Nothing Planned deals in after-images. From the hallucinatory flicker of oscillating film projectors to the apparitions peering back from his found subjects; Lary 7’s audio/visual assemblages imprint on the mind’s eye a picture of what’s “not junk yet”. Built from the workhorses of an image-making industry now gone bloodless, these teetering assemblages whir, tick, slice and warp their own mechanical and optical logic, held together mostly by invention — equally ready to sing as to sputter a last gasp.

 

Like any fluctuating current, this show invites change and the ever-present potentialities of failure, a long-time concern of 7’s work. Visitors will join an ongoing “social club” in the gallery: an active-set / laboratory persisting into the night. 7 will be present throughout with cameras rolling, developing and re-inserting these twilight activities back into the machines which churn along in the dark. Nothing Planned is anything but...though where it will go is certainly unfixed.

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Lary 7 is a multimedia artist, performer and engineer working with forgotten electronic instruments and discarded technologies to create moving images, photographs, absurdist performances and sonic works. Born in in 1956 in Buffalo, New York, his mentors were luminaries of the electronic and film avant-garde such as Tony Conrad, Woody Vasulka, Hollis Frampton and Paul Sharits. 7's education was equally practical and his work since has been informed by a technical mastery of photography and electrical engineering. 

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Operating from his East Village apartment turned analog recording studio of over 40 years (Plastikville), he is a long-time denizen of New York’s experimental film and music underground, collaborating locally and abroad with artists such as Tom Verlaine, Swans, Jarboe, Gen Ken Montgomery, Felix Kubin, Jimi Tenor, Pan Sonic, Michael Evans, Direct Art Productions Ltd. with Fabio Roberti, Henry Jones, Alexander Haacke and Danielle de Picciotto, Bernard Gál, Jutta Koether, Dorit Chrysler and many more.