Tuesday, May 13, 2014

RICHARD GARET



Richard Garet participated in the first major American museum exhibition of contemporary sound art “Soundings: A Contemporary Score” at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Garet’s work on view August 10, 2013–November 03, 2013.



Richard Garet interweaves various media including moving image, sound, multimedia performance, and photography. In work ranging from modified environments to site specific installations to audiovisual screening works, Garet constructs intimate spaces and immersive situations that draw attention to the processes of perception and cognition, and which activate sensorial, physical, psychological phenomena that reflect on the nature and experience of time. Garet's pieces, whether conceptual in origin or stemming from his investigation of complex systems and algorithmic translations, are informed by the background noise established by mass media culture and the collective arena that surrounds him. Garet’s reductive process seeks to invert the normative function of this background noise, drawing it up from subliminal status to an active presence. He finds further inspiration from material interactions that incorporate problems of context, technology, defunctionalization, commodity, and environment. 



 Richard Garet holds an MFA from Bard College. Recent exhibitions and performances include Museum of Modern Art, New York; Mandragoras Art Space, NY; EAC: Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo, Montevideo, Uruguay; Fine Arts Museum of Montreal; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA), Barcelona, Spain; Art Museum of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico; and el Museo del Barrio, NYC. His sonic constructions have been published through sound art labels such as 23five, And-Oar, Non Visual Objects, Winds Measure Recordings, Unframed Recordings, Con-V, Leerraum, White_Line Editions, OBS, and Contour Editions. Award and Grants include the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant, the Jerome Foundation Residency Grant through Issue Project Room, and the New York State Council on the Arts Grant through Lehman College. Garet is an American artist based in NYC and originally born in Montevideo, Uruguay.


SYNCHRONOUS: the resonance of his voice
media: sound installation
duration: indeterminate
year: 2013
tech: guitar, guitar amp, sound exciter, media player 

This work makes use of John Cage's
voice stating "I have nothing to say
and I'm saying it" through a playback
device that activates a sound exciter
that is attached to the neck of an
electric guitar, consequently vibrating
the strings and generating a field of
harmonics and overtones in real time. 



Richard Garet and Julian Navarro Projects, NY - © 2013








GUITAR HEROES                            
media: sound installation
duration: indeterminate
year: 2010
tech: 2 guitars, 2 guitar amps, 2 amplified media players


                                                  Installation Two I-pods. Each playback device activates a sound exciter that is attached to the neck of one electric guitar, consequently vibrating the strings and generating a field of harmonics and overtones in real time

                                                        I-Pod 1 Top hot 10 songs of the Billboard. Week of July 17 2010

                                                             I-Pod 2 10 more popular YouTube videos with combat footage of the Iraq and Afghanistan war. Week of july 17 2010.












How to Change a Tire,
The 2010 Bard MFA Thesis Exhibition,
July 18 - July 25, 2010. USB,
7401 S. Broadway, Red Hook, NY 12571

 
How to Change a Tire,
The 2010 Bard MFA Thesis Exhibition,
July 18 - July 25, 2010. USB,
7401 S. Broadway, Red Hook, NY 12571

 
How to Change a Tire,
The 2010 Bard MFA Thesis Exhibition,
July 18 - July 25, 2010. USB,
7401 S. Broadway, Red Hook, NY 12571

 
How to Change a Tire,
The 2010 Bard MFA Thesis Exhibition,
July 18 - July 25, 2010. USB,
7401 S. Broadway, Red Hook, NY 12571

 
How to Change a Tire,
The 2010 Bard MFA Thesis Exhibition,
July 18 - July 25, 2010. USB,
7401 S. Broadway, Red Hook, NY 12571

 
How to Change a Tire,
The 2010 Bard MFA Thesis Exhibition,
July 18 - July 25, 2010. USB,
7401 S. Broadway, Red Hook, NY 12571

 
How to Change a Tire,
The 2010 Bard MFA Thesis Exhibition,
July 18 - July 25, 2010. USB,
7401 S. Broadway, Red Hook, NY 12571

 
How to Change a Tire,
The 2010 Bard MFA Thesis Exhibition,
July 18 - July 25, 2010. USB,
7401 S. Broadway, Red Hook, NY 12571