Disco Gardens

Ash Arder

Artist Ash Arder and Assembly Peer Leaders pull screen-printed vinyl album sleeves—created using Black sand, soil and Fine Turf “Green Grass”.

Over the course of Arder’s two-month residency, the artist regularly met with Assembly Peer Leaders to discuss the relationship between Black culture, music, and plant life. Using Recess’ in-house print shop, Assembly youth screen-printed recor

Date:
May 30–August 3, 2019

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From May 30 to August 3, 2019, Ash Arder will develop Disco Gardens, a roving micro library and record shop devoted to the study of environmental concepts in Black music. Arder will create an interactive sonic and tactile installation using analog music and related ephemera as a framework for exploring the relationship between vegetal and human life. The performative and textual qualities of vinyl records and other library holdings will be examined through an eco-criticism lens, teasing out themes relating to ecology and the natural world. Through interactive workshops, listening sessions, and open study hours, the public will be invited to join Arder in deconstructing and remixing plant-based narratives in Black music and popular culture.

About the artist

Ash Arder

Artist

Ash Arder (b. 1988, Flint, Michigan) is a transdisciplinary artist whose research-based approach works to expose, deconstruct or reconfigure physical and conceptual systems – especially those related to ecology and/or industry. Ash manipulates physical and virtual environments to explore materials, mark making, mechanical portraiture and sound design as tools for complicating dynamics of power between humans, machines and the lands they occupy.