Recording of birds responding to church bellls
Container #3, performance by Zachary Fabri
Reading by Steven Zultanski from Part 3 or 4 of “Unfinished Poem in Five Parts”
Library receipt over 99 self-help books (part of Rick Myers' work)
Installation view / Rick Myers
Submerged Thought: in the interval where the ears hear their apparatus, work by Rick Myers
Untitled (2013), a record of weekly “performances” by piano student Anthony Zediker, who learned to play Frédéric Chopin’s Nocturne in F minor, op. 55, no. 1 in the gallery spaces of an art museum over the course of the exhibition. Project by Jason Lazarus
Launch of Sterling Music Room
Modular parts by Total Effekt (Stina Löfgren, Aron Kullander-Östling, Pål Rodenius) who took over SMR for two weeks
Modified poster by Vier5
Screening of Oliver Husain's Isla Santa Maria 3D
Means and Ends, video work by Bonnie Begusch
Performance by lumberob and Dan
La Maison de... by Joyce Kim
Is this Your Place? Exhibition and performance by Johanna Kotze
Sterling Music Room was a living room turned salon, exhibition and performance space, guest room, etc. in my Brooklyn apartment. While this project drew inspiration from many places, at its heart it was a response to the rising rents and current luxurification of New York City. Through planned events as well as chance encounters, Sterling Music Room examined the possibilities and poetics of a critical and engaged domesticity under the conditions of late capitalism.
Participants included writers Nawaaz Ahmed, Eliza Hornig, and Steven Zultanski; artists Bonnie Begusch, Joyce Kim, Jason Lazarus, Rick Myers, Jeff Sims, and Jo-ey Tang; storyteller Mark Boswell and filmmaker Oliver Husain; performers Zachary Fabri and Joanna Kotze; musicians lumberob and dan; countertenor Tyler Wayne Smith + Chamber Ensemble Chelsea Musica; collaborative Total Effekt (Aron Kullander-Östling, Stina Löfgren, Pål Rodenius); designer duo Vier5 (Achim Reichert, Marco Fiedler), and many more.
After the salon's conclusion, a folded poster was printed and distributed in local neighborhood stores.
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