Sam Morrison: Whiff Whaff | 2008

Published 2008 by Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington
21 pages
230 x 165mm, softcover, with colour illustrations
Edited by Christina Barton
With an essay by Frances Loeffler.
Design by Experimenta
Printed by Printlink
ISBN 1-877309-16-8

'As Whiff Whaff attests, there are times when Sam Morrision's work knowingly references the past history of sound culture. While this commentary may be playful and light-hearted, it also shows a critical alertness to its various developments and concerns, questioning, for example, the interconnectedness that bind a history of sound in the arts to a history of communication technologies. Grounded in the contingent and situated, and aware of the trajectory offered by post-object art practices, his work investigates sound as a mean to uncover and activate relationship between things (connections, familiarities; between object and audience, audience and site, object and location) asking us to take a step towards the world around us, gauging it not merely with fleeting glances but directly, bodily, with an exchange of presences. Morrison's ambition is to know things intimately, at a listener's pace; ritardando.'

— Frances Loeffler