NYAB Event - John Duncan "TAILINGS"

John Duncan "TAILINGS"

Diapason

This event has ended.

Slow writhing in near-total darkness
Intertwining drones from a church organ
Movement and sound heavy, thick as oil
Erotic and forbidden

Produced by Michael J. Schumacher and Nisi Jacobs
Assistant to John Duncan: Francesca Divano
Soundtrack performed and recorded December 2009 by John Duncan on the Hammond organ Diapason

John Duncan
Wichita, Kansas 1953) is a pioneer of performance art and experimental audio who has worked in Los Angeles, Tokyo and Amsterdam; he currently lives in Bologna. Duncan's events and installations have been held at Performa in New York, Färgfabriken and Gallery Niklas Belenius in Stockholm, The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in Boston, the NoorlandsOperan in Umeå, Netmage 07 (with Leif Elggren) in Bologna, Cut and Splice (with CM von Hausswolff) in London, and the 2nd Gothenburg Biennial. He has performed with and directed Ensemble Phoenix (in Basel and Bern, as well as for the Angelica Festival in Bologna), Musica Nova in Tel Aviv, Zeitkratzer in Berlin. His CD releases THE CRACKLING (1996 with Max Springer), PALACE of MIND (2001 with Giuliana Stefani), PHANTOM BROADCAST (2002), THE KEENING TOWERS (2003) and NINE SUGGESTIONS (2005 with Mika Vainio and Ilpo Väisänen) are acclaimed by critics and composers as benchmarks of experimental music. His work in radio, video and performance has been shown at the Getty Center and the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles; the Osterreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst (MAK), Vienna; Museu d'Arte Contemporani, Barcelona (MACBA); and Museum of Tokyo (MOT).