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EXHIBITIONS IN A BOX Compact exhibitions that generate expansive ideas

WITH HIDDEN NOISE Curated by Stephen Vitiello

ICI's series of Exhibitions in a Box celebrates the fact that interesting projects can come in small parcels, and takes its lead from initiatives such as Marcel Duchamp's Boîte-en-valise and George Maciunas' Fluxkits. Charged with a do-it-yourself imperative, each Exhibitions in a Box provides source material from which venues can generate high-content, low-cost exhibitions, adapting and adding to the materials provided according to the space and facilities available. These projects are suitable for all scales of institution, from libraries and artist-run spaces, to art centers, university galleries, museum project spaces, or education centers. Each box will arrive with materials ready to install, requiring little or no equipment for presentation. The projects are conceived to Marcel Duchamp, With Hidden Noise, 1916. 2011 stimulate discussions and events, to be organized Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, by the host venue. Virtually any configuration is Paris/Succession Marcel Duchamp. possible: for example, the box contents may be added to with contributions from the host venue's collections and archives, or can be the starting point for an exhibition that presents local artists' practices in relation to a broader art issue or event.

ICI’s newest Exhibition in a Box, With Hidden Noise is an exploration of sound art that seeks to ask gallery and museum visitors to spend time listening with ears they may not know they had… Titled after Marcel Duchamp’s ready-made of a ball of string containing a mysterious sound- making object hidden in its folds, this exhibition brings together evocative sounds, some recognizable from traditional instruments and field recordings, and others masked through electronic processes.

With Hidden Noise is curated by Stephen Vitiello, an artist who has worked with sound for over 20 years, transforming anodyne noises into compelling soundscapes. He has often collaborated with preeminent musicians and visual artists, and has curated several sound and media programs such as the Sound Art component to the Whitney Museum’s exhibition The American Century: Art and Culture 1950-2000.

Featured artists include legendary composer Pauline Oliveros as well as Steve Roden, Andrea Parkins and the project’s curator, Stephen Vitiello. Sound art has a long Installation view of Stephen Vitiello’s More Songs About Buildings and Bells at Museum 52, New York, 2011

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lineage that can be traced back to the Futurist manifesto and through to subsequent movements and genres, such as Fluxus conceptual art, performance art, up to the most recent artistic uses of the latest developments in new technologies. Over the last 15 years, a number of larger survey shows have tracked this history, but With Hidden Noise make an understanding and experiencing of sound art accessible to a wider range of venues.

This self-contained sound art exhibition pairs down the installation scale to a single set of surround sound speakers (5 speakers plus a subwoofer) adaptable to a broad range of spaces, allowing for many presentation possibilities. Also included, are a number of books and catalogs on contemporary sound art that may be distributed around the gallery for those who would like to read more as they listen. A further reading list, videography, and programming suggestions are also provided by the curator, making this exhibition as adaptable and expandable as desired.

Artists include: Taylor Deupree Jennie C. Jones Pauline Oliveros Andrea Parkins Steve Peters Steve Roden Michael J. Schumacher Stephen Vitiello

Basic facts: Participation fee: $500 per week, $1,500 for 4 weeks, $3,000 for 10 weeks, plus incoming and outgoing shipping from New York City Space required: extremely flexible Available dates: April 2011 through December 2013

About the guest curator: Stephen Vitiello is a sound and media artist, whose sound installations have been presented internationally both in public spaces and museums. Most recent examples include A Bell For Every Minute, a site- specific project commissioned by Creative Time for the High Line in New York (2010); and Tall Grasses, a solo exhibition at the Salina Art Center, Salina, Kansas (2010). Stephen has collaborated extensively, working with such artists as Tony Oursler, Julie Mehretu, Joan Jonas, Steve Roden, Nam June Paik and Scanner. Originally from New York, Stephen is now based in Richmond, VA where he is on the faculty of Kinetic Imaging at Virginia Commonwealth University.

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