ABSENCE IN RELIEF

An audio-visual installation by Amadeus Julian Regucera, presented by Indexial. On Exhibition: April 9 -24,2021.

“Absence in Relief” is a mulit-media, multi-layered immersive installation created by Amadeus Julian Regucera, for Splinter Reeds, dives deep into intimacy, isolation, consent, trust, and performance. What do you do when performance (or an audience) is taken away.

Amadeus Julian Regucera and Splinter Reeds bring to you a new piece, commissioned by the ensemble prior to COVID-19, and reimagined as an audio-visual installation for Radius Gallery and Indexical. The outcome is a study of intimacy - an immersive audio and visual installation called “Absence in Relief.” The ensemble recorded in their respective apartments from around the country. Amadeus stitched it all together and we’re projecting this intense, arresting piece onto five 7-foot scrims hanging from the gallery rafters.

On exhibition:

April 9 - 24, 2021

Wednesday - Sunday 12-5pm

Friday and Saturdays 7pm and 8pm viewing.

Capacity for showings will be limited to 10 audience members. Masks and social distancing are required, seating is in fixed positions, and time will be provided for circulating air between showings. No appointment needed for daytime viewing. Evening viewing, sign up here.

S O U N D :

  • the noise floor of a compositional mind besieged by anxiety and monotony;

  • pieces, fragments, episodes, soliloquies, reveries, prayers;

  • the absence of the instrument and of its sound and color, replaced by pieces of its shadow;

  • the musicians’ bodies, working;

  • the musicians, forcing their own breath through a tube, transpiring, giving away a vital part of themselves for the sake of sonic expression, expelling moisture;

  • saliva production;

  • hypoxia;

  • the musicians;

  • Kyle, Bill, David, Jeff, and Dana

S I G H T :

  • intimacy, in absentia;

  • Kyle, Bill, David, Jeff, and Dana: close, closer;

  • the musicians performing presence, in absentia;

  • Kyle, Bill, David, Jeff, and Dana: in their home, their shelter, in-place;

  • Kyle, Bill, David, Jeff, and Dana, disappearing;

  • Kyle, Bill, David, Jeff, and Dana, already gone, not here


Absence in relief (audio and visual studies in intimacy) is made possible in part through the Musical Grant Program, which is administered by InterMusic SF, and supported by the Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation, and San Francisco Grants for the Arts and presented by Indexical.