May 10, 7:30pm
In 2011, Independent Curators International (ICI) organized the sound exhibition WITH HIDDEN NOISE featuring artists Andrea Parkins, Jennie C. Jones, Pauline Oliveros, Steve Peters, Steve Roden, Taylor Deupree, Michael J. Schumacher, and the show’s guest curator, multi-media artist Stephen Vitiello. Having debuted at the Aspen Art Museum and subsequently traveled to Monash University in Victoria, Australia, the exhibition will be on view this spring and summer at New York’s Wave Hill, The University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, and The Henry Art Gallery in Seattle. On this occasion, a crucial moment for sound in art finally entering art institutions, ICI joins Anthology to present a one night event that explores the origins of experimental sound and the radical ways artists have worked outside the mainstream.
Curated by Stephen Vitiello and Alaina Claire Feldman, Exhibitions Manager at ICI, this program features Michael Blackwood’s ultra-rare documentary NEW MUSIC: SOUNDS AND VOICES FROM THE AVANT-GARDE, back-to-back with John Sanborn and Kit Fitzgerald’s re: SOUNDINGS. The evening concludes with a live conversation between Vitiello and special guest Alvin Lucier!
Michael Blackwood
NEW MUSIC: SOUNDS AND VOICES FROM THE AVANT-GARDE
1971, 51 min, 16mm-to-digital
Arts documentarian Michael Blackwood has made dozens of insightful portraits of artists since the mid-1960s, and this particular film was made for and only broadcast on West German television. Featuring a jaw-dropping array of notables (including John Cage, David Tudor, Gordon Mumma, David Behrman, Max Neuhaus, Alvin Lucier, Steve Reich, and Philip Glass, among many others) this piece is, in retrospect, an incredible time capsule from a seminal moment in the development of sound art and truly new music.
John Sanborn & Kit Fitzgerald
re: SOUNDINGS
1983, 65 min, video
Sanborn and Fitzgerald were proto-MTV video artists who brought a visual new-wave energy to the frontiers of experimental music. Inspired by the exhibition SOUNDINGS at the Neuberger Museum located at Purchase College, re: SOUNDINGS is a highly energetic piece featuring appearances and sounds by John Cage, Alvin Lucier, David Tudor, Liz Phillips, John Driscoll, Max Neuhaus, Doug Hollis, Meredith Monk, Vito Acconci, and Laurie Anderson.