https://bengould.net Ben Gould Sun, 14 Dec 2025 20:28:08 +0000 https://bengould.net en https://bengould.net/Homepage Mon, 21 Oct 2013 05:50:20 +0000 Ben Gould https://bengould.net/Homepage Ben Gould is an artist based in New York https://bengould.net/The-Waiting-Room Sun, 14 Dec 2025 20:28:08 +0000 Ben Gould https://bengould.net/The-Waiting-Room THE WAITING ROOM 20251.5 hrs The Waiting Room is made in opposition to the medical industrial complex of our nation, yet also indebted to it. Informed by states of bureaucratic limbo and the suspension of care, the performance is built according to the repetitive, unending structure of ‘on hold’ music - eventually devolving into chaos. Working closely with musicians Michael Gould and Arthur Gould, an unrelenting score for percussion and cello compounds over the course of an hour and a half. 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/35418c90c55dd2317b4f22b07b5edb8fb12d95baae94061d38070720a1d09f26/_DSC7402.jpg" data-mid="241809320" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/35418c90c55dd2317b4f22b07b5edb8fb12d95baae94061d38070720a1d09f26/_DSC7402.jpg" /> https://bengould.net/Anvil-Crawler Fri, 23 Feb 2024 16:39:48 +0000 Ben Gould https://bengould.net/Anvil-Crawler ANVIL CRAWLER performed at Lyles &amp; King, NYC&nbsp; 2023 Anvil Crawler gives form to the electrical systems within the body, while being guided by the electrical circuit of our atmosphere and the idiosyncratic circuit of the artist’s neurology. Tuned to the formation of lightning from which the work itself is named, a choreographic structure unfolds and burns. While introducing an external electric current through the body administered by a series of electrodes, Gould’s Tourette’s Syndrome becomes unpredictably charged, newly ecstatic, and volatile - creating a language of movement that is guided by both his known condition and unknown sensation. The performance is illuminated by erratic flashes of light determined by real lightning strike data, which in turn feed the energetic movement system. Through stages of control, resistance, acceptance and abandon, the performance becomes a storm of viscerality, intimacy, and at times, joy. <img width="3234" height="2310" width_o="3234" height_o="2310" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d446722a17fbe255b1de9f706761ff2b373220ca5d8d112d23c31d18b84be540/093023_CW_BenGould_01_097.jpg" data-mid="205317582" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d446722a17fbe255b1de9f706761ff2b373220ca5d8d112d23c31d18b84be540/093023_CW_BenGould_01_097.jpg" /> <img width="3439" height="2456" width_o="3439" height_o="2456" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a1d24031d882e99d3d05647cb1bf917456b24d80fde764cee495610ac64243bf/093023_CW_BenGould_01_122.jpg" data-mid="205317584" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a1d24031d882e99d3d05647cb1bf917456b24d80fde764cee495610ac64243bf/093023_CW_BenGould_01_122.jpg" /> <img width="2408" height="3372" width_o="2408" height_o="3372" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fddf44643d7ee67b5a6e2b85d27a61ecc9582e7d191df6abb979313bd8355bd8/093023_CW_BenGould_01_166.jpg" data-mid="205317591" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fddf44643d7ee67b5a6e2b85d27a61ecc9582e7d191df6abb979313bd8355bd8/093023_CW_BenGould_01_166.jpg" /> <img width="2965" height="1978" width_o="2965" height_o="1978" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/40c90801aeebcabc6179b578c47b1ed493b87d9cf5deb6da25a29ab67303c9b5/093023_CW_BenGould_01_095.jpg" data-mid="205317633" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/40c90801aeebcabc6179b578c47b1ed493b87d9cf5deb6da25a29ab67303c9b5/093023_CW_BenGould_01_095.jpg" /> <img width="3538" height="2527" width_o="3538" height_o="2527" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8aad718d7d466aa005f83aca4550cabbcc125f680034717362e3048d2531bb56/093023_CW_BenGould_01_146.jpg" data-mid="205317586" border="0" 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src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1cca4e83d1a3458568b1be2224955f485ac2cc718a61f1d1eb922080f0069683/_47A5267_A.jpg" /> https://bengould.net/Mechanicville Wed, 08 Jun 2022 19:59:36 +0000 Ben Gould https://bengould.net/Mechanicville MECHANICVILLE 2022 Film and performance Cinematography by Joseph Bacon Clothing by Gabriella Lacza The Mechanicville project marks the first in a series of performances that explore the body’s energy systems in relation to analogous sites of energy production. The Mechanicville Hydroelectric Power Plant, located on the Hudson River north of Albany, is the oldest continuously running hydroelectric plant in the world. Here amidst a district of Queen Anne architecture, overflow dams and gleaming yellow hydraulic turbine generators, a vocabulary of physical gestures develops in relation to the workings and symbolic environment of the power plant - movements born from the plant’s stages of energy production and inhabited within the body.&nbsp; <img width="11550" height="9300" width_o="11550" height_o="9300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6853209236ab7a63676971961af43b676c75c3e16b8511580e8f0407c61b1498/BEN_2021358_crop_frame.jpeg" data-mid="144929306" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6853209236ab7a63676971961af43b676c75c3e16b8511580e8f0407c61b1498/BEN_2021358_crop_frame.jpeg" /> Mechanicville Trailer: <img width="9300" height="11550" width_o="9300" height_o="11550" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ab33d9ea09251203b0b2e10ec7e89340a4f4f41f01eaaea8419b38f693eecf05/History_august_2021355_crop_frame.jpeg" data-mid="144929307" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ab33d9ea09251203b0b2e10ec7e89340a4f4f41f01eaaea8419b38f693eecf05/History_august_2021355_crop_frame.jpeg" /> <img width="7501" height="9300" width_o="7501" height_o="9300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9646448685c317a12af865e1b16fb4818c94bfb8b5435f045749e3040623cb68/Ben_46A2224_4x5.jpeg" data-mid="144929302" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9646448685c317a12af865e1b16fb4818c94bfb8b5435f045749e3040623cb68/Ben_46A2224_4x5.jpeg" /> <img width="8688" height="5792" width_o="8688" height_o="5792" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7e454c601fd663060a3b2539f238f90fa87fc02aa4d3d26f474bec67d0848cf0/_46A1839.jpeg" data-mid="144929311" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7e454c601fd663060a3b2539f238f90fa87fc02aa4d3d26f474bec67d0848cf0/_46A1839.jpeg" /> <img width="9300" height="11550" width_o="9300" height_o="11550" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fd699b69f318e64c0ce579189f6859fb99babeb922d98314a81f434e797a2f87/BEN_2021354_crop4x5_frame.jpeg" data-mid="144929305" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fd699b69f318e64c0ce579189f6859fb99babeb922d98314a81f434e797a2f87/BEN_2021354_crop4x5_frame.jpeg" /> large format film photographs taken with Jeff Bark https://bengould.net/Severance Wed, 08 Jun 2022 18:38:51 +0000 Ben Gould https://bengould.net/Severance SEVERANCE Collaboration with Matty Davis2021 - presentClothing by Gabriella Lacza Generated in the context of absence, Severance (2021) marks the close of a particular shared trajectory, yet one that has no definite end. Instead, Severance endures as a network of ongoing change and distillment. Through the sublimation of tools discovered in Carriage and Bearance, Davis and Gould forge new dimensions of shared experience. Trust begets separation and sensation bestows empathy. In the spirit of a gem’s formation, Severance is forever cut and faceted by new choreographic structures tuned to the evolving nature of need and desire, refracting the entirety of a body of work both past and present. <img width="3525" height="4725" width_o="3525" height_o="4725" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/feb582bda59b738737651e207b492eb6644a6e0d8b0fbd300099af00a61c69d0/Severance_Comp_B_2.jpg" data-mid="144921195" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/feb582bda59b738737651e207b492eb6644a6e0d8b0fbd300099af00a61c69d0/Severance_Comp_B_2.jpg" /> <img width="5354" height="3569" width_o="5354" height_o="3569" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/df2807e2521d1582f0d39826d525fc20735bd5632c46b8c614a0d7e43163fd3b/bcc-and-mistral-present-Carriage-Bearance-Severance-performed-by-Matty-Davis-and-Ben-Gould--photo-118-by-Maarten-Nauw--high-res.jpg" data-mid="144921863" border="0" 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5b5f331677ae3c86771ce3cbd02d22ae5bc86da7696efa4fb79ff7a3d5f094a4/bcc-and-mistral-present-Carriage-Bearance-Severance-performed-by-Matty-Davis-and-Ben-Gould--photo-121-by-Maarten-Nauw--high-res.jpg" data-mid="144921867" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5b5f331677ae3c86771ce3cbd02d22ae5bc86da7696efa4fb79ff7a3d5f094a4/bcc-and-mistral-present-Carriage-Bearance-Severance-performed-by-Matty-Davis-and-Ben-Gould--photo-121-by-Maarten-Nauw--high-res.jpg" /> <img width="5407" height="3605" width_o="5407" height_o="3605" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b70b676791e72eb52f90fdd9bcff374fd267fba04b99fae5070e89b8d81be446/bcc-and-mistral-present-Carriage-Bearance-Severance-performed-by-Matty-Davis-and-Ben-Gould--photo-124-by-Maarten-Nauw--high-res.jpg" data-mid="144921875" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b70b676791e72eb52f90fdd9bcff374fd267fba04b99fae5070e89b8d81be446/bcc-and-mistral-present-Carriage-Bearance-Severance-performed-by-Matty-Davis-and-Ben-Gould--photo-124-by-Maarten-Nauw--high-res.jpg" /> <img width="5472" height="3648" width_o="5472" height_o="3648" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7c31822a421f8e8ba39b34f879c816a5a5efd6941f836349cf37c8df503f556a/947A3028_A.jpg" data-mid="144921332" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7c31822a421f8e8ba39b34f879c816a5a5efd6941f836349cf37c8df503f556a/947A3028_A.jpg" /> https://bengould.net/Follow-Up Wed, 25 Aug 2021 18:01:09 +0000 Ben Gould https://bengould.net/Follow-Up FOLLOW UP 120mm photographs taken during a follow-up visit to the doctor in Vienna, VA 2021 <img width="2048" height="2797" width_o="2048" height_o="2797" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0f59b7cdabf7ba7d0035a7ddb4fc33520f272e550c7949b4a58cd4c3d61fa631/429187_2069_02.jpg" 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b63b15eb3c772da163cb67afd4680bc90d8f22e18644d8a201cf37fadc1915d8/429187_2069_12.jpg" data-mid="117321951" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b63b15eb3c772da163cb67afd4680bc90d8f22e18644d8a201cf37fadc1915d8/429187_2069_12.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="2797" width_o="2048" height_o="2797" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c7b2b273e792d4d07f75fa3c9eea1354c7f0cf24d8077b901b812611dd2f48ff/429187_2068_12.jpg" data-mid="117321897" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c7b2b273e792d4d07f75fa3c9eea1354c7f0cf24d8077b901b812611dd2f48ff/429187_2068_12.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="2797" width_o="2048" height_o="2797" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/026503cd5e44976228a4c39b02a9a7b56c78ccdf59f0aff899023db163c72355/429187_2068_11.jpg" data-mid="117321896" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/026503cd5e44976228a4c39b02a9a7b56c78ccdf59f0aff899023db163c72355/429187_2068_11.jpg" /> <img width="2797" height="2048" width_o="2797" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/26407ff1f7394e6b03fa661596d4599c9866fc74371261dec82c9d18a538cee6/429187_2068_13.jpg" data-mid="117321898" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/26407ff1f7394e6b03fa661596d4599c9866fc74371261dec82c9d18a538cee6/429187_2068_13.jpg" /> https://bengould.net/Ardor Thu, 18 Mar 2021 20:09:19 +0000 Ben Gould https://bengould.net/Ardor ARDOR 2021 Livestream performance Filmed by Joseph Bacon Clothing by Gabriella Lacza Ardor is a performance by Ben Gould developed for a virtual audience. It was filmed by Joseph Bacon and streamed live on from Liberal Arts, Roxbury, and presented by the Center for Craft. Contending with transformation, power, and desire, the performance activates a set of internal and external manifestations of the body’s energy systems. These primary sources - chemical, electric, thermal, and mechanical energy - &nbsp;are employed both within the body involuntarily, and outwardly through analogous, intentional movement-based choreographies that utilize Gould’s Tourette Syndrome as a generator. Throughout the performance these physical embodiments, internalized and made visible through movement, have external counterpoints: objects and processes that expand the scale of these energy systems into new realms. &nbsp;An ice-cast stone is used to reroute the directionality of impulse, electrodes flow a subtle current through the body, charging the system and splitting roles of control - instigating a new and more deeply buried movement language to be reckoned with. All this gives way to a work both raw, intimate, and severe. <img width="5597" height="3998" width_o="5597" height_o="3998" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9dc38bb1848a36b7929f2e516b5af4ef689b4aa54f691293dec728c821cc8164/122920_CW_BenGould_Shot_04_060_CROP.jpg" data-mid="102505217" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9dc38bb1848a36b7929f2e516b5af4ef689b4aa54f691293dec728c821cc8164/122920_CW_BenGould_Shot_04_060_CROP.jpg" /> <img width="2160" height="2700" width_o="2160" height_o="2700" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bf1dbb5c471683510a1eefee6d6e9054d6de6a8968d0993bdaefec069e446bc8/10_Gould.jpg" data-mid="102505231" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bf1dbb5c471683510a1eefee6d6e9054d6de6a8968d0993bdaefec069e446bc8/10_Gould.jpg" /> <img width="5053" height="3610" width_o="5053" height_o="3610" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/388858bed216fa0f65e61708669efef5cec1924219b5cf0dace288245b16d711/122920_CW_BenGould_Shot_01_095_CROP.jpg" data-mid="102505214" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/388858bed216fa0f65e61708669efef5cec1924219b5cf0dace288245b16d711/122920_CW_BenGould_Shot_01_095_CROP.jpg" /> <img width="4486" height="3204" width_o="4486" height_o="3204" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ba690c82716c29fca969d584dcba84ea9e30c430fc8c85d25af32925691e0d9c/122920_CW_BenGould_Shot_01_127_CROP.jpg" data-mid="102505215" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ba690c82716c29fca969d584dcba84ea9e30c430fc8c85d25af32925691e0d9c/122920_CW_BenGould_Shot_01_127_CROP.jpg" /> <img width="5367" height="3834" width_o="5367" height_o="3834" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/850009107e090f35342ccb7c2568b50beca3a0fb385507299bbb988009d0972c/122920_CW_BenGould_Shot_03_073_CROP.jpg" data-mid="102505216" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/850009107e090f35342ccb7c2568b50beca3a0fb385507299bbb988009d0972c/122920_CW_BenGould_Shot_03_073_CROP.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2143" width_o="3000" height_o="2143" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/788435bc1f2bf9f48a8d21a4c1ce0b1bfd7b38b3bb84e1c8ce8fa846080cc533/02_Ardor.jpg" data-mid="102505317" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/788435bc1f2bf9f48a8d21a4c1ce0b1bfd7b38b3bb84e1c8ce8fa846080cc533/02_Ardor.jpg" /> Installation of the ice tool preserved in a frozen display: <img width="5472" height="3648" width_o="5472" height_o="3648" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6d1a968aee2a0f37bbd531e29be35a96ad0049cc7f07bdcfa6e9dcffed3f4287/_47A5293_A.jpg" data-mid="241841485" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6d1a968aee2a0f37bbd531e29be35a96ad0049cc7f07bdcfa6e9dcffed3f4287/_47A5293_A.jpg" /> <img width="5472" height="3648" width_o="5472" height_o="3648" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5057583fd86d223f82724aa2940a092513f1c5b8ad193ae58e6fceddbda9c0ec/_47A5289_A.jpg" data-mid="241841483" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5057583fd86d223f82724aa2940a092513f1c5b8ad193ae58e6fceddbda9c0ec/_47A5289_A.jpg" /> <img width="3559" height="4448" width_o="3559" height_o="4448" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/add01c10795a731bc2d402cbb312cfb827a4fd5ec6ce7238604807087805d3cc/_47A5289.JPG" data-mid="241841484" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/add01c10795a731bc2d402cbb312cfb827a4fd5ec6ce7238604807087805d3cc/_47A5289.JPG" /> Full record of the livestream performance: &nbsp; photographs by Chris White&nbsp; https://bengould.net/Bearance Mon, 06 Apr 2020 00:24:42 +0000 Ben Gould https://bengould.net/Bearance BEARANCE Collaboration with Matty Davis2019 - presentClothing by Gabriella Lacza Bearance (2019/2020) is the second work in an evolving performance collaboration between Matty Davis and Ben Gould that continues the trajectory set forth by Carriage, a work marked by relentless physical unions based on control, empathy, and need. Bearance, harnessing tools learned through Carriage, aims to make felt relationships that forge and break apart simultaneously—by force, by desire, by time. Through a mutually driven effort to find new depths of what can be shared and endured, bodies compress, shear, and compress again as Davis and Gould negotiate private and interpersonal dynamics that challenge one another to hold on and sustain, as much as they do to let go. &nbsp; <img width="2365" height="3543" width_o="2365" height_o="3543" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/22b23dc502be60fe34b13383b92f14b512e8ec6ff14e0360f4596df45cc3865f/TROUBLESHD11-07-66.jpg" data-mid="144920810" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/22b23dc502be60fe34b13383b92f14b512e8ec6ff14e0360f4596df45cc3865f/TROUBLESHD11-07-66.jpg" /> <img width="2362" height="3543" width_o="2362" height_o="3543" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1d14a818f4a869820085a53318f6cc084032fafa39d92e7376f2fea781fdd035/TROUBLESHD11-07-68.jpg" data-mid="144920813" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1d14a818f4a869820085a53318f6cc084032fafa39d92e7376f2fea781fdd035/TROUBLESHD11-07-68.jpg" /> <img width="2362" height="3543" width_o="2362" height_o="3543" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/28ebe326c8c197f4849445aed7e0a9e0d5619ab73ac5f34de7ca07294de88437/TROUBLESHD11-07-69.jpg" data-mid="144920814" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/28ebe326c8c197f4849445aed7e0a9e0d5619ab73ac5f34de7ca07294de88437/TROUBLESHD11-07-69.jpg" /> <img width="2362" height="3543" width_o="2362" height_o="3543" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/59ef5a215c0f2bf593e6748a53ef2107d3e8a19747f91d5c48ae4b54056b0d8e/TROUBLESHD11-07-67.jpg" data-mid="144920811" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/59ef5a215c0f2bf593e6748a53ef2107d3e8a19747f91d5c48ae4b54056b0d8e/TROUBLESHD11-07-67.jpg" /> <img width="1280" height="1920" width_o="1280" height_o="1920" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e86b498f4c0a978b26ad0bf1f6aaa21d748677c794b70387b779e9239c6993e5/_H8A4939.jpg" data-mid="65835400" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e86b498f4c0a978b26ad0bf1f6aaa21d748677c794b70387b779e9239c6993e5/_H8A4939.jpg" /> <img width="1280" height="1920" width_o="1280" height_o="1920" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/edb3b325f919ffefb4d497eb0f63cc9900dd56619d52bbb136e3a36005037c5f/_H8A5034.jpg" data-mid="65835401" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/edb3b325f919ffefb4d497eb0f63cc9900dd56619d52bbb136e3a36005037c5f/_H8A5034.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b343f37c11246fa8c623f41af7370bee5035e511a352d5e8a459f5fdc4b5b500/Bearance-59.jpg" data-mid="65835404" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b343f37c11246fa8c623f41af7370bee5035e511a352d5e8a459f5fdc4b5b500/Bearance-59.jpg" /> <img width="3543" height="2362" width_o="3543" height_o="2362" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b775181bb3a5868670785897f247754f2b2812c86dc58ef4c546e16d5d2cc000/TROUBLESHD10-07-27.jpg" data-mid="144920748" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b775181bb3a5868670785897f247754f2b2812c86dc58ef4c546e16d5d2cc000/TROUBLESHD10-07-27.jpg" /> <img width="2362" height="3543" width_o="2362" height_o="3543" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e4e5dd3e3fc8ab282fe6389c6afbc8d32bf9da05ae2b5612d3064092b1c2697f/TROUBLESHD10-07-31.jpg" data-mid="144920752" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e4e5dd3e3fc8ab282fe6389c6afbc8d32bf9da05ae2b5612d3064092b1c2697f/TROUBLESHD10-07-31.jpg" /> <img width="3543" height="2362" width_o="3543" height_o="2362" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eb0d41609fe74557d98eda068abaf03c19eff4839af865227a7411abefc1ed4b/TROUBLESHD10-07-33.jpg" data-mid="144920754" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eb0d41609fe74557d98eda068abaf03c19eff4839af865227a7411abefc1ed4b/TROUBLESHD10-07-33.jpg" /> https://bengould.net/Last-Appointment Thu, 16 Apr 2020 17:17:27 +0000 Ben Gould https://bengould.net/Last-Appointment LAST APPOINTMENT Performance for the camera with Gabriella Lacza Digital photographs 2019 Sculptures and performance made on the occasion of my final visit to the doctor for Tourette’s treament. 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