Music for Blimps: Sound Improvisation
@ Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL 60602
Opening Saturday, September 10th, from 12PM - 1PM
On Saturday 9/10 at Noon, artist Chris Kallmyer will be visiting from Los Angeles and working with Paul Catanese in the Visible from Space exhibition / residency to create an improvisational sound composition titled Music for Blimps – using woodblock, brass bell, blacksmith bellows, blimp and trumpet. Visit the Sidney R. Yates Gallery from Noon-1pm to witness this unique special event.
Paul Catanese: Visible From Space
On view through September 27
Paul Catanese’s premier solo exhibition in Chicago ponders the creation of Earthly drawings as seen from the Moon. Following experiments involving camera-equipped aerial vehicles – from kites to rockets to drones – flown over high desert settings, this residency project and exhibition creates both “operating theater” and “theater of operations” in an embrace of the scientific, military and pedagogic connotations of these terms.
Catanese composes large-scale diagrammatic drawings on the ground level using various props and then, on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, pilots a 12-foot helium-filled blimp to fly over, observe, project and record aerial footage of the evolving “viewed from the Moon” works.
Catanese is Associate Professor of Art & Art History and Director of the Interdisciplinary Arts & Media MFA Program at Columbia College Chicago.
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