Synaptic Island: A Soundwalk led by IPA Fellow Kii Kang

When: August 2 + 3[Canceled], nightly walks beginning at 8:00pm

Where: The Block House, Governors Island, NY

Synaptic Island: A Soundwalk is a site-specific soundwalk on Paggank/Governors Island. Titled in homage to composer Maryanne Amacher’s Synaptic Island (1992), the soundwalk reimagines Governors Island as a resonant nervous system—firing with memory, bringing back absent beings into temporary presences. The composition makes audible the absences of beings that haunt in sonic form. Like unidentified bones unearthed from a stratified past, these sonic remnants are reanimated as embodied (virtual) presences, felt through the eardrums, the soles of the feet. Continuously shifting between the “real” and the artificial, the composition weaves these spectral fragments into a hybrid, cyborg-like sonic body.

The nightwalk on 8/2 will be followed by a performance by MIZU in collaboration with the artist.

Available spots for this event are very limited.

Once you have received an email confirming your attendance, please plan to take the 7:45 PM ferry on the day from the Battery Maritime Building in Manhattan to Governors Island - arrive at least 10 minutes early. From the ferry landing, walk to the Block House, which takes around 10 minutes. We will hand out instructions for the walk in front of the house. Ferries leave from Governors Island to Manhattan every 30 minutes, with the last ferry off the island at 10:00pm. 

Please note that the event schedule is contingent on the weather.