[May 17 - Aug 24] Before Us this Horizon by Rebekkah Palov - Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center

[May 17 – Aug 24] Before Us this Horizon by Rebekkah Palov

Harvestworks Art and Technology Program presents Rebekkah Palov’s artwork Before Us this Horizon, in the exhibition A Sense of Time in Art and Tech.

Before Us this Horizon is an installation of sonic emergences, falls, pivots and lifts and moody quadraphonic sound-travels. Also in the space are round screens with original video recordings of, and around Hornell, NY. The hundreds of brief videos are from rebekkah’s large ongoing project – The Plane(s). The juxtaposition of otherworldly surround-sound and no frills handy-cam video, make for moods of unease, hazard, pleasure, longing. The knowledge this creates in the viewer is, as Poet/Filmmaker Jean Cocteau describes: “genuine poetry has no use for evasion. What it wants is invasion, that is, that the soul be invaded with words and objects which… impel it to plunge deep into itself .. a personal effort of fantasy and magic.”

📢 “Before Us this Horizon” By Rebekkah Palov
🗓 DATE & TIME: May 17 – Aug 24, 2025. Open to the public: 11 am to 5 pm on Sat and Sun. Opening: Saturday May 17, 2025 from 3 – 5 pm. Performance on August 23, 2025.
📍 LOCATION: Harvestworks Art and Technology Program Building 10a, Nolan Park, Governors Island

Rebekkah Palov has a range of experiences in artist and activist communities. Since 2012, Rebekkah has been a member of Carrier Band (founded by Oliveros, Deutsch & Bode) with its signature Harold Bode Vocoder and archive recordings. Performances with Carrier Band include The Stone (Ave C) and Experimental Intermedia. Starting 2021, she has been a member of the NowNet Arts Hub under Composer, Conductor Sarah Weaver. Rebekkah has played in garage, math-rock pop and heavy metal bands, playing with Tim Green (louder Studios, Fucking Champs, Nation of Ulysses), Rachel Carns (The Need, Kicking Giant), and others. Rebekkah also is a video artist, with work exhibited at MassArt Boston MA, SAT Montréal QC, Oblo Film Festival Lausanne CH, Digital Art Weeks Zurich CH and Transient Visions NY. She has worked on moving-image projects by Stephanie Barber (lighting), GB Jones (actor), Eiko Otake (camera), Larry Gottheim (edit assist, post). She is a former Bike Collective member (Austin & Baltimore) and a retired University Professor in time-based experimental arts, Kutztown University. Rebekkah lives in Hornell, NY