LP - Solo Exhibition, works by Walter Kitundu

Fri, May 12
7:00pm-9:00pm
free

Press Release

Contact: Laurie Lazer: 415.255-5971 or
Email:

Visual Exhibition
"LP" - Solo Exhibition, works by Walter Kitundu

Dates of Exhibition
May 12 - June 17, 2006

Opening Reception
Friday, May 12, 7-9pm

Gallery Hours
Wednesday - Saturday, 12-5pm and by appointment

Where
the luggage store gallery
1007 Market Street (near 6th)
San Francisco, CA 94103

Public Information:
Telephone: 415. 255 5971
www.luggagestoregallery.org

"LP" will be Kitundu's first solo exhibition of sculptures, drawings
of ideas, and instruments stemming from his ongoing exploration of
the turntable.

For over six years, Kitundu has focused his imagination on
discovering the potential of the record player as a medium for sound
and artistic expression.
This process has resulted in hand built turntables powered by the
wind and rain, fire and earthquakes, birds, light, and the force of
the ocean's waves and
tides. He has created a new "family" of instruments called
Phonoharps.. Kitundu see the physical properties of a record as being
a natural link to the exploration and interpretation of the world
around us.

Kitundu's collaborators have included dancer/choreographer Joanna
Haigood/Zaccho Dance, recording artists Douglas Ewart and Meshell
N'degeocello. Most recently, he was commissioned by The Kronos
Quartet to build instruments and compose.. He performed last month
with the Kronos Quartet at Carnegie Hall.

In 2002, he was part of an engaging three person show at the luggage
store with Edgar Arceneaux and Kamau Amu Patton, where he created and
installed Mutato Nomine de te Fabula Naratur, a month-long site-
specific work that invited a population of urban pigeons to take
shelter inside a "creative" enclosure built into the windows of the
gallery. Birds would perch inside the built space,Visible outside to
the public, but only in the gallery through "looking" holes. The
weight of the birds triggered sound installations and turntables
inside the
gallery.

Raised in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, Kitundu performs, composes for
dance, theater and films, and teaches multi-disciplinary workshops on
sound, imagination and instrument building. He is currently an Artist-
in-Residence at the Exploratorium in San Francisco.

The Luggage Store's exhibition program is funded in part by: The
Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The National Endowment
for the Arts, The San
Francisco Arts Commission/Cultural Equity Fund, Grants for the Arts
of the Hotel Tax Fund and The San Francisco Foundation.


Additional information available upon request

Venue:

The Luggage Store Gallery
1007 Market Street
San Francisco
415-255-5971
http://www.luggagestoregallery.org

Market at 6th.

Additional Info:

415-255-5971
http://www.luggagestoregallery.org