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May 10, 2024 · The artist-turned-film director Steve McQueen finds new depths in “Bass,” an immersive environment of light and sound in Dia Beacon keyed to Black history and “where we can go from here.”
McQueen has parted ways with moving images entirely for Bass (2024), a new installation that fills the 30,000-square-foot basement of Dia:Beacon in the Hudson Valley with sound and light. The only ...
Steve McQueen on site in his installation “Bass” at Dia Beacon, a museum in Beacon, N.Y., May 7, 2024. The artist-turned-film director finds new depths in “Bass,” an immersive environment of light and sound keyed to Black history and “where we can go from here.” (Bryan Derballa/The New York Times)
May 13, 2024 · New York: Steve McQueen unveiled Bass, an immersive environment of light and bass grooves in Dia Beacon that transforms the vast basement of the factory turned art museum. The Times speaks to the artist and filmmaker.
May 12, 2024 · For Bass, McQueen chose to focus exclusively on the titular bass, bringing this frequency that typically operates in the background of a song to the foreground. To create the music, McQueen worked with the renowned bassist Marcus Miller to assemble an intergenerational group of expert Afro-diasporic musicians.
May 10, 2024 · As for the music, it prompted (in this viewer) memories of the ecstatic party scene in “Lover’s Rock,” one chapter in McQueen’s five-film series on the Black British experience in the 1970s, which premiered in 2020. (You can watch the series, titled “Small Axe,” on Amazon.)Presented with this connection to the film, McQueen, who is
May 15, 2024 · You can think of McQueen’s Bass in relation to La Monte Young’s attenuated drones and Pauline Oliveros’s “deep listening”, to minimalism and installation art, but it leads much further back. Bass is also utterly consistent with other works by McQueen.
