Joseph Keckler | Guest Artist: Holland Andrews
(Brooklyn, NY)
Cove of Harmony
ACCESS NOTES
Parts of this performance include translation of non-English language into visual text only. To request an audio description at least two weeks in advance of the performance, or to inquire about any other access needs, please email the Box Office at boxoffice@pica.org or call 503-224-PICA (7422).
DESCRIPTION
The first in a series, this episode premieres a musical film about a mysterious and transformative encounter, showcases an in-studio performance by vocalist and composer Holland Andrews, and features a conversation between Holland and Joseph.
Featuring new works, exclusive performances, and intimate conversations about life and art, this new music and variety program embraces the idea that with moments of uncertainty comes a weird invitation to dream. The program’s name is inspired by Cave of Harmony, Elsa Lanchester’s 1920s London nightclub.
ADDITIONAL NOTES
In addition to Keckler's live performance on September 9, PICA has commissioned the first episode of Cove of Harmony, a new series of collaborative videos by the artist. As part of the TBA Festival, this first episode will premiere digitally via PICA's YouTube platform and Joseph Keckler's Vimeo page and will be available for exclusive access from September 10–18. Please see Joseph Keckler's event page at pica.org/tba to access a link to this new video work starting September 10th.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Joseph Keckler is a musician, writer, and artist who often zeroes in on moments of daily life and spins them into absurd and affecting underworld voyages. His musical performances have been presented by the NPR Tiny Desk concert series, Lincoln Center, Centre Pompidou, and others. In 2019 he premiered two performance pieces—a dreamlike travelogue, Train With No Midnight, with Prototype Festival, and Let Me Die, an epic medley of operatic death scenes, with Opera Philadelphia—and toured the US as the national support act for Sleater-Kinney. His writing has appeared in McSweeney’s, Vice, Lithub, and other publications; his debut collection Dragon at the Edge of a Flat World was published in 2018 by Turtle Point Press. This year he is an artist in residence with Dartmouth and the Ringling Museum of Art and is currently working on new videos and recordings.
Holland Andrews is a vocalist, composer, and performance artist whose work focuses on the abstraction of operatic and extended-technique voice to build soundscapes encompassing both catharsis and dissonance. Previously performing under the stage name Like a Villain, their solo work tours nationally and internationally, and they are among the first artists to release on Leiter, a Berlin-based record label spearheaded by composer Nils Frahm.