No Fixed Point Durational performance residency by Jordan Munson
2/16/26 - 2/20/26 in the Bershire, Reese, Paul gallery
Overview No Fixed Point is a durational performance residency by Jordan Munson that unfolds over multiple days within the gallery, where a constellation of instruments, electronics, drums, percussion, and other sound sources, remains installed as both an active workspace, listening site, and living document of the performance.
Activated through a series of brief, improvised sets, the installation resists the structure of discrete concerts. Each performance emerges from the residue of the last, allowing tonalities, textures, and rhythms to evolve gradually over time.
Sound is treated as a living material, layered, iterative, and in flux, shaped as much by repetition and return as by intention.
Core Concept Central to the project is an ongoing dialogue between performer, audience, and architecture. The gallery operates as an active collaborator, its resonance and spatial conditions shaping how sound is produced and perceived.
As visitors move through space, they enter the work as participants, encountering shifting acoustic perspectives and fragments of improvisation from different vantage points. There is no single position from which the work can be fully grasped; sound changes as it reflects, dissolves, and re-forms in relation to bodies and walls alike.
In this way, No Fixed Point frames performance as a shared, evolving experience that unfolds through movement, attention, and the continuous interplay of sound and space.
Performances were held on:
02.16 || 11:00a
02.17 || 4:00p
02.18 || 11:00a
02.19 || 4:00p
Culminating Event || 02.20 || 7:00p
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As Grand As What, 2021
Three-channel video of performance
Color, stereo sound
16:50 minutes, looped
Courtesy of the artists
Bla refers to the life energy that animates the world, according to Tibetan medicine. This concept is known across many cultures. The word bla can be interchangeable with prana (Sanskrit), qi (Chinese), ruh (Arabic), or mana (Polynesian, Melanesian, and Maori).
In this three-channel video installation, the artist Himali Singh Soin appears as a masked figure whose purpose is to reconnect bla to the world. The loss of bla is reflected in the crisis of contemporary times, represented as parched earth and a weary body.
The film’s journey begins in the Himalayan mountains and travels to a Vesuvian volcano, where a drummer calls upon li, a spirit manifestation of both human and non-human consciousness. A series of remedic rituals is performed to infuse bla back into our bodies and recharge the anima, or life, of the planet.
For the artists, As Grand As What reimagines “the structure of the Kalachakra mandala [Sanskrit, meaning Wheel of Time], a geomantic diagram in which the drawing, body, city, earth, and universe mirror each other in a grand, cosmic architecture.” In this universe, the forms of life—stone, spirit, machine, and human—are considered equal.
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