Karachi (2016), Skulpturenmuseum Marl (2016), FMAC Geneva (2016), MAGA Museum Gallarate (2015), Kunstmuseum Lucerne (2015), Khoj Art Center New Delhi (2015), TUSK Festival Newcastle (2015), Tsonami Festival Valparaiso (2014), Savvy Contemporary Berlin (2014), Friedmann Gallery New York (2014), Marrakech Biennale (2014), LEAP art space Berlin (2013), HeK Basel (2013), Camera Austria Graz (2012), House of World Cultures Berlin (2012), Kontraste Festival Krems (2011), MACBA Barcelona (2010).
Gilles Aubry/YRLNG released several albums, in solo and with the noise collective MONNO. Additional collaborations include Tomoko Sauvage, Audrey Chen, Jasmine Guffond, Rob Millis, Ali Faiq, Valerio Tricoli, Ale Hop, Gabisile Motuba, Sabina Leone, Aya Metwalli, Dave Phillips, Antoine Chessex, Nicolas Field, Karen Geyer, Alexei Borisov, Lethe, Keiji Haino, Fe-Mail, Axel Dörner, Klaus Filip, and many more. Records are available on Adocs, Antibody, Buh Records, Corvo records, Winds Measure, Cronica Electronica, Gruenrekorder, Universinternational, Schraum, Creative Sources, and Absinth Records.