Please Join us for a special AT/SP Open House of Sonic Speculations
Sunday, October 5th 12-5pm
Experimental Sound Studio
5925 N Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Sonic Speculations in the Documents of Postwar Japanese Art is a two-week, two-person exhibition that pairs Japanese researcher and writer Kaneko Tomotaro and artist and educator Lou Mallozzi, both of whom present distinct alternatives to traditional approaches to interpreting the documents of earlier artists’ works, blending research, archival materials, re-enactment, diaristic speculation, and original artworks. Kaneko, through his research project Japanese Art Sound Archive, has been staging re-performances and re-exhibitions of Japanese works from the 1970s, often with the artists themselves. Mallozzi, who began researching postwar Japanese artists’ use of non-musical sound in 2019, has embarked on making artworks of his own in response to his encounters with these earlier works.
Kaneko Tomotaro will present visual and sonic documentation of original performances and installations from the 1970s as well as re-exhibitions and re-performances that he has produced since 2018, often with the artists themselves, under the auspices of his research project the Japanese Art Sound Archive.
Lou Mallozzi will exhibit Sidewalk Standstill for Nomura , an eight-part series of drawings, frottages, and sound recordings that he made in January 2024 in Kyoto in homage to artist Nomura Hitoshi (1945-2023) and in direct response to Nomura’s 1970 performative sound work Telephone Eyeshot .