The Audio Show
July 14–August 23, 2009
Friedrich Petzel Gallery
535 West 22nd Street
New York, NY 10011
212-680-9467
Sue de Beer, Cosima von Bonin, Jesse Bransford, Jennifer Cohen, Keith Edmier, Barnaby Furnas, Ilana Halperin, dana Hoey, Alex Hubbard, Juliet Jacobson, Corinne Jones, Karsten Krejcarek, Michael Krebber, Jutta Koether, Lorenzo de los Angeles, Marilyn Minter, John Miller, Virginia Overton, Jorge Pardo, Stephen Prina, Adam Putnam, Matthew Ronay, Aura Rosenberg, George Rush, Michael Smith, Dan Torop, Charlie White, Roger White, Ivan Wittenstein.
Broadcasting within the dimly lit space of 535 Friedrich Petzel Gallery comes a series of audio interventions. A one lone room broadcast.
The Audio Show. will exhibit in a near empty space only compromised by audio selections from approximately 30 artists. Audio pieces will be comprised in an array of story telling: field recordings, music, interviews, artworks, elements segregated from installations, whatever each artist cares to broadcast. The gallery will play the segments in a once-a-day eight-hour schedule. Programming will be repeated each day of the exhibition. A list of the artists and time slots will be posted to the side of a small clock to mark the time.
Throughout the day's programming a reconstructed episode of Walter Benjamin's 1930s era radio show, commonly known as the "Aufklarung fur Kinder" (enlightenment for children) will play. The organization of this show takes inspiration from Benjamin's metaphor of 'the travelers return to those who never left' with invisible producers, antiquated communication techniques, and instant information exchanges, all within a summer recession.
Charlie White, Teen and Transgender Comparative Study #4, 2008. Chromogenic print, 26½ x 36 inches.