GALLERY INTERVENTIONS AND LOW-FREQUENCY SOUND TO INSPIRE AUDIENCES THROUGH GENERATIVE EXCHANGE 

Props for Memory: Day 1

In conversation with themes in The Broad’s collection exhibition, Joseph Beuys: In Defense of Nature, Props for Memory is a platform for performance, ritual, and participatory experience. The first-floor galleries will set the backdrop for interventions by liberatory fitness project Pony Sweat, Grammy-nominated performer and producer Mads Falcone, and multidisciplinary artist Edgar Fabián Frías. Oculus Hall on the second floor will be home to dronebath, with three hours of uninterrupted live low-frequency sound artists to facilitate a restful journey.

About Props for Memory

In Beuys’s practice, art and activism were intertwined in numerous projects designed to empower everyday people to drive social and political change. He believed that “everyone is an artist,” meaning that all people have creative gifts to shape a better, more sustainable future, regardless of profession or position in life.

Over two consecutive afternoons, Props for Memory invites an unexpected cross-section of local musicians, poets, performers, fitness instructors, spiritual practitioners, and more, to examine the tenets of Beuys’s artistic practice and interpret them in relation to their own work. Props for Memory takes its title from a phrase that Beuys used to describe his work and serves as an opportunity to reflect on his involvement in the Fluxus movement, investigate the potential for an alternative performance paradigm, and inspire audiences through generative exchange.