David Coll’s new work, Construction, is a two-part project that addresses the combination of music and installation art. Through fusion, gyration, alternation, dissolution, Construction is a two-hour event that will open the Music and Words festival. The assembled ensemble consists of artists Adam Carlin and Erich Richter; musician/musical director
Kristina Dutton; and composers David Coll and Aaron Gervais.
After the initial performance at the Nelson Gallery, this work will be ‘translated’ into an interactive installation for the remainder of the festival in the lobby of the Mondavi Center. Through elaborate documentation of the initial event, this second installation (with the physical absence of the musicians) will question the role of physical presence in the realm of installation art by working with aspects of intimacy, dialogue, and carefully planned documentation. Their intention is to somehow re-create the lost presence of the musicians within the interactivity experienced by the viewer.