Date: Saturday, May 12, 2012
Venue: The International Studio & Curatorial Program/ISCP (1040 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211, 718-387-2900)
Genre: Jazz/contemporary music
Ticket: pleae call venue

2pm  Eloise Fornieles The Orbit

Over the course of one hour, Eloise Fornieles will orbit a cement mixer containing a marble head of Mercury, the mythological messenger of the Roman gods. The cement mixer will slowly chip away parts of the head, eroding the iconographic replica of the divine figure to its original material state. Covering distance yet traveling nowhere, Fornieles uses this repetitive motion as a form of ritualistic journey. Fornieles’ installations create a space for contemplation, while her own emphasis on physical endurance provides a backdrop for a more visceral understanding of the body as material, with its limitations and capabilities. Read More

Date: Wednesday, February 16 at 10:30am – June 6 at 5:00pm
Location: The Museum of Modern Art/The Yoshiko and Akio Morita Media Gallery, second floor.  (11 West 53rd Street, New York, NY)

The work of photographer Laura Levine is featured in Looking at Music 3.0, February 16 – June 6 at the Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition explores the influence of music on contemporary art in New York in the 1980s and 1990s.

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