TRIADS: Arrangement in Site & Sound
PERFORMANCE SERIES | 2020
TRIADS: Arrangements in Site & Sound explores the relationships between performances of classical music, physical sites, and the communities surrounding them. This performance series, film, and art installation premieres a newly commissioned work by composer Ledah Finck. Inspired by the embedded histories and acoustic languages of three separate locations—Clifton Mansion, B. Willow, and NoMüNoMü—different elements of Finck’s composition will be performed at each of these sites over the course of three nights. The project will culminate in a film and installation, by Rachel Schmidt, that assembles these fragments and presents the piece in its entirety.
Performed and presented in collaboration with Bergamot Quartet, Pants Trio, and Mind on Fire, this project uses classical music as a case study to question how the built environment implicates bodies and reinforces traditional hierarchies. Ultimately, TRIADS: Arrangements in Site & Sound subverts traditional methods of performance and consumption by breaking down the whole, scattering its components across space and time, and then reconstructing it through site-specific sound recordings and visual explorations.
EVERYDAY, EVERYDAY, Everyday, EVeryday FReedoms
MEYERHOFF GALLERY | 2019
The Maryland Institute College of Art and the For Freedoms 50 State Initiative present Everyday, Everyday, Everyday, Everyday Freedoms, an exhibition that reimagines civic engagement beyond voting in elections. This group exhibition considers how a democracy could be free from disenfranchisement; forming a critique of the frayed political climate from a multiplicity of perspectives. Featuring local, national, and international artists at all stages of their careers, their artwork frames participation and activism through photography, video, game design, sculpture, installation, data visualization, text, and textiles.
Citizenship, race, gender, age, and socioeconomic class exacerbate the inability of some to survive, let alone to engage civically. Beyond critiquing these systemic barriers, the curators prioritize art’s ability to change perspectives through dialogue, collaboration, and social engagement. They imagine freedom as a release from partisan ideology and encourage the viewer to consider civic engagement as an ongoing daily practice—one that is malleable and ripe for redefinition.
Bodily COnstructs
PILOT PRIMER DEMO | 2019
Bodily Constructs explores the relationship between scientific discovery, medical advancement, and the human condition. Through the works of Amy Wetsch, Lennon Michalski, and Yoshiaki Nakamura, this exhibition provides an immersive investigation into the internal and external fragility of the human body.
Since the beginning of modern civilization, it has been an inherent desire of mankind to define and understand the systems of the human body. In placing emphasis on scientific and medical investigation, experimentation, and discovery, not only have humans been able to live with impairments, survive major surgeries, and even eradicate diseases, they have also been confronted with the reality of human life, death, and decay. Our bodies do not always respond in ways that we can understand, and even in discovery, we are confronted with uncertainty.