- This event has passed.
Art: Ben Durham and Robert Beatty, Institute 193
December 23, 2012 @ 8:00 pm
Sunday, December 23rd, 2012 Ben Durham and Robert Beatty will debut their collaborative sound performance, Heather (dictated text) at Lexington, Kentucky’s Institute 193 at 8 pm.
In the gallery Beatty will create a live processed sound improvisation based on the cassette tape recording while Durham recites the text in front of an audience for the first time. Beatty’s extensive manipulation of the tape and treatment of the recorded voice as pure sound re-imagines how we transmit and receive information and what we lose in the process. Just as Durham’s drawings are constructed layer upon layer out of written text, his voice is buried under its own sound, creating an experience where narrative is examined yet obscured. This multidimensional experience of image, sound, and voice, all drawn from the same source, will be the first in a series of performances at galleries and museums in Chicago, New York, and Richmond, VA.