Arun Rath: We’ve heard about various sorts of immersive experiences lately. There have been several here in Boston. Tell us about what this exhibit is going to be like.
Sarah Bob: So the New Gallery Concert Series is a combination of new music and new visual art. I just do want to stress that we don’t believe, necessarily, that the music needs the art or the art needs the music. This is just a way to shine light on different aspects of the experience and of the art in itself.
This all came to be — and I’d like to share this with you, because it relates to the actual physical experience that people will be having on Saturday — this all came about as I went to visit a friend’s studio for the first time, Sharon Berke. She’s a visual artist, and she was showing me her work. … As she spoke about her art, she used words like “connection” and “disconnection” and “fragmentation” and “identity.”
