Tom Burr: March 8

Tom Burr Presents: sculpture in a constricted space & other stories
Sculpture Center, 44-19 Purves Street, Long Island City
Saturday, March 8, 6pm

Tom Burr reads sculpture in a constricted space and combines his 2006 text Ode to A Chair with improvised music by two highly regarded jazz musicians, Gaël Horellou on alto saxophone and Ari Hoenig on drums, accompanied by twelve-year-old Isaac Preiss on cello.

The artists mirror each other's moods in humorous, tragic-comic swirls of responses, taking Burr's Ode to A Chair as a point of departure and incorporating the musical energies of Kurt Weill, Rimsky-Korsakov, and various lineages of jazz.

Organized as a musical reading and cocktail party, the evening also emulates and renders homage to the environments of Chick Austin, Frank O'Hara, Kurt Weill, and Gertrude Stein.

Placed within the context of Tom Burr's current exhibition Addict-Love, sculpture in a constricted space and other stories further explores how modernism can be perceived as a script meant to be endlessly repeated.

http://www.sculpture-center.org/pe_ca_mar.html