Saturday April 29, 7pm ET
Artist Talk: Kamari Carter
In conversation with Julian Day
Followed by a live sound performance
In Person & Live-streamed
Admission is free
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Microscope is very pleased to present an artist talk and performance with Kamari Carter in connection with his current solo exhibition of works “Phantom Power” at the gallery. Carter will be joined in the conversation by his fellow artist and frequent collaborator Julian Day.
The discussion will center around the videos and sound installations on view by Carter, which together can be seen as invitations to ask oneself whose narratives and voices are typically heard and how that reflects upon systems of control and oppression in the United States. Their relationship to recurrent themes of Carter’s works such as Americana, propaganda, policing, and eavesdropping/listening will also be addressed.
A 15 minute live-processed sound performance by Carter follows the talk. He will perform three tracks from an unreleased sound compilation “A Year In Half,” including Black, Baby Monitor and Lemonade.
The in-person event will also be live-streamed on this page.
“Phantom Power” continues through Saturday May 13. Further information about the exhibition can be found HERE
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Kamari Carter (b. 1992) is a New York-based artist working primarily with sound, video, installation, and performance. His practice circumvents materiality and familiarity through a variety of recording and amplification techniques to investigate notions such as space, systems of identity, oppression, control, and surveillance. Driven by the probative nature of perception, Carter’s work seeks to expand narrative structures through sonic stillness. His work has been exhibited at Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Museum, Providence, RI; Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ; Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY; Wave Hill, New York; Fridman Gallery, New York; and Automata Arts, Los Angeles, among others, and has been featured in publications including Artnet, Flash Art, Precog Magazine, and Whitewall, among others. Carter holds a BFA in Music Technology from California Institute of the Arts and an MFA in Sound Art from Columbia University.
Julian Day is an artist, composer and writer based in New York. Day’s work frames sound as a social and civic practice that reveals hidden power dynamics by stealth. This plays out in individual artworks – performance, sculpture, installation and video – and in ongoing projects such as Super Critical Mass in which ephemeral communities form to articulate public spaces. Day has presented work at Tate Modern, Whitechapel Gallery, MASS MoCA, Jewish Museum, Fridman Gallery, Wallach Art Gallery, Microscope Gallery, California Pacific Triennial, Asia Pacific Triennial, Australian Biennial of Australian Art, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Institute of Modern Art and Artspace. Their music has featured at Bang On A Can Marathon, MATA, Spitalfields Music Festival, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and MONA FOMA performed by Australian String Quartet, Ensemble Offspring, TILT Brass, Decibel, Lisa Moore and Zubin Kanga. Day has presented and produced many programs on ABC and BBC radio, interviewing such artists as Laurie Anderson, Vito Acconci, Pauline Oliveros and Ryoji Ikeda. They have given presentations at Harvard University, New York University and Goldsmiths and published with The MIT Press and Cambridge University Press. They have studied at Columbia University, University of Oxford and Yale University. More info at www.julianday.com