A series of weekly performances by dance legends, as well as up-and-coming artists, throughout the duration of the exhibition Phosphene Variations. Jason Akira Somma will “perform” with the artists using his revolutionary video techniques, exploring the undiscovered edge between visual and performance art, as it uses performance as the well-spring for independent visual content.

A live drawing performance by Japanese artist Hiraku Suzuki. With live music by composer / producer Raz Mesinai.

Hiraku Suzuki (Japan) Asian Cultural Council Born in Miyagi, Japan, 1978. Lives and works in Tokyo. Hiraku Suzuki obtained an MFA from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. Focusing on ideas of memory and excavation, the work of Hiraku Suzuki centers around an expanded notion of drawing; encompassing works on paper and panels, […]

Artists 2011-2012 Pablo Helguera (Mexico) Location One International Committee Born in Mexico City, 1971. Lives and works in New York Pablo Helguera (based in New York, born in Mexico City, 1971) works in the fields of pedagogy, literature, musical composition, and theater. His projects have included performance lectures, scripted symposia, and panel discussions (with or […]

  Born in 1972 in Aylesbury , Sophie Macpherson lives and works in Glasgow, where she graduated with honors from the Environmental Art Dept, Glasgow School of Art. Macpherson develops an cross disciplinary practice in which research and the making of objects relates as much to performativity as the content does. She makes constructions, sculptures, […]

Participating artists  Alterazioni Video (Paololuca Barbieri) & Nina Canell Participating Artist/Curator:  Krist Gruijthuijsen MANIFESTA 7 THE EUROPEAN BIENNIAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART TRENTINO – SOUTH TYROL, ITALY 19 JULY – 2 NOVEMBER 2008 All exhibition venues open from 10.00 am to 7.00 pm. Official Opening: 19 July, 2008. http://www.manifesta7.it MANIFESTA 7 IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE […]

We exhibit artists’ work in our main gallery eleven months a year, and often in our two other public spaces as well. All of the work we exhibit is developed at Location One, much of it by artists in our residency program. While Location One seeks to nurture a critical awareness of the implications of […]

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” […]

FOUNDING MANIFESTO :: Our Artistic Mission (1998) This is our credo: 1. First, the Internet is about content, not just a conduit for it. The nature of the technology changes content—not just access and distribution—with implications across the full range of artistic expression and subject matter. 2. Second, Location One is about convergence. We are […]

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

On View, a new work from On Translation Series, conceived and shot in Japan, post-produced in New York at Location One, is a work about viewing, looking… waiting… as contemporary rituals. Waiting in lines, airport standby, museum audience, tourist photo opportunities… Interrogations on where, when, why, who and what are part of the intention of the work.

Recorders is an installation where a rotating camera and video projector interact with the visitor in a game of shadows and projection, images and text, narration and space, focus and blur. A pre-recorded conversation acts as voice-over for the entire set-up which is encompassed by a large image that resembles something like bits of information, white noise or a glittery seascape.