Matana Roberts
05 - 09 Aug 2015
MATANA ROBERTS
I Call America
5 - 9 August 2015
Throughout the summer of 2015, Chicago–born, New York City–based sound experimentalist Matana Roberts has been engaged in a series of open-ended public explorations as part of an extended residency. She has titled this series of research-based sound excavations i call america, building on the title of the Whitney's inaugural exhibition, America Is Hard to See.
After a live improvisation on June 4 in which she addressed No Title (1969–70) by Eva Hesse, Roberts revisited the Whitney's galleries on July 19 for three focused, improvisatory happenings. From August 5 to 9, she builds on these explorations, experimenting with new material combining sound, video, and visual scores during a five-day open studio in the theater. These actions will culminate in the creation of a large-scale project to be presented this winter, which will question, in Roberts’s words, “the perplexities of what it means to be American in the twenty-first century.”
Matana Roberts: i call america is organized by Jay Sanders, Curator and Curator of Performance, and Greta Hartenstein, Curatorial Assistant.
Major support for the Whitney’s Performance Program is provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Generous support is also provided by the Performance Committee of the Whitney Museum of American Art.
I Call America
5 - 9 August 2015
Throughout the summer of 2015, Chicago–born, New York City–based sound experimentalist Matana Roberts has been engaged in a series of open-ended public explorations as part of an extended residency. She has titled this series of research-based sound excavations i call america, building on the title of the Whitney's inaugural exhibition, America Is Hard to See.
After a live improvisation on June 4 in which she addressed No Title (1969–70) by Eva Hesse, Roberts revisited the Whitney's galleries on July 19 for three focused, improvisatory happenings. From August 5 to 9, she builds on these explorations, experimenting with new material combining sound, video, and visual scores during a five-day open studio in the theater. These actions will culminate in the creation of a large-scale project to be presented this winter, which will question, in Roberts’s words, “the perplexities of what it means to be American in the twenty-first century.”
Matana Roberts: i call america is organized by Jay Sanders, Curator and Curator of Performance, and Greta Hartenstein, Curatorial Assistant.
Major support for the Whitney’s Performance Program is provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Generous support is also provided by the Performance Committee of the Whitney Museum of American Art.