Artist Dicky Bahto will make his first appearance in Albuquerque, with a program featuring an excerpt from his recent three-hour long collaboration with musician Sarah Davachi, Music for a Bellowing Room, an exercise in resolution, inviting the audience to shift their concentration and perception through gradual changes in sound and image. The piece was originally commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and received its premiere performance in September 2023. (note that this will be a different excerpt from the one he is showing in Santa Fe on October 17th). The program will also include a brand new film, a portrait of the artist Cesar Cofone, with music by Marco Baldini, as well as two music videos for Raum (Liz Harris and Jefre Cantu-Ledesma) and Sarah Davachi. @dicky_bahto @basement_films

"[Dicky Bahto's] varied and complex engagement with moving image and photographic media is steeped in a deeply felt humanity and empathy, manifesting through his inspired photographic eye and frequently direct interaction with and appreciation of the material vitality of film and cinema. His films achieve heightened emotional states of great intimacy and poetry, often channeling the uniquely aleatory qualities of film to carry a sensuality and spirituality hovering in the space between loving depiction and vaporous abstraction." (Mark Toscano)

Dicky Bahto has exhibited work utilizing still and motion picture photography, sound, and performance at a variety of museums, galleries, microcinemas, film festivals, conferences, alternative spaces, and scenic locations spanning the Northern Hemisphere, from the Museum of Modern Art in New York to a series of nooks, crannies, and underbrush along and under Sunset Boulevard. He frequently collaborates with musicians, both as a performer and as a visual artist, including Sarah Davachi, Liz Harris, Julia Holter, and Tashi Wada, as well as with his lover, Patrick Londen, and their cats Simone and Katoosh.