DARMSTADT “Classics of the Avant Garde” begins its month-long Institute at ISSUE Project Room with a special edit of Tony Oursler’s video project, Synesthesia, with editor in attendance to discuss the work.
Tony Oursler’s Synesthesia project is an oral history of New York’s downtown music, performance and art scenes. For the DARMSTADT music series, Oursler’s editor creates a special version, focusing on experimental composers. Interviewees include Genesis P-Orridge, Glenn Branca, Laurie Anderson, Tony Conrad, David Byrne, and Arto Lindsay. These works were originally included as one element of Ourslerand Mike Kelley’s multimedia installation The Poetics Project. These conversations reveal fascinating insights and anecdotes from some of the most influential figures in the experimental rock and art underground of the 1970s and ’80s, from pre-punk innovators to post-punk icons, from industrial and avant-garde music to noise bands and “no wave.”
This program is made possible by the Experimental Television Center (supported by the New York State Council on the Arts)