Location One Suspends Operation It is time to close Location One. We have had 15 glorious years, and we are extremely proud that we were able to offer this oasis to artists in which to dream and experiment. Our own lives and those of the community were enriched by all the thoughtful questioning and collaboration […]

A new documentary by Antonino D'Ambrosio about the power of art and music to effect social change.

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.

Call for participation Collaborative performance workshop For emerging performance artists, actors, singers and musicians Pablo Helguera: The Well-Tempered Exposition A project for Location One Part One of a year-long experimental performance project by Mexican artist Pablo Helguera. Using Bach’s famous keyboard exercises The Well-Tempered Clavier as a starting point, Helguera will organize a series of […]

Jovana Stokic talks with Nico Vascellari February 4, 2010 Nico Vascellari was born in 1976 in Vittorio Veneto, Italy. Working with different media including performance, sculpture, video, sound and collage, Vascellari’s work is often inspired by his activism in the underground subcultures. In the past few year he also collaborated with musicians such as Z’EV, […]

During the course of the exhibition, Blake will also curate two more evenings of performances. Each night he will invite five artists, musicians, and authors to react to his work.

A series of performances based on Nayland Blake's exhibition Behavior. Curated by Nayland Blake. Features performances by Carmelita Tropicana, Robert Gluck, Sarah Schulman, Rob Fitterman, Dominic Vine

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

A screening/talk/reading presented by Scottish artist-in-residence Rob Kennedy concerning the absurdities, problems and possibilities of language, as affected by image, text, time, sense and nonsense. Kennedy presents a video screening Hapless, Helpless and Hopeless and two other films.

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

Location One Virtual Residency Project Mission Accomplished, September 10, 2008 The Virtual Residency Project’s first exhibition will open on September 10, with 3 collaborative works by Susanne Berkenheger, Andy Deck, and Hidenori Watanave. What started as an odd experiment in artist residencies results in our first Virtual Residency Project exhibition. more >> Thank you to […]

Call for Participation
Submissions Deadline: May 1, 2008
Dates of Residency: June 1-November 4, 2008

New work by Kuba Bakowski and Katia Kameli, two artists participating in Location One's International Residency Program.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

Andrew Duggan (Ireland) Andrew’s new media work and installations investigate the space between tradition (fact, folk/lore etc.) and contemporary space and time. He plays with cultural representations and perceptions and has presented many projects in the public domain. In Kerry, the Bán/Blanc series (2004) were projected onto a building reputed to have been prepared for the escape and arrival of Marie Antoinette. Andrew also frequently collaborates with dancers, musicians and cultural institutions.

The Great Music Dorkout of 2007!!! The 6021st dorkbot-nyc meeting took place on Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007, at 7pm.

Location One presented the debut solo exhibition in NYC by artists Leesa & Nicole Abahuni, on view in our main gallery at 26 Greene Street from November 21st through January 27th 2007 (Tue-Sat, 12-6pm). The multimedia installation, which was commissioned by Location One, is entitled In the Sky, is an exploration into the sharing of the senses and the interconnectedness between perception and sensation as experienced through visual, aural, and physical realms.

Location One presented ECHO, a collaborative project created by visual/media artist Andrew Duggan and dancers Jonathan Kelliher and Joanne Barry of Siamsa Tíre, the National Folk Theatre of Ireland. For one-night only, traditional Irish dance will be transported from the South West coast of Ireland to Location One’s Gallery space in New York City.

The nine million and eighty seventh dorkbot-nyc meeting took place on Wednesday, April 5th at 7pm. It featured the lovely and talented: John Arroyo, Jeff Han, John Huntington.

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.

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.

“RL.1″ is a work for solo dancer, video, and music. Dancer/choreographer Chantal Yzermans creates expressive, abstracted forms and motions with the restrained power and expanded time-sense of butoh.

“RL.1″ is a work for solo dancer, video, and music. Dancer/choreographer Chantal Yzermans creates expressive, abstracted forms and motions with the restrained power and expanded time-sense of butoh.

“RL.1″ is a work for solo dancer, video, and music. Dancer/choreographer Chantal Yzermans creates expressive, abstracted forms and motions with the restrained power and expanded time-sense of butoh.

Kurt Ralske is a Manhattan-based video artist and composer. His work is exclusively created with his own custom software, written in C, Java, and Max/MSP, and involves the expressive improvisation of both sound and image, simultaneously and in real-time.

Janene Higgins and Ikue Mori will perform a live duet of video and music.

Janene Higgins and Ikue Mori will perform a live duet of video and music.

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).

Isabelle Jenniches (The Netherlands) October 2002 –June 2003 In her onsite/online performances, she often draws upon such “low tech” sources as the ubiquitous public webcam, and her ongoing compulsive collections of found footage from the Internet. Isabelle Jenniches’ work has been shown in such venues as Theater de Balie, Amsterdam, Grand Theatre, Groningen, Society for Old and New Media, De Waag, Amsterdam and the World Wide Web.

Daemons & Psychopomps is a live Performance/Video/Music event inspired by the myth of Persephone.

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.

The fourth of five exciting nights of music will feature a solo performance by Marcus Rojas, and also trio work with the addition of Peter Apfelbaum and Satoshi Takeishi.

Wake the Dead Spring Music Series: Inasmuchas Life is Borrowed
Ensemble performed the soundtrack to the film. With video projection
April 14, 2001
Marc Ribot (pronounced REE-bow)

The artist/musician performs mesmerizing world trance textures and driving gypsy grooves on an amazing arsenal of amplified hybrid string instruments made from household objects and tools. Duchampian Dada meets Hybrid Hindu Hendrix.

Elliott Sharp (composer/multi-instrumentalist/producer) leads the groups Orchestra Carbon, Tectonics, and Terraplane. He has composed algorithmic music for over twenty-five years and has also been active as an improviser. His compositions have been performed by the Symphony of the Hessischer Rundfunk, the Ensemble Modern, Continuum, the Orchestra of the SEM ensemble, Kronos Quartet, Zeitkratzer, the Soldier […]

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.

Based on biological models of growth and reproduction, the 12-piece ensemble of winds, brass, samplers, and percussion plus real-time computer processing, uses sets of simple instructions to manipulate a variety of composed cores, creating structures in a mode analogous to that of organisms such as “radiolaria,” a kind of aquatic, single-celled protozoa.