Intuition Festival: Night 1
Overview
Intuition Festival: Night 1 of 2
Through live music and short films, Intuition Festival touches on themes in The Broad’s collection exhibition, Joseph Beuys: In Defense of Nature. On the outdoor stage, Osees—torchbearers of Krautrock pioneers such as Can, Kraftwerk, and NEU!—let loose in an energetic special set, moving between songs from their prolific oeuvre and improvisations responding to themes of the festival.
On the indoor stage, harpist Mary Lattimore and accordionist Walt McClements collaborate on a performance that stretches the limits of what their respective instruments are expected to do in a meditative, healing, and uplifting sonic experience. Barr, whose personal reinvention throughout her career echoes the shapeshifting and self-mythologizing Joseph Beuys, performs in a reinvigorated iteration of her former Kill Rock Stars label era output. Clare Major’s short documentary film, OUTCRY: Alchemists of Rage, follows activist and sexual abuse survivor Whitney Bradshaw as she photographs women mid-scream in cathartic group sessions in a journey from anger and heartbreak to triumph and joy.
Over the course of two nights, the combined artist lineups of Intuition Festival delve into the impact of our collective experiences and the healing of body and mind, environmental consciousness, political activism, and social change. Connecting it all is an acknowledgment of the lasting influence of the highly experimental Krautrock movement, which emerged in post-World War II Germany when Beuys was active as both an artist and a professor at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Intuition Festival takes its name from Beuys’s most widely distributed multiple, Intuition (1968). Empty wooden boxes with the word “Intuition” penciled inside were sold inexpensively to thousands of people, illustrating both a democratization of art and the potential for viewers to imbue such artworks with their own personal meanings.
Image credit: Osees performing live by Nick Sayers
Tickets include same-day access to The Broad, including Joseph Beuys: In Defense of Nature and our third-floor collection galleries during the event.
Tickets to this event do not include access to Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirror Room—The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away (2013), and must be booked separately.
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Schedule
Bios
Osees
Osees is an American rock band formed in San Francisco, California, in 1997, and is now based in Los Angeles, California. Originally the solo recording project of John Dwyer, the band has evolved through numerous line-ups and name changes since its founding (Orinoka Crash Suite, OCS, Orange County Sound, The Ohsees, The Oh Sees, Thee Oh Sees, Oh Sees), with Dwyer serving as the band leader and primary songwriter throughout. Alongside Dwyer, the band's current line-up includes longtime members Tim Hellman (bass), Dan Rincon (drums), Paul Quattrone (drums), and Tomas Dolas (keyboards). The group's sound draws from a wide variety of influences, including garage rock, Krautrock, psychedelia, and folk music. Osees latest album, Sorcs 80 (Castel Face, August 2024), is described by Pitchfork as “. . .an immersive listen. Hearing the Osees wrestle with their equipment, forcing the instruments—and themselves—to behave in ways they are not accustomed to, is a visceral experience. Bashing away at samplers as if they’re drums, the band sounds like it’s breaking out of the cave and into the modern world.”
Photo by Titouan Massé
Mary Lattimore + Walt McClements
Mary Lattimore and Walt McClements are two of contemporary music's most renowned innovators. Each has managed to expand the perception of their instrument’s capabilities. Lattimore’s inventive harp processing and looping has brought the instrument to a new audience. Her prolific run of celestial solo albums and evocative film scores have redefined the instrument in the modern consciousness. Her genre-agnostic collaborations include work with Kurt Vile, Steve Gunn, Jeff Zeigler, Meg Baird, Bill Fay, and Thurston Moore. McClements, who tours as a member of Weyes Blood, is an acclaimed composer in his own right, sculpting glacial atmospherics from the accordion. The Los Angeles based duo became quick friends on overlapping tours, sharing both a drive to push the sonic possibilities of their instruments and roots in North Carolina. Mary Lattimore and Walt McClements’s debut collaboration, Rain on the Road, blossomed out of time spent on the road together. The duo’s mastery of their respective instruments and their collective explorative nature belies the delicate complexity of their music.
Photo by Rachael Pony Cassells
Barr
Barr is the long running musical project of multimedia artist Beatrix Fowler. Emerging from the early 2000s experimental/DIY musical underground, Barr released stripped-down, confessional albums and played solo sets—or occasionally with a backing band—in basements, rock clubs, art galleries, and museums across the US and Europe before pausing from performing sometime around 2015. But 2024 has brought Barr back. With new songs and a new urgency, Fowler returns, ready to speak directly to her community again.
Photo courtesy of the artist
OUTCRY: Alchemists of Rage
In this short film, Whitney Bradshaw photographs women mid-scream in cathartic group sessions where long-silenced stories conjure rage, sorrow, and joy. An activist and sexual abuse survivor, Whitney uses art to fuel action for women’s rights, culminating in a grassroots fight for abortion access in Ohio. (TRT 29:59, 2024, U.S.)
Clare Major (Director, Producer, Cinematographer, Editor) is a documentary filmmaker and cinematographer who specializes in handheld observational camerawork and in stories that illuminate the intersection of cultures and the lives of women and girls. Recent cinematography credits include Oscar-shortlisted short doc Holding Moses (2022) and Peabody nominee and Emmy winner Belly Of The Beast (2020). Clare’s short documentary Feast & Sacrifice, made in the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, was nominated for a Student Academy Award, and won a first place College Television Award (a.k.a. Student Emmy). Clare served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Senegal and has walked from Mexico to Canada on the Pacific Crest Trail. In 2020, she was named one of DOC NYC's "40 Under 40" filmmakers to watch.
Whitney Bradshaw (Artist, Film Subject, Producer) is an artist, activist, educator, curator, former social worker, and mother who lives and works in Chicago. Currently the curator of the Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Whitney was previously an Artist-in-Residence with Chicago Public Schools and, before that, the chair of the visual art conservatory at the Chicago High School for the Arts for 10 years. Whitney curated the renowned LaSalle Bank Photography Collection, later the Bank of America Collection and was an adjunct professor at Columbia College Chicago for 13 years. Her photographs have been widely exhibited across the United States and in Zurich and have been published in Ms. Magazine, The New York Times, LA Times, GIRLS Magazine, Time Out New York, 48 Hills, Vogue, and many other news and media outlets.
Still from OUTCRY: Alchemists of Rage
