As it takes the shape of an evolving sound composition, the exhibition will be punctuated by two separate live performances. The first event pairs a reading by Vito Acconci with a New Humans performance of sine wave drones, feedback, and geometric beat patterns. Its ‘recording studio’ configuration of isolated and obstructed areas created by the graphic sound partitions recalls the setting of Jean-Luc Godard’s “Sympathy for the Devil,” which features The Rolling Stone’s recording sessions for their iconic anthem. The second event features a destruction performance by noise musician C. Spencer Yeh and New Humans during which the stacks of champagne glasses and shell chairs will be toppled and sampled over the course of an extreme noise set.
In its entirety and in its singularities, Disassociate underlines the potentialities, separations, and contradictions of collaboration in the process of mapping different creative practices. Repurposing bankrupt formalisms and recognizing the need to destroy and build at the same time, this durational exhibition points to the kinds of strategies and processes that can be used to create new articulations of form and sound through an antagonistic relationship to expectation, formalism, and style.
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