More than 10 years have passed since Rebecca Gates put out her solo debut, Ruby Series. The former member of the Spinanes mostly shifted her energy to other projects: coordinating and managing exhibitions for museums, lecturing at arts centers, composing music for dance and film, participating in performance pieces and stylizing photos for magazines. She also did some bookkeeping, retreated to Rhode Island and helped friends build a movie theater. But as time and money allowed, she also popped back into studios to put together her follow-up, The Float (12XU). Gates will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our brand new Q&A with her.
Gates: The moment in a museum when I round a corner, step into a room, see an artwork and stand riveted. Breathing changes, humming starts not as a sound but as electronic impulse, a bright charge snapping and crackling tesla coil style. The world shifts, tilts, compresses, expands, eternal and without time, itches I didn’t know I had are scratched. That’s Gego.
Video after the jump.
