Environmental Dialogues: performance by Norman Long and Sara Zalek
@ Ignition Project Space
3839 W Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60651
Opening Saturday, January 27th, from 4:30PM - 7:30PM
Performance at 6pm!!
Inspired by Pauline Oliveros’ Environmental Dialogue (1996 Revision).
We offer an extension of this composition (2018 Revision Sara Zalek/Norman W. Long). Resonating Ignition Project space with breath, rhythm and subtle sounds from little synths. We welcome the new year, reinforcing collective listening, preparing us for new paths and ideas, listening for the unknown and sharing our experience of time.
Norman W. Long (b. 1973, Chicago, IL) is a sound artist/designer/composer based in Chicago, IL. His current work focuses on sound art production within the larger context of landscape. He has exhibited and/or performed in galleries in Chicago, Ithaca, New York, London, and the San Francisco Bay Area. The processes involved in his practice lie within the area of field recording, electro-acoustic composition and dub technique. His art/studio practice involves gardening, collecting, performing and recording to create, objects, environments, situations in which the artist and audience are engaged in a dialogue about memory, space, value, silence and the invisible.
Sara Zalek is an artist, choreographer, and curator rooted in Butoh and investigations of personal identity. She is obsessed with time travel, experimental science, hybrid animals, permaculture, and the intentional act of transformation. // www.saratonin.com
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