Casey Kaplan
An Evening with Kevin Beasley
Yale School of Music
Thursday, October 4 | 7 pm
Kevin Beasley (b. 1985 Lynchburg) is a New York-based artist whose work and performances have been shown internationally. His practice engages history and cultural nuance through diverse media, including sculpture, sound and performance. Since 2012, these works have been developed as process-lead explorations in which materials, audio and residue are altered, cast, distorted and rebuilt. Specifically, his approach to sound ruptures the auditory, implicating the body. As Thomas Lax writes in Artforum, “Beasley’s absenting presence” presence as voice, as indexical mark, presence that may be active and collective or haunted, spectral, and deferred” strategically negotiates the reality of being an embodied subject who cannot elide the dangers of subjection or its historical and political specificities.
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