World of Echo: Julius Eastman and Arthur Russell

Borrowing its title from Arthur Russell’s 1986 album, this exhibition reconsiders the legacies of two maverick artists Arthur Russell and Julius Eastman, focusing on their intersections, shared spaces, and continued echoes today. The show takes Seth Parker Woods’ audio installation The Holy Presence—which presents his performance of the ten cello parts in Eastman’s 1981 masterwork The Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc in an array of speakers—as a model for an immersive, focused, and somatic intersection of the artist’s work. Incorporating archival materials including rarely seen video and newly available audio, the exhibition draws attention to the various modes of collaboration between these two artists—as curator, conductor, performer, musician, and friend—from 1975 until their all-too-early deaths.