Yasunao Tone: Region of Paramedia

January 13, 2023 – March 18, 2023
Artists Space

11 Cortlandt Alley
New York, NY

Yasunao Tone performing Music for 2 CD Players at Experimental Intermedia Foundation, New York, 1986. [Black-and-white photograph of a blurred figure in motion sitting behind a wooden desk surrounded by audio equipment in a sparse room.] Courtesy of the artist.

Yasunao Tone performing Music for 2 CD Players at Experimental Intermedia Foundation, New York, 1986. [Black-and-white photograph of a blurred figure in motion sitting behind a wooden desk surrounded by audio equipment in a sparse room.] Courtesy of the artist.

Artists Space is pleased to present Region of Paramedia, the first retrospective dedicated to the work of Japanese American conceptual artist, composer, and theorist Yasunao Tone, whose deep investigation of the potential uses and misuses of emerging technology has made him a pioneer in performance, sound, and digital composition. This landmark exhibition and event series encompasses a comprehensive range of mediums and materials, from graphic scores to manipulated sound objects to documentation of performative actions and rare ephemera, and includes live events as well as first-time restagings that cover both Tone’s frequent, wide-ranging collaborations and his individually authored works.

Public Programs:

January 19, 2023, 8pm

Yasunao Tone in Concert with Barbara Held

March 3, 2023, 8pm

Yasunao Tone Concert #2

March 16, 2023, 8pm

Yasunao Tone Concert #3