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august, 2012
kcet artbound video documentary related to my recent show at LACE: shells, bells, steps and silences… HERE
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august 9 & 11, 2012
august 9, 7-9 pm
performance with lawrence english at lace
2 solo sets and one duo set
$10 admission – $5 for students – free for lace membersaugust 11, 3:30 – 7:30 pm
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august 2012
wanderer
10” vinyl
champion versionFINALLY here, an extremely limited release featuring two different soundtracks composed for flora wiegmann’s film, wanderer, which premiered at the 2011 california biennial at the orange county museum of art. i highly recommend you get on champion’s mailing list as this will disappear fast.
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sunday, august 5, 2012
sequences and scores at filmforum
at the egyptian theater in hollywood
sunday august 5, at 7:30 pma rare screening of many of my early films, including my first film from 1989, the dreams of ophelia, shot on super 8 film with a soundtrack. there will be a number of films screened that have never been seen in public, and i will also be performing some live soundtracks to some of the silent films.
the program is a collaboration with LACE and filmforum, and the event will take place at the spielberg theater at the egyptian. the theater is quite small, so i would highly recommend buying tickets beforehand.
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July 27 – October 21, 2012
silence
the menil collection
houston, txgroup exhibition featuring: Joseph Beuys, Marcel Broodthaers, John Cage, Marcel Duchamp, David Hammons, Tehching Hsieh, Jennie C. Jones, Jacob Kirkegaard, René Magritte, Mark Manders, Christian Marclay, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Max Neuhaus, Robert Rauschenberg, Doris Salcedo, Tino Sehgal, Stephen Vitiello and others. the exhibition will travel to the berkeley art museum in early 2013.
i will be showing several paintings and a sculpture related to cage’s 4’33” as well as a 400 page text work “365X433 (a year of listening)”, as well as a film. also, stephen vitiello and i will perform a sound work on the 28th.
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july 12 – august 12, 2012
rag picking
singuhr – hoergalerie, berlin
at meinblau kunsthaus
berlin, germanya solo exhibition organized by the singuhr – hoergalerie berlin of new works that have evolved from my work at the akademie der kunste researching walter benjamin’s archive. the exhibition will include sound, visual works, and a text work.
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june 28 – september 2012
bells, shells, steps and silences.
LACE (los angeles contemporary exhibitions)
hollywood californiaa new multi-channel video and sound installation, riffing off of a group of seashells and objects that belonged to martha graham, my research last year in berlin with walter benjamin’s notebooks, and a diary of my year of performing john cage’s 4’33” everyday during 2011. this will be my first exhibition to focus exclusively on video. the works include: “everything she left behind that fits in my hand” (an accounting of objects and shells that belonged to martha graham), “a lexicon of silences” (an index of the various graphic actions benjamin used to cross out mistakes in various manuscripts), “cathedral loops” (short experiments inspired by a postcard that belonged to benjamin), and “bells, shells, steps and silences” (a three channel work using benjamin’s theme symbols to develop a graphic notation towards sound episodes, which interact with each other via chance operation).
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june 20 – september 19, 2012
soundworks
institute of contemporary arts (ica)
London, UK“one hundred new sound commissions produced by artists from all over the world. Selected by our curators and art institutions worldwide, the artists have been invited to submit a new work, taking its stimulus from the themes evoked in Bruce Nauman’s Days, which will be presented in the lower gallery during the exhibition.”
my piece, entitled “from past to present (at half speed and sometimes backwards)” uses various 4-track cassette masters from my earliest recordings, circa 1982-86, as source material…
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june 12, 2012
ghosts of public spaces/actions!
part of festival suoni per il popolo
sala rosa, 14$
montreal, canadalive improvised performance with sound and video.
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may, 2012
fear drop
issue 16
francenew issue of this magazine features a long interview with me (in french), as well as a new track created for the accompanying CD, which includes works by bernhard gunter, lionel marchetti, and others. the mag also contains articles on coil , toy bizarre, jean giono, s. wetham, g. toniutti, and others.
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may 2 – july 10, 2012
forte piano: the shapes of sound
parco della musica
auditorium
romeenormous sound art exhibition, in two parts, each featuring works by 40 artists, including: vito acconci, la monte young, alva noto, michael schumacher, joseph beuys, henri chopin, philip corner, milan knizak, terry fox, christina kubisch, stephen vitiello… the mostly pre-existing works are sited in various locations, my piece proximities is being presented in a garden.
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april 26, 2012, 6:30 – 8pm
hammersley: panel discussion
la louver
45 north venice blvd.
venice, ca 90291
rsvp: Christina@lalouver.coma panel discussion on the work of frederick hammersley
kathleen howe, steve roden, Hunter Drohojowksa-Philp