On the occasion of ‘Calder: Nonspace,’ join Rue Bainbridge, a media art duo comprised of Gryphon Rue and Benton C Bainbridge, for a live conversation between a sound artist and a video artist. The duo will enact ‘Woolgathering Continuum,’ a living media artwork that creates a space of collective dreaming where quirks of the human hand and electricity spawn impressions of nature and abstract language.
Benton C Bainbridge’s custom video synths generate light drawings with Gryphon Rue’s saw, overtone singing, and gongs. Rue summons a polyphony of voices––at once creaturely and human. Using a hacked game console driven by modular synths, Bainbridge’s drawings reply to Rue’s sounds with evolving transformations. Glowing lines contort into arabesques and serpentine shapes. Ethereal pictures emerge from the earth-bound instruments: elemental scenes, avalanches in wintry landscapes, and rocks careening down a mountainside. Pure and synthesized tones cast an aura of suspended disbelief that is meditative, emotional, hypnotic and intense.
This event is free, however due to limited capacity, reservations are required.
