Newark Rhythms links the experiences of students and community members, their stories of aspiration, displacement, and inclusion, with the sensory perception of the campus and the neighborhood. Over the course of 2019 and early 2020, Newark Rhythms opened a dialogue between sound and space, between avant garde music and architectural modernism, by hosting a series of sonic-spatial and participatory performances around the Rutgers-Newark Plaza and in the building interiors. By combining archival research, exhibitions, sonic-spatial and visual arts performances, and community outreach, it aims to recover, document, and make present the history of the campus’s modernist architectural design as part of urban renewal in 1960s Newark, and how these developments related to concurrent social issues and artistic movements.

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SONIC SPATIAL

• Shilpa Ray in Concert on Dedication Day (October 24, 2018)
• Tyshawn Sorey in Concert + Conversation (April 28, 2019)
• Andrew Demirjian | Sonic Cement (May 3, 2019)
• Daniel Neumann | Resounding the Tower (June 30, 2019)
• Hprizm + Jeff Snyder (PLOrk) | Do You See / Do You Hear? (October 12, 2019)
• Wolfgang Gil | Aural Fields Zero / Resonant Bodies I (October 12, 2019)
• Andrew Demirjian | Echoes of Liberation (October 10-11, 2020)

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VISUAL ARTS

• Maren Hassinger | Women's Work performance on Dedication Day (October 24, 2018)
• Morgan O'Hara Handwriting the Constitution (November 1-2, 2018)
• Tamar Ettun (September 25, 2019)
• Matthew Jensen (October 30, 2019)
• Dominique Duroseau w/ Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste (November 20, 2019)
• Alan Ruiz (February 26, 2020)