[size= medium]Fill The Barn[/size]
Sound Installation with works by: Dan Perrone, Ava Jarden, Kerry Downey and Lea Bertucci, Clive Murphy
The title of the show takes its name from an old tale about a farmer who asks his sons to prove their love by filling his barn.The youngest son wins the challenge by lighting a match and singing – a minimalist gesture about the magic of music and light. The Index Festival invites artists to fill this ground level gallery space with site-specific installations that explore the inner workings of sound and space. By amplifying the room each artists installation, we invite the audience to explore the space and the dynamics between architecture and sound. Curated by Victoria Keddie + Kristin Trethewey.

This event is part of the Index Festival (August 3-28, 2011)
The Index Festival will transpire in August 2011 in New York City. Our aim is to bring together individuals and groups who cognitively engage media culture. We welcome the interdisciplinary, shared and accessible culture we are coming to live in as a result of digital technology.  Our mission is to focus on projects that blur the vocabulary of science and art, dissect the media that describes our culture today, and to disseminate out from the [cultural] institution, and further into the multi textural international landscape.

Jon Cohrs is a recording engineer and visual/sound artist who lives in Brooklyn, NY. Through residencies, installations, and performances at W2, I-Park, Banff New Media Institute, Futuresonic, and Eyebeam, his work has focused on exploring technology and it’s connection with wilderness through his documentary The Door to Red Hook: Backpacking through Brooklyn, his websiteANewF*ckingWilderness.com, and the 2009 Futuresonic Art Award winner, the Urban Prospector.
Dan Perrone’s work alternates between quiet & loud in an effort   to understand experience and comment on the beauties of the universe. His photography and sound work have been shown internationally and the 2007 piece “Uokahd ( tapelake)” was honored with an Editors Choice award at the 2010 Make Magazine’s New York Makers Faire. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn.
www.danperrone.com
Ava Jarden creates  and releases music with Omega Jarden whose sound Ava and her sister liken to chaos and minimalism colliding. Ava is a feminist who lends support to ventures like the Camp which empowers girls and young women. She continues to work with bands engineering, mixing, and producing, orchestrating and arranging. She sings as well as plays guitar, bass, drums and synthesizer/piano.
Kerry Downey graduated from Bard College in 2002 and is currently working towards her MFA at Hunter College in New York City. Kerry works in many mediums, frequently making site specific mixed media installations out of detritus. Her work deals with various forms of marginalization, linking psychological, physical, and architectural “waste.” She has been member of nonprofit artist collective Flux Factory since 2003.
Lea Bertucci is an artist who works with Photography, Sound, Video and Installation. She received her BA in Photography from Bard College in 2007. The emphasis of her work lies in exciting the liminal areas of perception. She uses tactics such as slide projection, stop motion video and lo-fi filtering of sound to engage with these ideas. She is one half of the experimental electroacoustic duo Twistycat and lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. (http://brokendiorama.com/)
Clive Murphy graduated in 2004 with a Master’s of Fine Art degree from the University of Ulster, Belfast. Solo exhibitions include Thomas Hunter Projects, Hunter College NYC, the Soap Factory Gallery, Minneapolis; Magnan Metz Gallery, New York; Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai; the Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork and the Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague. Group exhibitions include Dust To Settle at the Cuchifritos Gallery, New York; EAF 10 at the Socrates Sculpture Park, New York; No Soul for Sale at the Tate Modern, London; Sometime Always at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Canada and Bloomberg New Contemporaries at Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester, Spike Island Arts Centre, Bristol and the Barbican Centre London.