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The Dust: American Matter
Shandor Hassan 11/2017 - ongoing September 7, 2024 PERFORMANCE and SOUNDSCAPE From 3pm: looping soundscape 5 pm: Live performance by the artist Hassan will create a cinematically-inspired improvised soundscape to accompany The DUST. These sounds and approach began in Budapest, Hungary where for three years Hassan played improvised music with local jazz and experimental musicians and sound artists. He is one of the founders of LUMEN, a music program that started as a weekly jam session in a cafe – Jazz Szerda (Jazz Wednesdays), continuing today as a long-standing music space and culture program dedicated to music and sound experimentation. The soundscape in the installation will be an audio experience that provides an added dimension to the film-like installation. To view the outside portion of the installation, drive by. We recommend night viewing. Full installation: call ahead for an appointment / instructions for entry. Special thanks to: Arturs Virtmanis Christian Hamrick Thomas Savage for installation/production, and to Joe Scaramuzzino and Coatesville Scrap Iron & Metal Co. Inc. for 5 tons of shredded metal on loan for The Dust. Further reading: 'Shandor Hassan's Shack', and 'Haunted', on the Lebbeus Woods blog. https://www.works.io/shandor-hassan http://www.shandorhassan.com |
Shandor Hassan's site-specific installation, in a former mushroom farming house located on Street Road's site, is a meditation on American production and automobile cultures. The work consists of recycled materials from rural Pennsylvanian metal and auto recycling plants. This large scale American wasteland-dreamscape reflects upon a collective folk-roadway, American cultural memory, and diminishing American idealism.
Born in Los Angeles, California in 1968, Hassan lives in Brooklyn, NY. He works in the media of photography, installations, found materials and furniture and building. He holds a BFA in Photography from the University of New Mexico, was a Fulbright scholar to Hungary (2008-2010), a NYFA recipient (2016), and a NYSCA recipient for the Québec Arts/Exchange Residency (2017). He participated in the Istanbul Biennial in 2005 and the Budapest OFF Biennial MUSEUM in 2015 and was a faculty member of the International Center of Photography from 1999-2008. He has been exhibiting in New York City and internationally since 1995 and will be in residence at ZK/U Berlin, Germany in the Fall and Winter 2017. Research, process, and installation documentation.
In connection with The Dust: American Matter, Hassan was awarded a 2019 Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts / Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance grant to develop public programming and a publication.
This includes documents of the installation process at Street Road, locations from which materials were collected, photographs from the environment of Pennsylvania roadside culture, and the general landscapes that surround Street Road, including its nearby small towns and rural spaces. 
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