News from Somewhere by Tomek Miernowski

On view: May 4-28 during gallery hours: Thursday & Friday, 5-9pm, and Saturday & Sunday, 2-9pm.

News from Somewhere is a multimedia art installation that aims to provoke reflection upon social structures and power dynamics.

Using a touchscreen, the audience selects from a numbered list of societies and is immersed in the sonic results of a social study conducted by five world-class improvisers involved in movements for social justice, each of whom has chosen the sound arts as their primary form of artistic expression. The result is non-musical and anti-aesthetical; a sonic bridge that links the idea of society with physical creative collaboration, mutual aid, and evolution.

Today’s rapid environmental degradation and social upheavals demand new systems. The first step toward a new world is imagining it.

Official site: https://culturelablic.org/news-from-somewhere

Participating Artists:

Jon Cowherd, Tomek Miernowski, Dan Rieser, Tony Scherr, Yusuke Yamamoto

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