| Tufts University Art Galleries |
| Press Preview: Coming Soon to TUAG |
| May 30, 2024 |
| Opening January 2025 |
| Impossible Music + an archive and/or a repertoire |
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On January 16, 2025, the Tufts University Art Galleries in Medford will open Impossible Music, a survey of the sonic vanguard that brings together sculptures, sounds, scores, video, and live performances to explore the radical, interdisciplinary potential of conceptual and experimental music. On view through April 20, the group exhibition features work across mediums by boundary-defying composers, artists, and collectives including Terry Adkins, Black Quantum Futurism, Nikita Gale, Sarah Hennies, Tom Johnson, Christine Sun Kim, Conlon Nancarrow, Aki Onda, and C. Spencer Yeh. First organized by ICA Pittsburgh (formerly Miller ICA), Impossible Music is curated by Forge Project Executive Director and Chief Curator Candice Hopkins and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, performer, and installation artist Raven Chacon and organized at TUAG by Dina Deitsch. Register for the VIP preview of Impossible Music here. Opening January 29 in Boston, TUAG will present an archive and/or a repertoire, exploring the liminal spaces that emerge between archives and ephemeral new media. Featuring the Mobius, Inc. Records —the administrative archive of the Boston-based Mobius Artists Group—this exhibition serves as a local laboratory for cultural place-making, delving into materials from Mobius’ experimental performances, new media projects, sound works, dances, and installations alongside embodied contributions from Mobius Artists Group members, new commissions and works by group artists Lani Asunción and Forbes Graham, as well as work by outside artists Aki Sasamoto and Takahiro Yamamoto. Curated in dialogue with Mobius co-founder Marilyn Arsem, who also founded the Performance Area at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (SMFA), the exhibition poses a challenge to the legacy of the material archive while also activating the collective imaginary of the repertoire—gestures, spoken word, movement, dance, sounds—that might otherwise be lost, erased, or forgotten. Register for the VIP preview of and archive and/or a repertoire here. Exhibition Materials Press Contact: Caitlin Lent caitlin.lent@tufts.edu Images: Mobius, Inc. members Marilyn Arsem, Joan Cale, Mari Novotny-Jones and Sarah Hickler, Mothers of Time, September 1994. Durational performance, dimensions variable. Photo: Bob Raymond. Nikita Gale, MARMI, 2022. Courtesy of the Artist and Petzel Gallery, New York. |
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