Session 5
Tuesday, January 31, 2023
Pete Drungle
CHAOS
As part of Sessions, a spin-off of Gagosian Premieres, Bessie Award–winning composer and pianist Pete Drungle performs an improvised piece for piano created in response to Urs Fischer’s exhibition of digital sculptures at Marciano Art Foundation in Los Angeles, which was presented by Gagosian. Previously, Drungle has made music with Ornette Coleman, Craig Harris, Yoko Ono, and others, and has collaborated with visual artists including Lilibeth Cuenca-Rasmussen, Rudolf Stingel, and Spencer Sweeney. In CHAOS, he responds to five hundred unique works from Fischer’s series CHAOS #1–#501, which are displayed in the exhibition on a trio of colossal suspended screens. Wielding his mastery of multiple genres and techniques, Drungle explores polyrhythm and polytonality in the context of a maximalist visual presentation.
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Sessions
Sessions is a spin-off of Gagosian Premieres featuring short-form videos of performances with music, dance, and poetry by some of today’s most acclaimed creative voices. Sessions can be newly commissioned performances or outtakes from Premieres episodes.