Documentation: video, discussion
Image courtesy of the artist and ISSUE Project Room.
“Precipitation comes when moisture in a cloud becomes too heavy to be suspended anymore and falls down to earth, to people and places with varying capacities for absorption, porousness and compaction. Heavy rains leave watermarks and clogging like memories in minds and landscapes. For a compacted city or person who can absorb no more; flooding, oversaturation, and hopefully floating, ensue.” – Cal Fish
Cal Fish will lead Come Again Another Day, a “soft sound sculpture performance” at The 8th Floor on Thursday, March 7, from 6-8pm. This immersive piece is rooted in New York City’s dripping soundscape shared over body-sensitive FM radio transmissions. With collaborators Becca Rodriguez and Kwami Winfield, Cal will adorn the space with sustained wind-instrument tones, absorbent soft sculptures, pieces from their Pre-York River archive of oral histories, and other sonic fragments offering ecological insight and acoustemology (knowing through sound).
This program is part of the third season of Sight/Geist, a series at The 8th Floor that supports local emerging film and performance artists. The performance will begin by 6:30pm, to be followed by an artist discussion and Q&A led by the Foundation’s Charles de Agustin, Sight/Geist organizer.
All of our events are free and open to the public. The gallery will be open for normal public hours of Reality Reframed: Recent Works by Todd Gray on the day of the program from 11am, with select works potentially obstructed from 5pm due to the event setup. Info on accessing our space can be found here. Email us with any questions.
Cal Fish (they/them) is a cross-disciplinary artist from Sea Cliff, NY based in Brooklyn. Their work is multi-modal and immersive, often employing interactive sonic tools/sculptures, experimental pop music, video, sewing soft and social sculpture. Cal performs regularly around NYC and has toured to share work all across North America and parts of Europe. Cal has built projects focused on making connections between ecologies, histories, and empathy audible via collaboration, performance, and public installations that use sound to thread the past into the present. This work can use listening practices, electromagnetic fields, sounding utilitarian objects, fm hijacking, oral histories, resonant frequencies, up-cycled quilts, interactive websites, archive building, conductive thread, comfort objects and other magical sonic tools to create environments for critical play and technological ecological discovery. Graduating from Bard in 2018 as a joint major in music/studio art, Cal has since shared work at venues including Chaos Computer, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Flux Factory, The Shed, Citipunkt, ISSUE Project Room, the Joyce Theater, BAM, and Newtown Creek Nature Walk Park. Currently Cal sews and sells up-cycled clothing, manages the Living Gallery, hosts Anthroapology on Newtown Radio, and works in collaboration with Kyle Marshal Choreography. calfish.land
Kwami Winfield, also known as Soless Dialtone, is a multi-disciplinary sound artist, composer, and improviser born in Jersey City and based in Brooklyn. Winfield works with trumpet, electronics, percussion, trash, rocks, and other objects and collaborators, and is led by a fascination with the sticky, noisy, and often grotesque circuitry of everyday accumulation, consumption, and waste. Winfield has developed her interdisciplinary collaborations as a Pioneer Works Music Resident (2023), an Artist in Residence at Chaos Computer (2023), and in ongoing compositional contributions to the works of choreographers Arien Wilkerson and Kyle Marshall.
Becca Rodriguez is a Florida-raised multimedia artist living in Atlanta, GA. Their creative practice reflects and is informed by the intersection of speculative fiction and prefiguration: how imagining worlds beyond our own can aid in deepening earthen wisdom. Fluvial eggs and vessels are persistent motifs in Rodriguez’s ceramic, textile, and sonic installations, becoming elemental altarwork to fictional and existing ecosystems.
Image description: On a warm night in a grassy field, a performer plays a flute with one hand while reaching for a bucket with the other. Many curious other objects and audience members surround the performer.