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PERFORMA PICKS

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 [...]

Posted by Esa | July 17, 2008 | 0 comments
 

   


PERFORMA PICKS: Performance

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 [...]

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

   


PERFORMA PICKS: Film

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 [...]

Posted by Esa | July 14, 2008 | 0 comments
 

   


EVENTS

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 [...]

Posted by Esa | July 14, 2008 | 0 comments
 

   


EVENTS

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 | July 11, 2008 | 0 comments
 

   


EVENTS

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 [...]

Posted by Lana | July 10, 2008 | 0 comments
 

   


PERFORMA PICKS: Music

Therimin Action at Diapason Opening June 14th

Diapason gallery for sound and intermedia presents
Micah Silver
You and Me, Going
and
Patrick K.-H.
ScAS (ScotchAcoustic Session)
Two sound installations
Programmed as part of Diapason?s exchange program with Moscow?s Theremin Center
Sponsored by The Trust for Mutual Understanding
JUNE 14, 21 and 28 // SATURDAYS 2-8 PM
FREE
OPENING RECEPTION: JUNE 14 6PM
Diapason

882 Third Avenue (between 32nd and 33rd Street) // Brooklyn, NY
Subways: D, N, R to 36th Street
718.499.5070 // info@diapasongallery.org
http://www.diapasongallery.org

Posted by Esa | June 10, 2008 | 0 comments
 

   


PERFORMA PICKS: Music

Floating Points Festival 2008 at ISSUE Project Room

Floating Points 2008
ISSUE Project Room

This Festival, in its third year, (formerly points in a circle)
explores the versatility of ISSUE Project Room’s Innovative house
speaker system, designed by Stephan Moore.

In the hands of these diverse performers and sound artist, this
fifteen-channel installation of hemisphere loudspeakers radically
changes the concert experience for both performer and audience.

Each of the hemispheres radiates sound in all directions, activating
the acoustics of this unique concert space. Immersive sonic
environments are generated, electronic sounds take [...]

Posted by Esa | June 05, 2008 | 0 comments
 

   


EVENTS

Dexter Sinister is CLOSING FOR INVENTORY (Please come)

Please come to a double book launch and upstairs downstairs party

Sunday 8 June 2008, 7pm
38 Ludlow Street
Between Hester and Grand
New York City

Upstairs:
A FAIR TO MEDDLING STORY
by KEN OKIISHI & NICK MAUSS
Live performance begins promptly at 7pm
Ludlow 38 Kunstverein Munchen Goethe Institut New York
Tel +1 212 228 6848

Downstairs:
A COUPLE THOUSAND SHORT FILMS ABOUT GLENN GOULD
a book in relation to a project of the same name by
CORY ARCANGEL
who will play [...]

Posted by Esa | June 05, 2008 | 0 comments
 

   


PERFORMA PICKS: Dance

Tiny Theater!

From the Ontological Hysteric Theater website:
TINY THEATER! festival, a four-night multi-arts event designed to promote interest in new forms of spatially challenged performance. The festival will feature short works by established and emerging artists. ”

“TINY THEATER = theater/dance/dance-theater/puppet-theater/object-theater/installation that takes place in 6′ x 6′ x 6′ or smaller and in under 10 mins. ”

Tiny Theater! festival is curated by Michael Gardner (of The Brick), Shannon Sindelar and Brendan Regimbal (of the Ontological). The festival will [...]

Posted by Guest Blogger | May 21, 2008 | 0 comments
 

 





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