Lizzi Bougatsos will present a site-specific performance at MAD on July 8 (photo by Brian DeGraw)
MADactivates: PERFORMANCE AT MAD
Museum of Arts and Design
2 Columbus Circle at 58th St. & Eighth Ave.
Friday, July 8, $20, 7:00
212-299-7777
madmuseum.org
Queens native Lizzi Bougatsos, leader of Gang Gang Dance, will be at the Museum of Arts and Design on July 8, giving a specially commissioned performance in conjunction with the exhibition “Atmosphere for Enjoyment: Harry Bertoia’s Environment for Sound.” Bertoia, who died in 1978, was a jewelry and chair designer who also created sounding sculptures that he housed in his Pennsylvania barn. For the exhibition, Bougatsos, who performed “ENERGY CHANCE” at MoMA in 2014 as part of “John Cage: There Will Never Be Silence,” created a sound and video recording at the Sonambient Barn with Brian DeGraw for the show, “We Echo Now His Love”; on Friday night, she will enact the site-specific performance “The Last Hope” at MAD, interacting with works in the exhibit. On July 15, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe (aka Lichens), who made “Spell Casting” at the barn, will perform “Levitation Praxis Pt. 4” at MAD.