Bruce Tovsky, "Underpass" (installation and performances).
October 7: Ben Owen, Zach Layton, Michael Schumacher, sawako.
An installation (Saturdays in October) and live sound performances (8:30 p.m.) inspired by walks around and underneath the Brooklyn, Manhattan and Williamsburg bridges, the Prospect Expressway and beneath many of the elevated subway tracks around Brooklyn. Over a period of three years Tovsky has documented these locations extensively with video and has made several sets of recordings using his binaural recording rig. "Underpass" presents the video in triptych form with a gradual accretion of image and sound, ultimately pairing each section with a mirroring sound performance. "Underpass" was first presented at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn, NY, in October of 2005, with guest sound artists John Hudak on resonator guitar and laptop, and Brooks Williams on laptop. A workshop version of the "Underpass" installation was presented in November of 2005 at Tovsky?s own space, 106BLDG30, in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.