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Performa Radio

Public Program
Nov 20, 2005
9:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Performance

Pierre Huyghe
Pierre Huyghe has conceptualized his newest project in three parts: a trip to Antartica on a radio ice-boat, a film from the trip, and, with the Public Art Fund and the 2006 Whitney Biennial, a public performance in Central Park’s Wolman Ice Skating Rink. For PERFORMA Radio, the artist adds a fourth layer to his expedition by creating a radio play. Amidst the soundtrack Huyghe commissioned for this upcoming film, a witness of his Central Park performance engages in a play-by-play description of the event. A theatrical representation of a search for an Antarctic creature merges with the memory of radio drama to become yet another story.

Bruce Pearson
An avid record collector, painter Bruce Pearson compresses a massive archive of records into a few minutes. Extracting only the percussion from hundreds of songs, he loops each drum sample, adding a new one every few seconds, until the whole becomes a mass of stacked sound. An exploration of what happens when silence is removed from the musical equation, this new work consists of a gradual accumulation of sampled beats to the point that they create a solid mass. He collaborates with Marco A. Navarrete.

Free Radio High Desert Test Site
Invited by Andrea Zittel to propose a project for her High Desert Test Site series in Joshua Tree, Christy Gast and Fabienne Lasserre created a radio station. Dozens of artists contributed works that they considered complementary to, or missing in, the desert Nevada landscape and airspace. Including works by Gast and Lassere, Justin Beal, Bjorn Melhus, Lisi Raskin, Halsey Rodman, Anna Craycroft, and Yoko Ono, among others. Excerpts from the Free Radio HDTS programming, as well as an interview by Anthony Huberman with artists Fabienne Lasserre and Christy Gast are boradcast.

Curated by Sculpture Centre Curator Anthony Huberman for PERFORMA05, with special thanks to Bethany Ryker (WFMU) and Federico Marulanda (WKCR). Presented by PERFORMA05, WFMU (91.1FM-NY and www.wfmu.org ), and WKCR (89.9FM-NY and www.wkcr.org )

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