Listening Walk: Tonalities and Time Scales with Daniel Neumann and Sari Carel

As part of Sari Carel's project "A More Perfect Circle" we're inviting you to take part in a Listening Walk between the two exhibition sites (Greenpoint Public Library and Lentol Garden). Daniel Neumann will guide the group on a slow tour to explore listening as an experiential, shared engagement with our immediate environment.

The underlying theme for this walk - in relation to the wider project - will be on the aural experience of different time scales within an environment. Listening creates a direct connection between the listener and the place in the present moment, and induces a heightened sense of awareness. This awareness in turn will help unlock other temporal layers: a passing moment, rush hour, late spring, the anthropocene, other cycles, the latest epoch, period, era, eon and the lifespan of a coffee cup.

Participation does not require any prerequisites, just a willingness to take part in this act of communal sensing.

Meeting Point: Greenpoint Public Library, 107 Norman Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11222

Artist Bio

Daniel Neumann is a sound artist, organizer, and audio engineer. He holds a media art masters degree from the Academy of Visual Art Leipzig and studied electronic music composition. A main focus for him is how sound interacts with space and how space and spatial perception can be shaped by sound. He works in hybrid installation-performance formats and understands sound as an intersubjective field enabled by audio procedures. His work has been presented internationally: Zona Maco CDMX, TEA Tenerife, Sinne Helsinki, Pinacoteca Bellas Artes Manizales Colombia, Espacios Resonantes Santiago de Chile, Loop Barcelona; Sculpture Center, etc. He is represented by Fridman Gallery New York. Curatorially he runs the series [CT::SWaM] that presents spatial sound works. As an audio engineer, he has been working for Diamanda Galás, BlankForms, Time:Spans, MoMA PS1, Meredith Monk, Kevin Beasley, Phill Niblock, Ellen Reid, Missy Mazzoli, David Guetta, ACME, Alarm Will Sound and more. Insta: @neumann.fragments,  Website for Contemporary Temporary: Sound Works and Music.

Artist Bio

Sari Carel is a Brooklyn-based, multimedia artist and environmental activist whose projects consider interspecies communication, relationships between people and place, and how the senses inform perception. Recent exhibitions include The Sun Is A Mouth Of Blue at Melanie Flood Projects, Portland, OR; The Shape Of Play, a public art project in Boston’s North End, and Mud Songs For Anni at The Schneider Museum Of Art’s Art Beyond in Ashland, OR. She has been awarded fellowships and residencies at Stundars Museum, Solf, Finland; Atelier Stipendium des Bundeskanzleramtes, Vienna, Austria; and Bundanon, Illaroo, Australia; Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY; and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Residency on Governors Island, NY, among others. She is a recent recipient of a commissions award for Korean Art Forum's 2024-2025 “Shared Dialogue, Shared Space” program. Instagram: @carelsari

Organizer

KODA  is a social practice nonprofit arts organization focusing on conceptual mid-career artists ingrained in social justice. KODA offers survey exhibitions as well as tailor-made and community-based artist residencies, through collaborations with socially engaged partners. The nonprofit serves the community with contemporary art events and outreach to strengthen arts education. In its overall mission to support the artistic and professional growth of artists, KODA acts as a laboratory for creative concepts, reflecting its core values of curiosity and collaboration. Instagram: @kodalab

Co-presenters

Lentol Garden, and the Brooklyn Public Library’s Greenpoint Library and Environmental Education Center.

Image Release

Registrants, instructors, and guests attending the program agree they may be photographed, videotaped, and audio taped during the event. Photographs, videos, and voice recordings are the sole property of KODA Arts Inc., which reserves the right to publish attendees’ likeness online and use it in promotional materials.

Funding

Support for residencies, exhibitions, and programs at KODA is made possible by the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), Humanities New York with support of New York Council on Humanities (NEH), Maurer Family Foundation, Brooklyn Arts Council, FiveMyles, TRUE Africa, along with major individual support. Sari Carel: A More Perfect Circle is supported, in part, by public funds from The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; The New York Community Trust, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant. KODA’s program is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.