Judy Dunaway (solo) / Marie Carroll & Yoona Kim (duo)
Judy Dunaway
Marie Carroll & Yoona Kim
Saturday, July 23, 2022 at 5pm
Fisher Hill Reservoir Park
78-144 Fisher Avenue, Brookline Map
Parking & bathrooms available. 15-minute walk from the D line, Beaconsfield stop
FREE
Please be respectful and practice social distancing
About the artists
Latex balloons are arguably the most important “instrument” in the Fluxus arsenal, appearing frequently in works by Fluxus composers and playfully engaged in most Fluxus activities. It fulfilled George Maciunus’ 1963 manifesto as an object that was not bourgeois or intellectual and embodied the Fluxus attitude as a playful every-day object. Yet hidden within this was an endless landscape of sounds. Sound artist Judy Dunaway is the world’s foremost expert on latex balloons as sound producers, making this the cornerstone of her feminist practice for over 30 years and presenting this work at many major venues throughout North America and Europe.
Dunaway’s sound art is heavily influenced by women involved, both officially and unofficially, in the Fluxus movement. This special set developed for the 60th anniversary of Fluxus intertwines references to works by Yoko Ono, Alison Knowles, Charlotte Moorman, Shigeko Kubota, Carolee Schneeman, Kate Millet, Valie Export, and others. The performance will be framed within George Maciunus’ 1963 composition “Solo for Balloons.” (George Maciunus himself dressed in women’s clothes for his and Billie Hutching’s “Flux Wedding,” opening the possibility of transgender leanings.) Judy Dunaway has been teaching at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston since 2005.
Marie Carroll & Yoona Kim
Marie Carroll is a composer-improviser, electroacoustic musician, and koto player. Her work is influenced by natural phenomena and explores themes of liminality and transience. she enjoys using analog synthesizers and effects units.
Yoona Kim is a Boston and South Korea-based performer, composer, and improviser who creates music based on traditional aesthetics inherent in Korean music.
The two are members of the trio Paulownia, an experimental zither trio. formed at New England Conservatory in 2021.
This program is supported in part by a grant from the Brookline Commission for the Arts, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
