Wei Yang and Murphy Janssen | now you are there when this happened
October 6-December 8, 2023
Opening Reception: Friday, October 6, 7pm
In person at Jack Straw Cultural Center
Artist Talk: Friday, November 3, 7pm
Youth and Family Workshop: Saturday, December 9, 2-4pm
Artist performances: Mondays: October 9 and 30, November 20, December 4
Wei Yang and Murphy Janssen perform live with the installation, in person in the Jack Straw New Media Gallery
Visits by appointment, M-F, 10am-5:30pm
Call 206-634-0919 or email jsp@jackstraw.org to schedule a visit
This interactive audio-visual installation deals with the poetics and uncertainty of memory, which seems to stand still, until it is engaged; seems to occupy a continuum, but only fragments surface, while the rest remain gray. Sounds, colors—how are they recalled, reactivated, rebuilt, and reallocated? It asks, whose memory is it? Is the past yet to be made?
Presented in conjunction with SPAM New Media Festival.
Education Projects
Wei Yang and Murphy Janssen: now you are there when this happened
In December 2023, Jack Straw and Arts and Visually Impaired Audiences (AVIA) presented an accessible youth and family art workshop at Jack Straw in conjunction with Wei Yang and Murphy…
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Wei Yang
Wei Yang is a composer/sound artist from China. He works with different mediums, through which he often contemplates the body’s role in sound production, sound in space, as…
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Murphy Janssen
Murphy Janssen is a recent graduate from UW with an M.M. in Jazz and Improvised music (‘21). With an emphasis on composition, improvisation, and electro-acoustic music in his…
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