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ON SOUND & ARCHITECTURE

Discussion / Live Performance / Video Installation / App Release / Bake Sale / New Works / Unlimited Edition Poster release

Sunday, May 17

2–9pm

William S. Burroughs frequently explored the intersection of sound, technology, and physical space, viewing them as instruments for both control and liberation. He understood “architecture” not only as built form, but as a broader system of structures shaping perception, language, media, and behavior. Sound, in turn, becomes a means of disruption—capable of interfering with and reconfiguring these systems.

With GULFF, B. Wurtz, Bryce Hackford, Ardalan Sadeghikivi, Asmite Gherezgiher, Lucas Blalock, quasimatt and others.

GULFF will premier the video of their new single “the rumo(u)r,” built upon field recordings and news reports about noise generated by AI data centers. The video will be embedded into an installation featuring crowdsourced videos recorded by residents living near these facilities.

B. Wurtz will perform a selection of songs in dialogue with works in the exhibition, initiating a tour that begins with a piece performed in front of D’Addarios projected logo—the former guitar string company that once occupied and operated within these office spaces.

Bryce Hackford will perform Common Concern a solo performance working with two ends of a modern video conference call as an audiovisual instrument and processor.

Ardalan SadeghiKivi will install a new work adjusted to The Gallery space and give an artist talk on his research into corporate soundscapes, examining how they shape both architectural environments and the bodies that inhabit them.

Lucas Blalock will be selling cookies throughout the day.

Asmite Gherezgiher will install

Bombon - An unfinished tender gesture.

quasimatt presents

Meeting (Shake), 2026 iPhone application, social conditions, variable duration

This work is not the iPhone application. The application is the instrument, and the work is what happens when you use it.

To call something art is to interpret it generously; to grant that it can mean. Social life does not always receive this courtesy. It's often treated as the medium through which meaning may travel, and not the meaning itself.

People shaking their phones together is a small architecture. Inside it, guards lower and a conversation begins. The piece proposes that this socializing is the artwork, and has been all along.

The Gallery will release and sell the unlimited edition of the WeWork (oralmoral) exhibition poster, conceived and designed by Anna K.E. (25$ each)