{"id":12650,"date":"2025-09-27T11:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T15:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=12650"},"modified":"2025-09-26T18:23:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T22:23:57","slug":"sonia-boyce-improvise-with-what-we-have-at-hauser-wirth-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/27\/sonia-boyce-improvise-with-what-we-have-at-hauser-wirth-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonia Boyce, &#8216;Improvise with What We Have&#8217; at Hauser &#038; Wirth Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What is music when you can\u2019t hear it?\u00a0 \u2018Silent Disco,\u2019 a new video work by British artist<a href=\"https:\/\/soniaboyce.net\/\"> Sonia Boyce<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hauserwirth.com\/hauser-wirth-exhibitions\/sonia-boyce\/\">Hauser and Wirth Gallery<\/a> in Chelsea, features headphone-wearing people dancing to music that the audience can\u2019t hear.\u00a0 In an added twist, the dancers are listening to two separate channels, dancing near others who may or may not be hearing what they are. \u00a0The dancers\u2019 interactions, movements and obvious enjoyment become subject matter, positioning dance in a new light and maybe even tempting gallery visitors to join in with their own moves. (On view in Chelsea through Oct 18<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 4900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/dd8972f7-06a0-b9c7-f4e6-2395dcfc5530.jpg\" alt=\"A wall featuring three videos of people dancing and a patterned background.\" width=\"4900\" height=\"3821\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sonia Boyce, Silent Disco, 3-channel colour video with sound, duration 9:42 min, 2025.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is music when you can\u2019t hear it?\u00a0 \u2018Silent Disco,\u2019 a new video work by British artist Sonia Boyce at Hauser and Wirth Gallery in Chelsea, features headphone-wearing people dancing to music that the audience can\u2019t hear.\u00a0 In an added twist, the dancers are listening to two separate channels, dancing near others who may or &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/27\/sonia-boyce-improvise-with-what-we-have-at-hauser-wirth-gallery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sonia Boyce, &#8216;Improvise with What We Have&#8217; at Hauser &#038; Wirth Gallery&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[8,117,246,537,11484,11485,11483,53],"class_list":["post-12650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-hottest-show","tag-art","tag-chelsea","tag-conceptual-art","tag-hauser-and-wirth","tag-improvise-with-what-we-have","tag-silent-disco","tag-sonia-boyce","tag-video-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-3i2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12652,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12650\/revisions\/12652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}