Bending the Word / MATRIX 226

Opening Day Performance by Tris Vonna-Michell

September 28, 2008; 3:00 p.m.

Museum Theater
Reception follows in the Bancroft Lobby
Admission free!

Tris Vonna-Michell will perform the newest iteration of hahn/huhn. Evolving since 2004, the piece shows Vonna-Michell’s intense delivery at times clearly articulated, at times a blur of staccato rhythm, producing the effect of an aural collage of representative passages juxtaposed with abstract fields of sound. By the end one realizes the narratives follow a logic of coincidences discovered or invented between facts and fictions, present and past, anecdote and personal experience. Vonna-Michell has had solo exhibitions at Kunsthalle Zurich and the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam. Vonna-Michell is currently participating in the 3rd Yokohama Triennale and the upcoming 2009 Tate Triennial.