November 18, 2011–January 3, 2012
Opening:
November 18, 2011 at 7pm
Land of Tomorrow Gallery
233 W. Broadway
Louisville KY, 40202
Hours:
Monday–Friday 10–5
Land of Tomorrow (LOT) is pleased to present the Expanded Music Project, a showcase of work illustrating the intersection between art and music. Included in this exhibition will be work by Heather Cantrell, Aurora Childs, Saiman Chow, Geneva Jacuzzi, Leslie Lyons, Andréa Stanislav, as well as Raurouw, Thieves Like Us, Peaking Lights with artist Letitia Quesenberry, musician EMA with artist Jacob Heustis, and Hirsuta design firm.
The premise of this show is to highlight the fluidity between creative forms and artistic practices. The influence of album art, video production, stage design, graffiti, and the appropriation tactics of remixing have established an ongoing conversation between artists and musicians. This dialogue between visual artist and musician continues to play a major role, and creative forces as diverse as Elvis, The Velvet Underground, Talking Heads, Pink Floyd, and Afrika Bambaataa have delved into the realms of the visual and the auditory to produce work that both fields accept and champion.
Heather Cantrell’s ongoing Study in Portraiture, previously shown in New York, Los Angeles, and London, will be presented as a city-specific “Act” focusing on the distinct musical identity of Louisville.
Andréa Stanislav will include four works including Diamond Dog and Alex DeLarge. Both pieces incorporate references to the Sex Pistols, using sound to recontextualize dystopic phrases and address the failures of utopian ideals while exploring reflection as a tool to draw the viewer into the work. Reflection allows the viewer to explore their own position in history and culture and points out the futility of utopian desires.
Dub-pop duo Peaking Lights and artist Letitia Quesenberry will collaborate on Sound Garden. Using record players, CD players, cassette machines, and tape machines they will create a sonic replication of a Japanese rock garden.
Musician EMA and artist Jacob Heustis will team up to construct an interactive recording booth that will give gallery goers a chance to record their own demo. The piece directly focuses on the importance of “vibe” and the “demo” as a sketch for a more definitive recording that becomes an album or a single. This allows the audience members, both music insiders and casual listeners, to place themselves in the midst of the song production process.
Aurora Childs’s work, Sounds Lost in the Forest, uses the writings of Carl Jung to explore memories and the life that they tend to take on, illustrating that memories become fragmented, like dreams, as time creates distance. She uses quiet animals and an imaginary color scheme to explore the haunting nature of memory and the subconscious.
Investigating the effects of an artist’s return to her childhood home, Leslie Lyons will show a constellation of photographs inspired by the David Bowie song “Who Can I Be Now?”
The Hirsuta design firm will present a re-examination of the form and context of the Disco Ball in Variations on the Disco Ball or the Bee Gees Have Left the Building.
Land of Tomorrow’s mission is to support artists in the production of their multidimensional works. This is achieved through collaborative channels with artists working in the areas of photography, video, sculpture, architecture, and design. This project will continue to be a part of the future curatorial trajectory of the LOT gallery.
