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One of my favorite curatorial projects/art historians, ➚Triple Candie, put together an audio-scape of environmental sounds (bird calls, city sounds and honking horns, the clamor of sailboat halyards flapping against aluminum masts, water lapping against a dock) interspersed with: readings of texts by the artists Ryan Gander, Katerina Šedá, and Swoon (all 2008); interviews with two sailors living aboard their boats in the Chesapeake Bay (2022); a text by Tacita Dean on the Bas Jan Ader (2006); a 19th-century sea shanty; and an excerpt from Tadeusz Kantor’s Let the Artists Die (1985).

Triple Candie is a curatorial production agency that ran a 6,000 sq. ft. gallery in Harlem in the aughts. Today, it guest-organizes exhibitions internationally while populating a 22 sq. ft. gallery near the U.S. Capitol Building. ➚Its projects, often rigorously researched and occasionally irreverent, comprise unfaithful copies and props.

Track Listing:
00:00 Bird calls.
05:13 City sounds and honking cars.
06:06 Audio track sample from Francis Alÿs, Sometimes Making Something Leads to Nothing, Mexico City, video, 1997.
06:20 Audio track sample from David Hammons, Phat Free, video, 1995–99
07:08 Alÿs, Sometimes Making Something.
07:37 Katerina Šedá, “Dear Diary,” commissioned by Shelly Bancroft, Peter Nesbett, and Rebecca Sears and published in artonpaper magazine in 2008. Excerpts read by Shelly Bancroft.
12:52 Alÿs, Sometimes Making Something.
13:42 Audio excerpt from a video of Ryan Gander’s installation, I Need Some Meaning I Can Memorise (The Invisible Pull), 2012, Documenta 13, Kassel, Germany.
14:08 Excerpts from a phone interview in May 2022 with a friend who lives aboard his 42’ sailboat at Harbor Island Marina, Solomons Island, Maryland.
16:51 Mast halyards clanking in the wind.
18:58 Excerpts from an audio recording by Austin Hutchinson, a friend who lives aboard his 30’ sailboat in the Chesapeake Bay.
22:17 “A Life on the Ocean Wave” (1838), words by Epes Sargent, music by Henry Russell, sung by Fred Feild.
23:38 Audio track sample from a video of the final scene in “Let the Artists Die” (1985), by the Polish playwright, director, and artist Tadeusz Kantor, performance venue unknown.
33:43 Mast halyards clanking in the wind.
35:26 Gander, I Need Some Meaning.”
35:41 Ryan Gander, “Dear Diary,” commissioned by Shelly Bancroft, Peter Nesbett, and Rebecca Sears and published in artonpaper magazine in 2008. Excerpts read by Peter Nesbett, recorded with a voice filter.
40:03 Alÿs, Sometimes Making Something.
40:33 Bird songs.
46:20 Swoon, “Dear Diary,” commissioned by Shelly Bancroft, Peter Nesbett, and Rebecca Sears and published in artonpaper magazine in 2008. Excerpts read by Shelly Bancroft.
49:04 City sounds and honking cars.
49:57 Alÿs, Sometimes Making Something.
50:19 Tacita Dean, “And he fell into the sea,” from Bas Jan Ader: Please Don’t Leave Me, edited by Rein Wolfs (Rotterdam: Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, 2006). Further edited and read by Peter Nesbett.
55:44 Harbor, waves, and ocean sounds.

 

 

 

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