As part of Performa 11, artist Pablo Helguera presents the second chapter of his year-long project the Well-Tempered Exposition, a methodical investigation on the formal components of the performance art practice.

Pablo Helguera The Well-Tempered Exposition Book I, part II Friday, November 18, 7pm Beatriz Helguera, piano And Katherine Ademenko, Lisa Gross, Ryan Hill, Brian Linden, Melanie Lockert, Laura Lona, Richard Saudek and Corey Tasmania As part of Performa 11, artist Pablo Helguera presents the second chapter of The Well-Tempered Exposition, a methodical investigation on the […]

Location One Senior Artist-in-Residence Pablo Helguera's year-long reinterpretation of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier launches with performances by actors, musicians and dancers.

International Fellow Nigeria Location One International Committee Zina Saro-Wiwa is a film-maker, writer and broadcast journalist. She is also the founder of AfricaLab, a multimedia company dedicated to transforming the way the world sees Africa. www.africalab.org She has made three documentaries to date. Bossa: The New Wave, Hello Nigeria! and This Is My Africa. This […]

Tomomi Adachi Tomomi Adachi was born in Kanazawa, Japan in 1972 and graduated from Waseda University in Tokyo in 1994 with a degree in philosophy and aesthetics. He has created multiple sound installations inspired by Fluxus, played improvised music with voice, live electronics, self-made instruments (e.g. the “Tomomim”), and has composed works for his own […]

A conversation with Jean Shin and Nathalie Anglès on the topic of Shin's exhibition "And we move"

Video exhibit by American artist-in-residence Jean Shin. An exploration of the nature of music and the artists who make it.

You are cordially invited to join Chinese artist Xu Tan and Nathalie Anglès, Director of Location One’s International Residency Program, for a special screening of the video Concert Hall of Zhen Daoxing  which premieres next week at the contemporary arts festival, ArtSheffield08, and for a viewing of Xu Tan’s installation Keywords  in our main gallery.

Location One’s performance program features complex multi-disciplinary productions, often based on ideas that emerge during residencies and are commissioned for further development and presentation. Abramović Studio In September 2009 Marina Abramović inaugurated the Abramović Studio at Location One. The studio, curated by Jovana Stokić, introduced artists from Location One to other artists working in the […]

Collaboration in New Media Art: Does collaboration constitute compromise, act as a catalyst, or infer complexity? There has been much debate in recent times around collaboration in new media art practice. Amanda McDonald Crowley, Executive Director of EYEBEAM Art and Technology center in New York, will raise questions, deliberate on the issues and propose some answers.

SELECTED PAST EXHIBITIONS: Main Gallery Exhibitions>> Rudy Shepherd: Portraits July 8-31, 2009 In “Portraits,” American Artist-in-Residence Rudy Shepherd presents a series of recent works that challenge and transcend traditional notions of who and what is a worthy subject of high-art portraiture, e.g., criminals, anonymous Taliban members, black heroes, or houses.The painted portraits in Shepherd’s “Criminal/Victim” […]

SELECTED PAST EXHIBITIONS: Main Gallery Exhibitions>> Rudy Shepherd: Portraits July 8-31, 2009 In “Portraits,” American Artist-in-Residence Rudy Shepherd presents a series of recent works that challenge and transcend traditional notions of who and what is a worthy subject of high-art portraiture, e.g., criminals, anonymous Taliban members, black heroes, or houses.The painted portraits in Shepherd’s “Criminal/Victim” […]

Location One Residency Program 2009–2010 Senior Artist in Residence: Carolee Schneemann Transformed the definition of art, especially discourse on the body, sexuality, and gender. The history of her work is characterized by research into archaic visual traditions, pleasure wrested from suppressive taboos, the body of the artist in dynamic relationship with the social body. Painting, […]

Location One Frequently Asked Questions What is Location One? Art. Music, Performance. Talk. Technology. We are a not-for-profit art center devoted to convergence between visual, performing and digital arts in a time of rapidly changing technology. We serve as a catalyst. Our goals are new ideas, new work, new forms of expression, new capabilities in […]

An exclusive concert by musicians Yuka Honda (former Cibo Matto) and Petra Haden (The Decemberists, Foo Fighters) playing new songs from a duet album on which they have been collaborating, as well as improvisations with Haden’s distinctive vocal layering over a soundscape of Yuka Honda’s music.

An exclusive concert by musicians Yuka Honda (former Cibo Matto) and Petra Haden (The Decemberists, Foo Fighters) playing new songs from a duet album on which they have been collaborating, as well as improvisations with Haden’s distinctive vocal layering over a soundscape of Yuka Honda’s music.

A concert-performance conceived as a one-night audio-video event. The project explores the relationship between light and sound, looking for the natural correspondence between these two elements, between visible and invisible, playing with their frequencies.

A living experiment in cross-cultural relations with foundation Chairman Krzysztof Czyzewski. About Czyzewski, Gail Kimberling of the New York Times has written that he “has based his life’s work on pushing the limits of borders, whether it involves going beyond the acceptable, bringing the past to the present, or bridging one country or culture with another.” His presentation will include footage from documentary work generated by the program.

The twelve thousandth dorkbot-nyc meeting took place on Wednesday, February 2nd, 2005, 7pm. It Featured the lovely and talented: Jason Freeman, Aaron Yassin, Neg-Fi.

Fifteen years after making a brief splash as an ill-fated downtown supergroup in the avant jazz and experimental music scene, Odd Job (Shelley Hirsch, Ned Rothenberg, David Weinstein and Samm Bennett along with new member bassplayer Stomu Takeishi) gave a one night reunion concert at Location One on Friday, January 21st , 2005.

Ned Rothenberg’s SYNC “Harbinger” CD Release Party and concert. Samir Chatterjee, tabla; Jerome Harris, acoustic bass guitar, steel string guitar; Ned Rothenberg, clarinet, bass clarinet, alto saxophone and shakuhachi

Ned Rothenberg’s SYNC “Harbinger” CD Release Party and concert. Samir Chatterjee, tabla; Jerome Harris, acoustic bass guitar, steel string guitar; Ned Rothenberg, clarinet, bass clarinet, alto saxophone and shakuhachi

Alexei Shulgin created Cyberpunk six years ago. At last, he’s bringing his bizarrely affecting techno-pop musical art to New York, for a single performance on February 13th at Location One.

Alexei Shulgin created Cyberpunk six years ago. At last, he’s bringing his bizarrely affecting techno-pop musical art to New York, for a single performance on February 13th at Location One.

Benoît Maubrey and his Berlin-based Audio Gruppe build electro-acoustic clothing and suits. These are clothes equipped with loudspeakers, amplifiers, and 257 K samplers that enable them to react directly with their environment by recording live sounds, voices, or instruments in their proximity, and amplifying them as a mobile and multi-acoustic performance.

Shelley Hirsch will perform solo and improvisational works with turntablists Marina Rosenfeld and Toshio Kajiwara. Hirsch will be celebrating her record release The Far in Far Out Worlds of Shelley Hirsch (Tzadik) and Duets with Uchihashi Kasuhisa (Innocence).

Swiss virtuoso saxophonist Marcus Weiss, a champion of contemporary music performance, and the New York bass virtuoso and composer Mark Dresser will present an evening of compositions, structured improvisations and solo pieces.

SONNETS FOR AN OLD CENTURY examines what it means to be alive at this particular time and place and what traces each of us will leave behind.

Violinist and Composer Mark Feldman will present a concert of music for solo violin featuring compositions from his CD Music for Violin Alone (Tzadik).

This duo’s performance marks the second program of the Fall 2001 Music Series at Location One. (Percussionist Gerry Hemingway played a solo concert on October 20th and violinist Mark Feldman will perform on December 14th).

Project Description: In the four-month residency and online project go_HOME, Bosnian artist Danica Daki and Croatian artist Sandra Sterle will explore physical, cultural, and psychological dislocation and strategies for rebuilding and renewal.

The second of five exciting performances will be a collaboration between Leroy Jenkins and Felicia Norton. Leroy Jenkins, violinist/composer, is a “master who cuts across all categories” (San Francisco Chronicle).

The second of five exciting performances will be a collaboration between Leroy Jenkins and Felicia Norton. Leroy Jenkins, violinist/composer, is a “master who cuts across all categories” (San Francisco Chronicle).

Sync might be envisioned as a modified sax/bass/drum trio, where the bassist has been replaced by Jerome Harris on either acoustic guitar or acoustic bass guitar, and where the drummer's role is taken by Samir Chatterjee on tabla and dumbek.

Sync might be envisioned as a modified sax/bass/drum trio, where the bassist has been replaced by Jerome Harris on either acoustic guitar or acoustic bass guitar, and where the drummer’s role is taken by Samir Chatterjee on tabla and dumbek.

"We dance to represent and display the importance of options, music is the inspiration".

Founded in 1992 by Stanley Love, graduate of the Julliard school, the group had its debut in a self-produced concert at The Cunningham Studio in 1993.

Ned Rothenberg composes and performs on saxophones, bass clarinet, flute and shakuhachi (an end blown Japanese bamboo flute). He has been internationally acclaimed for his solo music which he has presented for the past 16 years in hundreds of concerts throughout North and South America, Europe and Japan. He leads the ensembles Double Band and […]

The initiation of our performance program by offering a free concert of music and dance on Saturday, February 12th at 8pm. Ned Rothenberg and Yves Musard will collaborate on an exploration of the new exhibition space: Ned, with music and Yves, with dance. We will broadcast the performance over the Internet.

One statement in different shapes. One look will tell you all, but wait ’til they start to move… “We dance to represent and display the importance of options, music is the inspiration”.