Yale Schwarzman Center
Program
ANIMAL: A Listening Gym
Created by Ash Fure and stock-a-studio
in collaboration with Charlotte Brathwaite, Sunder Ganglani and Samita Sinha
with special thanks to Derrick Belcham, Peter Burr, Grace Carney, Debbie Garcia, Jennifer Harrison Newman, Daniel Neumann and Zachary Schumacher
Curated by Bryce Dessner, artist-in-residence
Produced in partnership with ArKtype / Thomas O. Kriegsmann
Graphic Design by Yale School of Art GD
Both a total installation and a site for live performance, ANIMAL offers up an underworld of sound.
The project features full-body sonic machines that function like a sensory circuit workout: you press, you lift, you lean, you lie, you exercise your animal capacity to sense.
Built by stock-a-studio and set within the spherical acoustics of The Dome, each station on the circuit feeds sound back into the whole, charting lines of listening and collective calibration that animate the social utility of sound.
Fure performs live on a custom gym rig at designated showtimes throughout the run, and a squad of elite listeners works the circuit with the crowd, like an underground resistance in training.
ANIMAL: A Listening Gym was commissioned by the Schwarzman Center and opens to the public from October 21 - 28, 2023.
