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1 / fields harrington: Latent Yield
june 6th, saturday, 6.15-7pm at gmtc
sonic performance
outlines for a dispersed commons
Latent Yield is a live sonic performance in which harrington amplifies saccharine matter, treating it as both primary material and central argument. when placed directly against contact microphones, the matter becomes a sonic body; its texture, weight, and grain are translated into signal, making its substance and history audible. magnetic stirrers keep matter in continuous motion, while electromagnetic field (EMF) microphones capture the resulting invisible electromagnetic fields, thereby rendering latent forces perceptible. hydrophone microphones and effects pedals further extend this amplification. additionally, a no-input mixing board functions as a self-generating instrument, operating as a feedback-driven circuit that produces tone solely from its own unstable electricity.
rooted in the legacy of Black chemical engineer Norbert Rillieux, whose innovations revolutionized sugar processing, the performance situates saccharine matter in relation to the history of its extraction. in this context, labor becomes audible, latency is transformed into signal, and yield is conceptually returned to the body responsible for its production.
fields harrington (b. 1986) is a Brooklyn-based artist whose research-based practice spans sculpture, photography, and writing. His work examines how knowledge, technology, and infrastructures, often assumed to be neutral, are shaped by underlying ideologies of race, value, and power. Working at the nexus of labor, capitalism, and knowledge production in the United States, harrington brings notions of efficiency, timekeeping, resource extraction, and exhaustion, and the racialized production of scientific truth to the fore. Across his work, harrington reverses the process by which inequities are normalized into imperceptibility. harrington holds a BFA from the University of North Texas and an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania; he also studied at San Antonio Community College and participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program. His work has been presented in solo exhibitions at David Salkin Gallery, KAJE, Petrine, and Y2K Group and included in group exhibitions at MoMA PS1, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Parsons School of Design, and Automat Gallery. He was an L.A.B. researcher-in-residence at The Kitchen in collaboration with The School for Poetic Computation and participated in the research residency Site to be Seen at RAIR.
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