The Humbling
Vermont
See You at Riis
Speaking Sentences Backwards
Filling Holes
Between Isolation
Earth is a Breathing Valley
Music for Unfinished Instruments
Acoustic Ephemera
Partials (from the frozen mud field)
Intimate Views
Continuous Becoming
Interrobang
Light, Color and Geometry
Dark and Pretty Flat
Vortex
Cody Boyce is an artist and musician based in Queens, NY. He has composed for dance, film and installation, including
collaborations with
his sister, choreographer Esmé Boyce; filmmakers Joseph Barglowski,
Robert Orlowski, Miriam Gabriel and Sophia de Baun; and artists Matthew
Schreiber, Osvald Landmark and Ryan Hartley Smith. He makes improvised
music with Matti Weisberg, aka Fruiting Body.
Speaking Sentences Backwards
2023A group exhibition at Real Art Ways featuring Paloma Izquierdo, Miguel Gaydosh, Matthew Schreiber, Laura Henriksen, Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste and Dylan Hausthor, curated by Cody Boyce.
“[Haunting] points to the non-full, non-total presence of being. In every being there’s always already an absence of presence, an inheritance, a trace of that which was and that which is to come. In every being there is a haunting.”
– Ezekiel Dixon-Román in “Haunting, Blackness, and Algorithmic Thought”
The works in Speaking Sentences Backwards are haunted: by history and myth, by extractive processes of capitalist industry, by anti-Black policing and government surveillance, by conspiracies both real and imagined. They are also haunted by possibility and loss, by futures promised but not yet realized.
Through photography, sculpture, video, sound, holography, poetry, and design, Speaking Sentences Backwards points to ephemeral traces at the periphery. The featured artists look to broaden thresholds of perception, receiving signals through environment, radio waves, sub-bass frequencies, interference patterns—the infra- and ultra- ranges of experience. These efforts are marked by a fixation with technologies of recording and transmission—mechanisms through which the invisible or intangible is captured and represented. They are also characterized by strategies of concealment and alteration, through which spaces of privacy and intimacy are claimed from existing structures.
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Layout design with Miguel Gaydosh, 2023
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