Tim Feeney

Timothy Feeney’s practice centers on deceptively simple physical and sonic materials—such as the sound of two stones scraped together, or the resonant echo they produce when struck inside a concrete structure. These gestures become deeply personal acts: the stones themselves may have been pulled from a river years ago, and their placement, resonance, and interaction with space and time transform them into talismans of memory and place.

Feeney creates works that intertwine sound and image with the natural environment and its human presence. Indoors and outdoors, his installations invite participants to become part of the work—moving through it, shaping their own sense of local time, and building imagined or speculative narratives about the site through sensory engagement.

At Fonderie Darling, Feeney presents Dowsing, a multilayered project that expands on these ideas through recordings made in California, Quebec, and Ireland. The work explores the tension between memory and immediacy, offering a reflection on our current era of environmental and political transformation.

Biography

Based in California, Timothy Feeney performs, composes, and improvises with sound and image in response to forests and waterfronts, investigating unstable acoustics and the poetics of duration. His practice unfolds in bookstores and basements with Sarah Hennies and Greg Stuart as the trio Meridian; in galleries and libraries with Vic Rawlings and Annie Lewandowski; in tunnels and train stations with Volker Straebel and Cassia Streb; in colleges and museums with Andrew Raffo Dewar, Holland Hopson, and Jane Cassidy; and occasionally in festivals and concert halls with Anthony Braxton, Ingrid Laubrock, and the Partch Ensemble. His recent sound and video work has been presented in festivals and residencies at the Contemporary Art Center New Orleans; the Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida; the Burren College of Art in Newtown Castle, Ireland; the Denver Underground Film Festival; Festival International Musique Actuelle Victoriaville; the Roma Short Film Festival; the CICA Museum in South Korea; and the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art. He is currently a faculty member at the California Institute of the Arts.

Recent exhibitions

2024	Fault map, beauty salon, West Hollywood, US Nightjar’s nest, Festival International Musique Actuelle, Victoriaville, Quebec, CA
2023	Twa corbies, Audubon Center, Los Angeles, CA, US
2022	Glazing, Angels Gate Arts Center, San Pedro, CA, US
2021	Four sunsets, Situated Sounds, Array Music, Toronto, ON, CA Caroline, Refamiliarization, University of California, CA, US
2018	A question of permanence, Ringling Museum, Sarasota, FL, US