(I WANT) TO BE HELD
December 3, 2020 - January 28, 2021
The Chelsea Music Festival is pleased to present the exhibition of a new LED work by Julian Day at High Line Nine
Pandemic, protests, politics. As 2020 closes, we can finally hit pause on a destabilizing and transformative year.
(I WANT) TO BE HELD is a new LED work by Julian Day that reflects on 2020’s inchoate messaging through the lens of the text score. As both a composer and artist, Day has long been intrigued by the social implications of scores and how they function as power circuitry between composer, performer and listener. This is especially evident in the text score, a deliberately direct format that flourished in New York’s 1960s downtown art scene.
High Line Nine’s space is dramatically flooded with the kind of LED screens seen endlessly on New York’s streets. Their unfolding text is alternatively bold, playful and poignant, varying between composer dictates, personal confessions, and slogans from recent protests and political moments. Day transforms the often-austere canonical texts with humor and intimacy, as in the softened La Monte Young score in the exhibition title.
VISIT:
Tuesday- Saturday from 10am-6pm
or schedule an appointment for a walkthrough with the artist
Social Distancing and Masks Required
Join us Friday, December 11th @ 1pm ET
Festival Co-Artistic Directors Melinda Lee Masur & Ken David Masur will join in conversation with visual artist, writer, and composer Julian Day to discuss the current exhibition (I WANT) TO BE HELD as well as Day’s past work and interest in the medium of sound.
Learn More About The Artist
Julian Day is an Australian artist, composer and writer. Their work addresses the complexities of how we form, maintain and relinquish social bonds, typically working within such civically-resonant spaces as parks, libraries and town halls. Their work has featured at Tate Modern, Whitechapel Gallery, MASS MoCA, Jewish Museum, California Pacific Triennial (Orange County Museum of Art), MATA, Royal Academy of Music, Museum of Contemporary ArtAustralia, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Institute of Modern Art and Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art. Day is completing an MFA at Columbia University in New York.
Learn more at
www.julianday.com
Exhibition made possible by
