DAVID ZINK YI
in collaboration with ANGIE KEEFER
BEING THE MEASURE
25 AUGUST – 23 SEPTEMBER 2018
ST. AGNES | CHAPEL
‘Being the measure’ brings together minimalist sculptural and musical forms
based on David Zink Yi’s intensive research
of Afro-Cuban musical contexts with a spoken musical contexts with a
spoken word score composed by Angie Keefer, regarding opposing
physiological and philosophical concepts of being and knowing.
A video work
created from footage captured in the nave of St. Agnes during the initial development of the performance
in 2016 was projected in the chapel.
‘Being the
measure’ was commissioned by Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA), where it was first performed for a live
audience in late 2016.
late 2016.
David Zink Yi, (b.
1973 in Lima/Peru) studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich and at
the Universität der Künste, Berlin. His most recent solo exhibitions were at
Hauser&Wirth, Zurich (2020), The Belvedere, Vienna (2019), Museo de arte de
Lima (2012), NBK Berlin (2012) as well as in the Midway Contemporary Art,
Minneapolis (2011), MAK, Wien (2010) or at the Kunst Halle, Sankt Gallen
(2009). He took part in group exhibitions in the Tate Modern, London (2012),
Museo Sala de arte, Mexico (2012), Ludwig Forum im Aachen, Germany (2012) and
Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany (2020). In 2013 David Zink Yi participated
in the 55.Biennale in Venice. Works by Zink Yi are represented in numerous
collections such as those of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the
MUDAM, Luxemburg and Museum Ludwig, Cologne.