Chris Burden @ Gagosian 21st Street

Dropped by Gagosian’s summer group show (21st Street location) today and found the performance documentation for Chris Burden’s most notorious performances from the early 70’s - a must see for any performance buff.

Also next door Eyebeam has an entertaining group show up worth seeing - the kids will love it…

Posted by Esa | Thursday, July 31st, 2008 | 0 comments

Tonight in DUMBO John Zorn + Theremin Society

Music At The Bridge Welcomes ISSUE Project Room
Wednesday, Jul 30, 2008
6:30 PM - 9:30 PM

Issue Project Room

An evening of live music and video art curated by ISSUE Project Room (IPR). All FREE!

IPR is a raw exhibition space showcasing innovative performances and exhibitions in Brooklyn’s Gowanus neighborhood. Join them in the park under the tent in the historic Tobacco Warehouse. This week IPR comes to the Park and brings the infamous John Zorn, Theremin Society, and Jonathan Kane.

Set times:
John Zorn/Cobra 6:45pm
Theremin Society 7:45pm
Jonathan Kane/February 8:45pm

John Zorn’s Cobra
Composer and saxophone player, John Zorn is hard to fit into just one genre. He blurs the lines between numerous influences of jazz ensembles, rock, and symphony orchestras, while creating a unique experimental sound all his own. Written and premiered in 1984, Cobra is a classic in the circles of new music, having been performed innumerable times. In fact, composer and “prompter” John Zorn says it is his most-often-performed composition — no mean feat considering his prolific output. It is no wonder, though: There is a mischievous, cartoonish quality to the sound of Cobra that epitomizes Zorn’s style but also makes for continually fascinating listening. Based on the composer’s secretive “game pieces,” Cobra is “a fun-filled, mystical, blindfolded ride down a dark alley that circles back every few yards.” – Steve Loewy, All Music Guide. Read more about John Zorn’s Cobra at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Zorn

Jim Staley/trombone
Sylvie Courvoisier/piano
David Weinstein/keyboard
Annie Gosfield/keyboard
Anthony Coleman/keyboard
Eyal Maoz/guitar
Mark Fekdman/violin
Okkyung Lee/cello
Shanir Blumenkranz/bass
Ikue Mori/electronics
Cyro Baptista/percussion
Kenny Wollesen/drums
John Zorn/prompter

Posted by Esa | Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 | 0 comments

Reconstructing Mayakovsky an web based novel

Check out Illya Szilak’s new on-line novel “Reconstructing Mayakovsky.” Set in the future, the novel revisits the past to make sense of the chaotic present. Inspired by Vladimir Mayakovsky, the Russian Futurist poet who killed himself in 1930 at the age of thirty-six, the novel imagines a world where uncertainty and tragedy have finally been eliminated through technology. Like the novel, the site uses appropriated objects (image, sound, text) and combines elements of historical fiction, science fiction, poetry, and the detective novel, to tell the story of Mayakovsky in a radically different way.

Posted by PERFORMA | Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 | 0 comments

Dynasty Handbag + AVAF at Deitch LIC this Saturday!

THIS SATURDAY NIGHT 9 PM
ASSUME VIVID ASTRO FOCUS presents
DYNASTY HANDBAG
@
NEW DEITCH STUDIO
4-40 44th Drive, Long Island City

http://www.deitch.com

>>>>>>>Deitch Studios’ riverfront building will not only be teeming with sculpture and installation, but the gallery
will be transformed into an avaf demolition disco will a full performance and event schedule!!!!

the night includes…
a performance by Tara DeLong entitled “Living Among” with guest Chloe Dzubilo, and the world premier of the new music video for La Bruja by Escandalo directed by Bec Stupak with a special performance
Extravaganza and some members of the House of Extravaganza. Dynasty will be performing her unique mix of music, video, voiceover, and comitragic performance. Tara Delong will be premiering a performance entitled “Living Among” with special guest Chloe Dzubilo and will also be doing a live video shoot.

Absolutely Venomous Accurately Fallacious (Naturally Delicious), a sprawling exhibition by artistic force assume vivid astro focus, opened May 10th at Deitch Studios, Long Island City from 7-11 PM.

Posted by Esa | Thursday, July 17th, 2008 | 0 comments

My Barbarian at the New Museum

Los Angeles based collective My Barbarian delivered two enthusiastic performances to a small crowded room in the lower level of the New Museum over the July 4th holiday weekend. As part of the collectivea€™s New Museum residency program, the collectivea€™s members Malik Gaines, Jade Gordon, and Alexandro Segade produced and performed Post-Paradise, Sorry Again which operated in the style of a variety show-cum-theatrical workshop weaving together a series musical interludes, audience participation exercises, and short vignettes of ambitious performances followed by theoretical critiques by the cast. The evening opened with the introduction of their role for the evening as the Post Living Ante-Action Theatre in a campfire style sing-along by the trio who were joined here by six New York based artists including LTTRa€™s Ginger Brooks Takahashi and video artist Jennifer Sullivan. Audience members were brought to the stage to participate in ritualistic meditations and at one point invited to remove part or all of their clothing as the cast members did half way through the performance. Although typically energetic and bawdy, this performance veers from politics and societal ills the group has taken as a subject in the past and operates more as a wry self critique via a backwards glance at the tenets of collaboration in the 1960s counter culture. Adapting elements from the Living Theatera€™s 1968 landmark performance Paradise Now and antitheatera€™s 1969 Pre-Paradise, Sorry Now into a workshop format, the group openly and playfully explored contemporary notions of radicality in todaya€™s highly self-reflexive environment.

Posted by Guest Blogger | Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 | 0 comments

Film as Material Screening and Conversation 7/16

Film as Material
Wednesday, July 16, 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Please join us in the Drawing Room for a rare screening and conversation on
the legacy of direct cinema and the materiality of film in the age of
digital media with artist/filmmaker Tony Conrad, filmmaker Jennifer Reeves,
Anthology Film Archives film archivist Andrew Lampert, and The Drawing
Center curator Joo Ribas. 16mm films by Harry Smith, Robert Breer, Storm De
Hirsch, and Tony Conrad will be shown.
Admission is free

The Drawing Center
35 Wooster Street, New York, NY, 10013

Posted by Esa | Monday, July 14th, 2008 | 0 comments

LIVEsound & image - Not sure what it is but it may be good…

LIVEsound & image
Friday, July 18
East Coast Aliens Salon
216 Franklin Street GREENPOINT, BROOKLYN

information (718) 514-7625
$10
An evening of innovative approaches to sound and image, featuring three duos that each take distinctive approaches with roots in past practices. DRAW creates immersive live sets of video and sound collage, Lovid links sound and image synthesis, and Cinemage draws on Chris Markera€™s La Jetee as inspiration. Plus a screening of Fred Wordena€™s Everyday Bad Dream and a live set by Amsterdam based turntablist dj sniff and and saxophonist Keir Neuringer.

8 PM: DRAW: Nisi Jacobs and Michael J. Schumacher, live video and electronic sound
8:45 PM: Lovid: a screening of a€?Cyclopsa€?
9 PM: dj sniff & Keir Neuringer: turntables and saxophone
9:45 PM: Fred Worden: a screening of a€?Everyday Bad Dreama€?
10 PM: Aki Onda and Alan Licht: a€?Cinemagea€?

presented by East Coast Aliens & Diapason
http://www.eastcoastaliens.com/SALON/

Posted by Esa | Monday, July 14th, 2008 | 0 comments

Teddy Cruz at the PARC Foundation–Opening Tonight!

PARC Foundation presents:
Estudio Teddy Cruz
PRACTICE OF ENCROACHMENT; From the Global Border to the Border Neighborhood
July 11- October 2008

Opening Reception: July 10. 6-8pm
Free

Regular Gallery Hours: 11am to 6pm, Tues-Sat
29 Bleeker Street, NY
10012
P. 212 254 5445
http://www.theparcfoundation.org/

Posted by Elizabeth | Friday, July 11th, 2008 | 0 comments

Performance INSIDE Hidden Tunnel July 13!

GUEST BLOGGER: Lana Fee, PERFORMA

Written and Directed by Andi Stover. Dramaturgy by Amee Davis. With Cary Curran, Natasha Warner, Elizabeth Taylor and Eben Lillie on Accordion.

A Fine Mix of New York Scandal, Severe Claustrophobia, Brooklyn Grit and Theater Intervention! Truly Underground Performance!

If you haven’t heard of the Atlantic Street Tunnel in Brooklyn uncovered by the sharp and adamant Bob Diamond- a man driven by conspiracy and unmoved by skepticism- this is the day to buy your ticket for the FIRST EVER PERFORMANCE SET INSIDE. Inactive since 1859, the LIRR tunnel was built to connect to Boston and relieve congestion in Brooklyn. This Sunday, Bob’s thick Brooklyn accent will guide a group of people through the tunnel that supposedly didn’t exist. I’ll leave the story to him and cannot say much more about the performance other than this: performers integrate themselves in the tour itself; the writing is based around the history of the tunnel, the prominent people of the time and a slight guerilla spirit to spook you. A thrill no doubt.

Earlier this year, Stover and Davis presented Black Eye Fixer at Rehab (previously Club Midway), a cheeky interpretation of the bar personas we are all familiar with and perhaps embody. With a sort of early Alex Bag aesthetic, one must appreciate the smart and campy cynicism. Similar to the tunnel tour, Black Eye Fixer actively engaged the audience and attempted to challenge your idea of appropriate behavior. Although, the truly unique opportunity to present in such a playground cannot be compared to any other performance space. Just imagine the acoustics alone.

Bring a flashlight. Bring a date. Bring your mom. Precious apparel ill-advised.

$15

Manhole at the intersection of Atlantic Ave and Court Street.

More info, please visit:

http://www.brooklynrail.net/bhra_events.html

Posted by Lana | Thursday, July 10th, 2008 | 0 comments