Julian Day: Future Tense

Julian Day’s ‘Future Tense’ looks to sound as a deeply relational and territorial means of examining the world, envisioned as a series of tensions that are both musical and social. This sense of tension acts as a thread that connects the light-hearted anticipation of sonic games, the cumulative effect of multiple pianos all arpeggiating at once.

Giant PVC monochromes mysteriously vibrate.
Mirrored turntables play each other with elongated arms.
Flashing neon instructions trigger a state of hyperventilation.
A citizens’ choir maintains a fragile harmony for 24 hours.
Modified turntables spinning identical copies of 1980s disco hits and a video work that records a wordless requiem to social housing tenants in The Rocks.

Julian Day, Left Left Right Right, 2018; Tate Modern. Photograph: Justyna Fedec

Julian Day, 24 Hour Choir, 2017; MAAS – video still by Hospital Hill

Dominik Mersch Gallery
24 August to 22 September, 2018

Sydney

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