steve roden: day ring, night ring
SKYSPACE, PLAZA, ELEVATOR, and LOBBY
August 25 – November 12, 2006

Steve Roden. day ring Sketch 1. 2006. Collage and pencil on paper.
Courtesy of the artist and Susanne Vielmetter LA Projects.

Los Angeles artist Steve Roden debuts a pair of sound art compositions created in response to James Turrell’s Skyspace at the Henry. These new works will be the latest in a series of works activating the spare forms of specific modern architectural structures with audio tracks composed of music and recorded sounds. day ring will be a durational listening experience at specific times during the museum’s regular hours. night ring will present a continuous soundscape for the area near the Skyspace at night. Quietly unfolding over several minutes, Roden’s work strives for a moment where visual, spatial, and aural perceptions become mutually enriching, deepening the experience of all three phenomena simultaneously.

Also on view are two recent videos by Roden. four words for four hands (apple.mountain.over.frozen) is a silent, vibrantly colorful meditation on the system of transcribing musical notes, by which the analytical process of reading music becomes a sensual visual experience. anything else &/or nothing at all (drawing circles for jackson mac low) layers Roden’s graphic translation of a fluxus composer’s score atop a 1950s art instruction film.

Tuesday through Sunday, day ring will play in the James Turrell Skyspace for approximately 45 minutes at the following times:

11:30 AM
1:45 PM
4:00 PM
6:15 PM (Thursdays only)