After a decade of dialogue and various collaborative projects, multi-media artists Stefan Tcherepnin and Emanuel Rossetti founded Staged Worlds as a conduit for merging common interests, ideas and strategies.
At Blank Forms, Staged Worlds presents a new work consisting of an array of interconnecting performative, sculptural and ambient elements. Musical fragments performed by Tcherepnin on piano and guitar, combined with the continuous drone of static city soundscape, processed using various modules of a unique Serge Modular panel specially designed for Maryanne Amacher. Perhaps more of a sonic excursion of one pocket of the city, propelled by explorations of free rhythm and counterpoint, culminating in resonance. A new air duct sculpture serves as a resonant listening apparatus, merging all sounds heard in the gallery space, filtering the different frequencies and negotiating the threshold between presence and absence.
In addition, this event will serve as the New York launch of Emanuel Rossetti, Staged Worlds: Beatitude, a catalogue which documents a recent exhibition at the Abbatiale Bellelay in the Swiss Jura mountains, as well as texts in French and English by curator Sylvain Menétrey and artist and critic Erika Landström.