To the Body is an immersive soundscape created for the exhibition Yu Hong: Another One Bites the Dust, on view concurrently with the 60th Venice Biennale. It is a work in ten sections, played without pause and repeated without seam, in which fragments of Dietrich Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu Nostri (1680) appear, but are themselves disembodied from their original context. A soprano sings a line drawn from the original cantata over a bed of electronically manipulated sounds, Renaissance and Baroque instruments, and other voices. The primary musical and emotional elements are memory, contortion, and recontextualization; these act hand in hand with Yu Hong’s work, as well as in counterpoint to them.

To the Body was commissioned by Works & Process with support from the American Academy in Rome and the Guggenheim’s Asian Art Circle.

Yu Hong: Another One Bites the Dust is organized by Alexandra Munroe, Senior Curator at Large, Global Arts, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and is a program of the Guggenheim Museum’s Asian Art Initiative that is supported by the museum’s Asian Art Circle. As part of the evening, Alexandra Munroe, Senior Curator at Large, Global Arts, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum moderates a discussion with Yu Hong and Nico Muhly.

Ticketing Information
Priority tickets for the fall 2024 performance series will go on sale online at 11 am on Tuesday, July 23, for $500+ Friends of Works & Process and all Guggenheim members at the Global level and above.

General ticketing will open online on Thursday, July 25, at 11 am.

For questions, Friends of Works & Process, please email friends@worksandprocess.org. Guggenheim members, please email membership@guggenheim.org. For general ticketing questions, please email boxoffice@guggenheim.org.

Tickets are available for purchase online only.

House seats may be available for $1,000+ Friends of Works & Process. To purchase house seats, email friends@worksandprocess.org.

House seats may be released to the public before performances.

Nico Muhly. Photo: Heidi Solander