"Non-Cochlear Sound" Exhibition
Diapason
This event has ended.
Sound, like everything else (maybe more than everything else), is a product of interaction: stick with skin, wheel with street, wind with grass. Logically, then, sound is also a product of the situations in which these interactions occur. Non-Cochlear Sound addresses sound as a conceptual, contextual construct. Non-Cochlear Sound might function in a sound-like fashion without specifically referencing or making sound, it might use sound as a vehicle for transporting ideas or materials from point A to point B, it might even make sound but only as an excuse for initiating other activities. Sound always makes meaning by interacting with other things in proximity: geographic proximity, ideological proximity, philosophical proximity. Non-Cochlear Sound is nothing more - and nothing less - than the acknowledgement of this reality.
Diapason Gallery for Sound presents Non-Cochlear Sound, an exhibition curated by Seth Kim-Cohen. The exhibition follows from Kim-Cohen’s book, In The Blink Of An Ear: Toward A Non-Cochlear Sonic Art (Continuum 2009), which theorizes a phylum of sonic practice imagined as a continuation of and a complement to Marcel Duchamp's notion of a non-retinal visual art. It features the work of twenty established and emerging artists working with sound as a medium which addresses ideas beyond the act of hearing. Through performance, video, text and sound, the artists examine sonic conceptualism and the mediating/mediated properties of sound.
On the first full day of the exhibition, October 2, artist Rozalinda Borcilla will lead Listening for Beginners, a workshop for twenty participants whose documentation will also become part of the exhibition.
Michelle Rosenberg will install a network of whistles throughout Diapason, allowing spectators to engage the exhibition and interact with each other by blowing into holes at one location, activating whistles at another location inside (or outside) the gallery.
Doug Barrett’s Violin Tuned D.E.E.D. is a historical revision of Bruce Nauman’s Violin Tuned D.E.A.D. (1968). The piece will be performed live during the October 1st opening, existing subsequently as documentation for the duration of the exhibition.
Rob Mullender’s work consist of two parts: Daughter’s Voice From Memory is a resin sculpture of a sound wave; Said Object is a video of various individuals confronting the sculpture and responding to the question: “What does it say?”
Benjamin Thorp will ship a box containing recording gear to the gallery. When it arrives, Black Box, will be installed, playing back the sound of its journey to the exhibition.
Panel: October 28
A panel of artists and scholars will discuss the exhibition and its implications on October 28th at the Goethe Insitut. Participants will include Seth Brodsky, David Grubbs, Marina Rosenfeld, and Liz Kotz among others.
Thursday, October 28, Goethe-Institut, 72 Spring Street, 11th floor, New York, NY
free
Media
Schedule
from October 02, 2010 to October 23, 2010
Saturdays, October 2, 9, 16, 23, 2pm-8pm
Opening Reception on 2010-10-01 from 19:00
Include one-time-only performances which will then be documented for the remainder of the exhibition
Artist(s)
Doug Barrett, Violin Tuned D.E.E.D., Rozalinda Borcilla, Listening for Beginners, Seth Cluett, Tracing Moving Circles, Neighborhood Memory, Chris Cuellar, Tactical Archiving, Benedict Drew, Drum Loop, Jarrod Fowler, Rhythmsystemics, Seth Kim-Cohen, Critique of Instrumental Reason, Chris Kubick, Anne Walsh, To Make The Sound of Fire, Corey Larkin, Monochrome