Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara — MCASB Events | Last two weeks of Kunsthalle for Music

Kunsthalle for Music

On view September 21 – November 3, 2019

Orchestrated by Meyers, the exhibition’s score is open to variations, which are determined by audience participation, by ensemble members, and by interaction in between audience and ensemble. This approach will translate into unique interpretations—an unrepeatable experience—every day. As such, visitors are encouraged to attend the exhibition more than once. Whenever the ensemble is not actively performing, Kunsthalle for Music will still activate the museum space for visitors in various ways, including ensemble members using the space to rehearse or leaving recorded musical traces in their absence.

Ari Benjamin Meyers (b.1972, New York, USA) lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Meyers received his training as a pianist, composer, and conductor at The Juilliard School, Yale University, and Peabody Institute. Trading the concert format for that of the exhibition, his works as an artist—such as Kunsthalle for Music (2018), Symphony 80 (with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra) and Solo for Ayumi (both 2017)—explore structures and processes that redefine the performative, social, and ephemeral nature of music as well as the relationship between performer and audience. His diverse practice features musical performances for the stage and exhibition spaces as well as three operas including a commission for the Semperoper Dresden and a ballet for the Paris Opera. He has collaborated with artists including Tino Sehgal, Anri Sala, and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and bands such as The Residents, Einstürzende Neubauten, and Chicks on Speed.

Acknowledgments

Generous support for Kunsthalle for Music provided by the City of Santa Barbara’s Events & Festivals Grant Program, the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany, Greg & Elisabeth Fowler, Institution Ale, Jacquelyn Klein-Brown & Michael Trambert, Suzanne Klein, Lisa Lloyd, Alan Macy & Santa Barbara Center for Art, Science and Technology (SBCAST), MCASB Visionaries, the Murphy Family & Presqu’ile Winery, Paseo Nuevo Shops & Restaurants, Nicola Ricciardi & Officine Grandi Riparazioni (OGR), Justine Roddick, Santa Barbara Bowl Foundation, Santa Barbara County Office of Arts & Culture, Sonos, SUPERFLEX, Clarice O. Tavares, Towbes Foundation, and Georgene Vairo & Jenn Kennedy.

Additional thanks to Alexandra Cole, Full Moon Audio, Michael & Elaine Gray, Nick Norton, Debby Peterson, Scott Cameron Weaver & O-Town House, Los Angeles, and SeaVees Sneakers.

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N. Dash

On view November 22, 2019 – February 16, 2020Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (MCASB) is pleased to announce the solo exhibition of New York–based artist N. Dash. The exhibition will present some of Dash’s most recent works, including multi-panel paintings and a selection from the artist’s ongoing Commuterdrawing series.

N. Dash was organized by The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum and curated by Amy Smith-Stewart, Senior Curator. The expanded presentation at Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (MCASB) is curated by Abaseh Mirvali, Executive Director and Chief Curator.

Click here to read more about N. Dash in e-flux.

N. Dash (b. 1980, Miami, Florida, USA) lives and works in New York, New York, USA. The paintings, photographs, and drawings of N. Dash convey a profound tactile sensitivity through the artist’s manipulation of materials such as fabric, adobe, jute, polystyrene, paper, and string. Utilizing this wide variety of media with a minute attention to detail, Dash constructs works that engage with visible and invisible forms of energy and movement: of bodily meridians, architectural circulation, and environmental flux. Transmuting rough materials such as jute, mud, and fabric scraps into meticulously finished surfaces, Dash’s work evokes the materially embodied yet intangible presence of attentive touch.

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