EMPTY/OPEN is an exploration of the subjects of noise and silence as they are constituted formally through sound as well as immaterially through relations within and between audiences and the practice of listening. Over the course of this week long residency, Los Angeles artist Nikita Gale will be developing a collection of multichannel hybrid sound works and listening exercises accompanied by new original text works and video vignettes. These works will continue to build upon Gale's interest in relationships between sound and architecture -- specifically walls and elements that define space through a means of obstruction. EMPTY/OPEN considers the potential of sound to produce social and spatial relations with the understanding that silence is not an empty space, but an open one with the potential to shift the relationships between audience, environment, and the practice of listening.