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In conjunction with the exhibition Renée Green: Endless Dreams and Time-Based Streams, YBCA presents a series of live performances by Greg Tate, Florian Hecker and New Humans, which reflect Renée Green’s interest in sound, music and other time-based media.
Greg Tate in Performance
Fri, May 7, 6-8pm, Galleries
FREE w/ gallery admission
A combination of live and recorded readings of Reneé Green’s selected writings from Other Planes of There and other writings by San Francisco Art Institute Reading Performance Workshop participants, with ambient sound and music mix by Greg Tate.
The basis of the Reading Performance Workshop is to engage with a manuscript (Other Planes of There: Selected Writings 1981-2006) and other writings of Renée Green's that are developed into spoken performances and recordings. The topics are broad and include reflections on the road, travel, sound, electronic music, cities, film, bodies, feeling, thinking, artistic formations, aesthetics and politics, independent production, situationists, global-local encounters (including biennials), and art + life into the 21st century.
Greg Tate was a Staff Writer at The Village Voice from 1987–2003. His writings on culture and politics have also been published in The New York Times, Artforum, Rolling Stone, VIBE, The Wire, DownBeat, and JazzTimes. Tate is the founder and conductor of Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber, originally conceived in 1999 as a forum to compose, record, and perform material which reflects the breadth and depth of American diasporan music in the 21st century.
Florian Hecker in Performance
Sat, Jun 19, 4-6 pm, Galleries
FREE w/ gallery admission
Working in performance and installation, Hecker frequently collaborates with academic researchers in auditory perception and computer music, as well as with other artists such as Aphex Twin, Russell Haswell, and Cerith Wyn Evans. Hecker is also a regular performer and has an extensive discography including Haswell & Hecker, Blackest Ever Black, Warner Classics (2007) and his most recent release Acid in the Style of David Tudor, Editions Mego (2009).
New Humans in Performance
Sat, Jun 19, 6-8 pm, Galleries
FREE w/ gallery admission
Formed in 2003, Brooklyn-based New Humans make collaborative works including music, video, art installations, clothing collaborations, and sound recordings. New Humans began out of Mika Tajima's art practice and is a moniker for her projects with other musicians, artists, and designers. Members are Howie Chen, Mika Tajima, and Eric Tsai. They have collaborated with Vito Acconci, José León Cerrillo, Philippe Decrauzat, Matt Suib, and C. Spencer Yeh.
