Performance in the Galleries with Suzanne Bocanegra and David Lang
PAST
20 JUL 2019
Performance
2:00 PM
FREE
Composer David Lang collaborates with Suzanne Bocanegra to bring her meditative installation Dialogue of the Carmelites to life. Music created by David Lang and sung by Caroline Shaw, with sound design by Jody Elff, accompanies Bocanegra’s work for the exhibition Bel Canto. In this performance, Lang directs four singers to perform the score live. The lyrics, crowd-sourced from the Internet, are presented in a whispered chant, a sonic rosary, and are meant as a meditation on a life in community, a life never alone.
Suzanne Bocanegra works at the intersection of contemporary visual and performing arts. She moves fluidly between installation, sculpture, costume des...
“With his winning of the Pulitzer Prize for the little match girl passion (one of the most original and moving scores of recent years), Lang, once a p...
