Exhibition
Screens Series: EcoRove (Jumanah Abbas, Iyad Abou Gaida, and Em Joseph)
10/12/23-01/07/24
Screenings · Exhibition-Related · Exhibition-Related
EcoRove’s Where Can We Be Found? (2023) with Live Score by Frances Chang
Cover Image:
EcoRove, Where Can We Be Found?, 2023 (still). Courtesy the artists
To mark the closing of the exhibition Screens Series: EcoRove, composer and musician Frances Chang, who created the score for EcoRove’s film Where Can We Be Found? (2023; أين يمكن أن تجدنا؟), will perform live and in sync with the film in the New Museum Theater.
Building on the film’s blend of documentary, scientific, and natural imagery, Chang’s score invokes spiritual concentration via classic club sounds!
A recording of this conversation can be found on our YouTube channel and below:
About the Performer
Frances Chang is a musician and multimedia artist living and performing in New York. Frances’s practice combines use of conventional instrumentation, playful electronics, video poetry, and computer programming. Her work deals with disruptions in accepted reality and non-western and magical frameworks. Frances’s music often probes the tension between an idiosyncratic truth and the drive to understand and be understood through a collective language. Her score for Where Can We Be Found? (2023) questions how audio takes up space in a visual hierarchy and invokes spiritual concentration via classic club sounds.
Sponsors
Support for Education and Public Engagement programs is provided, in part, by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
We gratefully acknowledge the Bowery Council of the New Museum for its support of Education and Public Engagement Programs.
Endowment support is provided by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund; the Skadden, Arps Education Programs Fund; and the William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fund for Education Programs at the New Museum.
Support for “Screen Series: EcoRove” can be viewed here.
