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USC School of Fine Arts adjunct faculty member Joel Tauber presents a three channel video installation spinning a tale around the desire for spiritual experience.
Reception: Wednesday, August 24 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM, Helen Lindhurst Fine Arts Gallery
In "The Underwater Project: Turning Myself Into Music", Joel Tauber continues to spin a tale around the desire for spiritual experience. At the same time, he develops the idea further by turning his bodily experience into the musical score of the piece itself.
Presented as a three channel video installation, the work traces a total of 40 scuba dives the artist performed over the last year. The projections show crossovers of the underwater world he discovers during these dives, images of the artist underwater immersed in clouds of air bubbles, and a motion graph that chronicles the parameters (depth and duration) of each dive. The images are accompanied by a musical score that is composed by translating the dive parameters into different instrumental voices and notes, resulting in a different melody or "song" for each dive. The installation encompasses a 51 minute musical composition that is interwoven with the imagery and the narrative of the dives.
Joel Tauber received his MFA degree from Art Center College of Design. His "Flying Project" has been shown in solo exhibitions at the Adamski Gallery, Aachen, Germany, and at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects. He has been included in the "California Biennial" at the Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, in "Light and Spaced Out: 11 Artists From Los Angeles" at the Herve Loevenbruck Gallery, Paris, in "Stuff From L.A. and Other Places" at Christine Koenig Gallery, Vienna, and in "To Believe Much More Than That" at the Wight Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles. Tauber is adjunct faculty in the Intermedia Program, USC School of Fine Arts.
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