The Studio Museum in Harlem is pleased to announce its collaboration with MoMA in premiering Charles Gaines’s first, live performance of Manifestos 2 (2013). A pioneer of Conceptual art, the Los Angeles-based artist has worked with composer Sean Griffin to translate language from four influential speeches into musical notation. Using an arbitrary rule-based system that translates each letter into its corresponding musical note, Manifestos 2 establishes an altogether new relationship between the structures of language and music, and explores how the emotive properties of music affect the content and interpretation of the manifestos. For this rare performance, Griffin will conduct a nine-piece ensemble, bringing the scores to life. The performance will be followed by a conversation with Gaines and Griffin; Stuart Comer, Chief Curator, Department of Media and Performance Art, The Museum of Modern Art; and Naima J. Keith, Assistant Curator, The Studio Museum in Harlem.
Posted on: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 18:23:48 +0000
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