Making Noise

Curators: Andrew Cappetta and Jeff Pash
Melville Gallery at the South Street Seaport Museum,
213 Water Street, near the South Street Seaport
November 28, 2007 – January 2, 2008
Hours: Wednesday – Sunday, 12pm – 5pm
Opening Receoption: Thursday, November 29, 6-8pm

Making Noise features work by visual artists who utilize the many different modes by which sound is produced and received; the exhibition includes video, sculpture, audio installation, transmissions and performances, demonstrating the varied distribution channels of sound and uncovering the political potential in each.  Exploring the possibilities that lie within the relationship between producer and receiver, these artists demonstrate how the manipulation of sound can become a tool used by those in power and, used to subvert that power.

Artists: Kabir Carter, Kate Gilmore, Tom Kotik, neuroTransmitter (Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere), Nadine Robinson, Douglas Ross, Stephen Vitiello

[More about OUT of SITE]

In 1997, the World Trade Center gained a new group of tenants: artists. Over the past 10 years, LMCC’s residency program, now called Workspace has provided free, temporary studio space in Lower Manhattan to over 250 emerging artists and writers in such locations as the Woolworth Building the U.S. Custom House. Our mission to place artists in studios just blocks from Wall Street has changed what it means to “work” downtown.  Invited curators explored the vast archive of the LMCC residency program and came up four diverse exhibitions, combining artists from various years, locations and mediums. Out of Site is a series of guest curated exhibitions and special events that takes artists’ work out of the studio and brings audiences to several locations downtown to explore the program’s past and present.

Lead sponsorship for Out of Site provided by American Express.

Additional support for Out of Site provided by
the Peter Norton Family Foundation, and Cowles Charitable Trust.

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LMCC is grateful to Workspace supporters: Milton & Sally Avery Arts Foundation, ConEdison, Deutsche Bank, Agnes Gund, The Greenwall Foundation, Jerome Foundation, JPMorgan Chase, The Kettering Family Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, The May & Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Silverstein Properties, Inc., Starry Night Fund of Tides Foundation, and Trinity Real Estate.