Kabir Carter
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Space and Body is an ongoing investigation of two parallel creative histories: sound in the visual arts, and the presentation of underground dance music in social dancing establishments. While developing separately in nineteen seventies New York City, these two borderless forms of cultural production generated individuated responses to changes in acoustic technology and leisure culture in the financially derelict post industrial landscape of late twentieth century America. Through a series of lecture presentations that are read through music and other sound samples documenting sound works and related experimental music, overlaps are explored between these two equally intensive considerations and elaborations upon the understanding of states of listening, relationships between sound and architecture, and the effects of listening to continuous sound-in-space over extended durations of time. Supplementary presentations of Space and Body forgo lecturing and instead attempt to read these contiguous sonic histories primarily through music and sound samples. Elements from Space and Body have been presented at the Public School New York, CTM.11 – #Live!? in Berlin, and as part of the Working Group for Sound in the Expanded Field in Istanbul. The Public School New York description Images: Max Neuhaus, Round, 1976; Richard Long Associates tweeter array; Alex Rosner holding "Rosie" mixer; "Rosie" mixer; Bernhard Leitner, Hand-Ton-Objekte, 1975 ; Paradise Garage c. 1980; Max Neuhaus installing Times Square.