A new play by Lucia Cox. Directed by Nathan Shreeve

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 new project by renowned video artist Jason Akira Somma. Interactive holographic video performance/exhibition.

A group show presenting different perceptions of time and space. Featuring work by Ana Freitas, Michaela Müller, Tommy Støckel, Andrea Yugoslavia Chirinos.
Curated by Claudia Calirman

A new performance-based exhibition by Colombian artist Maria José Arjona. May 23-June 22, 2012.

An evening of live performance echoing within a visual arena, instigated by dancer/choreographer Luke Miller.

Miramare is a short animated film by Michaela Müller. Followed by a panel discussion with Gregory Zinman, moderated by Claudia Calirman.

A group show featuring work by Monica Baptista, Hiraku Suzuki, Agnieszka Kurant, Jacob Dahl Jürgensen, David Molander, and Atsushi Kaga. These artists engage a variety of mediums, from digital film and photography to the traditional art of sewing, transforming one piece into many as they channel possible meta-narratives in their work.

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 [...]

Solo Exhibition and Live Performance by Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen Curated by Jovana Stokic October 29 – December 23, 2011 Opening Reception: October 29, 6-8pm Live Performance at 7pm A girl raised as a boy. A boy trained to act as a girl. A writer and activist in exile. Anauthoritative male. These are the four characters [...]

You are invited to a benefit to celebrate Location One on Friday, October 21! With performances by some of the most exciting artists in New York—Plus Open Bar, Music, Dancing, Private VIP Performances! Location One invites you to come celebrate the creative spirit in the form of a party with live performances by: DJ B Rock Yanira Castro [...]

You are invited to a benefit to celebrate Location One on Friday, October 21! With performances by some of the most exciting artists in New York—Plus Open Bar, Music, Dancing, Private VIP Performances! Location One invites you to come celebrate the creative spirit in the form of a party with live performances by: DJ B Rock / Yanira Castro / [...]

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.

A performance/installation by artist/director Sophie Hunter. Based on fragments from the opera "The Rape of Lucretia" by Benjamin Britten, Hunter reimagines the myth as a multimedia performance with live opera, recorded video and music.

Featuring visual responses to a collaborative sound piece by artists John Aslanidis, Katy Dove, Phoebe Hui, Sophie Hunter, Miler Lagos, John O’Connell, Gonzalo Puch, and Zane Saunders.

Elana Katz is an American artist currently based in New York and Berlin. Formally a classical dancer, she now continues to work with the body, yet from a varied perspective, primarily in the medium of performance art.

A discussion of participatory theatre, the politics of theatre in the visual arts, theatre as process, community, virtuosity, the performance text, and the role of the body. The discussion, the second in a series moderated by Paul David Young, will be published in the special one hundredth issue of PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art in February 2012.

The performance artist in conversation with Jovana Stokic. Questions addressed: how to 'document' live actions? Should they even be documented?

Artist talk by Jill Magid. While on a research trip, Magid witnessed a mysterious shooting on the steps of the Texas State Capitol by Fausto Cardenas. Nothing is known of Cardenas’s motivations, but his gesture of shooting into the sky on the steps of the capitol, where he knew he would be immediately captured, reads symbolically as both tragic and poetic. Magid connects his action to Faust, an obvious but ultimately fruitful and complex avenue of exploration, as Goethe’s nineteenth-century drama traffics in similar themes of tragedy, psychology, and futility.

Zane Saunders (Australia): The Australia Council for the Arts Coming from a very strong visual arts background, Zane continues exploring and investigating new visual expression. While continuing his broad traditional visual arts output, in painting and printmaking, Zane has courageously explored diverse and challenging mediums of installation, sculpture, media and contemporary performance. This relatively recent [...]

Solo show by Italian artist Davide Balliano. In the exhibition “Giving My Back to the Night I Heard You Lying to a Giant (First Giant)” Davide Balliano uses the myth of Ulysses blinding the Cyclops Polyphemus as a starting point for his representation of the five phases of sleep which he calls the “ancestral fight against the obscure void that blinds us every night”.

Sophie Hunter (UK) Location One International Committee The Location One International Committee Sophie Hunter studied at Oxford University and Jacques Lecoq, Paris. She has devised, developed, directed and performed in theatre and performance pieces throughout Europe as well as in the Middle East and New York.In 2007, she was awarded the prestigious Oxford Samuel Beckett [...]

Davide Balliano (Italy) Location One International Committee Davide Balliano was born in Turin, Italy in 1983. In this city he began his studies and earned a Bachelor in Graphic Arts. In 2002 he moved to Milan where he earned a second degree in Photography at the c.f.p Riccardo Bauer, and worked as artist. From June [...]

You are cordially invited to attend the inaugural benefit in support of The Marina Abramović Studio and Performance Program at Location One. We hope you can join us for an evening dedicated to the celebration of great performance art.

VIRES is a cycle of six performances analyzing and addressing diverse systems of power but most of all, addressing CHOICE as the most relevant exercise of freedom.

A special performance by German artist Hannes Mahlte Mahler in which the artist will draw your wishes. Curated by Jovana Stokic.

A Performance by Lilibeth Cuenca RasmussenThursday, March 4th, 2010 at 7 pm.This incarnation of the multi-media performance is curated by Jovana Stokić.

A Performance by Lilibeth Cuenca RasmussenThursday, March 4th, 2010 at 7 pm.This incarnation of the multi-media performance is curated by Jovana Stokić.

Jovana Stokic in converation with performance artist Ragnar Kjartansson

Curator of Location One’s Abramović Studio, Jovana Stokić will speak with artist Ragnar Kjartansson about his current and past work, focusing on his performative works.

Abramović Studio at Location One The Marina Abramović Studio is a space within Location One dedicated to the ongoing performance series of long-durational works focusing on open-ended forms of workshops, panels and discussions. It includes resident artists at the Location One as well as a larger community of artists and thinkers interested in the development [...]

Marina Abramovic, performance art legend discusses recent work with curator/art-historian Jovana Stokic

Four artists from 4 different cities, who have never met—and were forbidden to do so during the three months of their “residency”—collaborate on a topic that they had no say in developing.

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 [...]

An exhibition by 2008 Senior Artist-in-Residence Laurie Anderson. Two installations, From the Air, and Aleph

 Location One celebrates 10 years with a special anniversary benefit gala honoring Laurie Anderson.

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.

 Please join us this Friday, January 9th for the second night in a series of performances responding and reacting to BEHAVIOR, the current exhibition by Nayland Blake. At 6pm Blake will reenact his notorious performance, "Gorge," a one-hour event in which the artist will sit shirtless in front of a table full of food from which the audience is encouraged to feed him.

freitag 19.12.08 20.00h zurich at kunstraum walcheturm zürich featuring the lovely and talented: felix s. huber (d) ego alter ego matthew fuller (uk) (skype) Digger Barley rachel rosalen + rafael marchetti (br/ra) Territories Complexity sybille hauert + daniel reichmuth (ch) TRiCKSTR, TRiCKSTR, marek goldowski + natalie bewernitz (d) UNVEILED PRESENCE secret sounds andres bosshard (ch) [...]

freitag 19.12.08 20.00h zurich at kunstraum walcheturm zürich featuring the lovely and talented: felix s. huber (d) ego alter ego matthew fuller (uk) (skype) Digger Barley rachel rosalen + rafael marchetti (br/ra) Territories Complexity sybille hauert + daniel reichmuth (ch) TRiCKSTR, TRiCKSTR, marek goldowski + natalie bewernitz (d) UNVEILED PRESENCE secret sounds andres bosshard (ch) [...]

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 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.

Virginie Yassef : “La seconde est partie la première” Programmation Satellite. Cycle “Terrains de jeux” 4/4 du 01 juillet au 28 septembre 2008 Virginie Yassef crée des vidéos, des photographies et des sculptures qui semblent puiser leur source dans le monde de l’enfance. Sous le regard de l’artiste, les gestes du quotidien, des situations simples [...]

April 2008 Dear Friends, Spring is here at last, Location One’s 10th Anniverary is coming up fast, and all those exciting names on the cover of this letter are part of an astonishing program of events that we invite you to come and be part of. Australian video pioneer Tracey Moffatt is challenging us right [...]

Glen Rumsey Dance Project returns to Location One with this reprise of "ignored in my heaven..." a suite of surreal and magical dances inspired by dream and travel journals.

Snake Alley @ Taipei Cultural Center on March 19, 6-8pm Location: 1 East 42nd Street NYC 10017 (close to 5th Ave.) Snake Alley is part of Asian Contemporary Art Week which connects leading New York City galleries and museums in a citywide event comprising of public programs such as exhibitions, receptions, lectures and performances. The [...]

At the 11th Annual Art Under the Bridge Festival, curator Felicity Hogan presents: Duron Jackson: “Five Men” Rashaad Newsome: “Shade Compositions” Friday, September 28, 2007. Performances begin at 7pm: Rashaad Newsome followed by Duron Jackson (15 – 20 mins each) Location: 111 Front St Gallery Buildings, 2nd fl., # 216. Installation on view: Saturday, 29th, [...]

At the 11th Annual Art Under the Bridge Festival, curator Felicity Hogan presents: Duron Jackson: “Five Men” Rashaad Newsome: “Shade Compositions” Friday, September 28, 2007. Performances begin at 7pm: Rashaad Newsome followed by Duron Jackson (15 – 20 mins each) Location: 111 Front St Gallery Buildings, 2nd fl., # 216. Installation on view: Saturday, 29th, [...]

At the 11th Annual Art Under the Bridge Festival, curator Felicity Hogan presents: Duron Jackson: “Five Men” Rashaad Newsome: “Shade Compositions” Friday, September 28, 2007. Performances begin at 7pm: Rashaad Newsome followed by Duron Jackson (15 – 20 mins each) Location: 111 Front St Gallery Buildings, 2nd fl., # 216. Installation on view: Saturday, 29th, [...]

Rashaad Newsome (USA). Rashaad’s videos, performances, sculptures, and photographs interrogate notions of cultural/ social signifiers as well as how they are formed. They also analyze the complexity of the desire for power and acceptance that is formative for those who are placed in a subaltern position. As Rashaad says “I feel that a large part of the process of identification, for one placed in this position, is folded into everyday life. I use things I see in everyday life in order to decipher this complex psychic structure”.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The 28098th dorkbot-nyc meeting featured: free103point9, 31 Down and Brad Borevitz

Yumiko Furukawa (Japan) Using words and images derived from literature, Yumiko creates unique video and sculpture installations and performances, which serve as a bridge between literature and visual arts.

Leesa and Nicole Abahuni (U.S.A) Leesa and Nicole Abahuni are artists and twins from New York who collaborate on the investigation of the senses and the exploration of the interrelationships between the visual, aural, and tactile realms.

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

The 24072nd dorkbot-nyc meeting took place on Wednesday, December 6th, 2006, 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.

The e-th dorkbot-nyc meeting took place on Wednesday, September 6th, 2006, at 7pm. It featured the fragrant and marvellous: Bret Doar, Jon Lippincott, David Kareve.

SINNERS & CONVERTS - Art Party Wednesday, June 14 7 - 10 PM DJ Unicorn, DJ Normal Robot, and DJ Inquisition will lead the festivities including Special Guests: Reverend Luke Murphy & Leesa and Nicole Abahuni irreverent costumes, special performances by our artists, dancing, free libations

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.

A monthly conversation with an artist who is using (or misusing) technology in an interesting way. This month: Nina Sobell.

Location One continued its Fall 2005 season with an exhibition in two parts featuring a large-scale interactive installation in the main gallery and a collection of smaller sound pieces in the project room.

Location One continued its Fall 2005 season with an exhibition in two parts featuring a large-scale interactive installation in the main gallery and a collection of smaller sound pieces in the project room.

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.

A performance work about American Memory, a single character whose many voices are woven together into a complex texture of language, sound, and music to create a kind of covert national anthem.

Mark Themann received his M.F.A. from the California State University Long Beach in 1984. Mark Themann’s residency at Location One is sponsored by the New Media Arts Board-Australia Council and Arts Victoria.

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.

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.

A group exhibition featuring works that explore the relationship of sound and light waves. Featuring work by Atsushi Nishijima, Erwin Redl, Laurie Spiegel, and Heather Wagner

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 Roman Forum II is a neo-Vaudevillean performance work that focuses on the aftermath of the 2000 elections seen through the eyes of five Romans from the time of the emperor Nero.

Curated by Meredith Monk and Bonnie Marranca

The Third of five exciting performances will be a collaboration between Earl Howard and Mari Kimura. Mari Kimura and Earl Howard are both recognized composer/ performers in the field of electroacoustic music, as well as virtuosos on the violin and saxophone. They premiered both solos and duets for violin and saxophone, as well as compositions by Earl Howard for digitally processed violin and synthesizer (Kurzweill 2500).

The Third of five exciting performances will be a collaboration between Earl Howard and Mari Kimura. Mari Kimura and Earl Howard are both recognized composer/ performers in the field of electroacoustic music, as well as virtuosos on the violin and saxophone. They premiered both solos and duets for violin and saxophone, as well as compositions by Earl Howard for digitally processed violin and synthesizer (Kurzweill 2500).

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).

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.

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.

Japanese Butoh Dancers, Tomoe Shizune + Hakutobo, will dance simultaneously in New York and in Tokyo to music improvised in New York by the brilliant Elliott Sharp.