free103point9 Event, Exhibition
[SILENCE]
Jan. 31, 2007 – Feb. 24, 2007
Gigantic ArtSpace
59 Franklin Street
New York, NY 10013
United States
Gigantic ArtSpace [GAS] and free103point9 are pleased to present [silence], a
exhibition focused on artists' uses of and responses to silence - as manifested
in sculpture, in installation, in composition, in works on paper, and in time-based
practices. The works on view address the futility
of the chase, the beauty of absence, and the rich potential of an empty signal.
Works from: Matthew
Burtner, Jeroen Diepenmaat,
Michael Graeve & Christoph Dahlhausen, Pablo
Helguera, Douglas Henderson,
Pierre Huyghe, Tarikh Korula & Tianna Kennedy,
David La Spina, LoVid,
Juan Matos Capote, Lee Ranaldo,
Douglas Repetto, Michelle Rosenberg,
Stephen Vitiello, and James Woodfill. Curated by Dylan J. Gauthier and Galen Joseph-Hunter.
Opening reception: Wednesday, January 31, 6-9 pm at Gigantic Art
Space, 59 Franklin Street, New York, NY 10013.
Opening night performances from Mathew Burtner 7 & 8 pm. With Ian Epps, Aaron Halley, Tom Mulligan, and Jeremy Slater.
Sound program: A Call for Silence, curated by Nicolas
Collins. Courtesy Sonic Arts Network.
Saturday performance series: 4:33 pm featuring Michelle Nagai (2/10), Michael
Graeve with Tianna Kennedy (2/17), and 31 Down (2/24).
ABOUT THE WORKS
By compounding the energy of the FM signal, Matthew Burtner's
performance Study 1.0 (feedback) for radio transceiver revisits the
artist's childhood in Alaska and his ensuing focus on open communication in
unoccupied places. David La Spina will present photographs of Burtner's performance
at the opening reception - a sort of residual, feedback hum of the opening night.
Juan Matos Capote combines painting, sculpture, and field recordings
in Series H, a study of accumulation, absence, and the nature of that
which is imagined but unpronounced.
In Jeroen Diepenmaat's pour des dents d'un blanc éclatant
et saines. dead birds are reunited with their lost birdsong through the
preservational power of phonography.
Michael Graeve and Christoph Dahlhausen create
an inaudible, synesthetic feedback loop between two divergent but thematically
similar art practices with their minimalist cadavre-exquise, Dialog 1.2.
Pablo Helguera presents new work gleaned from the series Dead
Languages Conservatory, last words from all-but-lost languages.
Douglas Henderson exhibits a series of sculptures involving
ultra low-level sound components, water, and the visual language of sine-waves.
Pierre Huyghe's Partition de silence (Score of silence)
is a transcription of Cage's silent masterwork 4'33 (1952) into a
flute sonata achieved via a sound-to-MIDI converter program.
Tarikh Korula and Tianna Kennedy will create
a recording stylus in an attempt to unlock the Archeoacoustic sound dormantly
sealed in found and historic objects around New York City.
Hearing Red continues the collaborative LoVid's work
in blurring sensory boundaries through the use of electrical signals and synaesthetic
output: in this case, a pure "Red" video signal is played as "sound" through
a speaker, taking its form from the frequency of the video signal.
Lee Ranaldo's 4 organs combines thematic and visual
data from Robert Smithson and Steve Reich to reach a third, distended point
between the suspension of their respective oeuvres.
Douglas Repetto will realize a new version of the installation,
puff bang reverb, a kinetic sculpture and semi-accurate, two-dimensional
hyper-zoom, which exposes the secret life of displaced air molecules.
Michelle Rosenberg will present a new series of Ornamental
Headphones that reassess our collective, compulsive culture of listening.
Stephen Vitiello's Trio, employs low-frequency sine tones
to force the surface of a number of speakers to pulse and vibrate in patterns
visible to the eye yet inaudible to human ears.
James Woodfill's film 60hz derives its subject from
the constant and pervasive flow of electricity throughout our environment to
alter our perceptions of time and movement.
PUBLIC EVENTS
4:33 pm, a series of Saturday afternoon performances. (Click on a name below for more information.)
February 10th: Michelle Nagai
February 17th: Michael Graeve + Tianna Kennedy
February 24th: 31 Down



LINKS
Transmission Artists
Collaborators
Works
- puff bang reverb (Installation/Sculpture) Douglas Repetto, 2007
- Restored Archeoacoustic Recording Kit and Documentation (Installation/Sculpture) Tianna Kennedy and Tarikh Korula,
Related Events
- 4:33pm Michael Graeve + Tianna Kennedy, Feb. 17, 2007: 4 p.m. – 5 p.m.
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- Restored Archeoacoustic Recording Kit and Documentation Sound element in installation by Tianna Kennedy and Tarikh Korula (audio/mpeg, 10.7 MB)
