Monday, November 23, 6pm CT
Place of Assembly: Micah Silver - Black Hole (LA)
In Episode IV of Place of Assembly, Micah Silver discusses his new space Black Hole, based in LA, and his efforts to develop a new modality for the presentation of sound. ‘Sound is a temporary social architecture made of air’, the Black Hole website points out. How can sound participate in the negotiation of our shared social spaces, what are the properties of this architecture, how can we inhabit it? We ask these questions and more this Monday, 11.23.
Micah Silver is an artist and curator who studied music at Wesleyan and in MIT's Art, Culture and Technology program. His work has been produced by Mass MoCA, Issue Project Room, Palais de Tokyo, and OK Zentrum, among other venues internationally.
BLACK HOLE is an artist-run center for audio located in Los Angeles. Our purpose is to create a situation where people can listen to, think, and talk about audio materials that are not possible to experience with widely-distributed audio technologies for home, headphones, or cinema.
For nearly a century, audio has been used as a material for art and non-art conditions. Although there is an expansive and internationally produced body of work addressing the medium’s possibilities beyond representations of music, there have never been widely accessible facilities to render it. Unlike other areas of culture based around people listening (like music or lecturing), there is also no pervasive publisher, no collector, and no hub in the USA for dispersing knowledge even of the experiments produced. We believe that making these materials available is of cultural importance.
http://nophones.org
Relevant links:
https://medium.com/@micah.silver
PLACE OF ASSEMBLY : PODCAST -
Every episode of PLACE OF ASSEMBLY will feature a new artist space. We will look at any space that exists in the physical world, and in some way house creative communities and cultural production.
During this time of enforced isolation, while all of our places of gathering and work have been closed off to us, we are in a unique position to consider what these places mean to us.
ABOUT H0LO - is a Ridgewood Queens based music and performance venue devoted to outsider communities of creative practice. H0L0 was founded in July of 2017 by Sam Hillmer, Marco Boggio-Sella, and Craig Kalpakjian.
Hosted by Sam Hillmer - a Brooklyn-based musician, artist, and curator. He is creative director of the Queens-based venue H0l0, founding member of the band Zs, and one half of the art duo Trouble. He also makes music as Diamond Terrifier. Recent collaborations include Dirty Projectors, Laurel Halo, Arto Lindsay, and Tauba Auerbach.
In 1998 Sam co-founded the new music presenting organization Wet Ink, from 2010-12 he ran the weekly out music party PRACTICE at erstwhile Williamsburg venue Zebulon, from 2013-16 he founded and operated Ridgewood based venue Trans-Pecos, in 2016 Sam participated in beginning the live music program at Maspeth Queens based Knockdown Center, and in 2017 co-founded H0L0. Sam has led music and performance programs for fine arts based institutions including Sculpture Center, the Queens Museum, Pioneer Works, and art fairs New Art Dealers Alliance, Satellite art fair, and Miami Project.
Sam has been active as a youth and community based arts organizer for over 20 years.