Appearing on the heels of a national tour with Animal Collective, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith will perform outdoors at sunset on the Museum Courtyard Main Stage with projected visuals mixing with the textures of the Getty's travertine walls. Originally from Orcas Island in Washington, Smith carries forth her fascinations with the natural world into her signature prismatic, lush, and environmental sounds created on the Buchla Music Easel, a rare modular synthesizer developed in 1963.
Artist Michael Parker has teamed up with Wesley Hicks to create a series of instruction-based scores to be performed live by 30+ musicians on physically and tonally unique ceramic instruments, handmade by the artists in a variety of lustrous glazes and organic forms. Parker's noted exhibition Juicework at Human Resources last year included 1,000 ceramic sculptures presented as both functional citrus juicers, cups, platters, and hanging lights, in a multi-faceted participatory installation. Part of Juicework was the collapsing of Parker's juicers and Hicks' ocarinas, a type of ceramic flute, into a new microtonal instrument: the Juicerina. The Juicerina performances have developed into an ongoing site-specific project, with presentations at the Pomona College Museum of Art's "R.S.V.P. Los Angeles" and San Francisco's Southern Exposure Gallery. Tracing connections to the Getty's artworks and architecture while moving between galleries, liminal spaces, courtyards, and gardens, Parker and Hicks' original scores will bring a new experience of sound and space into the far corners of the Getty site.
Presented by wild Up, composer and sound artist Chris Kallmyer will perform Circles Circling among the flora of the Getty's Central Garden, a composition that blends guitar and other instruments played live with the amplified sound of 1,000 live crickets. Kallmyer's practice explores a participatory approach to making music through touch, taste, and process using everyday objects. Currently a Performing Fellow at SFMoMA, he has presented a wide-ranging series of projects at the Walker Art Center, LACMA, the Hammer Museum, and other art spaces including the Indianapolis Museum of Art, who commissioned Circles Circling. Inspired by crickets' natural attunement with the changing light of the seasons, Kallymer will use guitar and push-organ to create improvised, circular music exploring the mystery of the spheres, the passage of time, and the poetics of crickets.
Following upon recent museum interventions at the Barbican Centre and the Serpentine Gallery in London, Berlin-based Puerto Rican dancer and choreographer Kianí del Valle will give a solo performance among the architectural forms of the Getty Museum courtyards.
Inspired by the Getty Center's iconic people-mover transporting visitors up the hill, Veggie Cloud presents Manakamana, a documentary by filmmakers Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez, produced by the Sensory Ethnographic Lab at Harvard University. Consisting of 11 uncut vignettes documenting rides on a cable car as it ascends a mountain in the jungles of Nepal, the film captures intimate, transitory moments between pilgrims as they make an ancient journey to worship at the Manakamana Temple. An additional selection of shorts connected to trams or other forms of transportation will be announced.
Each session of the 2016 Friday Flights program will feature a limited edition poster as a free takeaway, created by artist David Horvitz. The first iteration will be a variation on his print "Nobody Owns the Beach."
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