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 Theatre of Food", the first talk of the PerformanceContemporary series, conducted by Bonnie Marranca.

Judith Malina and Hanon Reznikov of the internationally-renowned company, The Living Theatre, speak to Locution curator Bonnie Marranca, the editor of PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art and Director of Special Performance Projects for Location One.

A new play by Lucia Cox. Directed by Nathan Shreeve

A panel discussion on the topic of Marta Jovanovi&;#263;'s exhibition "It Is My Body" with curator Claudia Calirman, Kathy Battista, and Rebecca Schneider.

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

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

Two evenings of panel discussions on the occasion of PAJ's 100th issue.

Michaela Müller (Switzerland) Pierre Nussbaumer Location One International Committee Born in St.Gallen, lives and works in Switzerland and in Zagreb, Croatia. Michaela is in love with paint and film, and in animation she found a perfect way to combine the two. She is currently doing animation research, exploring the borders between narrative and abstract experimental […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

An exhibition of keynote works by Vik Muniz and new works from Alexandra Mota de Aguiar, Mattias Ericsson, Wojtek Doroszuk, and Zhou Tao

Alexandra Mota de Aguiar was born in Funchal, Madeira (Portugal) in 1977. In 1996 she moved to Oporto city to attend theatre classes at Balleteatro Professional School. Two years later she travelled to New York where she remained for approximately one year, experiencing her first encounter with art. Shortly thereafter, she went to Lisbon to […]

Virtual Residency Program    blog >> Call for Submissions Application Deadline: midnight, April 15, 2009 Dates of Residency: May 15-August 15, 2009 Theme: “Levels of Undo” Invitation to Participate Call for submissions for Location One’s “Virtual Residency Project 2.0″. Please send your URL or submit electronic materials to virtualresidency@location1.org. Location One presents its second Virtual […]

The Virtual Residency Project's first exhibition featuring a non-face-to-face collaboration of three artists: one from New York (Andy Deck), one from Berlin (Susanne Berkenheger) and one from Tokyo (Hidenori Watanave).

Downtown Artists Unite for China’s Earthquake Victims Hands together: New York Artists Gather for China Earthquake Relief to Benefit UNICEF (download flyer in pdf format)   June 14, 2008 @ 3pm The Players Theatre 115 MacDougal Street (between W 3rd and Minetta Lane) Tickets: $45 / Group of Four: $125 (Promotional code is: 4UNICEF) Tickets […]

Downtown Artists Unite for China’s Earthquake Victims Hands together: New York Artists Gather for China Earthquake Relief to Benefit UNICEF (download flyer in pdf format)   June 14, 2008 @ 3pm The Players Theatre 115 MacDougal Street (between W 3rd and Minetta Lane) Tickets: $45 / Group of Four: $125 (Promotional code is: 4UNICEF) Tickets […]

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 […]

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 […]

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

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, […]

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.

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.

On Thursday, June 1st, Location One opened its Summer exhibition, showcasing new work developed by resident artists from the USA, Finland, Ireland, The Netherlands, Norway, Japan, Greece, and Taiwan who are participating in the Location One 2005-2006 International Residency Program. The show was open to the public through Saturday, July 29th, 2006.

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.

For the month of March, Location One will devote its galleries to two exceptional videos by Mexican artist Carlos Amorales and Spanish artist Javier Viver.

For the month of March, Location One will devote its galleries to two exceptional videos by Mexican artist Carlos Amorales and Spanish artist Javier Viver.

Tom graduated with an MTS from Harvard Divinity School as well as an MBA in arts administration and an MA in theatre from Binghamton University. He has worked with theatre, music, presenting, education, funding, and social justice organizations in New York and Boston

A performance by Benoît Maubrey which uses a new electroacoustic jacket, solar radio, guitar, sampler and more. Radio receivers, sound generators, samplers, amplifiers, loudspeakers - the clothes produce sounds by interacting with the environment and in response to the performers’ movements.

A monthly personal bookmark bar of recent or not-so-recent art works that use the internet as canvas, conduit, muse, or soapbox in compelling, humorous or poetic ways. Presented by Heather Wagner, Location One’s director of online exhibitions.

“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.

Richard Maxwell is one of the most talked about new playwrights in the downtown scene whose work has also been produced increasingly around the country and in Europe. His recent play Joe was produced at PS 122. Other works include House, Boxing 2000, Drummer Wanted, and Caveman. Maxwell worked with Steppenwolf in Chicago where he was co-founder and director of the Cook County Theatre Department. He is now Artistic Director of New York City Players.

The Wooster Group is an ensemble of artists who collaborate on the development and production of theater and media pieces.

the second talk of our series PerformanceContemporary: a conversation with Paul Kaiser conducted by Bonnie Marranca.

Bonnie Marranca is co-founder/Editor of the arts publishing house PAJ and continues to edit PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art (formerly titled Performing Arts Journal), which celebrated its 25th year in 2001. The triannual offers expanded coverage of performance, video, dance, drama, film, music, photography, installations, and new media. PAJ has also published numerous […]

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.

During their voyage to Troy, the Greeks abandoned one of their own men. His name was Philoctetes.

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.

Panelists: Meredith Monk,, John Jesurun,, Mary Lucier, Eiko Otake, Theodora Skiptares, Moderator: Bonnie Marranca

In 1940, Hedy Lamarr, the “most beautiful woman in the world” and composer George Antheil, the “bad boy of music” met at a Hollywood dinner party. Two years later, they received a patent for an invention now recognized as the model for wireless communication.

Curated by Meredith Monk and Bonnie Marranca

Composer and visual artist, Atsushi Nishijima received his Bachelor’s degree in Musical Technology from the Osaka University of Art in 1989 and his Master’s degree in Media Art in 2001 from the International Academy of Media Arts and Science in Gifu. Originally from Kyoto and trained in experimental and contemporary music, Nishijima creates sculptures and installations which emphasize the idea that sound, and thereby music, is inherent in all objects and environments.

Shock jock Jack French wakes up to find himself sinking into a murky bog, unable to move. The last thing he can remember is a one-night stand the night before. A dark comedy developed with an ensemble of actors from Massachusetts-based theatre company Shakespeare and Company. With Jonathan Epstein, Allyn Burrows, Elizabeth Ingram and Lucia Brawley. Directed by the author.

An interview with one of America's pioneering performance artists.

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

In this wide-ranging video program, which also features documentaries on Wilson's life and work, the artist is highlighted not only as a theatre and opera director and visual artist but also as an actor.

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.

The initiation of our film/video program with “Vivisection”, a video installation featuring work by Lisa Bateman, Janene Higgins, Luther Price, Miroslaw Rogala, and Carolee Schneemann.This work will appear in the gallery and will be streamed on our website.

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 […]

Mac Wellman is one of the best-known “downtown” dramatists. Among his many plays are Terminal Hip, Crowbar, 7 Blowjobs, Sincerity Forever, Cleveland, Murder of Crows, Hyacinth Macaw, which have been staged in several theatres and universities throughout the country.

March 6, 2000 Mac Wellman is one of the best-known “downtown” dramatists. Among his many plays are Terminal Hip, Crowbar, 7 Blowjobs, Sincerity Forever, Cleveland, Murder of Crows, Hyacinth Macaw, which have been staged in several theatres and universities throughout the country. Cat’s Paw was produced by the Soho Rep in December and Jennie Richee […]

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”.