Collaborator Event
UNDERPASS
Oct. 7, 2006: 6 p.m. – 11 p.m.
Diapason Gallery
1026 Sixth Avenue, # 2S
Manhattan, NY
212-719-4393
Bruce Tovsky, "Underpass" (installation and performances).
October 7: Ben Owen, Zach Layton, Michael Schumacher, sawako.
An installation (Saturdays in October) and live sound performances (8:30 p.m.) inspired by
walks around and underneath the Brooklyn, Manhattan and Williamsburg
bridges, the Prospect Expressway and beneath many of the elevated
subway tracks around Brooklyn. Over a period of three years Tovsky has
documented these locations extensively with video and has made
several sets of recordings using his binaural recording rig.
"Underpass" presents the video in triptych form with a gradual
accretion of image and sound, ultimately pairing each section with a
mirroring sound performance. "Underpass" was first presented at Issue
Project Room in Brooklyn, NY, in October of 2005, with guest sound
artists John Hudak on resonator guitar and laptop, and Brooks
Williams on laptop. A workshop version of the "Underpass" installation
was presented in November of 2005 at Tovsky?s own space, 106BLDG30,
in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.