Sweet spot will feature radios scattered throughout the space, broadcasting sound via portable radio transmitters connected to shotgun microphones. As each microphone crosses the path of a radio, a feedback loop will be created, influenced by my position within the space. Blindfolded, Adán de la Garza will navigate the room, using sound and acoustics to discover the “sweet spots” of resonance he wants to explore further. The performance will culminate when he exits the room, leaving the space filled with the ambient sounds from outside.

Originally from Tucson, Arizona Adán De La Garza holds a BFA in Photography from the University of Arizona and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Media Arts Practices from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has participated in exhibitions at the Deluge Contemporary Art (Victoria, Canada), AS220 (Providence, RI), The New School (New York, NY), The Future Gallery (Berlin, DE), The Tucson Museum of Contemporary Art (Tucson, AZ), Casa Maauad (Mexico City, Mexico), Microscope Gallery (Brooklyn, NY) and festivals such as The Paseo (Taos, NM), PAF Festival of Film Animation (Olomouc, Olomouc, Czech Republic), Currents International New Media Festival (Santa Fe, NM), WNDX Festival of Moving Image (Winnipeg, Canada) and Denver Noise Fest in addition to The Biennial of the Americas (Denver, CO). Adán was a founding member of the Sound, Video and Performance Art collective The Flinching Eye (2011-2020), a co-conspirator of the media arts exhibition series Nothing To See Here (2013-2016), a participant at Collective Misnomer(2016 - present), and smashes a lot of buttons with Dizzy Spell(2018 - present). Adán is currently based in Denver, Colorado.

Adán de la Garza’s performance is part of Performance Art Week XIII. For more information, click here.