Modern and Contemporary Forum Artist Talk: Andrew Stock

YALE DEPARTMENT OF THE HISTORY OF ART MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY FORUM presents:
An Artist Talk by Andrew Stock
Followed by a Q&A moderated by Isaac Jean-François (Phd Student, African American Studies and American Studies)
From the time of its canonical origins in the 1960s as a reaction to Greenbergian formalism on the one hand and an extension or reappraisal of Dadaist principles—transmitted in part through the work of John Cage—on the other, conceptual art (and its contemporary legacy in the form of a broadly-encompassing, hard-to-define multimedia “conceptualism”) has remained closely bound up with language and semantics. Composer/artist Andrew Stock will present recent pieces from a large, open-ended project of Songs (2020–) exploring text, speech, and code: in selections chosen for this talk, early modernist procedures of serial ordering in music and the sociopolitical crises engendered by Black revolt of the 1950s–70s figure prominently together in work which proposes an alternative genealogy—and different stakes—for conceptualism’s linguistic bias.
Andrew Stock is a composer/artist working in concert and installative formats with focus areas in experimental music, conceptual art, and Black studies. His work has been commissioned or programmed by groups including LA Phil/wild Up, Fonema Consort, Quince Ensemble, the New York Virtuoso Singers, and the Cleveland Chamber Symphony; projects have been financially supported by the Goethe-Institut, ASCAP, and other arts organizations. Formerly a violist, Stock toured the U.S., Germany, and Switzerland as a soloist, chamber player, and orchestral musician until 2017 (NY Phil Biennial, New World Symphony, Aspen and Lucerne festivals, WQXR Q2). Since 2019 he has increasingly presented work in a variety of media or contexts outside concert music (e.g. performance art, text, curatorial) in addition to teaching and lecturing both as a PhD candidate (University of Chicago) and as a guest at other institutions (Stanford, Connecticut College, Webster University). andrewstock.org
Isaac Jean-François (moderator) is a doctoral student in the joint degree program with African-American Studies and American Studies at Yale University. Jean-François’ research interests include black studies, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, queer theory, and sound