Solarium by Deaf Anthropologist & Jerry Lim

This work unfolds from within atomically complex nodes of organic material, floating freely inside a semi-sentient system, where tactile gestures strain and bristle against an enveloping synthetic atmosphere. Orientation inside the vitreous orb must be continuously renegotiated through repetition, compression, and release, with foreground emanations musically persisting like navigational markers eventually swallowed up by the scale of aberrant fields.

Deaf Anthropologist is the project of Gaetano Rago, a Hamburg-based sound artist with a background in interdisciplinary anthropology. With a lifelong condition of sensorineural hearing loss, Rago explores how auditory perception shapes reality, and his work frequently centers on auditory pareidolia, the tension between familiarity and estrangement, and the dynamics of immersion and dispersion. He has collaborated with dancers, designers, and installation artists in a range of contexts.

Jerry Lim is a Brooklyn-based multi-instrumentalist and visual artist focused on guitar and kayagum. His practice spans experimental music performance and improvisation, often centered around custom-built microtonal instruments and altered tuning systems. He has performed at venues including Roulette, The Stone, and Carnegie Hall, and has collaborated with artists across a wide range of disciplines, including Joe McPhee, Sang-Won Park, Sean Meehan, and Martha Colburn. In addition to his musical work, Lim is also active as a visual artist, primarily working in photography.

Exposure Therapy is a live experimental music performance series.

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