NOW SHOWING / Introduction to Arts Letters & Numbers
Over the years our collaboration with youth and supportive organizations have taken on many forms. From one-off afternoon experiences to multi-month programs, with each engagement young people have the chance to construct remarkable opportunities to explore their creative nature along with the creative expressions of those around them.
UPCOMING PROGRAMS - NEW SEASON
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Construction on the renovation of the Mill has started!
Welcome to the ALN’s Film Room, a collection of curated films, videos, lectures and discursive events by members of the ALN community and collaborators from across the globe. This compilation spans a range of disciplines situated between various aspects of imagery, sound, cinema, contemporary art, and theory.
Now Showing
Walter Murch Explores The Rampancy of Golden Ratios Across Faces and Screens
Ren Weschler & Walter Murch
From ALN’s Participation in the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale
As we have already seen in the current series, Walter Murch is a man of many parts. Moving on from that interest in the rampant appearance of golden ratios across faces and screens which he displayed our last time out, this time the eminent film and sound editor will be delving into a wider and more longterm sidebar passion of his: deciphering the uncanny mathematics undergirding the Egyptian pyramids and the possible significance of those astonishingly exacting proportions. It’s not just the way that across an astonishingly brief period (the 120 years from 2624 through 2504 BC) the bronze-age Egyptians managed to fashion over 20 million tons of limestone and granite blocks into five structures taller than any that would be matched anywhere in the world across the ensuing almost 4500 years, indeed right up until the middle of the last century—it’s that their engineers and designers did so, or so Murch has come to believe and will endeavor to demonstrate, within a strict dimensional regime blending pi and phi (that selfsame golden ratio) which they then secretly embedded in a mysterious chamber buried deep in the heart of the pyramid, one that was decidedly not (as has often been assumed) the pharaoh’s burial chamber. But if it wasn’t that, what was it? and why?
SUNSHIP: THE ARC THAT MAKES THE FLOOD POSSIBLE
It was with great joy and excitement that we successfully conducted: SunShip: The Arc That Makes The Flood Possible, Arts Letters & Numbers' exhibition in CityXVenice, the Italian Virtual Pavilion of the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale. This exhibition ran from May 2021 through November 2021, and along with presenting a wide selection of works, we created a full series of educational programs, projects and events: lectures, panel discussions, workshops, studios, seminars, as well as music programs and a film series.
/ Books & Publications
Writing Through A Time Of Rupture
Foreword by David Gersten, Preface by Ginger Teppner, Edited by Christine Lorenz
The Earth Of arose from the global pandemic that called a halt to Arts Letters & Numbers’ residency programs in early 2020. A new strategy was necessary to pursue the objective of creative investigation across disciplines, genres, generations and cultural origins. The Earth Of was part online writing workshop, part collaborative research, motivated by a range of working methods in visual art, performance, poetry, architecture, and philosophy. The question became how to integrate into these disparate creative processes the escalating sense of rupture that defines this moment. This anthology is the result.
Writing Through Convergent Boundaries
Foreword by David Gersten, Preface by Ginger Teppner, Edited by Christine Lorenz
A project of Arts Letters & Numbers, with a preface by David Gersten. Edited and designed by Christine Lorenz. Preface by Ginger Teppner, who developed Aggregate in Repose as a six-week writing workshop with Andrew Helton. With contributions by Terri Abruzzo, Feiyi Bie, Evan Burgess, Elizabeth Cone, Andrew Helton, Monica Lacey, Michael Larsen, Christine Lorenz, Carol McGorry, Tyler Rai, Dhooleka Raj, and Ginger Teppner.
SunShip Exhibition Catalogue
An Exhibition in Support of Arts Letters & Numbers
At Wilmer Jennings gallery co-hosted by Dorian Grey gallery
As many Arts Letters & Numbers stories often begin, this too began with a visit to the Mill. Just under 5 weeks ago, our dear friends Luis Accorsi and Haleh Atabeigi came to Arts Letters & Numbers to visit the place they had heard so much about. This was their first visit and they were both taken by the spaces, the structures, the atmosphere and mostly by the energy of the people honing their crafts everywhere. As we walked the grounds both were determined to help support this place, its mission and its energy.
We are very excited to announce “ALNSoundRoom”, a virtual space that hosts an array of sound-projects, concert recordings, podcasts and audio-based lectures. These projects are a product of collaborations with artists from across the globe.
Headlands kite choir soundings - excerpts, 2022
Firat Erdim
The sky begins beneath our feet. We are, arguably, creatures of the air more so than of the land. Over the course of this program, we will fabricate experimental sonic instruments to help us reframe the relationship between self and environment, and between self and others, through engagement with the atmosphere as our shared existential medium. The instrument typologies of the Kite Choir are related to the traditions of singing kites found around the world. Unlike these animistic traditions, the Kite Choir utilizes the reel and entire length of the kite line as the site of instrumentalization to facilitate a collaborative dance of agency between kite and pilot. The related Walking Harp and Field Harp typologies are aeolian harps made to be played actively through choreographies responding to the wind. Whether with two strings spaced apart, or multiple strings arrayed in a field, these enable one to perceive the atmosphere as a heterogynous thickness with eddies and currents.
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/ ALN News
A collection of the latest from ALN and its affiliates - including upcoming events, programs, speaking engagements, and otherwise interesting projects.
