Jeff Williams
February 11, 2025
With songs from the Theatre of Eternal Music, the Stooges, and more, artist Jeff Williams brings a drone-inspired mixtape to the Selection Committee. This open, meditative, and recursive mode of music making rhymes with Williams’ art practice which deals with themes of time, environment, and the passage of materials through both of those elements.
Whether he’s tracing thousands of feet of fluorescent yellow cable through a vast empty industrial building or throwing rolls of aluminum flashing down the foothills of Mount Washington, Williams’ lyrical work inscribes lines in space over time. We travel from La Monte Young’s Dream House in TriBeCa to a subbasement of the American Academy in Rome to a cement culvert in Austin, Texas to the wild-boar ensorcelled farmland of rural France. Join us for a delightful conversation and meet some of Williams’ friends and collaborators along the way.
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Complete playlist below; tracks in yellow were cut for time.
- On the Prowl, Paris
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Raise the Bells, The Folk Implosion
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Trance #2, Angus LacLise, Tony Conrad, John Cale
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We Will Fall, The Stooges
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Dopesmoker, Sleep
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Big Church [megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseitekért], Sun O)))
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The Fare to Get There, Do Make Say Think
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The Dance No. 1, Laraaji with Brian Eno
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RF5, Ben Vida
- Meinhof, Tania Cross
- Dazed and Awake, Aerial M
Jeff Williams lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, and Austin, TX, where he is an Associate Professor Of Sculpture at The University of Texas. He has been awarded residencies at the Dora Maar House in Ménerbes, France; Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, CA; Recess in New York, NY; Galería Perdida in Chilchota, Michoacán, Mexico; and the Core Program in Houston, TX. Williams was the 2009 Leonore Annenberg Fellow in the Arts at the American Academy in Rome. He is a recent recipient of an NYSCA/NYFA Fellowship for Environmental Structures and a Santo Foundation Award. Solo exhibitions include Jack Hanley Gallery in New York, NY; Co-Lab Projects in Austin, TX; RAIR in Philadelphia, PA; 1708 Gallery in Richmond, VA; Arthouse in Austin, TX; and Artpace in San Antonio, TX.