Pace Live

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and Eli Keszler

Sync

Thursday, Oct 20
7 PM
510 West 25th Street
New York

Event Details:

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Eli Keszler
Sync
Thursday, Oct 20
7 PM
Doors Open: 6:30 PM
510 West 25th Street
New York

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Pace Live is pleased to present Sync, an audiovisual collaboration between artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and percussionist, composer, and artist Eli Keszler.

This performance will take place amid Lozano-Hemmer’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, titled Common Measures and on view at 510 West 25th Street in New York through October 22. It will center on his immersive, biometric artwork Pulse Topology, which consists of 3,000 suspended lightbulbs that glimmer in tune with the heartbeats of different participants from the past. Pulse sensors detect and record new heartbeats, which replace the oldest ones, creating a memento mori.

For this upcoming Pace Live event, Keszler—who has released numerous solo albums, including his most recent ICONS (2021, LuckyMe), and presented his work at The Kitchen in New York; Lincoln Center, the MIT List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts the Victoria and Albert Museum in London; and other spaces around the world—will activate Pulse Topology with his distinctive drumming style. Keszler has previously worked with Kevin Beasley, Oneohtrix Point Never, Skrillex, and many more artists, and his one-off performance at Pace can be understood as “Beat Minimalism” for the 21st century.

This performance may not be suited for and may potentially trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy due to flashing lights. Viewer discretion is advised.

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

Common Measures

Sep 9 – Oct 22, 2022
New York

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Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer is a media artist who creates platforms for public participation using technologies such as robotic lights, digital fountains, computerized surveillance, media walls, and telematic networks.

He was the first artist to represent Mexico at the Venice Biennale with an exhibition at Palazzo van Axel in 2007. He has also shown at biennials in Cuenca, Havana, Istanbul, Kochi, Liverpool, Melbourne, Moscow, New Orleans, New York, Seoul, Seville, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney, and Wuzhen.

Public artworks by Lozano-Hemmer have been commissioned for the Millennium Celebrations in Mexico City (1999), the Expansion of the European Union in Dublin (2004), the Student Massacre Memorial in Tlatelolco (2008), the Vancouver Olympics (2010), the pre-opening exhibition of the Guggenheim in Abu Dhabi (2015), and the activation of the Raurica Roman Theatre in Basel (2018).

In 2019, his immersive performance Atmospheric Memory premiered at the Manchester International Festival and his interactive installation Border Tuner connected people across the US-Mexico border using bridges of light controlled by the voices of participants in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua and El Paso, Texas.

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Eli Keszler

Eli Keszler is a New York based artist, composer and percussionist. Keszler has released solo records for LuckyMe, Shelter Press, Empty Editions, ESP-DISK', PAN and REL Records to critical acclaim including his latest release ‘ICONS’ (2021, LuckyMe). His film work includes original scores for Lofty Nathan’s Harka (2022), which won Best Actor at Cannes and Dasha Nekrasova’s The Scary of Sixty First (2021) which won GWFF Best First Feature Award at the Berlin Film Festival, and contributions to Daniel Lopatin's Uncut Gems (2019). As a composer, Keszler's commissions include: the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra, ICE Ensemble, Brooklyn String Orchestra and So Percussion. He has collaborated with Oneohtrix Point Never, Skrillex, Laurel Halo, Kevin Beasley, Rashad Becker, Laure Prouvost, and David Grubbs among others. Keszler tours internationally and his music, installations, and visual work have appeared at the Whitney Museum, Lincoln Center, MIT List Center, 67 Ludlow, Victoria & Albert Museum, Sculpture Center, The Kitchen, South London Gallery, Hessel Museum, Harvard's Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Luma-Foundation, Barbican-St. Lukes, Walker Art Center, LAX Art, and MoMA PS1.