Katherine Liberovskaya on Sat, 8 Mar 2008 10:06:32 +0100 (CET) |
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<nettime-ann> OptoSonic Tea - NYC: March 10 |
. Monday, March 10 8:30 pm OptoSonic Tea Live sets by: - Leah Singer & Lee Ranaldo - Kjell Bjørgeengen & Okkyung Lee Invited respondent/moderator: - Kathleen Forde Suggested donation: $ 7 Experimental Intermedia 224 Centre Street at Grand, Third Floor, NY 10013 212 431 5127 OptoSonic Tea is a regular series of meetings dedicated to the convergence of live visuals with live sound which focuses on the visual component. These presentation-and-discussion meetings aim to explore different forms of live visuals (live video, live film, live slide projection and their variations and combinations) and the different ways they can come into interaction with live audio. Each evening features two different live visual artists or groups of artists who each perform a set with the live sound artists of their choice. The presentations are followed by an informal discussion about the artists' practices over a cup of green tea. A third artist, from previous generations of visualists or related fields, is invited specifically to participate in this discussion so as to create a dialogue between current and past practices and provide different perspectives on the present and the future. Organized by Katherine Liberovskaya and Ursula Scherrer About the artists: Leah Singer is a visual artist based in New York. Known for her live 16mm film performances, Iloveyouihateyou is a new work using digital imagery and live sound. It will be presented as installation in two upcoming exhibitions at cneai in Paris and The Hudson Valley Community College in Troy. Lee Ranaldo is a writer, visual artist and member of the group Sonic Youth, founded in New York City in 1981. They are currently ³gone retro,² performing the 1989 album ³Daydream Nation² around the world. His most recent chapbook is ³Hello From The American Desert² [Nov ¹07, Silver Wonder Press, Chicago], poems composed from internet spam. He has a 12² ?art record¹ in the Paul Thek show at ZKM, Karleruhe in collaboration with Dutch artist Zeger Reyers. He is currently writing a piece for the Bang on a Can Orchestra, to premiere April 15 in Chapel Hill, NC. Kjell Bjørgeengen¹s art practice is an investigation of reality. Known for his installations, Kjell's practice has recently begun to emphasize live video performance. In this respect he has worked with musicians like Joelle Leandre, Evan Parkers Electro Acoustic Ensemble, Marc Ribot, Philipp Wachsmann, Keith Rowe and MIMEO. The live work often features the production of "flicker videos", which have also been presented in various exhibitions since 2002. Flicker is sound obtained by feeding video sync, thus becoming video and revealing the self-identity of the two. The flicker image is perhaps the most simple and fundamental image we can think of: an oscillation between shades of light and darkness, given from the outside as a simple pairing of opposites. A still image from the video reads like a minimal work; set in motion the work turns into its opposite.www.kjellbjorgeengen.com After being in music schools from age of 3 to 25, Korean cellist/improviser/composer Okkyung Lee finally found her artistic freedom in New York's Lower East Side where she moved in 2000. Since then she has performed and recorded with numerous artists including Laurie Anderson, Derek Bailey, Chris Corsano, Nels Cline, John Hollenbeck, Andrew Lampert, Christian Marclay, Min Xiao-Fen, Thirston Moore, Vijay Iyer, Jim o'Rourke, Zeena Parkins, Jim Thirwell and John Zorn. Okkyung¹s music is mostly influenced by movies, visual art, sound, Korean traditional/pop music and, of course, noise. http://okkyunglee.com http://myspace.com/okkyunglee Kathleen Forde is the Curator for Time-Based Arts at the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center in Troy, NY. Prior to her current position at EMPAC Kathleen worked as Curatorial Director for Live Arts and New Media for the Goethe Forum in Berlin. She concurrently curates on a freelance basis for various organizations and museums that have included Peregrine Arts, Philadelphia; The Eyebeam Center for Arts and Technology, NYC; Independent Curators International, VideoZone, Tel Aviv; ATA Cultural, Peru; Kunstverein in Düsseldorf and Cologne; SFMOMA and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. for more information about OptoSonic Tea please visit: http://www.diapasongallery.org/optosonic.html _______________________________________________ nettime-ann mailing list nettime-ann@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ann