Saturday, October 23
6 PM - Midnight
Jim Haynes
Telegraphy by the Sea, or the Heresy of Error:
an Addendum to the Memoirs of the Royal Meteorological Society
a six hour performance / installation of aural monochromatism dappled with gestural events
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Jim Haynes will present a six hour performance spread across two rooms, divided roughly into twelve seamless chapters of broken minimalism, and illuminated through oxides. In the larger of the two rooms at the Diapason Gallery, Mr. Jim Haynes intends on tinkering with various objects and machines amidst an immersive soundfield of complex timbers, monochromatic tones, and electro-magnetic vibrations. Mr. Haynes will then rebroadcast those same sounds found in the first room through the caustic hiss of tape and speaker constructions within the second room, which effectively becomes the rusted ghost of the first.
Describing his work through the pithy phrase, "I rust things," Jim Haynes is a San Francisco based artist who has developed a poetic vocabulary of decay that he has applied to photography, sculpture, installation, and sound. Haynes has exhibited and performed internationally, having shown at Westspace (Melbourne), Varnish (San Francisco), Eyedrum (Atlanta), Works (San Jose), and Zeitgeist (Nashville). He continues to collaborate with Loren Chasse as Coelacanth, which explores the tools of an imagined science to encourage sympathetic relationships between carefully chosen material. Haynes holds the position as Editorial Director for 23five, Inc, a non-profit sound art organization, and is the lone occupant at the Helen Scarsdale Agency, a publishing house specializing in art editions. He has also written extensively on sound art, noise culture, minimalis, and general music experimentation for The Wire, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, The Sound Projector, and Chunklet.
