Beatrice Gibson & Alex Waterman
(November 21 - 23)

Gibson was born in 1978 in London and lives and works in London. Waterman was born in Portsmouth, Virginia in 1975 and lives and works in New York

While participating in the Whitney’s Independent Study Program in New York in 2008, Beatrice Gibson, a British artist interested in music and social sculpture, invited composer Alex Waterman to collaborate on a film. Both share an interest in the sonic manifestations of visual and social phenomena, and their collaborative film, A Necessary Music, explores the musical properties of life and social identity on New York’s Roosevelt Island. This one-night screening and musical event also includes Gibson’s “video-orchestra” of London taxi drivers, as they recite an abstract path through endless city streets. The screening begins at 6:00 pm.

Beatrice Gibson

General support for the Contemporary’s exhibitions program is generously provided by the Whitaker Foundation; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; William E. Weiss Foundation; Regional Arts Commission; Missouri Arts Council, a state agency; Arts and Education Council; Nancy Reynolds and Dwyer Brown; and members of the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.