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Freya Powell | Reading Frequencies: Omniscience

A hearing-accessible reading performance in the Queens Museum atrium draws connections between individual and collective memory through the frequency of word repetition. The performance involves 22 performers who read and sign through a list of words derived from the artist’s sound installation, Omniscience and Oblivion. The words of the text have been ordered in terms of frequency of occurrence, starting with the words just used once to the word used most often (22 times). As the word use increases so do the number of readers, resulting in 22 readers speaking or signing the final word in unison.











When: Sun., Jun. 12, 2016 at 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Where: Queens Museum
Flushing Meadows-Corona Park
718-592-9700
Price: Free
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A hearing-accessible reading performance in the Queens Museum atrium draws connections between individual and collective memory through the frequency of word repetition. The performance involves 22 performers who read and sign through a list of words derived from the artist’s sound installation, Omniscience and Oblivion. The words of the text have been ordered in terms of frequency of occurrence, starting with the words just used once to the word used most often (22 times). As the word use increases so do the number of readers, resulting in 22 readers speaking or signing the final word in unison.

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