Date:
01 May 2021 - 17 Oct 2021
Location: BioBAT Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
Common Frequencies aims to emphasize the importance of multidisciplinary practices for active listening, invention, and envisioning new collaborative systems. It includes works by Marcela Armas, Gilberto Esparza, Tania Candiani, Lorena Mal and Interspecifics.
The idea of community in Common Frequencies takes direct reference from the French word milieu (a person’s social environment), which is seen as the place in which we, as a specific species, exist and coexist with other species. However, it is important to also acknowledge that we are a milieu or environment ourselves: We host millions of bacteria and other living beings that allow us to digest, breathe, and exist.
Thus, the exhibition stresses the idea that humans are only 1 of millions of other living vibrating beings and that we require each other to make our milieu work in the same way that we, as individuals, need every living being inside us to be. Evidently, this concept also extrapolates to the social.
In a time that seems increasingly divided, this group of artists investigates and generates several connections that prove that union, collaboration, and connectivity are more present than ever. They show that we are not an independent species but rather dependent and interconnected with every single being on the planet.
In the exhibition, these interconnections are made evident through the form of sonic landscapes— languages that are easier to identify as commons, as something we can relate to and use our response ability in return.
October 17 2021
Join us for the closing performance of the Common Frequencies exhibition. The presented piece was composed in response to the pandemic, and the lives that have been lost since 2...
September 14 2021
Join us for the virtual presentation of Tsinamekuta, by Marcela Armas
The presentation will take place on Zoom and requires Read more
June 5th 2021
Please join us for the live presentation of Synchrony, series of events for 2 pianos and multiple interpreters, by Lorena Mal and with performers Lauren Aloia, ...
May 1st 2021
Join us for the opening of Common Frequencies at BioBAT Art Space on May 1, from 5 to 7 pm.
April 27 2021
As part of the Common Frequencies programming, this Tuesday Gilberto Esparza will be activating BioSoNot in the waters of the Hudson River, in front of Bush Terminal Park in Sun...
March 6 2021
The Old Stone House will host a virtual listening session where Marcela Armas will be activating Tsinamekuta, an instrument created for the detection and sound interpretation of...
February 20 2021
The Old Stone House in Brooklyn, and BioBAT Art Space will host a listening session where the audience will remotely connect with Gilberto Espa...
February 6th 2021
Synchrony (one day at all times) is live event featuring a 24 hrs sound work for piano by artist Lorena Mal (Mexico City), based on the pulse rythms of different living organism...
January 30 & 31 2021
Common Frequencies, BioBAT Art Space and Genspace are excited to present Almost non-human, a writing workshop by Interspecifics, aimed at young students between 13 and 17 y/o wh...
