A speculative audiocassette: an archaeological artifact of the present.
Monday-Friday, Feb. 26-March 2
Created back in 1983 as an audiocassette publication and lasting ten years until 1993,
The Tellus Project, produced and curated by Carol Parkinson, Joseph Nechvatal
and Claudia Gould, is now considered a historic and significant archive of 1980s artists working with experimental sound, noise, performance and spoken word. The tapes included works by Sonic Youth, Louise Lawler, Elliot Sharp, Glenn Branca, Tom Cora, Fred Frith, and Spaulding Gray among others. Assembled as a series of twenty-seven audiotapes, each tape was titled with a number and a theme that reflected their sequential release. The tapes were compiled and distributed to their subscribers, bimonthly through the mail.
Imagining Tellus # 28 references and pays homage to this important project as an imagined twenty-eighth tape titled:
Heard in LA. As
curator, Tom Leeser designed this update to the project by assembling a selection of current artists working within the vibrant and active experimental soundscape of Los Angeles.
These new works will not be published as a cassette, rather they will be exhibited at the California Institute of the Arts in the WaveCave during the week of February 26. Previously they were exhibited at Harvestworks in New York in 2017 as part of the New York Electronic Art Festival. They are also archived and available for streaming online at viralnet-v4.net.
Imagining Tellus # 28 includes emerging and mid-career artists that are exploring new forms of digitally produced sound
works extracted from cross-disciplinary practices that fuse poetry, electronic composition, improvised music and performance into an assemblage of beautiful antagonisms. Heard in LA injects the original collective spirit of Tellus into an alternative archive for future reference.
This project is a collaboration between the Center for Integrated Media at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) and Harvestworks.
Curated and Produced by Tom Leeser
Harvestworks Executive Director: Carol Parkinson
Project Management: Tyler Calkin
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:
Neela Banerjee, Matt Barbier, Scott Benzel, K. Bradford, Dan Bustillo, Tyler Calkin, Scott Cazan, Provisional Collective, Louis Coy, E.E.L., Carmina Escobar (with the Banda Filarmonica Maqueos Music, the Maqueos Music School, and Yulissa Maqueos), Sarah Fylak, Jacob Goldman, Ulrich Krieger, Gregory Lenczycki, Parches + Tim Tsang, Free Radicals (Jen Hofer, Rob Ray), Jason Richards, Sara Roberts and the Readers Chorus, sadubas (Robin Sukhadia and Ameet Mehta), Christina Santa Cruz, Stephanie Cheng Smith, Thomas Sturm, Jack Taylor, Daniel Watkins, Ebony Williams.