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Gianna Santucci is multidiscplinary artist and percussionist from Merritt Island, FL, currently based in Philadelphia. She received an M.F.A. in Painting at Tyler School of Art with a University Fellowship, and received a B.F.A. in Fine Arts and a B.M. in Music Performance from Florida Southern College. Her work has been recently exhibited in Icebox Project Space, Vox Populi, and Cherry Street Pier in Philadelphia. Recent performances include the ‘Low Tech Electronics Faire’ at the Charles Library and ‘Chilladelphia’ at Thunderbird Hall.

Using industrial stage materials, percussive instruments, video projection, text, sound, and light, her multi-media installations and paintings ask us to reframe our relationship to power and control.

These materials subvert expectations of primary use and reveal new functions. Santucci taps into the unexpected noise-making capacities of electronics and percussive instruments, transforming them into objects that drone, hum, shriek, and whistle. In these installations, different registers of sound are created and transmitted between objects. A speaker relaying audio from a digitally simulated resonating body causes a sympathetic vibration in a crowd of snare drums. A closed audio feedback loop creates a private conversation between drums.

The work acknowledges the roles rhythm, noise, and technology have in organizing and controlling bodies and flows of information. Through this, she realizes the potential productive and liberating capacity of these tools, and their ability to disrupt and communicate beyond conventional means.

You can find her in the pit.

e-mail her at gsantucci630@gmail.com