Sensory Riffs Exhibition Will Host Opening Reception on Wednesday, December 18th
Sandra Ruiz & Daniel Hughes Noriega Vernola
SENSORY RIFFS & VISCERAL TURNS: FROM SYLLABLE TO SOUND TO PRINT
Ortega y Gasset Projects
363 3rd Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11215
Friday- Sunday 1pm–6pm
Opening Reception: Wednesday, December 18th 6-9 PM, Performance & Talk 7:30
Sensory Riffs & Visceral Turns: From Syllable To Sound To Print is a commemoration of queer friendship, political solidarity, mourning, and the merging of forms through abstract art and experimental writing. This exhibition describes what it means to be viscerally touched and turned over by words. Following Sandra Ruiz’s Left Turn in Brown Study’s directive to turn into new anticolonial ways of study, abstract painter, Daniel Hughes Noriega Vernola, takes the poetry and poetics of Ruiz and riffs sensorially by crafting 51 monoprints into visual scores. Each print is abstracted according to the embodiment of the spirit of each poem, lyrical essay, or vignette. Vernola engages intuitive listening, and then visually translates from a disordered but ordered sentimentality into performative monoprints. The monoprints and scores were created over months during an incubation session between writer and artist and in conversation with altars to the spirits of the poems assembled by curator Dusty Childers. On opening night, movement artist Estado Flotante will activate the space, performing a sight-specific soundscape crafted by electronic composer Erica Gressman from the book’s content. This exhibition and activation at Ortega y Gasset is funded and supported by the Minor Aesthetics Lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and curated by Dusty Childers, an multi-hyphenate artist and performer who carries the torch of queer disruption into the gallery world, building a world that celebrates voices that must be amplified louder.
Minor Aesthetics Lab is a multisensory lab for minoritarian aesthetics, experiments, incubations, productions, and creative-theoretical work led by Sandra Ruiz. Funding is made possible by the Mellon Foundation, the College of Fine & Applied Arts at UIUC,and the Sue Divan Producing Fund.