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Culminating program co-produced with Unsound celebrating the off-Site
exhibition series exploring sound and stillness in urban environments to
include architect Charles Renfro, historian Hillel Schwartz,
sound artist Jana Winderen, and writer Robert A.F. Thurman,
among many others
On October 9, the Guggenheim Museum and
Unsound—creators of the celebrated New York festival—host a
variety show of talks, performances, films, readings, statements, and
personal reflections by architects, artists, planners, scientists,
politicians, philosophers, and musicians as a finale reflecting upon the
issues explored within the five editions of the off-site exhibition series
stillspotting
nyc. Program visitors will join in a larger conversation about
how man-made environments can be reconceived, reshaped, and redesigned to
provide increased opportunities for calm and stillness, and will be invited
to revisit elements of the site-specific commissions from each of the five
New York City boroughs recreated in the Guggenheim rotunda during the
evening of the stillspotting
nyc: finale.
The program will take place in the
Peter B. Lewis Theater of the Guggenheim Museum from 7–10pm, with a
lounge—including restaged elements of stillspotting nyc
editions—held in the rotunda from 9–11pm where specialty
stillspotting cocktails will be enjoyed. View
the complete program description and buy tickets.
Program for stillspotting nyc: finale
7pm
At LAST: Between the Concert and the Wall by artist and
musician Sergei Tcherepnin (Brooklyn, NY)
7:20pm
Introductory notes by David van der Leer, Associate
Curator, Architecture and Urban Studies, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
and Lawrence Kumpf and Andy Battaglia, organizers and co-curators,
Unsound (New York, NY)
7:35pm
Sound Histories of NYC
by historian Emily Thompson (Princeton University, NJ)
7:45pm
Urban Noise and Health with health researcher Dr. Robyn Gershon
(University of California, San Francisco, CA)
7:50pm
On Tony Schwartz #1 sound collage by historian and radio DJ David
Suisman (Philadelphia, PA)
7:55pm
Professionalizing
Stillnesswith Janette Sadik-Khan, Commissioner, NYC Department
of Transportation, Sarah Williams, (Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Boston); and noise consultant and professor Eric Zwerling
(Rutgers University, NJ)
8:15pm
Water Signal by sound artist and acoustic researcher
Jana Winderen (Oslo, Norway)
8:35pm
On
Stillness by writer and academic Robert A. F. Thurman (Columbia
University, New York, NY)
9pm
On Schwartz
#2 presentation/biographical talk by historian and radio DJ
David Suisman (Philadelphia, PA)
9:10pm
The Still City? by architect Charles Renfro
(Diller Scofidio + Renfro, NYC)
9:20pm
On Schwartz
#3 sound collage by historian and radio DJ David Suisman (Philadelphia,
PA)
9:25pm
Between Language and Sound with novelist
Ben Marcus (New York, NY)
9:35pm
Sound intervention by
experimental musician Jon Mueller (Milwaukee, WI)
9:55pm
Making Noise with historian, poet, and arts consultant
Hillel Schwartz (Leucadia, CA)
9pm
Restaging of five
stillspotting nyc editions and reception
Editions of stillspotting nyc
included: Sanatorium
by visual artist Pedro Reyes in downtown Brooklyn; To
a Great City around Lower Manhattan by composer Arvo Pärt
and architectural firm Snøhetta; Transhistoria
in Jackson Heights, Queens, by architectural firm Solid Objectives
– Idenburg Liu (SO – IL); and Telettrofono
in Staten Island by sound artist Justin Bennett with poet Matthea
Harvey. The fifth and final edition, Audiogram
in the South Bronx by Improv Everywhere and audiologist Tina Jupiter,
charts the impact of noise on the hearing abilities of New Yorkers through
a unique interactive audio experience taking place October 13–14.
Learn
more about Audiogram and buy tickets.
The
stillspotting nyc finale is supported by the Royal Norwegian Consulate
General in New York. Support for stillspotting nyc is provided by
the Rockefeller Foundation NYC Opportunities Fund and a MetLife Foundation
Museum and Community Connections grant. This project is also supported in
part by the National Endowment for the Arts. The Leadership Committee for
stillspotting nyc, co-chaired by Franklin Campbell and Pamela
Samuels, is gratefully acknowledged for its support.
This event
is presented as part of Archtober: Architecture and Design Month.
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