E.A.T. Films at MoMA August 18th!

Museum of Modern Art Film Program
*Monday, August 18, 2008*
6:00 p.m.
*9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering*

Growing interest in the new technologies generated by the rapid developments of the early 1960s led several artists to collaborate with Billy Klüver and his fellow engineers at Bell Laboratories. In1966 Klüver and Robert Rauschenberg initiated a project in which ten invited artists—John Cage, Lucinda Childs, & Oyvind Fahlström, Alex Hay, Deborah Hay, Steve Paxton, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg, David Tudor, and Robert Whitman—worked for ten months in collaboration with thirty Bell Laboratories engineers and scientists to develop custom technical equipment that was integrated into the artists works in in a series of performances, 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering presented in October 1966 at New York City’s 69th Regiment Armory. This program presents two
of the live events, which were faithfully reconstructed through original documentary film and sound materials. These films and reconstructions of the remaining seven 9 Evenings performances will be shown in October 2 and 3.

*9 Evenings: Variations VII by John Cage. *2008 USA. Directed by Barbro
Schultz Lundestam 41 min.
*9 Evenings: Bandoneon!**[Bandoneon Factorial] by David Tudor *2008
USA. Directed by Barbro Schultz Lundestam 12 min.

Posted by Esa | Friday, August 15th, 2008 | 1 comments

Upcoming at Light Industry - good stuff!

Now there are two great reasons to trek to Sunset Park Brooklyn Light Industry and Diapason Gallery - stop whining about how far away it is- take the N or D train express - just a few stops from Union Square.

Cory Archangel
Tuesday, August 5, 2008 at 8pm
Content Producer

At long last Cory has finally learned all of the glockenspiel parts from the entire Born to Run album by Bruce Springsteen and will perform it LIVE on a real live instrument. One will have to see it to believe it but be there to cheer him on. Performa was fortunate to present a section of this ongoing musical at the Hudson theater last February - it was a private party so we forgive Cory for not mentioning this.

Tuesday, August 12, 2008 at 8pm
PUBLIC OPINION LABORATORY presents:
All Magic Sands: Reels 1 + 2
Featuring the return of LAMP/LICHT: Andrew Lampert and Alan Licht

You can’t go wrong with these two - or maybe you can but I bet that you won’t be able to tell. Hopefully Light Industry was able to secure Belgian Trappist ale, the projectionist from England and raise the $4,300 that LAMP/LICHT need to do this show… oh wait - I think they decided to do something simpler. Go anyway.

Light Industry
Events take place in Industry City
55 33rd Street (between 2nd and 3rd Avenue), 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11232
http://www.lightindustry.org/

Posted by Esa | Wednesday, August 6th, 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

Tamy Ben-Tor Performs at Kitchen

PERFORMA 05/07 Artist Tamy Ben-Tor’s video work opens at Zach Feuer Gallery tonight with a reception from 6-8 pm. The exhibit is on display untill May 3rd. The artist is also performing at the Kitchen this Friday and Saturday, shows are at 8pm and the ticket cost is $8. Read about it at Artinfo.com

Posted by Lillie | Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 | 1 comments

Nathalie Djurberg film in New Directors / New Films

PERFORMA Commission artist Nathalie Djurberg’s new short film Camels Drink Water is playing in the New Directors / New Films festival put on by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and MoMA.

The festival opened yesterday; Djurberg’s film is playing on Friday and on Sunday.

Posted by Lana | Thursday, March 27th, 2008 | 1 comments

Yvonne Rainer & Sally Silvers at WACK! 3/8

Saturday, March 8 at 2pm
Early Rainer: 1960-70
3 Seascapes (1962) performed by Patricia Hoffbauer
Three Satie Spoons (1961) performed by Sally Silvers
Trio A (The Mind is a Muscle, Part I), film, 1978 performed by Yvonne Rainer
Trio A (The Mind is a Muscle, Part I) (1966), performed live by Pat Catterson & Emily Coates
Mat (1967) performed by Sally Silvers
Chair/Pillow (1969) performed by Pat Catterson, Emily Coates, Patricia Hoffbauer, Keith Sabado, & Sally Silvers

Saturday, March 8 at 4pm
Sally Silvers
Surprise Score (performers introduce music, props, text, costumes as secrets to the others) with Mark Dendy, Pooh Kaye, Patricia Hoffbauer, Sally Silvers
Snowpony with Silvers and writer Bruce Andrews
Oven Rack, 2005, Silvers solo to the songs of Iris DeMent
Little Lieutenant, film, 1993 co-directed by Henry Hills & Silvers, music by Kurt Weill/John Zorn

There are five weekends of dance, music, film, readings & panel discussions beginning Feb. 16.
WACK! Is the first comprehensive, historical exhibition to examine the international foundation & legacy of feminist art.

http://www.ps1.org/
For complete schedule & directions to LIC

Posted by Esa | Thursday, February 14th, 2008 | 0 comments

Christian Marclay’s UP AND OUT at Anthology Film Archives

Christian Marclay’s UP AND OUT

Christian Marclay possesses an instantly recognizable signature across a number of mediums. As a musician his instrument is the vintage grade school record player; as an artist he evokes the aural through primarily visual and tactile means. Whether working with vinyl, sculpture, photo or video, Marclay brings a unique ability to negotiate and extrapolate new meanings
and deeper understanding from intimate objects, familiar images and found sounds. These three screenings of UP AND OUT are presented in collaboration with Paula Cooper Gallery.

Film critic Amy Taubin will be present for a conversation with Christian Marclay following the Friday, Oct 26th screening.

* Friday Oct 26 8:00 PM
* Saturday Oct 27 8:00 PM
* Sunday Oct 28 8:00 PM

Posted by Esa | Thursday, October 25th, 2007 | 0 comments

AUDIO V??RIT?? PRESENTS: AKI ONDA

AUDIO V??RIT?? PRESENTS: AKI ONDA
CINEMAGE 2007, 65 minutes, slide projections and guitar improvisation.
With live performances by Loren Connors and Alan Licht
Saturday & Sunday, September 1 & 2 at 8pm
Anthology Film Archives 32 2nd Ave (at 2nd St.) www.anthologyfilmarchives.org

Each night will include the New York premiere of two new Cinemage pieces!
A THOUSAND LIGHTS AND NIGHTS
A HIDDEN PLACE FOR BIRDS

CINEMAGE is Aki Onda’s audio-visual project, performances of which are composed of slide projections of still photographs and guitar improvisation. “Cinemage” means “images for cinema,” or “homage for cinema.” The visual images in CINEMAGE are snapshots taken from Onda’s daily life. By documenting fragments of his personal life, something is revealed in their accumulation ‘ the particulars within lose significance. What emerges is the architecture, and the essence, of memory.

Posted by Esa | Friday, August 24th, 2007 | 0 comments

I’ll come running

Mark August 15-19 on your calendars NOW for a four-film retrospective at Anthology Film Archives that absolutely cannot be missed–THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL: THE MELODRAMAS OF VINCENTE MINNELLI. 3 of these films are not available on DVD, and all 4 are amazing.

The series features:

- THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL, a cynical, scintillating tale set within the Hollywood studio system starring Kirk Douglas, as well as my own namesake (Lana Turner)

- THE COBWEB, starring the always entrancing Gloria Grahame selecting new drapery for a mental hospital, a trivial decision that sets off a chain of events which will eventually consume and destroy an entire network of lives

- TWO WEEKS IN ANOTHER TOWN, another industry insider tale adapted from a Shaw novel, and featuring the unlikely combination of Edward G. Robinson and Cyd Charisse, among many others

- SOME CAME RUNNING, with three incredible performances by Frank Sinatra as a drunk, Dean Martin as a gambler, and Shirley MacLaine as a sweetly uncouth “good time girl” in post-World-War-II small town America–featuring one of the most moving and astounding final sequences ever put on film. DO NOT MISS!

Posted by Lana | Thursday, August 2nd, 2007 | 0 comments

Re-Master

GUEST BLOGGER: Kate Robinson, PERFORMA

Mathew Barney to present DE LAMA LAMINA and Other Short Films
Wednesday, June 20 at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $15 (Adults) $5 (Members)
IFC CENTER
323 Avenue of the Americas (West Third Street)
(212) 924-7771
http://www.ifccenter.com/event?eventid=999834

See the artist Mathew Barney tonight! See the art of Mathew Barney tonight, too. The artist will be at IFC tonight to present three of his rarely-screened short films, spanning a decade of his work.

The screening will begin with ‘De Lama Lamina’ (2004) ‘ leave it to Barney to begin in the middle, at least chronologically speaking. Set in Brazil, this performance-film, which is a collaboration with the musician Arto Lindsay, explores the culture and religion of the Afro-Brazilian spectacle of Carnaval and the geography of place.

‘Scab Action,’ (1998) the artists first video work, captures the esthetic of physical strain and pain. As viewers are subjected to nauseating, prolonged close-ups of a facial blemish (Barney’s own), the artist subjects himself to surgery by razor, needles and nose-pliers. (Obviously there is a conscious allusion to ‘ 70s body art here, the grand gestures of self-laceration in all of their psycho-symbolic meaning, but Barney’s interest seems to be less about the effect of the action on the subject than his own child-like fixation with the grotesque and its effect on the viewer.

The screening will conclude with Barney’s most recent film-performance, ‘Drawing Restraint 13′ (2007), which is part of an on-going series of ‘Drawing Restraint’ projects, in which the athletic artists hooks himself up to various encumbering apparatuses in an attempt at free-expression. In ‘Drawing Restraint 13′ Barney emerges from a large crate dressed as General MacArthur, walks across a platform, and then falls into a vat of petroleum jelly. Executed behind closed doors at New York’s Barbara Gladstone Gallery, which at the time was exhibiting work of Barney’s from ‘Drawing Restraint 9,’ the production of ‘Drawing Restraint 13′ conflates the two works to show that the new is always made in the free-limitation of the past.

Don’t expect the expected. What you see is what you see.

Posted by Guest Blogger | Wednesday, June 20th, 2007 | 0 comments