Thursday, August 11, 2022, 4:00-7:00pm
Artpark, occupied Haudenosaunee land (“Lewiston, NY”), in Emerald Grove
Free
Null Point concludes its summer residency at Artpark with an extended-duration participatory performance with, in, and about waters of the Niagara region. The event foregrounds on-location bodies of water, and relates them to regional, continental, and global environmental politics. The performance begins with works by Yoko Ono and Null Point’s own Megan Kyle featuring input from hydrophone immersed in the Niagara River. In the second part of the performance, a nearby creek is amplified and electronically processed in two participatory works by Null Point members: Ethan Hayden’s HaEccEity / QuiDDity examines the perceptual and political implications of quantification while Colin Tucker’s new work Babbling Brook Calming Water Sounds to Help Sleep and Relax unearths the coloniality inherent in readings of flowing water as pastoral nature. The performance closes with the premiere of a new collaboration between visual artist Hanae Utamura and Null Point, in which Null Point interprets in sound a new painting by Utamura.
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Program:
Ben Patterson, a disturbing composition (1961)
Megan Kyle, Soggy Music version for Niagara River, participants, hydrophone, and live electronics (2021)
Yoko Ono, Water Piece (1964)
Ethan Hayden, HaEccEity / QuiDDity for ambient sounds and live electronics (2017)
Colin Tucker, Babbling Brook Calming Water Sounds to Help Sleep and Relax for babbling brook, live electronics, and print materials (2022)
Hanae Utamura, “There is no blood in our flag,” performance for painting, mirror, and instruments (2022)
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A portion of the artist fee will be donated to support rematriation efforts of the traditional Gayogohó:nǫ˺ people on Gayogohó:nǫ˺ land.
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