You have 4 more days to provide of the outstanding Festival of Concerts, Workshops, Film Screenings, Conversations and World Premieres that is taking place in June at Issue Project Room. Curated by composer-musicians Zach Layton and Nick Hallett, this program intends to celebrate and critically examine the continuum of the experimental tradition in music and related media. Instead of frustrating you by describing the awesome events you missed there if you were, let’s say, in Venice or Basel, here are the exciting upcoming delights of the Festival:

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Tonight, don’t miss the performances by Lesley Flanigan and Connie Besley 

8PM ($15)

Lesley Flanigan playing Speaker Synth, a kinetic, sculptural instrument she built to play the sounds of speaker feedback.

Read more: http://issueprojectroom.org/2009/05/09/lesley-flanigan-speaker-synth-connie-beckley/

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06/25 @ 8:00pm - Mivos String Quartet and the CNS Symphony Orchestra play works by Tony Conrad, Huang Ruo and Luke Dubois + Dave Soldier and Brad Garton 

Read more: http://issueprojectroom.org/2009/05/08/mivos-string-quartet-plays-works-by-tony-conrad-and-luke-dubois/

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06/26 @ 8:00pm - Susie Ibarra Quartet ($15)

Read more: http://issueprojectroom.org/2009/05/09/susie-ibarra/

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06/27 @ 8:00pm - Tom Hamilton with Jacqueline Martelle

Read more: http://issueprojectroom.org/2009/05/09/tom-hamilton/

06/27 @ 10:00pm - David Linton

Read more: http://issueprojectroom.org/2009/06/05/david-linton/

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And on top of it, Issue Project Room has new beautiful blue and red projectors!

Check out the photos here:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=260361&l=abaea978e8&id=714485005

And here’s more info on what took place:

Italian Cultural Institute in Shanghai and Performa continue to celebrate the centenary of the publication of The Futurist Manifesto, this time with Polyexpressive Symphonies - a tribute to the Futurist art movement rendered in film and music. (Worth noting: The Futurist Manifesto was published in Shanghai in 1921, and had a vast influence on the artists and musicians of the period.)

Polyexpressive Symphonies- A session of experiments in cinema and music.
Music performance by Mai Mai (aka Asthma Writers Union) and Jun Yuan.
Live soundtrack to Berlin, Symphony of a Great City (1927) by Walter Ruttmann
Music performance by Xu Cheng of Torturing Nurse.
Live soundtrack to Thais (1916) by Anton Giulio Bragaglia.

Organized in collaboration with MoCa Artlab.

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Saturday, June 06, 8.30 pm, 2009
At MoCa Art Lab
Gate 7, People’s Park, 231 Nanjing West Road, Shanghai.

As Futurism deeply influenced Shanghai’s ‘20 and ‘30 aesthetics as it reached China through Japan, the US, and Russia, PERFORMA and ICI invited Shanghai-based musicians Mai Mai, Jun Yuan and Xu Cheng to find inspiration in Futurist Cinema Manifesto (1916) (“One must free the cinema as an expressive medium in order to make it the ideal instrument of a new art, immensely vaster and lighter than all the existing arts. We are convinced that only in this way can one reach that polyexpressiveness towards which all the most modern artistic researches are moving. Today the Futurist cinema creates precisely that polyexpressive symphony” ) and create a live music performance that explores the unexpressed potential of moving image through minimalist sounds and noisy symphonies.

Asthma Writers Union is a solo side-project from Muscle Snog’s
guitarist and principal vocalist Mai Mai whose focus is the
experimental, noise-producing capabilities of the electric guitar
outside of a traditional band context. In this project, Mai Mai and
Jun Yuan – sax player from MTDM jazz band – interpret the liveliness
of a Berlin’s day by playing live minimalist soundtrack to the famous
Ruttmann’s movie. Xu Cheng is the talented maestro of sound and a
member of Torturing Nurse.

“Polyexpressive Symphonies” is a continuation of the research on Futurism’s influence in China that was begun in March09 by Performa’s Defne Ayas with the discussion “Graphic Design and Typography in China” as part of the Shanghai International Festival, where panelists Lynn Pan, Ou Ning, and Pan Jian Feng elaborated on the challenge of capturing ideas for visual record and provided an overview of 100 years of design history in China, and continued with “Inner Noise from New Asia,” an evening of noise music that used the Futurist manifesto, The Art of Noises, as a reference point and featured new work by performers from different parts of Asia (Otomo Yoshihide, Sachiko M, FEN and Shanghai’s Asthma Writers Union, and MTDM). “Futurist Visions in Architecture for Shanghai,” a study seminar on architecture, speed, motion, and urgency took place in May09 and featured speakers including Shanghai Expo2010 Dutch Pavilion designer and artist John Körmeling; visual artist Alicia Framis; artist-architect collective Speedism; architect Koon Wee, and Dynamic City Foundation’s Neville Mars.

Opening Reception: June 23, 6-9 pm with a performance by Martin Soto Climent
Opening time: June 24 - 28, 2009, 1-9 pm 
FREE ENTRANCE

Held at X from June 24 through June 28, NO SOUL FOR SALE – A Festival of Independents will bring together the most exciting, creative and respected not-for-profit centers, alternative institutions, artists’ collectives and independent enterprises from around the world that contribute to the international art scene by inventing new strategies for the distribution of information and by supporting a diverse cultural program. 

X has invited 38 art spaces to travel to New York City to present themselves, their programs and the artists they support. With a gesture of radical hospitality, X will provide free space to all participants within the premises of the X building. The participants will be allowed to show whatever they choose, be it art, performances, publications, videos, or simply themselves. In addition to the exhibition space, X will make available to each participant, for a one-hour period, a dedicated performance area on the ground floor in which participants can organize performances, presentations, discussions and music programs. 

Neither a fair nor an exhibition, NO SOUL FOR SALE is a convention of individuals and groups who have devoted their energies to keeping art alive. The Festival will be an exercise in coexistence: organizations will exhibit alongside each other without partitions or walls. As on the set of the legendary Lars von Trier’s movie Dogville, participants will be assigned spaces that are only marked on the floor, creating a map of an imaginary city of art, where distances and hierarchies are abolished. 

With associations and groups coming from Berlin, Milan, Dublin, Barcelona, Paris, Reykjavík, Hong Kong, Rabat, Trinidad, New York, Los Angeles, and many other locations, NO SOUL FOR SALE provides a unique occasion to foster creative exchange and to connect with international organizations that aren’t usually accessible in New York City. With free entrance and a rich program of daily activities, NO SOUL FOR SALE will be a celebration of the independent forces that animate contemporary art. 

Participants include: Artis Contemporary Israeli Art Fund (New York and Tel Aviv), Ballroom (Marfa), BizArt/Arthub (Shanghai/Hong Kong), DISPATCH (New York), Empty Purse Publications (New York), Filipa Oliveira + Miguel Amado (Lisbon), FLUXspace (Philadelphia), Galerie im Regierungsviertel/Forgotten Bar Project (Berlin), Hermes und der Pfau (Stuttgart), K 48 (New York), Kadist Art Foundation (Paris), Kling&Bang (Reykjavík), L’Appartement 22 (Rabat), Latitudes (Barcelona), LAXART (Los Angeles), Light Industry (Brooklyn), Lucie Fontaine (Milan), Migrating Forms (New York), Mousse Magazine (Milan), Next Visit (Berlin), Not An Alternative (Brooklyn), Office for Contemporary Art Norway (Oslo), Participant Inc. (New York), Rhizome (New York), STARSHIP (Berlin), Storefront for Art and Architecture (New York), Studio Film Club (Trinidad), Supportico Lopez (Berlin), Surasi Kusolwong (Thailand), Swiss Institute (New York), TART (San Francisco), The Mountain School of Arts (Los Angeles), Thisisnotashop (Dublin), Transformer (Washington, D.C.), Via Farini (Milan), Vox Populi (Philadelphia), WAGE Artists (New York), White Columns (New York)

In conjunction with the opening of NO SOUL FOR SALE, Mexico City-based artist MARTIN SOTO CLIMENT will orchestrate a performative sculpture titled Impulsive Chorus, realized with the assistance of the public. With more than one thousand beer cans to be consumed in the course of one evening, the performance creates an instant community: as beer cans are emptied, Martin Soto Climent will alter them with a slight crush and then place them on the floor in a formation. 
Special thanks to Asahi. 

>>====> Exciting punk/hip hop show

JULY 4th, 2009 @ Lit Fuse Cyclery

409 Willoughby AVE. Brooklyn, NY

1 to 4 pm Benefit BBQ!!! BYOB (BBBQ)

-Ghost Mall (Queens, NY Pop Dance)

–MuhammadAli (Houston, TX Hawd Raaawk)

—Ninjasonik (Brooklyn Tight Pants)

—-Deathset (Gold Coast/BMORE O.G. lineup)

—–Japanther (Brooklkyn pop punk dance)

——w/ DJ Ephew (El Paso, TX elctro dance beats)

$5 - $10 dollar sliding scale. LETS DANCE!

>>===> 3000 dollar goal for Ephew’s new leg

Performa 09, the third biennial of new visual art performance, will be held in New York City from November 1-22, 2009. The three-week city-wide festival will feature new Performa Commissions and an exciting program of performances, exhibitions, educational forums, film screenings, and radio and television broadcasts. Presented with a consortium of arts institutions and a network of public and private venues across the city, Performa 09 will showcase the work of approximately 100 artists in collaboration with over 25 curators — institutional and independent — in a lively, performance-driven “festival as think tank” that will be a catalyst for envisioning New York City as “the city of the Future”.

Performa 09 will mark the 100th anniversary of the publication of F.T. Marinetti’s “Futurist Manifesto” in 1909, which launched the most provocative and cross-disciplinary artistic movement of the twentieth century, bringing some of the radical propositions of the Futurists a century ago back to life in unexpected ways. Using the Futurist template of manifestos-for-the-future in all disciplines, Performa 09 will explore exciting new ideas in visual art, film, music, poetry, graphic design, dance, architecture, and urbanism. The city of New York itself will be featured as an evolving ignition of ideas, its streets, transportation, and airwaves providing a platform for public engagement and inspiration. Following the biennial, several Performa Commissions will tour to venues in Milan, Mexico City and Shanghai. The countdown to Performa 09 began with a special Futurist Banquet on February 20th — the date, one hundred years ago, of the publication of the original manifesto on the front page of Paris’s Le Figaro — featuring an inventive menu of recipes from Marinetti’s Futurist Cookbook (1932), live music, and performances celebrating this historic occasion.

Check out the photos from a recent panel discussion on Futurist architecture in Shanghai!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/33210233@N05/

More info on the panel:

Futurist Visions in Architecture for Shanghai - a session on architecture, speed, motion, and urgency

Saturday, May 23, 2 pm, 2009
At Lounge18
4F, Bund 18, 18 Zhongshan Dong Yi Lu, near Nanjing Lu.

Performa continues the celebration of the centenary of the publication of The Futurist Manifesto, this time with a session on architecture, speed, and motion. (Worth noting: The Futurist Manifesto was published in Shanghai in 1921, and had a vast influence on the designers and artists of the period.)

To explore “Futurist Visions in Architecture for Shanghai,” Shanghai Expo Dutch Pavilion designer, architect and artist John Körmeling will join together with visual artist Alicia Framis, artist-architect
collective Speedism, and architect Koon Wee to discuss dynamic ideas for a new kind of architecture for the city. With a keen eye on the present and future state of architecture in Shanghai, their discussion will both review their respective practices and tackle such questions as: What issues in architecture today relate to social change and cultural activism? How to imagine a city that values visionary architecture over commercial real estate? How to bring about more playful and provocative strategies that explode our notion of architectural practice and the limits of reality? Can architects work more with contemporary artists to galvanize public interaction? Neville Mars of Dynamic City Foundation will moderate the panel. Organized by Performa’s Defne Ayas.

This study session is a dynamic continuation of the research on Futurism’s influence in China that was begun in March09 with the discussion “Graphic Design and Typography in China” as part of the Shanghai International Literary Festival, where distinguished panelists Lynn Pan, Ou Ning, and Pan Jian Feng elaborated on the challenge of capturing ideas for visual record and provided an overview of 100 years of design history in China, and continued with “Inner Noise from New Asia,” an evening of noise music that used the Futurist manifesto, The Art of Noises, as a historical reference point and featured new work by contemporary performers from different parts of Asia (Otomo Yoshihide, Sachiko M, FEN and Shanghais Asthma Writers Union, and MTDM).

While Venice is sinking in its laguna, the art world is resurrecting on Governors Island!

Bruce High Quality Foundation is shooting a Zombie movie this sunday, and they need extras! RSVP today!

Who goes to Venice anymore? Let’s boycott hip crowds and European snobbery (ha!): the ReNew RePlay sessions at the New Museum are worth a thousand national pavilions… LEWIS FOREVER launches its June residency with an exciting performance on Thursday at 7PM.

LEWIS FOREVER is in residence at the New Museum for the month of June, presenting new work in progress every Thursday night, responding to your input, and making up their mind as they go along.

LEWIS FOREVER is a performance collective of four siblings: three sisters and a brother; a director, two dancers, and a musician. Living half in New York and half in Europe, half Dominican and half Jewish American, LF is both a performance collective and a bloodline. They make new performance work for theatrical and non-theatrical spaces, present other artists, throw parties, and create other social situations that provide the opportunity to embody ideas and questions surrounding collective versus individual vision, emigration, post-American identity, transient identities, “transnationalism,” belonging, longing, and dislocation. Their work proposes a new model for the family structure, reconfiguring traditional notions. Family being the first society we acclimate to and the group through which we begin to understand the organization of our communities, LF is interested in the family structure as a site for recasting the molds that shape our understandings of the world. 

Read more: http://www.newmuseum.org/events/326

Printed Matter is pleased to announce Hungry for Death, an exhibition showcasing the work of the band Destroy All Monsters, a Michigan collective consisting of Mike Kelley, Cary Loren, Niagara, and Jim Shaw, among others. The exhibition will be on view from May 30th through August 29th at Printed Matter’s storefront at 195 Tenth Avenue. The opening reception will take place on Saturday, May 30th from 5:00 to 7:00 PM and feature a live set by noted experimental musician C. Spencer Yeh.

Read more: http://printedmatter.org/news/news.cfm?article_id=408

What could be better than watching a bunch of puppets dramatize the lyrics of the now-classic Magnetic Fields album “69 Love Songs”? And how will they re-create “Busby Berkeley Dreams”?!?

MAGNETIC FIELDS-THEMED PUPPET PLAYLIST

The Tank
Thu, 05/14/2009 - 7:30pm
Thu, 05/14/2009 - 9:30pm
$7

Puppet Playlist takes talented puppeteers and brilliant musicians and slams them together into an evening of live theater to stir the senses.

Our second Playlist will feature new works of puppetry set to a litany of love songs by The Magnetic Fields. Between sets, hear new interpretations of Magnetic Fields music — on cello, accordion, guitar and more. A chance to see some of New York’s most interesting puppet artists and musicians at play.

Performers (and their work) have been seen all over New York and throughout the world, on, off- and off-off-Broadway, at HERE Arts Center, Shakespeare in the Park, the Metropolitan Opera, FringeNYC, Lincoln Center, with Jim Henson Productions, and on both American and International TV (yes, that includes the Muppets).

Presented by Sinking Ship Productions & The Tank

For tickets and more information, click here!