BOUNDLESS/COUNTLESS @ Kitchen Distribution | MONDAY, SEPT. 4TH | TUESDAY, SEPT. 5TH | FREE ($5.00 suggested donation) 9:00PM. Only 40 seats are available for each night’s performance. Please email sound@kitchendistribution.com to reserve seating.
BOUNDLESS/COUNTLESS is a collaboration between Michigan-based artists Fred Thomas and Soma Wingelaar. Thomas is a musician, producer and recording artist best known for his work with experimental pop group Saturday Looks Good To Me. Thomas has spent the last five years releasing his own material in addition to such artists as Genders, Dead Machines, and His Name Is Alive. In April his solo record Sink Like A Symphony debuted, and recent performances have gone the way of reverb-heavy vocal loops and wordy folk songs, quite the departure from SLGTM’s carefree pop and soul.
University of Michigan graduate Soma Wingelaar is an installation artist and printmaker who recently completed a residency at the New General Catalog 224 in New York City, where this collaboration was conceived. Wingelaar constructed a breathing, womb-like environment made from translucent rip-stop parachute material to be used as a setting for performances. Connected to dimming lights and a fan that inflates/deflates the structure, this portable enclosure expands to fill the interior of a space.
For the performance, the audience is invited inside the structure with the artists. A device controls the volume and ambience of the space during Thomas’ performance, and at certain moments, dims the lights and lowers the cieling. At moments the soft light lining the floors mixed with the sound and current of the fans creates a soothing and unsettling effect. The white material continuously undulates and shifts as Thomas’ spare notes, looped sounds, and improvised wailings make subtle and resistant dialogue with the space.
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