The Beat Goes On

SVA’s fall 2016 art programming launches with “The Beat Goes On,” an exhibition featuring

work by Elia Alba, Kevin Beasley, Paul D. Miller, a.k.a., D.J. Spooky, and Tameka Norris, a.k.a. Meka Jean, and curated by visual artist Derrick Adams. For “The Beat Goes On,” the SVA Chelsea Gallery has been transformed into four distinct listening rooms, each presenting a solo show by one of the featured artists. Encompassing photography, sculpture, installation, performance and video works, each room takes music and the history of recorded and transmitted sound as its inspiration. On view August 20 – September 17, “The Beat Goes On” is the first exhibition mounted in the gallery’s newly renovated space. A reception with performances will take place Thursday, September 8, 6:00 – 8:00pm.

Adams’ aim in curating “The Beat Goes On” was to “celebrate the cross section of contemporary culture where visual arts meet and merge with music.” Adams adds “each artist acts as a predecessor in the development of the turntable and its [relationship] to the cultural hubs and the alternative languages it forms in relation to current technologies, counterculture happenings, experimentation, the avant¬-garde and the mainstream.” In this way, each artist explores the idea of the turntable as a facilitator of myth as well as sound.

http://www.sva.edu/events/events-exhibitions/the-beat-goes-on