Eyewash Series Presents: Eli Keszler

Eli Keszler is a New York based artist, composer and percussionist working at the intersections of performance, installation, notation and composition. His time-based works examines the limits of instruments, drawing, diagram, score writing and musical experience through various technology and techniques. These works are often accompanied by collections of visual works, drawings and scores presented in conjunction with installations and compositions. Keszler's large-scale installations can be experienced autonomously or with an ensemble/solo performance featuring his own aggressively propulsive drumming.

His installations and visual work have appeared at the MIT List Center, Victoria & Albert Museum, Sculpture Center, The Kitchen, South London Gallery, Luma-Foundation, Tectonics Festival (Harpa Hall) Reykjavik, Centraal Museum in Utrecht, Boston Center for the Arts, Barbican - St. Lukes and 3S Arts among others. Keszler has toured extensively throughout Europe and the US, performing solo and in collaboration with artists such as Christian Wolff, Phill Niblock, Tony Conrad, Oren Ambarchi, Joe Mcphee, Jandek, Roscoe Mitchell, Anthony Coleman, String Orchestra of Brooklyn, T Model Ford, Ran Blake, and Ilan Volkov with the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra. His writing and work has appeared in Bomb Magazine, The New York Times, Wire Magazine, Frieze and Modern Painters. He has published solo records for labels such as ESP-Disk', Pan and REL Records. Keszler is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music.