Nasher Sculpture Center and Lismore Castle Arts, Ireland, two institutions with unique outdoor settings for art - one a contemporary garden in a dynamic urban setting and the other a lush garden at an ancient castle in a bucolic rural setting - have jointly commissioned Luke Fowler to create a new sound sculpture for both locations.

For this commission, Fowler draws on practices of focused listening and architectural acoustics to create a multi-channel sound installation. Using everyday objects and acoustic environments unique to each site, Fowler will create compositions that subtly examine the material history of the two sites and their acoustic qualities.

The work premiered at Lismore, presented in one of the medieval defensive towers surrounding the garden. Fowler will travel to Dallas to take recordings of objects at the site, use the recordings to create a new sonic composition, and install the new sound composition in a resonant part of the Nasher garden. The exhibition is part of the Nasher Sculpture Center’s "Sightings" series of smaller-scale exhibitions and installations that highlight new work of emerging or established artists