In this video, 2010 artist Ari Marcopoulos brings together musicians from the electroacoustic improvisation scene, including Orphan and Yellow Tears, for a night of performance and noise.
Ari Marcopoulos’s photographs and videos capture the rhythm and feel of diverse youth-oriented subcultures from snowboarding to underground music. His honest portraits depict, as he has stated, “something that just stands for life lived.” This evening, he brings together musicians from the electroacoustic improvisation scene, including Orphan, Mirror/Dash, and Yellow Tears for a night of performance and noise.
My Turn invites artists to create programs for the Whitney’s public that are an extension of and informed by their own artistic processes and methods. Taking their contributions to 2010 as a point of departure, six Biennial artists explore key aspects of their practice to create distinctive evenings of performance, discussion, demonstration, and engagement.
2010 curator Gary Carrion-Murayari visits the artist’s home to play a match of FIFA 10 soccer while Marcopoulos blasts a track from his lo-fi noise tape collection titled Nail Paint Mausoleum.