FRONT International Presents Martin Beck At BOP STOP for a three day residency 7/14-7/16!

• Thursday 7/14 10am-11:30pm (Open To The General Public)
• Friday 7/15 10am-11:30pm (Open To The General Public)
• Saturday 7/16 10am-11:30pm (Open To The General Public)

How can a reconstruction of the past evoke community and joy?

BOP STOP plays a prominent role during opening weekend of the 2022 FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, Oh, Gods of Dust and Rainbows, as the setting for an immersive, long-form film by Austrian-born artist Martin Beck.

Last Night is a film showing 13½ hours of records as they are played on a vintage Thorens turntable. Despite its strict shot sequence and cool effect, the film evokes resonances of joy through the music being played. It represents one part of Beck’s extended project, Last Night, which consists of multiple, interconnected artworks that all revolve around a singular, ephemeral event: the last party that David Mancuso threw at the Loft’s 99 Prince Street location on June 2, 1984. Through painstaking research based on an archival recording, Beck identified and sequenced the 118 songs played at that final party.

In the words of the artist, “Last Night is a poetic construction, as much a private experience as it is memory of something that actually happened: a construction that speaks of history and love, of pleasure and time.” The project points to the ways in which the essential human form of music can bring different people together into new communities.

BOP STOP is one of four locations in Ohio City that will host FRONT exhibitions: BOP STOP (opening weekend); JUKE BOX; SPACES; and Transformer Station. Transformer Station is also the site of the FRONT PNC Exhibition Hub where visitors will begin their Triennial experience.