The Outside of Everything by Genevieve Lutkin

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Genevieve Lutkin

The outside of everything
January 21 — February 27, 2023

‘The Outside of Everything’ is a film made in response to music composed by the contemporary American composer Michael Pisaro-Liu. London based artist Genevieve Lutkin was invited to create a series of short films to accompany ‘Tombstones,’ a collection of twenty songs written by Pisaro-Liu between 2006 and 2010, these were later performed in a cathedral in Brooklyn with the musician and singer Julia Holter.

The music takes tiny fragments of existing popular songs and puts them into an experimental musical arrangement, introducing them to a kind of chaos, where the configuration of written-out material is brought into focus. The films attempt to echo the disintegrated auditory memory space that Pisaro-Liu makes reference to through his crafting of the tracks via improvised dance movements and abstracted landscapes of damp dripping caves, black undulating liquids and water cascading from the sky.

The ‘Tombstones’ release features a selection of six songs performed and recorded live in Brooklyn in 2012. Under the direction of guitarist Jason Brogan, and featuring singer Julia Holter, the ensemble includes Tucker Dulin (trombone), Andrew Lafkas (double bass), Katie Porter (clarinets), Sam Sfirri (piano and melodica), and Ron Wiltrout (keyboard and percussion).