The free movement of bodies and objects for these intermedial scripts and German artist Raphael Sbrzesny’s Translation is also a theme in Italian- Arabic, were instructed to perform the Hong Kong artist Samson Young ’s Muted while his future father-in-law played a on sound’s potential to communicate Emma Dusong, Your Voice (November 2013) [Excerpt] Tinos Quarry Platform is a forum for once considered critical for the smooth instructions can be found in the Castel Volturno (2010) stages an homage Canadian artist Francesco Gagliardi’s songs as though they were traditional love Situations (2014) similarly challenge modified version of Johann Sebastian across geographically separated spaces. functioning of contemporary art now “event scores” that emerged alongside to those who have tried and failed in single-channel video Translation #6: songs. Abidin thus highlights asymmetries notions of cultural interiority and Bach’s Prelude No. 1 in C major (1722). Moxley, an American artist who travels Your voice is made of many layers. contemporary art operating an artist-in-residence appears increasingly uncertain in an era conceptual art and the “dematerialized” their efforts to cross borders, focusing on Shuang Shuang Yan (2009). The work between linguistic access and regimes authority in a postcolonial context. The In Wang’s multichannel sound work, each extensively, will be stationed in Athens First some light-colored grains, marked by new forms of nationalism, practices of the 1960s and 70s. Here these the economically depressed eponymous documents an event in which the artist of representation through the act of series consists of twenty “text scores” of the nine professional musicians was during the opening of Reassembly. then a denser extra layer. program located on the island of Tinos, Greece. xenophobia, and economic isolationism. forms point not only to a formal fluidity Italian township located just north invited an extended Chinese-Canadian musical retranslation. that, according to Young, “re-prioritize asked to adhere as closely as possible to She will begin her performance in Athens The whole, sheathed in a breath. Indeed, many artists working in this between media, but also broadly reflect a of Naples. The single channel video family in Toronto to a dinner party in certain sound layers” of performances, her cassette tape, attending to the various by playing back sounds she has collected You retract your tongue slightly, TQP invites participants from Greece and environment have found it difficult or contemporary state of hyperconnected depicts the artist wading into the sea order to collaboratively translate into actions, and events. Included here are imperfections of the duet recorded with from some of her many border crossings, but, upon utterance, I understand what you say. impossible to cross once unquestionably global isolation. while repeatedly striking a drum. This English a popular Chinese song from the Raphael Sbrzesny Castel Volturno (2010) Muted Classical Quartet 消音弦樂四重 her brother. Through her iterative island visits, and locations that signify I hear the smile in your voice abroad to work on a range of artistic and cultural open borders, or to ship works to and drumming, according to Sbrzesny, 1930s. The song plays on a loop in the video, 4:25 min. 奏 —a string quartet from the classical recording and transcription process, transitional movement. That sound will be and, on occasion, also its worry. from exhibitions held across a requisitely The artists featured in Reassembly draw represents “the manifold voices of background as large plates of Chinese era (composed, according to Young’s Wang thus highlights the kind of transmitted to Tinos where it will Your voice is thin, projects. Emergent synergies between artists international stage. Responding to this upon music and various digital (and migrants who, year by year, try to make food are served. Meanwhile, the family instructions, “by a European male familial intimacy—at once combine with room ambience before it delicately moves forward. crisis, Reassembly brings the work of electronic and analog) media in projects their passage across the sea to start a converse with Gagliardi and with each composer”)—and Muted Lion Dance 消 intergenerational and transcultural—that returning to Athens. Moxley’s telepresent As with all your gestures, you speak slowly, and the landscape contribute to the development artists from four continents to the Greek that traverse and transgress national new life in Italy.” Entering by the shore, other over the song’s potential meanings 音舞獅 —the artist’s variation of the often inheres through musical processes feedback loop may also invoke the work unafraid to make way for silence among the words you took time to choose. island of Tinos through a collaboration borders, cultural boundaries, linguistic the drummer marches out to sea until as the camera slowly revolves around a traditional Chinese custom wherein of pedagogical transmission. of experimental composers like Maryanne The end of your phrases marks a pause. of networks that include both local and between artist, composer, and theorist delimitations, temporal markers, and fully submerged. large circular table. But Gagliardi, who is performers mimic the movements of a Amacher, who beginning in 1968 used Discreetly you catch your breath. G Douglas Barrett, artist Petros Touloudis, other lines of demarcation. Yet rather himself an immigrant and a non-native lion in sync with percussive drumming. A different sense of intimacy can be sound to connect different spaces in her Your voice moves forward and backwards according to what you say. international audiences while opening the Tinos Quarry Platform, and the than converging on stable definitions of Another form of ambulatory musicality English speaker, deliberately eschews On the one hand, the classical string found in Emma Dusong ’s Ta voix (2013), City Links series. Here Moxley appends When it advances it looks as if it’s strolling on level ground. Cultural Foundation of Tinos. terms like music and media , formally is found in Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec’s any sense of a cultural or linguistic quartet is defamiliarized by uncovering a work that consists of two large white further lines of transversal to her network When it steps back, it climbs a sonorous hill, toward the end of each phrasing. the space to a wider public. these artworks share with their content Reading Stanley Brouwn (2015-16), an center. Through a series of negotiations, incidental (“non-musical”) sounds and pillows containing implanted headphone of aurally entangled spaces. Adel Abidin Three Love Songs (2010) The artists included in this exhibition a sense of openness and fluidity. installation that reinterprets a book hesitations, slippages, and shared choreographical gestures often unique to speakers. The viewer is invited to hold We Still Have the Patience, Father of Two incorporate themes of transnationalism Nevertheless these artists engage a publication by Dutch conceptual artist uncertainties, he reveals translation as a each string player’s sense of musicality. each pillow on either side of her/his Lions, Enter It! (video, 9:48) and globality in works made through number of distinct yet interrelated fields: Stanley Brouwn (1935-2017) entitled contingent process that recalls, perhaps, On the other, Young contrasts the head, as illustrated in the accompanying a variety of digitally portable media art and music history, ethnomusicology, my steps 12.12.2005 – 1.1.2006 (2014). what anthropologist Georgina Born has collectively produced lion dance with a photographs, such that the speakers are (video, photography, sound, text) and urban studies, cultural anthropology, Brouwn’s book consists of twenty-one termed “social improvisation.” reference to the musical tradition that heard in stereo. The sound transmitted through practices of scoring, notating, postcolonial studies, and continental pages, each containing a date and the has historically consolidated authorship via the speakers is the artist’s own voice, and scripting that formally relate to the philosophy. Together their work speaks to number of steps the artist walked that day, Artist Adel Abidin uses the vernacular almost exclusively to European men. which describes another voice that musical score. Deracinated from music, the issues of immigration, spatial mobility, covering a total of twenty-one days. In song to subversively retranslate Iraqi belonged to a person who has passed the score nevertheless suggests, in this national identity, political economy, Sambolec’s re-reading, the artist recorded history and its cultural representations Continuing a similar thread, Taiwanese away. The voice, Dusong says, “carries instance, an ability to cross spatial and gender, sexuality, and cultural hybridity each step of a similar series of walks (in through the idioms of Western popular artist Hong-Kai Wang , in her sound its own disappearance.” Dusong’s work temporal boundaries through its virtual through a range of artistic methodologies. a different location) in real time using a music. In Three Love Songs (2010) Abidin Francesco Gagliardi Translation #6: installation The Broken Orchestra (2007), begins with the ostensibly solipsistic or immaterial status. Other precedents digital tracking device. In his installation created music videos for propaganda Shuang Shuang Yan (2009) asked nine musicians to individually gesture of covering one’s head with G Douglas Barrett Sambolec re-encodes each step as a single songs commissioned by Saddam Hussein video, 48:34 min. recreate a twentythree year old cassette pillows, perhaps as a way of blocking out tick emitted by an electronically modified during his time as president of Iraq. tape recording of her brother and herself the world during a time of mourning. analog metronome that operates on a The songs are arranged in three different performing French composer Charles Yet the viewer receives not comfort from matching timeline. That is, the twenty- musical styles: 1960s lounge, 1920s jazz, Gounod’s 1853 Méditation sur le Premier silence but a sense of disquiet as one voice Participating one days of Sambolec’s walks correspond and contemporary pop. Each of the three Prélude de Piano de S. Bach , a well- solemnly points to another’s passing. directly to the work as one experiences corresponding videos features a young known setting of the Latin text Ave Maria. Emma Dusong Ta voix (2013) artists: it during the exhibition. Ultimately, the female singer staged in an atmosphere Ironically, Gounod’s work is itself In Alyssa Moxley ’s Sound Entangled pillows, headphones, ipod, photos Adel Abidin, G Douglas Barrett, Sari Carel, viewer witnesses a kind of cybernetic characteristic of the respective era. The a transcription of the melodic Spaces (2017), the artist exhibits Samson Young Muted Situations (2014) Emma Dusong, Dora Economou, Francesco reincarnation of Brouwn, digitally songs are sung in an Iraqi dialect of improvisation the composer performed another kind of passing, here focusing text score (not shown), performance, two videos, Gagliardi, Giorgos Koumendakis, Alyssa retranslated as the artist’s own Arabic. Yet while the video is subtitled in Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec Muted Classical Quartet, video, 17:10 min. Moxley, Melody Nixon, Lena Platonos, Tao metronome-marked footsteps. English, the performers, who do not speak Reading Stanley Brouwn (2015-16) Muted Lion Dance, video, 7:21 min. G. Vrhovec Sambolec, Raphael Sbrzesny, book, modified metronome, table Petros Touloudis, Samson Young, and The work of Hong Kong artist Samson Young combines materials from musical modernism with strategies adopted from Hong-Kai Wang. contemporary art to address themes of transnationalism and postcolonial identity. His work has appeared in the Venice Biennale,

Art Basel Hong Kong, the Darmstadt Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, and Team Gallery (New York). Young has received Curated by: G Douglas Barrett degrees from the University of Sydney and Princeton. and Petros Touloudis Berlin-based German artist Raphael Sbrzesny studied visual art, composition, and percussion in Stuttgart, Paris, Munich, Interdisciplinary artist Francesco Gagliardi works across the areas of performance, film, video, theater, and writing. Frequently Artist Hong-Kai Wang lives between Vienna and Taipei, and she is currently a PhD in Practice candidate at the Academy of Fine Arts in and Bern. His work, which combines performance, video, installation, and sculpture, has been exhibited in institutions such as the collaborating with experimental music performers and composers, his work addresses issues of memory, remediation, and translation. Vienna. Incorporating sound, text, video, installation, and participatory workshops, Wang’s work addresses issues around postcolonial Kunstmuseum Stuttgart and the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden. Beginning in 2017 he will be a fellow at Akademie Schloss Originally from Turin, Italy, Gagliardi is currently based in Toronto. identity, often re-using musical forms in a contemporary art context. She has exhibited in the Venice Biennale, the Arnold Schoenberg Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany. Adel Abidin was born in Baghdad and currently lives between Helsinki and Amman. His work uses video, sculpture, photography, Center, the Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto (Kumamoto, 2012), and the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art. Alyssa Moxley Sound Entangled Spaces (2017) performance, sound installation Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec, originally from Ljubljana, Slovenia, is an artist and researcher currently based in Amsterdam. and sound to explore relationships between identity, art, and politics. A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Baghdad and the Emma Dusong is a French artist and theorist based in Paris. In her intermedial art practice, she works extensively with the voice as Hong-Kai Wang The Broken Orchestra (2007) With a background in visual art and music, he studied at The Royal Conservatory in The Hague, and recently completed a fellowship Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki, he has exhibited at MoMA, the Venice Biennale, the Cairo Biennial, the Guangzhou Triennial, both a material and subject matter through sculpture, sound installation, and performance. She has exhibited in the Centre Pompidou, multi-channel sound installation https://tinosquarryplatform.com/ at the Bergen Academy of Arts and Design (KHiB), within the Norwegian Artistic Research Fellowship Programme. and the New Museum. the Palais de Tokyo, and the Laleh June Galerie. Catalogue text and artist bios: G Douglas Barrett Exploring a related form of spatial Ghawaraneh tribe. But since no artifacts Greatest Misses (2017) Economou points G Douglas Barrett ’s What is the in his Two Poems (1980), a set of two pure artifice. Beginning with a close up English to Greek translations: Effie Basdra, Trisevgeni Papadakou biography, author and artist Melody were left to conserve following the to competing layers of cerebral and Sound of One Flag Burning? (2017) is graphic scores for orchestra displayed of a slowly undulating tide, the camera “Ta Voix” text translations: Mirto Digoni Nixon ’s Alien #0594039587 (2017) forced depopulation of the Ghawaraneh somatic labor involved in paper folding a collaborative vinyl record project here as eight framed excerpts. Like gradually zooms out over the course consists of a prompt instructing viewers villages, Carel’s sculptures—included here practices through references to gendered that combines political demonstration works by Cornelius Cardew, John Cage, of the eleven minute video to reveal a Special thanks to: the Mayor and the Municipal Board of Tinos, Isternia President Iakovos Malakates, and Alexios Papazacharias. to redact portions of the US “Immigration are Earth and Sky, Brief nos. 8 (Sitting embodiment. Economou stages a series of with philosophical reflection on sound Iannis Xenakis, and Sylvano Bussotti, small aquatic set Touloudis constructed and Nationality Act” and the “Rights and Mat) 9 (An Instrument for Cleaning), large-scale folded paper works stretching recording technology. In 2016 the artist Koumendakis’s score defines not precise in a courtyard. The Mediterranean, The Board of the Cultural Foundation of Tinos, President: Nikolaos Diamantakis, Vice-president: Eleftheria Deko, Secretery: Vassilios Responsibilities of a Green Card Holder” and 12 (External Wall) —provide only a across the floor of the gallery, which, created an audio recording of a public flag pitches and durations as with traditionally Touloudis’s mise-en-scène suggests, flows Karpetas, Treasurer: Ioannis Davios, Board members: Georgios Koumendakis, Stavros Maniatakos, Marina Xypolitidou, Head of Secretary: as displayed on two overhead projectors. speculative reconstruction of a body of according to the artist, “takes up almost as burning in response to rising neonational notated music but allows for a range both in and through its representations. Markos Vidalis, Technical management and lighting: George Fotopoulos, Technical assistant: Michael Koukovinis, Guided tours and Nixon, who often works with American cultural knowledge forced into extinction. much space as the spread out surface of sentiment in the US and in light of then of possible musical interpretations. exhibition guard: Athina Petkovits, Reception: Ioanna Vidali, Aggeliki Psarrou, Technologies of the Information: Filippos Rotsetis immigrant populations in her pedagogical my skin would.” Economou describes the president-elect’s threat to imprison those With each performance such a score G Douglas Barrett What is the Sound practice, is herself a New Zealand-born In her electronic music compositions, process of learning origami techniques responsible for a similar event. The receives a new sounding life. In Two of One Flag Burning? (2017) Cultural Foundation of Tinos 84 200, Tinos, Cyclades, Greece +3022830 24742-3 [email protected] / www.itip.gr immigrant to the US. Her work encodes Greek musician Lena Platonos unites by watching YouTube tutorials, noting Melody Nixon Alien # 0594039587 (2017) project suggests a double homage: firstly, Poems, although instruments are defined, performance, video (4:09 min.), vinyl record literary and artistic forms through a political concerns for contemporary that such videos typically isolate the performance, text, installation to American artist Dread Scott’s 1988 Koumendakis provides no instructions rubric of political engagement. Here urban issues, including migration, with tutor’s hands thus obscuring gender. What is the Proper Way to Display a US or legend for reading the various forms Nixon’s prompt recalls the text score personal narratives of love and loss. Her In the context of Reassembly ’s focus on Flag?, a work that invited participants of indeterminate notation. Given only a compositions of experimental music, watershed 1985 LP, Gallop, for example, musicality, Economou’s work recalls to step on an American flag and which visual representation of the music, here while her redacted text refers to the includes vocalized commentary on Fluxus artist and composer Ben Patterson prompted President Bush Senior’s the spectator alone becomes responsible literary practice of erasure poetry. By “Rumanian Immigrants” set against her whose paper-based performances support of legislation that subsequently for imagining the sounding result. Dora Economou Her Greatest Misses (2017) displaying and inviting public revisions characteristic synth pop textures and invoked issues around race within a prohibited such acts. Secondly, the The poetry of Two Poems is thus found paper (variable dimensions) to these documents, with which customs electronic dance beats. The album, highly Eurocentric artistic movement. project alludes to Iannis Xenakis’s 1958 not in literary meaning but in the and immigrations officers routinely Platonos notes, was composed in the Here Economou similarly reinscribes the work Concrete PH, a musique concrète suggestive aurality of the page and its confront immigrants upon arrival in wake of a painful breakup, an event the (gendered) body through the geometric composition that consists entirely of musical markings. the US, Nixon domesticates and reworks composer channelled into broader social folds of her contoured white surfaces. the sound of a single burning ember. tools otherwise used for the domination and political commentary. According to Invoking musique concrète composer Reassembly co-curator Petros Touloudis’s and control of already marginalized Platonos, Gallop stands as “a study in the Pierre Schaeffer’s notion of acousmatics A Study for “Mediterranean Desert” (2012) migrant populations. mythology of urban population of the —wherein recordings are imagined as layers the artificial and the natural by contemporary metropolis and also a gaze capable of removing all reference to a reflecting upon the Mediterranean and With a different perspective on a similar into the future life of it.” Such a study sound’s source—the project asks: to what the long history of cultures shaped by

thread, Israeli-American artist Sari ultimately represents only a fraction Sari Carel Earth and Sky (2017) extent can sound reliably evidence acts its ebb and flow. Responding to Carel uses zoology and ornithology as of Platonos’s monumental output Brief no. 8 (Sitting Mat); Brief no. 9 (An Instrument for of transgression? Side A features Barrett’s Koumendakis’s Mediterranean Desert

Design: wearestillbb.com tools for excavating the endangered and as an electronic musician, which has Clean-ing); Brief no. 12 (External Wall), Oil on wood, original flag-burning recording while (1998-2000), a piano cycle meditation sometimes extinct histories of human been largely overlooked outside of a photograph, watercolor, pigment, and pencil on paper, Side B consists of two original works on the flora and fauna specific to the migration. Carel’s Migration: Earth and Greek context. handmade rope (Tobacco and Oil) by Reassembly artist Mediterranean, Touloudis attempts Sky (2017) is a multifaceted intermedia Samson Young. to capture a sense of movement and Giorgos Koumendakis Two Poems (1980) project that unites disparate bodies of The work of Greek artist Dora Economou time endemic to the region through graphic score artistic, anthropological, and scientific speaks to culturally and geographically Lena Platonos Gallop (1985) Greek composer Giorgos Koumendakis the repetitive movement of a wave. Yet research around the Hula Valley region specific representations of gender electronic music album, video, draws from the legacy of twentieth what appears initially as a naturalistic of northern Israel. These include data and feminism. Economou broadly 33:16 min. century graphic notation practices image of the ocean is later shown to be analyses of bird migration patterns, an combines modernist European sculptural accompanying audio diary, and a series of practices with influences ranging from “research sculptures” that provide partial the “women’s work” movement of the reconstructions of the craft work found 1970s to the kinds of paper folding in the pre-Zionist Bedouin villages of the found in Japanese origami. In Her

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Reassembly co-curator G Douglas Barrett is an artist, theorist, and occasional curator. His artistic work, which draws on his Sari Carel is an Israeli-American artist based in New York. Her work uses sculpture, video, and sound to address issues of ecology experience as a composer, has been discussed in publications like The Wire, Postmodern Culture, MusikTexte, and Guernica. His book, and identity, often through the figure of technological obsolescence. She has exhibited at the Haifa Museum of Art, Melanie Flood After Sound: Toward a Critical Music, was published in 2016 by Bloomsbury. Petros Touloudis A Study for Projects (Portland, OR), Locust Projects (Miami), and Johannes Vogt Gallery (New York). “Mediterranean Desert” (2012) Greek musician Giorgos Koumendakis has an extensive career of accomplishments as a composer of art music. Studying with Boulez, video, 10:50 min. Alyssa Moxley is an American artist working with sound and narratives of identity, place, and space. Currently, based in Greece, she The work of Greek musician Lena Platonos has been highly influential for Greek electronic music and art music beginning in the 1980s. Ligeti, and Xenakis, he was awarded the Prix de Rome prize and composed the opening and closing ceremony music for the 2004 Athens received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. A pioneer in the genre of synth pop, Platonos has composed and produced dozens of albums and EPs over the course of her artistic Olympic Games. career. Melody Nixon is a New Zealand-born author and artist living and working in the US. Her essays, criticism, fiction, and interviews have Artist and Reassembly co-curator Petros Touloudis lives between Athens and Tinos. A graduate of the Athens School of Fine Arts, appeared in BOMB Magazine, Guernica, Conjunctions, Electric Literature, Midnight Breakfast, No Dear Magazine, Gutter Magazine. Greek artist Dora Economou lives and works in Athens. Frequently working with sculpture, installation, and paper, she studied at the Touloudis works across the areas of architecture, opera, theater, and visual art (video, sculpture, installation). Between 2015 and 2017 Her artistic work has been presented at USF Bergen, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Tinos Quarry Platform, and Arte Digeribile. Academy of Fine Art, Athens, and Pratt Institute (New York). he was a fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany.