Christoph Cox and Sergei Tcherepnin

<p>Christoph Cox and Sergei Tcherepnin<br /> Recess—41 Grand St, New York<br /> Tuesday January 7th, 2014 7pm</p> <p>The Center for Experimental Lectures will welcome 2014 at Recess with the presentation of two new lectures by Christoph Cox and Sergei Tcherepnin.</p> <p>Christoph Cox is a philosopher, curator, and theorist of contemporary art and music. Titled <em>Matter (In Several Phases)</em>, his lecture will be an experiment in art historical research and philosophical thinking, exploring the resonances between materialist philosophy and artistic practices since the late 1960s. Eschewing the lecturer’s original voice and comprised solely of media, Cox’s lecture will offer a flow of sounds, images, and texts by artists and theorists such as Luke Fowler, Jana Winderen, Manuel DeLanda, Katie Paterson, C.M. von Hausswolff, Christina Kubisch, Michel Serres, and Joyce Hinterding.</p> <p>Sergei Tcherepnin is an artist operating at the intersection of sound, sculpture, and theater. Often invoking queer, hybridized characters such as the figure of the Pied Piper, Tcherepnin’s scenarios cultivate play between things and bodies, compelling the audience to develop a “score” for listening to these animated objects. These interactions suggest new possibilities for intimacy with sound, where “listening” involves a more expansive state of activity. For the Center for Experimental Lectures he will present <em>In Search of Queer Sound</em>, a lecture-performance that poses questions around the sensuality of listening, sound’s penetration of the body, and how and where we might locate queerness in our experiences with sound.</p>