Thursday, June 29th, at 6pm, 2023 Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow evil dentist (Alice Gerlach and David Farrow) present “everything must go!,” a durational office space performance featuring performances by Cal Fish and More Eaze. This is their second program in Corporate Retreat, a curated series of performances appropriating the banality of office space to reimagine the relationship between artistic practice and community building. The event takes place in the East Village, Manhattan.
Due to limited capacity, audience is encouraged to enter and exit at any time during the 6pm -9pm durational performance. Admittance will be staggered to accommodate as many guests as possible throughout the performance. After 8pm, the artists will then lead a procession through the East Village and perform in dialogue with the sounds of Tompkins Square Park and the East River Park.
Statement from evil dentist:
We at evil dentist have a knack for losing money, a calling even. In these times of financial crisis, we say “everything must go!” lurking in the east village is the soon to be abandoned ISSUE Project Room office. Overflowing with furniture, paper, and the miscellaneous rubbish of an arts non-profit, the office is ripe for evil dentist subterfuge. calling back to the east village of the past, we present performances by More Eaze and Cal Fish in this suspended box overlooking 2nd avenue. Through a durational performance by the artists, we will reflect on disappearing spaces for experimental music throughout the city, meditating on everything that the neighborhood has lost as each piece of ISSUE’s remaining office detritus disappears into the night. everything must go! but some things should go slow. and maybe we don’t want to leave just yet. Thus, our durational program will be joined by a soundwalk through the east village wherein we will reflect on where everyone has gone and what’s going on. We fear that there has been a financial crisis all along.
Cal Fish is a multidisciplinary artist based in New York City. Their work incorporates elements of sound sculpture, dance, ambient and pop music, flute playing, videography, and clothing design. Their most recent release, Less Than Three, accompanied by a 46-minute visual album, explores isolation and intimacy through the lens of blissed-out, shoegaze-infused ambient pop tracks. Cal manages Call Waitn, a multimedia record label and phone line, and is a longtime organizer of the Living Gallery.
More Eaze is the project of Austin-based sound artist and multi-instrumentalist Mari Maurice. Ranging from ambient pop to deconstructed sound collage, her numerous solo and collaborative releases weave mundane, everyday sounds into adventurous textural compositions. Her music explores themes of intimacy, yearning, and the transformation of abstract feeling into intense living through sound design that moves seamlessly between the banal and the ethereal. She has recently released work with Longform Editions, Leaving Records, and Orange Milk.
