ON SOUND & ARCHITECTURE
Discussion / Live Performance / Video Installation / App Release / Bake Sale / New Works / Unlimited Edition Poster Release
Sunday, May 17
2–9pm
William S. Burroughs frequently explored the intersection of sound, technology, and physical space, viewing them as instruments for both control and liberation. He understood “architecture” not only as built form, but as a larger system shaping perception, language, media, and behavior. Sound, in turn, becomes a disruptive force capable of interfering with and reconfiguring these systems.
GULFF will premiere the video for their new single “the rumo(u)r),” built from field recordings and news reports surrounding noise generated by AI data centers. The work will be embedded within an installation incorporating crowdsourced videos recorded by residents living near these facilities.
B. Wurtz will perform songs in dialogue with works in the exhibition, beginning in front of D’Addario’s projected logo, referencing the guitar string company that once occupied these office spaces.
Bryce Hackford will perform Common Concern, a solo audiovisual work using the two ends of a video conference call as instrument and processor.
Ardalan SadeghiKivi develops a new iteration of his project Playback for The Gallery, in which HVAC recordings are interpolated into vowels and looped back through the room and its window shutters, alongside a talk on corporate soundscapes and biloquism—the thrown, ownerless voice that haunts Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland and later resurfaces in William S. Burroughs's cut-and-loop tape experiments.
Lucas Blalock will be selling cookies.
Asmite Gherezgiher will present Bombon, an unfinished tender gesture.
quasimatt presents Meeting (Shake), 2026, iPhone application, social conditions, variable duration.
“People shaking their phones together is a small architecture. Inside it, guards lower and a conversation begins.”
The Gallery will release the unlimited edition WeWork (oralmoral) exhibition poster conceived and designed by Anna K.E. ($25 each).
