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Lex Leifheit at 860-685-2806 or lleifheit@wesleyan.edu.
“SOL
LEWITT AND ALVIN LUCIER: A COLLABORATION”
ON VIEW AT WESLEYAN’S ZILKHA
GALLERY JAN 21—FEB 27, 2005E
Free Events Explore Conceptual Art & Experimental Music
Through Exhibition, Performance and Discussion
Middletown, CT, January
3, 2005–Nina Felshin, curator of Wesleyan University’s
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, is pleased to announce
its new exhibition, Sol LeWitt and Alvin Lucier: A Collaboration,
on view from Saturday, January 22 through Sunday, February
27, 2005. World-renowned originator of conceptual art LeWitt
presents a large-scale sculpture that extends the length
of Zilkha’s Main Gallery. Lucier, longtime Wesleyan
Professor of Music and a pioneering force behind the development
and practice of experimental music, composes a new installation
exploring the sound of an empty gallery at six points along
LeWitt’s wall.
Alvin
Lucier’s Empty Vessels (1997) will also
be presented. Originally commissioned in 1997, Empty Vessels
will be re-oriented to explore the resonant characteristics
of Zilkha's North Gallery. Microphones inserted into the mouths
and necks of eight green glass flasks, vases and melon
jars correspond to eight loudspeakers along the corridor leading
to the Gallery. As visitors walk toward the vessels the motions
of their bodies disturb strands of feedback, causing ripples
of sound.
The public is invited to attend an exhibition reception on
Friday, January 21 from 5pm to 7pm. Andrea Miller-Keller, internationally-acclaimed
curator of contemporary art (2000 Whitney Biennial, Wadsworth
Atheneum), will give a talk at on January 21st at 5:30 pm. LeWitt
and Lucier will be in attendance. The Zilkha Gallery is located
at 283 Washington Terrace on Wesleyan’s campus in Middletown.
In conjunction with the exhibition two additional events,
both free and open to the public, are scheduled in early February:
Exploring the Music of Alvin Lucier, a Wesleyan Music
Department Colloquium, takes place on Wednesday, February 2
at 4 pm in the Center for the Arts Music Studios (room 301).
Moderator Christopher Burns is Assistant Professor of Composition
and Technology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and
an expert on Lucier’s music.
I am sitting in a room (1969), a live performance
of Lucier’s legendary work will take place in Zilkha Gallery
on Saturday, February 5 at 7pm. Heard mostly as a recording
during the past 35 years, this live event offers a unique opportunity
to participate in the process of its making. This seminal work
has influenced generations of experimental musicians and sound
artists as well as many Wesleyan alumni, some of whose works
will be heard following Lucier’s. Among them are composers
Nicolas Collins (MA '76), Judy Dunaway (MA '00), James Fei (MA
'99) and Adjunct Professor Ron Kuivila (BA ’77), with
introductory remarks by Chris Mann.
Admission to the these events is free, however, tickets for
I am sitting in a room can be obtained in advance by calling
the box office on the day of the performance. More information
and directions are available by calling the box office at (860)
685-3355 or visiting www.wesleyan.edu/cfa.
The Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery is located within Wesleyan
University’s Center for the Arts. The CFA is an 11-building
complex on the Wesleyan campus that houses the departments of
art and art history, music, theater and dance. It serves as
a cultural center for the region, the state and New England.
The CFA also includes the 400-seat Theater, the 260-seat Cinema,
the World Music Hall (a non-Western performance space), and
the 414-seat Crowell Concert Hall.
Box Office Phone: (860) 685-3355
Box Office Fax: (860) 685-3935
E-mail: boxoffice@wesleyan.edu
Address: Wesleyan University Box Office, 222
Church Street, Middletown, CT 06459-0001
*Performers and schedule are subject to change.
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