Dia 15 VI 13 545 West 22 Street Dream House
June 16–October 24, 2015
Dia:Chelsea
545 West 22nd Street
New York, NY 10011
Hours: Tuesday–Saturday 2pm–midnight
Admission free
Dia Art Foundation will present a newly acquired, site-specific iteration of Dream House by La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, and Jung Hee Choi at 545 West 22nd Street in New York City from June 16 to October 24. Titled Dia 15 VI 13 545 West 22 Street Dream House, the sound-and-light installation includes Young’s sine-wave sound environment, Zazeela’s sculptures and light design, and Choi’s installation Ahata Anahata, Manifest Unmanifest IX.
Young, a crucial figure in the historical emergence of Minimalist music, is among the most influential representatives of the American avant-garde. He began using sustained tones and expanded concepts of time in the 1950s and formulated the Dream House concept with Zazeela in 1962. Together, they have developed numerous sound-and-light installations and performances, among which Dream House stands as the essential environment for their time-based performances. A program of performances will accompany the presentation of Dia 15 VI 13 545 West 22 Street Dream House. The first performance will take place on June 13, at 9pm. La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, and Jung Hee Choi will lead the Just Alap Raga Ensemble as a tribute to Pandit Pran Nath.
Performance schedule
Just Alap Raga Ensemble: Raga Darbari
June 13, 19, and 27, 9pm
La Monte Young: The Melodic Version (1984) of The Second Dream of the High-Tension Stepdown Transformer from The Four Dreams of China (1962)
July 31 and August 1, 9pm
Marian Zazeela: Ornamental Lightyears Tracery
August 20 and 22, 9pm
La Monte Young: Trio for Strings (1958)
September 3 and 5, 9pm
Pandit Pran Nath and the Kirana Gharana: Raga Cycle
September 25, 9pm
Jung Hee Choi: Tonecycle Base 30 Hz, 2:3:7 Vocal Version with 4:3 and 7:6
October 17 and 23, 9pm
Visit www.diaart.org/dreamhouse for tickets and more information.
Dia Art Foundation
Founded in 1974, Dia Art Foundation is committed to initiating, supporting, presenting, and preserving extraordinary art projects. Dia:Beacon opened in May 2003 in Beacon, New York. Dia also maintains several long-term sites, including Walter De Maria’s The New York Earth Room (1977) and The Broken Kilometer (1979), Max Neuhaus’s Times Square (1977), and Joseph Beuys’s 7000 Eichen (7000 Oaks, which was inaugurated at Documenta 7 in 1982), all of which are located in New York City; the Dan Flavin Art Institute (established in 1983) in Bridgehampton, New York; De Maria’s The Lightning Field (1977) in western New Mexico; Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty (1970) in Great Salt Lake, Utah; De Maria’s The Vertical Earth Kilometer (1977) in Kassel, Germany; and Flavin’s untitled (to you, Heiner, with admiration and affection) (1973) in Munich, Germany. Dia also commissions original artist web projects and produces scholarly publications. Dia currently presents temporary installations, performances, lectures, and readings on West 22nd Street in Chelsea, the neighborhood it helped pioneer. Plans for a new project space are underway.
For additional information or materials contact:
Press Department, Dia Art Foundation, press [at] diaart.org / T +1 212 293 5598
