INSTALLATION
Brent Green: To Many Men Strange Fates Are Given AUG 20–SEPT 1
MON–SAT, 12–6 PM FREE
Green incorporates familiar elements from his past work—hand-drawn, nervous animation; wry, off-kilter storytelling; original live music; and rustic sculptural elements—but also shows an evolution in subject matter and technique.
In a metal frame with wooden phonograph horns, polarized glass, and glowing LCD screens, a 12-minute animated film tells the story of the woman who sewed the spacesuit for Laika, the dog launched into space in 1957 by the Soviets. Green's poetic narration becomes a lament for the disenfranchisement of working people then and now: commonplace people who face toil and hardship, and sometimes, redemption and wonder.
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Brent Green lives and works in the Appalachian hills of Pennsylvania. His films, live performances, and object-based art have been shown around the world. Green often performs his films with live musicians, improvised soundtracks, and live narration in venues ranging from rooftops to the Getty Center, the Walker Art Center, and MoMA, among others. His films are regularly screened at film festivals, including Sundance, Film Festival Rotterdam, and Rooftop Films. Green is currently embarking on his second feature film, Anatomical Maps With Battle Plans.
INSTALLATION: WORK IN PROGRESS
Thom Kubli: Black Hole Horizon AUG 20–SEPT 1
MON–SAT, 12–6 PM FREE
With forms based on a geometrodynamic physics model of a black hole, horns are positioned in a room of white fabric. As each horn generates a tone, inky black bubbles emerge from within, deformed by the energy of the sound. Eventually achieving freedom, each black bubble lingers in space for a moment before bursting onto the white room's boundaries.
Spectators are invited to explore the space by walking along a path through the room and witnessing the transformation of sound into ephemeral sculptures.
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Berlin-based composer and artist Thom Kubli has exhibited and presented his work over the past several years in museum spaces and festivals that include: ICA (London), Akademie der Künste (Berlin), Ars Electronica (Linz), the New Museum (NYC), Radar Festival (Mexico), Transmediale (Berlin), Eyebeam (NYC), Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, and USP (São Paolo). He is a member of Junge Akademie and Akademie der Künste, Berlin and has held workshops and lectures on sound art and interactive media at ISEA Festival, Goldsmiths College, London, and the University of São Paolo, among others.
