October 1 - 22, 2022
From Ivester Contemporary:
“Ivester Contemporary is excited to present, Foreign Body, a solo exhibition featuring an interactive, 8 foot head made from cardboard, brass, and electronics, built by Steve Parker. Viewers are invited to activate the piece by wearing the mask and playing it like an oversized wearable instrument. The experience incorporates themes of fragility, biological processes, alien landscape, Deep Listening, and human decomposition.
The exhibition will feature a live performance on October 1st that combines bio-sonification devices, contact mics, and EEG monitors that amplify the artist’s body processes and artwork.
Steve Parker is an artist, musician, and curator. He is the recipient of the Rome Prize, the Ashurst Prize (UK), the Tito’s Prize, a Fulbright, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Parker works with salvaged musical instruments, amateur choirs, marching bands, urban bat colonies, flocks of grackles, and pedicab fleets to investigate systems of control, interspecies behavior, and forgotten histories. His projects include elaborate civic rituals for humans, animals, and machines; listening sculptures modeled after obsolete surveillance tools; and cathartic transportation symphonies for operators of cars, pedicabs, and bicycles.
Parker has exhibited and performed at institutions, public spaces, and festivals internationally. Highlights include the the American Academy in Rome (Italy), Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Arkansas), CUE Art Foundation (NY), the Fusebox Festival (Austin), Gwangju Media Art Festival (Korea), the Guggenheim Museum (NY), the Lincoln Center Festival (NY), Los Angeles Philharmonic inSIGHT (LA), the Lucerne Festival (Switzerland), MASS MoCA (Massachusetts), the McNay Art Museum (San Antonio), Rich Mix (London), SXSW, and Tanglewood. As a soloist and as an artist of NYC-based “new music dream team” Ensemble Signal, he has premiered 200+ new works. “
Performance: October 1, 2022 | 7–9 pm
916 Springdale Rd Bldg 2, Suite 107 Austin, TX 78702
Austin, 78702 Texas
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