Nikita Gale's new exhibition at Petzel Gallery imagines a stadium's nosebleed seats as 'a theoretical, philosophical position,' she tells us.
exhibition at Petzel Gallery last Thursday, viewers had their gaze fixed not to the walls but to the floor, which was blanketed with a sprawling panoramic image of the view from the so-called “worst seat in the house.” Navigating photographs and 3D-rendered models of large-scale venues strewn across the ground, dozens of gallery-goers busily shuttered their cameras to snap selfies in a wall-length mirror mounted at an angle designed to refract the spectacle of performance back onto the audience.
GALE: Yeah, it’s funny that he referenced that piece specifically because that work is about the very thing that he’s complaining about, which is that the work changes in its context and it’s not about hearing just the ambient sound. It’s about hearing whatever’s around the space. It becomes a part of the work.
KWAK: I was conscious of people navigating the floor with me and felt like we were sharing a similar experience. But also like, “What are you thinking? What are you feeling?” GALE: Yeah, I think there’s also a very long history of the use of sounds, and particularly music and song as a tool of protection, but also it’s the way that history is often shared. There’s a… god, it reminds me of this Tony Morrison novel,. There’s this moment in the novel where the main character, Milkman, encounters this song and then he realizes that at some point, one of the names had been changed, but it was actually the story of this real event that happened.
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