David Byrne "Tight Spot"
The Pace Gallery (510 W 25th St)
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A new outdoor installation by David Byrne combines sculptural and audio components in a large-scale inflated globe wedged between the newly opened second section of the High Line and Pace’s 510 West 25th Street gallery.
The globe, based on the type used in primary schools, is enlarged and wedged within the confines of the space, becoming deliberately distorted in the process. Byrne imagined the pastel map we associate with childhood: “a wholly unrealistic world, a world of somewhat arbitrary political units, not a planet of clouds, deep blue oceans, beige deserts and swaths of green jungle.” However, like the world around us, Byrne’s globe is subject to both the elements and human presence. A low-frequency vibration will emanate from speakers placed deep within the globe. The sound is meant to be heard from the surrounding streets and elevated park, enticing passersby to discover the installation. “I knew what I thought that sound should be, and rather than using instruments, synthesizers or samplers to make the sounds that I imagined, I simply made them with my voice,” said Byrne. “It was the easiest and fastest way of creating what I was hearing in my head. I filtered and processed my voice so that it wasn’t recognizable.”
[Image: David Byrne "Artist’s Rendering of Tight Spot" (2011)]
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from September 16, 2011 to October 01, 2011