Tom Sachs Set To Blast His Iconic Boomboxes At The Brooklyn Museum
Tom Sachs (American, born 1966)
Phonkey, 2011| Photo: Genevieve Hanson via Brooklyn Museum

In keeping with Brooklyn’s immense hip-hop culture highlighted by past Brooklyn Museum exhibits like Sneaker Culture and Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic, Tom Sachs: Boombox Retrospective, 1999-2016 has been added to the museum’s spring 2016 exhibition schedule.

This iconic exhibit pays tribute to a defining symbol of street music culture. Tom Sachs, best known for work that engages with politics and the history of Modernism, will transform the Brooklyn Museum’s Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Pavilion into a living sound system through an installation of eighteen sculptural boom boxes. Hovering somewhere between art and science, functional and mythological, Tom Sachs: Boombox Retrospective, 1999-2016 will go live on April 21 and run through August 14, 2016.

The boom boxes will activate the Museum’s entrance through a scheduled series of eclectic sound experiences curated by the artist and drawing from his own musical community and the rich history of music in Brooklyn. Each stereo has been used in support of an activity, ritual, or event.

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“From dance party, to road trip, to poche vide (a place to empty your pockets as you enter your home), to laboratory, to bachelor pad, to iPhone dock, sounds systems have always been a part of my work and will be as long as I continue to love music,” said Sachs.

The eighteen works set to be on view, include Toyan’s (2002), a group of speakers 8 feet tall by 12 feet across inspired by Jamaican sound systems; Presidential Vampire Booth (2002), complete with a stocked bar and Presidential seal; and Phonkey (2011), which is made of steel, hardware, Gaffers tape, and a JVC Stereo Radio Cassette Recorder RC-M50C and was part of the series Space Program: Mars, a massive installation at the Park Avenue Armory in 2012. Live DJ sets are also said to be planned.

Other spring exhibitions include Agitprop!, Disguise: Masks and Global African Art, and This Place.