Gama Closing Party

DJ sets by Bobby Beethoven (US) and Rrose (UK) on the occasion of Gama, Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork’s third solo exhibition at the gallery. The exhibition will remain open until midnight for this event. RSVP at this link here.

Saturday, November 8
9 pm to 3 am

18/F Grand Marine Centre
3 Yue Fung Street
Aberdeen, Hong Kong

Ashland Mines, a.k.a Bobby Beethoven, a.k.a Total Freedom, a.k.a Big Gay Idiot DJ, is a multidisciplinary artist, DJ and producer based in Miami. As Total Freedom, he was a founding member of the collective and record label Fade to Mind, a resident at GHE20G0TH1K, and the co-creator of Los Angeles club nights Mustache Mondays and Wildness. He has collaborated with artists including Arca, Kelela, Wu Tsang, Amaarae, and Boychild, and worked with fashion houses Telfar and Hood by Air. Beyond DJing, he has presented exhibitions at the New Museum and Getty Museum, directed projects for the Berlin Biennale, and performed at Gropius Bau and Ghost2561.

Rrose is the latest incarnation of Seth Horvitz, an inter-disciplinary artist from California whose 20+ year history weaves in and out of academic circles and electronic music culture. Their work is informed by ongoing interests in microtonality, the limits of perception, and the idiosyncrasies of machines. This approach serves to create a distinctly detailed, sensual and hallucinogenic form of techno that challenges the mind and body in equal measure. The project extends into specific pockets of the avant-garde, leading to collaborations with luminaries such as Bob Ostertag and Charlemagne Palestine and reinventions of works by 20th century composers such as James Tenney. Rrose’s first release in 2011 on Sandwell District came cloaked in mystery as to its creator, as did the following collaboration featuring Bob Ostertag’s Buchla 200E synth and a string of vinyl releases on her own Eaux label starting in 2012. In the sync domain, Rrose is equally blowing fuses having provided music for Martin Scorcese’s The Current War along with producing music for Alexander McQueen’s Black Show and Harmony Korine’s collaboration with Gucci. As a performer, Rrose is revered for both their DJ sets and live sets which are crafted like finely woven sonic tapestries. Their performances have taken place in historic theaters and museums, and in some of the most revered nightclubs and electronic music festivals in the world, including Berghain, Atonal, Unsound, Movement, and Mutek, amongst others.

Gama | Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork will be on view through Saturday, November 15.