... for hours, days, or weeks at a time : Martin Beck.
"Rigorous research yielding sculptural and installation-type interventions and deep insight into an earlier era's sound experiments. This volume ably documents the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum exhibition of the same name by acclaimed New York- and Vienna-based Austrian artist Martin Bec...
| Other Authors: | , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Ridgefield, CT :
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum,
[2025]
|
| Subjects: |
| Summary: | "Rigorous research yielding sculptural and installation-type interventions and deep insight into an earlier era's sound experiments. This volume ably documents the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum exhibition of the same name by acclaimed New York- and Vienna-based Austrian artist Martin Beck (born 1963). This work explores the methods and means through which environments are captured, compressed and represented. The suite of works is informed by Beck's research into Environments, a series of 11 vinyl records from the 1970s produced by Syntonic Research that registered the acoustics of nature and meditative sounds with high-fidelity recording technology. Beck's interest in these records lies in their pioneering role as atmospheric tools for self-optimization within an ever more competitive capitalist setting. Dissecting the series' promotional material, Beck highlights and cuts into the claims made for creating spaces of heightened productivity in which one supposedly feels at ease and is ever more functional.--Artbook website. |
|---|---|
| Item Description: | Includes a foreword by Cybele Maylone, essays by Garielle Schaad and Eduardo Andres Alfonso, and an interview with Irv Teibel by Hans U. Werner. |
| Physical Description: | 95 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles ; 28 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781941366813 1941366813 |