Month: December 2010

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from one side to the other, I’ve dreamed that too.

323 Projects is pleased to present from one side to the other, I’ve dreamed that too., curated by VOLUME (volumeprojects.org).

• Exhibition runs fom December 20, 2010 – January 17, 2011.
• Opening December 20 from 6-8PM.
…Come to the opening by calling (323) 843-4652.

Inspired by Eve Sedgwick’s essay Queer and Now, this exhibition engages Sedgwick’s observation that Christmas is the one time in the year where nearly every institution in the US lines up in unison to reinforce the same definition of family, religion, and tradition; definitions that define queer subjects as “other.”

Modeled loosely after a suicide prevention line, from one side to the other, I’ve dreamed that too. offers callers a moment of solace, or tools for active resistance against the monolithic tide of conservative signification that defines this holiday season, in all forms.

Aritsts included in from one side to the other, I’ve dreamed that too. are Marcus Civin, Dino Dinco, Zackary Drucker, Seth Horvitz, i8u, Nina Katchadourian, Killsonic Women’s Chorus, M. Lamar, Lissom, Marc Manning, Lucas Michael, Taisha Paggett, David Schafer, Susan Silton, Jacob Sperber, Ultra-red, and Dorian Wood.

323 Projects invites you to experience from one side to the other, I’ve dreamed that too. by calling (323) 843-4652 or (323) TIE-IN-LA. The show is open all day and all night, every day of the week.

ABOUT VOLUME
VOLUME functions as a catalyst for interdisciplinary new media work through exhibitions, performances, events, lectures, and publications. Concentrating on the nexus of music and visual arts practices ranging from the avant-garde to popular culture, VOLUME offers unique opportunities for artists to create and present hybrid works. Volume was founded by Ed Patuto and Robert Crouch and directed by Robert Crouch.

ABOUT 323 PROJECTS
323 Projects is an innovative exhibition space that exists as a phone number that visitors can call to access contemporary art. To visit 323 Projects simply call (323) 843-4652 or (323) TIE-IN-LA. You can also visit the 323 Projects website at 323projects.com.

323 Projects exists to provide a dispersed, peripatetic, and constantly accessible venue for artists of all kinds who seek to explore issues important to their respective practices. The artists involved with 323 Projects provide, create, or perform works that can be appreciated in bits and pieces, and at more than one time, in both public and private spaces, by an unseen, yet omnipresent, local and international audience.

Tucker Neel is the Founder and Director of 323 Projects.

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Review – 29 Palms (DER) 2010 – by Ron Schepper – Textura

29 Palms, i8u on Dragon’s Eye Recordings

In her i8u work, Montreal-based sound artist France Jobin specializes in “sound-sculpture,” an exemplary example of which is documented in the forty-one-minute, single-track work 29 Palms. Her inspiration for the piece came from a recent visit to the Joshua Tree National Park in Southern California from where, presumably, she collected the field recordings that appear in the piece; Jobin also used analog equipment and computer processing to capture her response to the site. 29 Palms doesn’t adhere to a single, predictable developmental arc; instead, the material rises and falls, grows louder and then softer as it pulsates at medium volume and then burrows into microsound where the listener strains to catch whatever details are in play; at the ten-minute mark, for instance, the barest tinkle of a triangle can be heard amidst ghostly tones that are as just as faintly defined, and when a high-pitched sine tone suddenly appears twenty-eight minutes into the piece, it has a huge impact it wouldn’t otherwise have in another context. Soft residues of static and wavering tones commingle within a sonic space largely inhabited by gently droning swells of nearly imperceptible ebb and flow. So muted is the material that when played at low volume (and sans headphones) it blends indissolubly into the immediate environment—until, that is, a noticeable increase in volume and intensity occurs three-quarters of the way in as 29 Palms undertakes its final ascent. One might characterize the recording as immersive and hyper-minimal microsound.

December 2010

Textura