November 10, 2024 at 7 pm

MELA Foundation Dream House

275 Church Street, New York

As a special tribute, MELA Foundation presents the Dream House’s 31st Year and the La Monte Young 89th Birthday Celebration Live Performance of Jung Hee Choi’s Composition In The Style Of La Monte Young’s 1960 Sustained Friction Sounds in a setting of her video sound installation, RICE, in collaboration with Marian Zazeela’s environment, Imagic Light, on Sunday November 10, at 7:00 pm, in the Dream House, 275 Church Street, 3rd floor, New York, NY. Additional celebratory tribute concerts will be presented on December 12 and 13, RICHARD MAXFIELD, Perspectives for La Monte Young (1961-62) and December 20 and 21, JUNG HEE CHOI, Seven (2024) on Walter De Maria Instrument for La Monte Young (1966).

In May–June 2003, Choi presented RICE, a video sound performance and installation in the MELA Dream House, which was chosen as one of The 10 Best of 2003 in the December Artforum: “A hypnotic projection of rotating mandalic forms radiated out from Zazeela’s magenta color field like silent fireworks, while the sound of Choi tracing a circle around the top of an overturned cooking pot with a rice paddle created a single repeating tone that resonated deep in the solar plexus.”

The program features Jung Hee Choi as both a sonic and visual artist, with her video piece RICE (1999) to a live solo performance of her Composition in the Style of La Monte Young’s 1960 Sustained Friction Sounds (2000). As the latter title implies, Choi is both celebrating her discipleship and carrying a tradition forward—in her own voice, as that tradition continues to evolve. The 2003 MELA presentation marked the first collaboration between Marian Zazeela and Choi on a simultaneous light environment.