Monday August 22nd, 7:30pm ET (doors 7:00pm)
Kamari Carter & Julian Day
To Be Held
Audio-visual performance
In-Person & Live Streamed
Microscope is very pleased to present an evening of live sound and LED installation by New York-based artists Kamari Carter and Julian Day. The event will be both performed live in the space and live-streamed at the same time, for those unable to attend on-site.
As the latest chapter in their ongoing live collaboration projection “To Be Held” by C/D (Carter and Day) — who began working together in 2020 and are fresh from an art residency at Wave Farm — the artists present an evening of audio-visual collaboration in which Carter sonically responds to the glowing words manifesting on several LED scrolling signs activated by Day in real time.
Carter’s richly ambient live score stems from compositions completed by the artist throughout 2020, which are interwoven with digital recordings of friends and family from his personal archive of voicemails. While Day’s multichromatic text-based visuals, flashing across custom LED panels mounted on a wall, focus on “2020/21’s conflictual political, protest, and pandemic-related rhetoric.”
Carter and Day’s first collaboration “Blissville” used video and LED lighting to address gentrification in the rapidly changing area of Long Island City.
The event will start promptly at 7:30pm ET.
General Admission In-person: $10
Members Admission In-person: $8
Please note: masks are required for this event.
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Kamari Carter is a producer, performer, sound designer, and installation artist primarily working with sound and found objects. Carter’s 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 and the concept of conversation and social science, he seeks to expand narrative structures through sonic stillness. Carter’s work has been exhibited at such venues as Automata Arts, MoMA, Mana Contemporary, Flux Factory, Fridman Gallery, Lenfest Center for the Arts, WaveHill and has been featured in a range of major publications including ArtNet, Precog Magazine, LevelGround and WhiteWall. 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 whose work uses sound as a social and civic practice that reveals hidden power dynamics by stealth. This plays out within individual artworks (performance, sculpture, video) and in ongoing initiatives such as Super Critical Mass, a ‘radical orchestra’ project that reimagines the musical ensemble as a participatory vehicle for interaction. Day has presented work at Tate Modern, Whitechapel Gallery, Royal Academy of Music, Cafe Oto, MASS MoCA, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art, Institute of Modern Art, Artspace, Art Gallery of South Australia and Sydney Opera House. Their work has been acquired by the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia and Orange County Museum of Art, USA and has featured in the California Pacific Triennial, Asia Pacific Triennial, Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art and Prague Quadrennial.
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Microscope’s Event Series 2021-22 is sponsored by Re:Voir, a home video label for classic and contemporary experimental film in Paris, France.
