stylus: a Project by Ann Hamilton Calls to You Tonight

stylus: a project by ann hamilton opens tonight at the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts. Ann Hamilton will be present for the reception that runs from 5-9pm and is free and open to the public.
Hamilton, with the collaboration of Composer and Sound Designer Shahrokh Yadegari, has installed stylus, a multimedia exhibition that works in harmony with the Pulitzer’s Tadao Ando building. The installation incorporates, among other things, video projections, jumping beans, taxidermy birds, an opera singer, over five hundred paper hands and church bell speakers, which sound from the Pulitzer’s rooftop. Have a look-see at a Disklavier in the Lower Gallery:
Visitors will have a chance to play that player piano in a most unusual way, and there will be other opportunities to participate in stylus. You can phone a google voice account and leave a message that may be weaved into the sound system of the building. You can wave to your friends while wearing a pair of your favorite paper hands. And as you arrive this evening, you can wave back to a hand the size of a building (you’ll know when you get there).
These factors add up to an immersing sensory experience, in which visitors are free to listen or participate in exercises of call and response.
From the Pulitzer’s website:
“The installation asks the following questions: How do we communicate? What external forces act upon or inhibit our collective need for social contact and response? How are relationships enacted (or not enacted) by the architectural spaces we inhabit?”
For more information, please visit www.pulitzerarts.org.

