Program 10:
Saturday, December 06, 2025
2:00 PM
Goethe Institut, Boston
Admission: FREE with RSVP

Goethe Institut Boston
170 Beacon St, Boston



Small Songs - Brian Rogers
39', Digital, Color, 2025

Dowsing - Timothy Feeney
45', Digital, Double Projector, color, 2025

Small Songs - Brian Rogers
30', Digital, Color, 2025

Small Songs is an abstract auto-fictional travelogue—and a love letter to the late visual artist Nancy Holt—made from footage captured during several cross-country road trips (including a visit to Holt's landmark work the Sun Tunnels) between 2021 and 2024. A deeply personal solo project entirely shot, scored, and edited by Brian Rogers, the film borrows audio material from Small Songs (the album), a related collection of very short synthesizer compositions released in 2023.

Brian Rogers is a theater and film director, video and sound artist, and performing arts curator. Since 1997, Brian has created films, performances, albums, and other time- based projects including Small Songs (2023/2024), Screamers (2018), Hot Box (2012, co-presented with FIAF’s Crossing The Line Festival / PS122’s COIL Festival / EMPAC Center, Troy NY and supported by a MAP Fund grant), and the Bessie-nominated Selective Memory (2010). Brian composed the soundtrack for Shaun Iron & Lauren Petty’s film Standing By: Gatz Backstage and has collaborated as a sound and video artist with numerous experimental dance and theater artists in NY and elsewhere. Brian is a MacDowell Fellow, and has had residencies at Yaddo and Mount Tremper Arts.

Dowsing - Timothy Feeney
45', Digital, Double Projectors, color, 2025

Ten repetitive sonic interventions within the eroded landscapes of the Burren, County Clare, Ireland. These occur at sites of local “anti-monuments:” a kilometers-long, natural limestone pavement high above Galway Bay; stone farm walls and remnants of circular structures on hillsides; cairns near a shoreline; a field of glacial boulders interrupted by a road smashed from the surrounding stone formations, in forced public work by the starving during the Great Hunger of 1845 to 1852. These structures speak to both the passage of geologic time, and the care and efforts of human survival beginning in the Neolithic period and tended through the present, though local history at each site may be lost, or unrecorded. These are introduced in title cards in English, italicized as a term in a language foreign to the observer, and in Irish in plain font, as in an observer’s native language.
From one perspective, a sonic divining or physical research into the properties of land, space, light, and time in these locations; from another, an attempt as an “Irish-American” to reckon with language, archaeology, and history felt as formative but inarticulable without lived context. After a point, you can only ask the stone so many questions, and sometimes you can only hear your own voice in response.

Tim Feeney performs, composes, and improvises sounds and images in and for forests and waterfronts, investigating unstable sound and duration. He appears in bookstores and basements with Sarah Hennies and Greg Stuart as the trio Meridian; in galleries and libraries with Vic Rawlings and Annie Lewandowski; in living rooms and warehouses with Clay Chaplin and Davy Sumner; in tunnels and train stops with Cody Putman and Cassia Streb as the trio Tasting Menu; in colleges and museums with Andrew Raffo Dewar, Holland Hopson, and Jane Cassidy; on recordings for Intakt, Black Truffle, Rhizome.s, Caduc, Full Spectrum, Sedimental, and Marginal Frequency; and in the occasional festival or concert hall with Anthony Braxton and Ingrid Laubrock. Tim builds sound and video installations exploring the acoustic properties and geographies of neglected spaces. His recent work has been presented by festivals at locations including Silo City, an abandoned grain silo and shipping complex along the river in Buffalo, New York; Boston’s Metropolitan Waterworks Museum, a preserved steam pumping station that processed the city’s drinking water; and the Bernheim Research Forest, outside Louisville, Kentucky; as well as by more formal events at the Contemporary Art Center New Orleans; the Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida; the Audubon Center of Debs Park, Los Angeles; the Denver Underground Film Festival; Festival International Musique Actuelle Victoriaville; Roma Short Film Festival; CICA Museum, South Korea; and the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art.
He is a faculty member in percussion, improvisation, composition, and experimental sound practices at the California Institute of the Arts.