Rirkrit Tiravanija’s UNTITLED 1996 (REHEARSAL STUDIO NO. 6 Silent Version) 1996

By appointment:  Tuesdays, Thursday or Saturdays 11 am- 4 pm

Featured in the exhibition  Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967 is Rirkrit Tiravanija’s interactive artwork Untitled 1996 (Rehearsal Studio No. 6 Silent Version), 1996, that offers visitors the opportunity for an hour of free rehearsal time in a functional recording studio.
Comprised of a 13-foot square Plexiglas room, the work features guitar, drum kit, bass guitar and microphone that are not amplified but are fed directly into the recording equipment, rendering the musicians’ rehearsals more or less silent (the players hear themselves via headphones as does the audience on headphones provided outside of the space.)  This work is a replication of a recording studio that Tiravanija and his friends would rent at Context Studio in New York, and extends the artist’s interest in the direct involvement of the audience in the experience of the work of art, as well as the offering of a normally commercial service at no cost and in the unexpected location of the museum.    

The studio is available Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays beginning, Saturday May 31 through Saturday, August 30, 2008.  SPACE IS LIMITED!

We ask that those wishing to participate in this work please understand the following:

  • The work is understood as a studio intended for rehearsal and is not intended as a stage for public performance.
  • We request that participants accept the limitations of the work and use the instruments provided in the space. 
  • The work includes the following equipment:  A 16 channel mixer, a dual stereo audio cassette deck, effects, reverb processors, one headphone amp with four independent level controls, headphones, bass guitar, two electric guitars, three stomp boxes (distortion, fuzz, and Sub Synth) one electronic Drum trap set, and four vocal microphones.
  • Appointments are available for one hour and participants are asked to please bring their own 60 minute cassette tape.

To make an appointment to use the rehearsal studio, contact MOCA Programs Manager Janice Angel, or 305-893-6211.