Sat 3/21 @ 1-1:30PM
Steve Parker is a Texas-based artist/musician whose bio says his work “creates sculptural ecosystems that transform spaces into large-scale collaborative performances.”
You can figure out what that means when the immersive installation Fight Song he created as artist-in-residence at SPACES opens there this Friday. He has a previous connection to Northeast Ohio: he has a degree from Oberlin College.) The exhibit, described as a participatory, evolving sound sculpture, incorporates football, marching band traditions, and sonic therapy. Salvaged band instruments hang from the ceiling and gallery visitors can interact with an EEG brain monitor that translates brainwaves into live musical compositions that reflect the exhibit’s theme of injury, healing, and labor. Material providing background for the show with be on view in an adjoining gallery. On alternate Saturdays, area performers will be in the gallery to activate the exhibit based on prompts from Parker.
This Saturday, Cleveland-based movement- and sound-based artist Marcia Custer will be doing the honors. Her bio describes her as having a penchant for both the bizarre and the sublime… rooted in feminist and queer approaches to embodiment, experimental sound, and radical community dance practice.”
It’s free and open to all, but reservations are required. Go here.