Solos and Duos in Chicago

An evening of text pieces, instrumental improvisations, recorded sound works, and video. 

Constellation, 3111 N Western, Chicago, 23 June 2013, 8PM

Lou Mallozzi: voice, text, turntables, CDs, microphones, mixer

collaborators

     Troy Schafer: violin

     Julia Miller: guitar

     Adam Vida: percussion

     Gino Robair: percussion

     Alessandro Bosetti: text

     Sandra Binion: video

Peers and Held in Miami

I presented two pieces at the Subtropics XXII Festival in Miami in March 2013.  

From 1 - 4 March, my installation Held was exhibited at Audiotheque, Studio 201, 924 Lincoln Rd in Miami, as part of a four-day program of projects, talks, and workshops on the theme of sound in public space.  On Saturday 16 March, Peers was performed with a dozen readers at Audiotheque as part of the festival's marathon weekend.  The readers were:
Sandra Binion
Claudia Ariano
Michael Hettich
David Briske
William Keddell
Steve Malagodi
Barron Sherer
Freddy Jouwayed
Kyle Motl
Stephan Tugrul
George Fishman 
Lou Mallozzi

The Subtropics Festival is organized by Gustavo Matamoros, one of South Florida's true cultural treasures.

Didact at the MCA

I'll be presenting a new performance intervention at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, in the first half of 2013. Didact is a performance for four people reading simultaneously all the wall labels in the exhibition Destroy the Picture: Painting the Void, 1949-1962, moving from gallery to gallery. These labels -- which include not only the title of the work and the artist's name, dates and nationality, but also donor, acquisition, or loan information as well as interpretive text -- are the linguistic frame for every museum visitor's experience. Spoken quietly but insistently, the verbalized version of these labels transforms information into an undulating auditory atmosphere for the artworks and the viewers, calling attention to the institutional, educational, contemplative, social, historical, and architectural contexts of the museum experience.

There will be four performances; at each one, I'll be accompanied by an art historian and two MCA docents. Here are the dates and the participating art historians:

Saturday February 16, 1PM, with Simon Anderson
Sunday March 10, 1PM, with David Getsy
Sunday April 7, 1PM, with Lisa Wainwright
Sunday June 2, 1PM, with Hannah Higgins

                                                                                            video by MIlad Mozari

Participating MCA docents and staff include Raymond Vasiukevicius, Maureen Mizwicki, Eddie Urzua and Yolanda Cursach. Very special thanks to Sandra Binion for brilliant understudy pinch-hitting!

Special thanks to Heidi Reitmaier and Susan Musich of the MCA, to Tatsu Aoki, and to Milad Mozari.

Jeff Carter's Construction N

I just completed the sound for Chicago artist Jeff Carter's Construction N, one of several new pieces that he's made from hacked IKEA parts, based on early Russian Constructivist sculptures.  He's having a show of these pieces in Valencia, Spain, in January.

Peers live

On November 13, Peers was performed live by twelve readers at the Chicago Cultural Center.  This iteration of Peers was commissioned by Industry of the Ordinary for their exhibition at the Cultural Center, Sic Transit Gloria Mundi.  There were two performances at noon and 6PM.  Peers is a choral reading of everything Lee Harvey Oswald said from the moment of Kennedy's assassination to the moment of Oswald's assassination.  It was originally produced as a sound installation, and there's an audio file of the complete text on an earlier post on this blog.  

Many thanks to the readers:
  Kristen Magee
    Brandon Ross
      Ed Herrmann
        Ben Chaffee
          Dan Mohr
            Rebecca Kressley
              Audrey Flegel
                Samantha Topol
                  Tyshuan Lang
                    Anthony Apodaca
                      Kate Joyce
                        Amelia Ishmael
                          Lou Mallozzi

                                                                            photo by Mark Booth

                                                                                              video by Milad Mozari

And many thanks also to Adam Brooks and Mathew Wilson of Industry of the Ordinary, to Greg Lunceford and the Chicago Cultural Center staff, to Richard Cahan, and to Milad Mozari.

Perspectives on Arts Integration

On November 8, I took part in a talk at the Chicago Artists' Coalition Gallery, Perspectives on Arts Integration.  Sponsored by CAPE (Community Arts Partnerships in Education), it was structured as a conversation between Canadian arts educator Robert Vanier and me, coinciding with the opening of CAPE's exhibition of some remarkable student work at the gallery.  Subsequently, I've conducted the first professional development workshop for 15 teachers and artists embarking on a new three-year integrative arts education project organized by CAPE in four Chicago public schools, in which contemporary music and sound art practice will be integrated with core curriculum academic studies.

Multimodal Approaches to Learning International Conference

I was invited to participate in the Multimodal Approaches to Learning International Conference, sponsored by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Art Beyond Sight in New York, October 26-28, 2012.  I presented documentation and descriptions of the three iterations of my piece Outpost as a way to investigate ways that the amplified voice impacts public and institutional space through naming, redundancy and surveillance.  Also on the same panel were sound artists Stephen Vitiello and Bruce Odland.