thru Jan 17:
“One Cycle Ahead”
Daniel Neumann and Juan Betancurth
Fridman Gallery, 287 Spring St., NYC
Performance: Friday, January 9, 7-9pm
Closing performance: Friday, January 16, 8-10pm
Neumann’s intermedia practice is mostly focused on sound, sound material and its modulation through space with temporal operations. Betancurth's mixed media works act as loaded metaphors, inviting viewers to decode each object. After spending a month in residency at the Queens Museum of Art in September 2013, Juan Betancurth had invited Daniel Neumann to collaborate on an intimate performance installation inside his studio. Neumann had been collecting speaker objects, which were selected and spatially arranged by Betancurth with the moment of acoustic action in mind. An important consideration was to choose and present the objects in a way that they enter an ontological space that is ambivalent, so that the objects won't easily reveal themselves as just loudspeakers, but gain potential meaning in other directions. Presented with Wave Farm.