Join us for a performance by Zekarias Musele Thompson as part of our Downtown First Thursday free concert series.

For Spatial Facilitation (The Artist Is Presence) #3, Musele Thompson responds to the architectural features of YBCA’s Gallery 2 with their saxophone, while simultaneously responding to pre-recorded sounds from the text-based work Remnants of Memory (Robert and Me). The performance reflects upon the architextual condition of the gallery space and the encounter with ideas of the art object in a space temporarily without them. Musele Thompson will be joined by their dear friend Phillip Laurent in a duet.

This performance is part of Thomspon’s ongoing exploration of spatial facilitation. A term of art in physiology, spatial facilitation refers to stimuli that contribute to the accurate processing of visual information. Artist Zekarias Musele Thompson expands the term to apply to all forms of sensory perception. Spatial Facilitation is an ongoing project of mapping clearer vision through walking, noticing, breathing, and the saxophone; ANALOG SOLUTIONS FOR ANALOG PROBLEMS.

The performance begins at 7pm. Galleries are open to public from 5–8:30pm.