Ballroom: THE MARFA SESSIONS

Saturday, 27 September 2008 - Sunday, 1 February 2009

>>Performance by Steve Roden & Stephen Vitiello: Fri. 26th, Chinati, Dusk
>>David Toop & Joshua Kun in conversation: Sat. 27th, Liberty Hall, 4pm
>>Music with Kurt Wagner of Lambchop & DJ Damon Locks: Sat. 27th, Liberty Hall, 9pm

The Marfa Sessions, curated by Regine Basha, Rebecca Gates and Lucy Raven presents a series of individual sound projects, each engaging some aspect of Marfa's geographic, historical and unique social character. Basha, Gates and Raven have selected fifteen artists with specific interests in sound work and its potential as a transgressive medium within place and geography. Seven of these artists have been invited for individual site visits and residencies in Marfa, Texas in the year before the exhibition to collect field recordings, record interviews and document the landscape. The Marfa Sessions includes new contributions from Nina Katchadourian, Christina Kubisch and Kaffe Matthews, as well as collaborative work by Deborah Stratman/Steven Badgett, Steve Roden/Stephen Vitello and Steve Rowell/Simparch. Pertinent work from Emily Jacir, Louise Lawler, Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, Angel Nevarez & Valerie Tevere, Dario Robleto, and Julianne Swartz will also be featured in specific locations for the exhibition.

Following the opening reception on Saturday 27 September, there will be a conversation at Ballroom Marfa between authors Josh Kun and David Toop on the various ways of listening to place, and the overlaps of history and personal memory.

Curated by Regine Basha, Rebecca Gates and Lucy Raven