Cozad House -University Circle

Submitted by lmcshane on Mon, 04/14/2014 - 02:09.

MOCA Cleveland recently hosted a Kevin Beasley performance at the Cozad House in University Circle.

Titled And in My Dream I Was Rolling on the Floor, Beasley’s sound work will consider the architecture, history and the condition of the bodies that move(d) through the house and the Museum. It will be presented as a sequence of four live, multi-channel audio performances at the house. Each 30-45 minute piece (Civil Twilight I, Transit, Civil Twilight II, and Night) is composed for a specific time, charting the shifting atmosphere over the course of a day. At the Museum, the entire scope of the compositions can be experienced in a daylong listening environment in the Gund Commons. Audience members will be immersed in a complex arrangement of sound that alters their perceptions of space and the passage of time, linking the oldest and newest building at the heart of a rapidly evolving community in Cleveland.

Sadly, I got my days mixed up and showed up on the wrong date. Nonetheless, I am grateful that a prominent Cleveland arts organization is drawing much needed attention to a story that needs to be preserved in Northeast Ohio. I hope that some how - historic Wirth House in Brooklyn Centre will be preserved to tell a story, too.