ICant. So read the hastily scrawled amendment to the program for composer and sound artist Holly Herndon’s performance Expanding Intimacy at the Guggenheim Museum earlier this month. The addition appeared above the listing for her piece, Breathe, in honor of Eric Garner. It was fitting for an artist deeply attuned to breath and voice, who explores the ways in which disembodying these through computer intervention or modulation can add, not detract, from their immediacy.
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