Film Screening + Performance
The Changeover System: A Projector Performance Installation by Gibson + Recoder + Garet
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Sunday, Mar 22, 2026
2–4 p.m.
Floor 1, Phyllis Wattis Theater
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The acclaimed collaborative artist duo Gibson + Recoder present the San Francisco premiere of their most recent expanded cinema project, The Changeover System: A Projection Performance Installation (2023–25). An ambitious live multi-projection work based on Gibson + Recoder’s 20 years of experimentation with the projection of 35mm celluloid, The Changeover System repurposes film projectors from within the concealed projection booth in a practice they refer to as “prepared projection,” calling attention to the creative agency of the screening room itself.
The Changeover System was developed in close collaboration with sound artist Richard Garet. Whereas Gibson + Recoder disappear into the projection booth, Garet performs within the theater, amid the audience, using amplified EMF emissions, modified audiocassettes, malfunctioning tape players, interactive circuit boards, sonification of light, and computer processing.
About the Artists
Gibson + Recoder have been collaborating since 2000. Their works are in the permanent collection of such major museums as the Whitney Museum of Art, Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, and Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf. Artist awards and commissions include the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, National Endowment for the Arts’ US-Japan Creative Artists Fellowship, and Mad. Sq. Art. Gibson + Recoder live and work in New York.
Richard Garet holds an MFA from Bard College, NY. His work has been exhibited in major institutions worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Queens Museum of Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA), Spain; Fine Arts Museum of Montreal, Canada; Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Florida; and the Art Museum of Puerto Rico, San Juan. His recent projects also featured in the Puerto Rico Poli/Gráfica Triennial, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), and the Gurvich Museum of Art, Montevideo, Uruguay.
Meaningful support provided by the Susan Wildberg Morgenstein Memorial Fund.