The Tuba Thieves: Limited Screening

In conjunction with The Tuba Thieves performance on February 8, the Henry will feature five additional sequences from The Tuba Thieves series, directed by In Plain Sight artist Alison O’Daniel. The sequences will be on view on a continuous loop for a limited time, February 7-9, in the Henry auditorium. Drop in anytime or view them directly before the performance*!

Drawing upon her experiences with hearing loss, specifically navigating between hearing and silence, O’Daniel expands definitions of sonic experience beyond ear-reliance as our sole auditory skill. In The Tuba Thieves, the artist's fascination with a series of tuba robberies from Los Angeles high schools became a comparison point between loss of this tonally-rich instrument to her daily experiences of missing information and filling in conversation gaps. This on-going, multi-chapter video project threads together anecdotes of the marching bands' reconciling the missing sound, footage of the deaf drummer Nyke Prince, the premiere of John Cage’s 4’33” in 1952, and the last punk show at the Deaf Club in San Francisco in 1979. O’Daniel’s process is a form of call and response: she inverts script-driven filmmaking processes by writing scenes based on the musical scores, which were commissioned in advance of developing the visual narratives from a variety of artists, including deaf sound artist Christine Sun Kim, hearing-painter and musician Steve Roden, and the late, hearing-composer Ethan Frederick Greene. The result is an amalgam of disparate, non-linear narratives, two of which are on view within In Plain Sight.

Additional sequences on view:

SCENES 5, 6, 60: HEARING 4’33” - 9min 52sec

SCENE 22: THE DEAF CLUB - 6min 17sec

SCENES 46, 47: AWAY GAME - 7min 41sec

SCENES 48, 57: NYKE and the NEW YORK KITE ENTHUSIASTS IN SANTA MONICA - 10min 20sec

SCENE 61: CK’s version: KALEIDOSCOPIC WINDOW - 5min 48sec

*sequences will not run during The Tuba Thieves performance and conversation.