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LG Williams / The Estate Of LG Williams, Are You A Dancer?, 2010, Sound Installation, Dimensions Variable, Bose 901 4-Speaker Sound System, Edition Of 6

LG Williams / The Estate Of LG Williams, Are You A Dancer?, 2010, Sound Installation, Dimensions Variable, Bose 901 4-Speaker Sound System, Edition Of 6

ARE YOU A DANCER?: A Sound Installation By LG Williams / The Estate Of LG Williams

Music has always played a central role in LG Williams / The Estate Of LG Williams work, providing them with a means of examining how human beings exist in the world, how they communicate or fail to communicate, how they move about or fail to move about. For Are You A Dancer?, Williams has selected the most popular local pop/dance radio station from all of the world’s existing radio stations to create an aural installation in the exhibition space. Removed from its original context, the music becomes an incantation or not, an invitation to dance, taking on new meaning as it compels the listener to make a choice, a decision: Am I a dancer or am I not a dancer? To dance or not to dance?

Are You A Dancer? also draws on Williams fascination with anything that might pay and the ways anything can alter our behavior and self-awareness — well, yes, mostly the former: another get-rich-quick scheme for the artist to net some desperately needed cash. The exhibition space has been organized so that visitors encounter ‘bands making music’ that never ceases day or night. No other physical changes have been made to the space. Sound becomes a sculptural material in itself, one that orchestrates and measures and compels its audience. Are You A Dancer?

Are You A Dancer? is filled with pop dance music, clearly audible, which merge with space and ‘found’ sound from the voices of visitors trying to talk over the loud music. In Are You A Dancer?, Williams has transformed this cavernous space into a metaphor for the entire known universe, presenting an endless dance of life — currently on sale during the holidays in an edition of 6.

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TOKYO — The Estate of LG Williams™ would like to bring to your attention to two new series of “museum wall labels” artworks.

Beginning in November 2010, American LG Williams examined the museum wall label motif by appropriating and transforming them into living art works in their own right in two distinct museum wall label series. One series reproduced museum labels from many world-famous artists’ works, while another introduced soon-to-be-famous artists’ works.

These museum wall label artworks not only alluded to past, present, and future masterpieces of art, they themselves materialized into exquisite works of art. Each piece is unique, as are most museum wall labels, made from the highest quality materials and produced by expertly trained Japanese artisans. All were considerably beyond the production scope of most institutions.

Additionally, the scale of each artwork was considered “variable”, as a result of being directly dependent upon the exact number of words in each text, while the final, over-all measurements of the artwork would be determined by the art collector upon delivery.

The 2010-11 label artworks by Williams were exhibited in galleries and artfairs and documented in publications in Japan, Europe and the United States:

• (2011) Exhibition at Super Window Project, Kyoto, Japan
• (2011) In Print review in Artforum
• (2011) Exhibition at Artissima with Super Window Project
• (2011) Print review in La Stampa during Artissima
• (2012) Exhibition at Gloria Maria Gallery with Super Window Project in Milan, Italy