January 16 - April 10, 2005
Sculpture Center
In Practice
Special project series
Max Goldfarb, Nicholas Herman, Elana Herzog, Justin Lowe, Linda Post, Karlis
Rekevics, and Michael J. Schumacher.
In Practice is an ongoing project series designed to support the creation
of innovative work by emerging artists.
Michael J. Schumacher uses sound to articulate a trajectory through one of SculptureCenter's seventy-foot long lower-level galleries. Playing across a collection of over twenty speakers -- including vintage models from the 1950s, 60s, and 70s -- the artist's sound work is generative in structure: without beginning or end and produced in real-time, the computer-driven composition creates both a unified sonic fabric for the whole space, as well as more intimate moments of sound fragments, encountered as viewers make their way through the gallery. Schumacher uses a variety of sources, including analog synthesizers, improvising musicians, digital processes, and field recordings, each sound chosen to correspond to the tonal characteristics of the individual speakers. The installation's effect is one of displacement: no matter where the listener stands, a significant sonic form is taking shape somewhere else and therefore leads them to repeatedly walk back and forth through the space, rupturing the usual motions the architecture encourages.
Exhibition hours:
Thursday - Monday, 11am - 6pm
Closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
SculptureCenter is located at 44-19 Purves Street (off of Jackson Avenue)
in Long Island City, NY, 11101.
info@sculpture-center.org
Admission is by suggested donation.
