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Nebojsa Seric Shoba Artist Talk

heather — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:00:15 +0000

Nebojsa Seric Shoba in Conversation with Jovana Stokić

Wednesday, April 21, 2010 @ 7pmFREE and open to the public

Location One is happy to present a conversation with Bosnian artist Nebojša Šeric Shoba, and curator of the Abramović Studio, Jovana Stokić.
This evening will discuss the work of artist Nebojsa Seric Shoba. His work deals with manifold ways of reframing history. The artist confronts us with the many memories and points of view that such a history evokes.

About the Artist
Conscripted to fight in defense of his hometown of Sarajevo during the Bosnian civil war, (1992 – 1995), Nebojša Šerić-Shoba served the majority of his military mandate digging trenches amidst the bodies that littered the battlefield. It is from these wartime experiences that the artist developed a profound sense of distrust for a political machine that saw neighbors taking aim at neighbors, firing across seemingly arbitrary lines of demarcation. Eventually this experience led him to the sober realization that the “history of the human race…can be seen as a history of conflicts,” the majority of which “are destined to be forgotten, buried beneath the surface of history.” The artist’s subsequent travels found him photographing numerous battlefields, including those at Waterloo, Gallipoli, Troy, Verdun, Normandy, Istanbul, Gettysburg and Kursk.

As competing social, cultural, and linguistic incarnations make it nearly impossible to lay claim to any fixed idea of national history or identity, the relationship between history and place has become a struggle for the possession of the past.

Jovana Stokić will present some of the artist’s works, screen his videos, and speak with him about his practice.

ARTIST TALK::

Yuki Okumura – General Update!

irp — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:56:52 +0000

Dear all,

For your info, let me update my recent activities!!

1. Workshop / Exhibition (current)

workshop “Fictional Anatomy”
conductor: Yuki Okumura
where: Fuchu Art Museum
when: Nov. 22 (over) / Dec. 13
participants: kids age 4-7

related exhibitions:
1st show: Nov. 23 – the morning of 29
2nd show: Dec. 14 – the morning of 20

This is my my first-ever workshop, and I take it as a project-based work. I have wanted to do this for a long time, so I am very happy to finally have this opportunity.

In this workshop, I ask kids to imagine and draw their inner body. As their ages are up to 7, they are not really familiar with a human anatomy chart or model, so that they can almost “freely” imagine what is inside their bodies. Although the result of the workshop on Nov. 22 shows that most of the kids actually feel the existence of their hearts, blood, bones and so on, as well as the process of food passing through their bodies (many drew their favorite food and poos!), the structures they painted have a diverse imaginative variation. The paintings, which are simply wonderful, are now on display on the window of the workshop room, until Saturday morning.

The workshop on Nov. 22 was like this.
http://plaza.rakuten.co.jp/okumokum/diary/200811230000/

This workshop is an event related to “Fuchu Biennale 2008″.

http://www.city.fuchu.tokyo.jp/art/

2. “Busan Biennale 2008″ at MeWorld, Busan (past)

My installation was like this.
http://plaza.rakuten.co.jp/okumokum/diary/200809140000/

3. “Eye of the City” at Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei

My installation was like this…
http://plaza.rakuten.co.jp/okumokum/diary/200807010000/

That is it!
Wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year!

Yuki Okumura

blog: http://plaza.rakuten.co.jp/okumokum/

Eric Siu – Dorkbot, Monkeytown & more..

irp — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:38:46 +0000

Hello friends,

I am happy to announce three events that I am going to participate in April. Hope you can join me if you will be around New York.

Best,
Eric

www.ericsiuart.com

Dorkbot Presentation
I am going to give a presention on “Optical Handlers -Quadocular” work-in-progress and “Fack Hack” in Dorkbot. If you have time, come share some ideas.
2 April, 08, 7pm
Location One, 26 Greene Street, New York
http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotnyc/02.april.2008/index.shtml

Monkeytown
“Super Cop World” will be featuring in “Samson Young and Matrix Music Collaborators”.
14 April, 14, 8pm
Monkeytown, 58 N.3rd Street, Brooklyn, New York
$5 Door, $10 Food/Drinks Minimun
http://www.samsonyoung.com
http://www.monkeytownhq.com

Matrix Residency @ Abrons Arts Center
“Rainy Nights” will be featuring with Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (1st mvt) by W.A. Mozart as a multi-media music performance.
18 April, 7:30pm / 19 April 3pm / 20 April 3pm
Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand Street. New York
Tickets: $10
www.theatermania.com / 212. 352.3101

Eric Siu – Dorkbot, Monkeytown & more..

admin — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:38:46 +0000

Hello friends,

I am happy to announce three events that I am going to participate in April. Hope you can join me if you will be around New York.

Best,
Eric

www.ericsiuart.com

Eric Siu – Dorkbot, Monkeytown & more..

admin — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:38:46 +0000

Hello friends,

I am happy to announce three events that I am going to participate in April. Hope you can join me if you will be around New York.

Best,
Eric

www.ericsiuart.com

Hermelinde Hergenhahn & Mafalda Santos

irp — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:01:16 +0000

in Location One’s Project Space
OPENING RECEPTION: Wednesday 30 January, 6-8 pm
on view 31 January – 9 February 2008

Location One is happy to present new work by Hermelinde Hergenhahn (Germany) and Mafalda Santos (Portugal). Hergenhahn’s installation will consist of a series of pencil drawings gathered from experiences of quotidian life, and a video projection and wall etching in the gallery. Santos plays with the architecture of the exhibition space to reflect on the particular conditions of being an artist temporarily displaced from her customary work space, while she also considers the evolution of her work in a hand-drawn map for a new website.


Mafalda Santos – from the series Site Specific 2008, digital print and graphite on paper		Hermelinde Hergenhahn – These things, that happened to you, will never happen to me!! 2006, pencil on paper, 10x15cm (4×6 in)

Hermelinde Hergenhahn
Proposal for Bagman & Straight Ladies
In hundreds of very small, or very large drawings Hermelinde explores human hopes and fears, with relentless humour and ambiguity. Her writings, films and installations in public space (video/billboard) analyze the connection between these anxieties in private and how they occur in the arena of everyday life (media/advertisement). She described her approach as one of a “critical nearness”.

For the installation at Location One, she has gathered words heard on the street, snippets from conversations and accidental meetings, transformed them into video projections, and transported them into the gallery where they are given temporary shelter. In the process vulnerability and aggression are revealed, depending on the point of view.

click here for artist statement…

Mafalda Santos
Artist in Residence, 2008
Site Specific, 2008
Organizational schemes, networks, interconnection and principles of scale and composition are crucial in Mafalda’s work. Expanded drawings on walls and floors cull their information from computer interface, books and archives to create a simplified imagery that reflects “a moment/place in a mental or social structure of relations.” The artist also considers that they offer a comment on the specific context for which the work is produced.The series of drawings presented in Site Specific, 2008, have been developed by Mafalda for her website (in collaboration with Sebastien Sanz de Santa Maria, Location One’s residency program coordinator). Each drawing corresponds to a page of the website, and the links between them are laid out, creating a full “site map”.

For the installation Artist in Residence, Mafalda toys with the architectural structure of the exhibition space, as a reflection upon one’s capacity to adapt to different circumstances and environments. The title makes reference to the particular condition of being an artist in the context of a residency, and by extension the distinction that lies between what is work and what is leisure.

About the Artists
Mafalda Santos received a Masters in Painting from the Faculdade Belas Artes do Porto, Portugal. She is also founder and co-director of the artist-run space PêSSEGOpráSEMANA in Porto since 2000. In 2007, Mafalda participated in the Young Artists Award EDP (Electricidade de Portugal). Recent exhibitions include: 2007 – Museum of Contemporary Art MACE, Elvas, Portugal; MUDAM, Luxemburg. She has exhibited at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and is represented by Galeria Presenca, Porto and Lisbon.
Mafalda’s residency at Location One is supported by the Gulbenkian Foundation and Luso American Foundation for Development.

Currently based in Amsterdam, Hermelinde Hergenhahn studied at the Städelschule, Frankfurt and earned a postgraduate degree at the Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht. She has shown extensively in Europe. Recent exhibitions include: 2007, AnyoneAnywhereAnytime, Nidwaldner Museum, Stans, Switzerland and – Loyal Rooftops, 2007. Hermelinde’s residency at Location One is supported by Schloss Balmoral, Stiftung Rheinland Pfalz für Kultur.

Hung Nguyen Manh & Moira Ricci

irp — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:35:19 +0000

in Location One’s Project Space

OPENING RECEPTION: Wednesday 9 January, 6-8 pm
on view 10 – 19 January 2008

Location One is happy to present new work by residents Moira Ricci and Hung Nguyen Manh.

Central to Moira Ricci’s work is the world of the family home as the natural arena in which relationships are played out. Putting aside her own emotions, Ricci turns her personal narrative into fertile ground for thinking about the world we live in.

Moira Ricci – 2008

“Ora sento la musica, Chiudo gli occhi, Sento il ritmo che mi avvolge, Fa presa nel mio cuore“ (“Well I hear the music, close my eyes, feel the rhythm, wrap around, take a hold of my heart)
is the title of Moira’s new video piece. She states: “This video is the first leg of a musical film. This initial work focuses around the topic of dance, a short story of my life, a piece of my past. It recalls the world I come from, that of dance and of my little town in Italy. The idea was born from my mother’s aspiration that I might become a professional dancer. I pursued that course until I was 18, but after high-school, I decided to take a different path, and this caused my mother to be disappointed. Much of my work is constructed from home videos, often taken by my mother during shows organized at my dance school. Here, my mother’s point of view is clearly perceptible. The video is edited following the rhythm and lyrics of “What a Feeling” – the most popular title of Flash Dance, the iconic dance film of the ‘80s. It The lyrics also appear in Italian as subtitles, because they bring out exactly the motivations of a young person pursuing a dream.”

Hung Nguyen Manh – 2007

“Paintings 2007“ by Hung Nguyen Manh
“I love humor, and I like to make a joke about everything. Su-realism is a useful language which helps me create fun. I also mix in hi-tech and lo-tech elements in my paintings. I was born and raised in an apartment block in Hanoi – Vietnam. My father was a fighting pilot, and my mother was an engineer for the Vietnam Rail Way Corporation. No one in my family was concerned about art. In my eyes, Vietnam is one of the strangest countries in the world. People work and behave according to certain habits originating from the agricultural way of life. We live, quarrel, build, eat…just like farmers do. In Vietnam, the culture of the village persists and has a hidden power that affects all the population. Even though we are rushing towards capitalism, this life style shall never disappear. This is what makes Vietnamese people always special, wherever they are.”

On January 11th at 7pm Hung Nguyen Mahn will make a special sound performance at 20 Greene Street.

About the Artists
Moria Ricci graduated from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan in 2004 after attending Photography School at C.F.P.R., Milan. Recent exhibitions include: 2007 – Galleria d’Arte Contemporanea, Monfalcone, Italy; Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome; Palazzo Re Enzo, Bologna. At Location One, Moira’s ressdency is supported by Associazione Artegiovane, Fondi Anima and Comune di Milano.

Hung Nguyen Manh is an artist, a self-taught composer and an active participant in the alternative art scene in Hanoi. A graduate from the Hanoi University of Fine Arts in 2002, he has participated regularly in performance art festivals in Japan and Taiwan. In 2005, he was a grant recipient of the Ford Foundation which enabled him to exhibit in Los Angeles , and in 2006, a grant from the Dong Son Today Foundation funded his participation at ART OMI residency program Ghent, NY. At Location One, Hung benefits from a grant from the Asian Cultural Council.

Katia Kameli & Kuba Bakowski

irp — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:56:35 +0000

in Location One’s Project Space
OPENING RECEPTION: Wednesday 12 December, 6-8 pm
on view 13-22 December 2007

Location One is happy to present new work by two artists participating in the International Residency Program.

With “Draft“, Katia Kameli continues her investigation into key issues that drive her film, video and installation practice, namely the construction of intersecting identities in a globalized world, hybridization, the notion of intercultural spaces and awareness of psychogeographical effects.

“Draft” is a cartographic installation. It is the preface of a larger project whose end result is a palimpsestic film. In line with Debord’s theory of “Dérive” –the early situationist practice of urban drifting– this “intermediate” installation presents itself as a non-definable urban map that includes video, audio and text inserts, as well as photographs. Scenes where cartographers, writers, poets, musicians, cinematographers, scientists are scribbling notes and writing potential scripts overlap with other images also shot by the artist. Kameli then reinterprets these texts by operating a double dérive. Shifting feelings of excitement and anticipation run parallel with anxiety and caution, combined with the realization that there is nothing new to discover but the limitations of one’s own experience and understanding.

Kuba Bakowski‘s quasi bio-mechanical body of work examines the duality between real and artificial as generated by digital media, with an approach that is in part utopian and ironic, often tinged with a perverse sense of humor. For this exhibition, the artist creates “video machines” which produce distinctive audio-visual energy and that he groups under the title Nothing More Happens Than Has To Happen.

“The Question is not so much where we are as when we are” features the artist as he attempts to surpass the physical limitations of his body by appearing on the Polish public channel for two months, every night after the day’s program has ended, exercising and meditating against the colorful background of the test pattern (TV Zero Zones).

In the Rockaway video loops, Kuba has extracted short video samples from BBC documentary movies about the nuclear arms race, and combines them with video footage of flying birds and planes filmed by the artist in Far Rockaway on a rainy and breezy day. Presented as small video-installations, these loops generate a strange and anxious atmosphere. “City pigeons 1,2,3,4,5” and the audio track result from video and audio manipulations.

Project Gallery Events & Exhibitions

irp — Fri, 18 May 2007 16:58:00 +0000

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” series from 2009 depict both perpetrators and victims of the same crime side-by-side, visually blurring the line between innocence and guilt. By presenting the people first and the stories second a space is created for humanity to be re-instilled into the lives of people who have been reduced to mere headlines by the popular press (e.g. Timothy McVeigh).

Nicolas Grospierre & Kaeko Mizukoshi: Safe and Hymn.

28 Apr – 9 May 2009
Location One is pleased to present the first of its summer 2009 International Residency Program Exhibitions featuring the work of two outstanding emerging artists, Nicolas Grospierre (Poland) and Kaeko Mizukoshi (Japan). Artist Grospierre will present a photographic installation exploring the intricacies of NYC bank vaults, well timed in light of the global financial crisis. Artist Mizukoshi presents a video installation ste at a Los Angeles bus stop and focused on the dialog between a man, who rants indecipherably, and an awaiting passenger who responds with unrelated religious exclamations.

Rob Kennedy: I Relish Your Balderdash

June 25th, 2008
A video screening of Hapless, Helpless and Hopeless, by Rob Kennedy and Peter Dowling, 2008, (34 mins), with film screenings of Secondary Currents (1983, 17 mins) and The Gift (1994, 6 mins), by Peter Rose plus spoken texts, sounds and other paraphernaliaA screening/talk/reading presented by Rob Kennedy and Peter Rose concerning the absurdities, problems and possibilities of language, as affected by image, text, time, sense and nonsense.

Rashaad Newsome: Compositions

June 19 – July 26 2008
Have pop culture and globalization co-opted the wonderfully expressive gestures of the black America female? This is the question that Rashaad Newsome explores in video and photography in Shade Compositions, one of two new works in an exhibition opening on Thursday June 19th at Location One.

Daniel Andersson & Tseng Yu-chin: IRP Exhibition 2008

June 4-18, 2008
Location One is pleased to present new work by Daniel Andersson (Finland) and by Tseng Yu-chin (Taiwan), participants of the International Residency Program this year. The exhibited work was made at Location One as part of their residency and features multi-layered ink photographs and drawings.

Eric Siu & Luis Nobre

May 21, 2008
Optical Handlers – eeyee is a new interactive media project that consists of an optical goggle device constructed by the artist, which splits the vision into four channels. Hold It! is an installation that creates a fantastical, sometimes hallucinatory vision of nature, the city and the artist’s studio. Visual play is generated by overlapping layers of drawings, ephemeral sculptures made of paper and cardboard, light wire objects, all constructed by Nobre in-situ.

Nina Sobell: Internal Message Search – A Performative Installation

April 18-April 30, 2008
Nina Sobell will install her studio in Location One’s Project Gallery, which includes recent wax
sculptures, drawings, keyboard, guitar and mic.
Visitors to the gallery will be able to engage in a dialogue with the artist about this work, and may bring their own instruments to improvise with her live on the web.

Hermelinde Hergenhahn & Mafalda Santos: In the Location One Project Space

January 30th -February 9th, 2008
Hergenhahn’s installation will consist of a series of pencil drawings gathered from experiences of quotidian life, and a video projection and wall etching in the gallery. Santos plays with the architecture of the exhibition space to reflect on the particular conditions of being an artist temporarily displaced from her customary work space, while she also considers the evolution of her work in a hand-drawn map for a new website.

Hung Nguyen Manh: Special Sound Performance

Jan 11th, 2008, 7pm
“From Cricket to Airplane”, an experimental performance by Hung Nguyen Manh followed by 2 other short pieces. 3 solo pieces that transports the audience into hi-frequency (cricket) to lo-frequency (airplane) sound effects. Realized with an electric guitar, e-bow and effects Boss DS1 + PS5 + DD6.

Hung Nguyen Manh & Moira Ricci: In Location One’s Project Space

9th -19th January 2008
Central to Moira Ricci’s work is the world of the family home as the natural arena in which relationships are played out. Putting aside her own emotions, Ricci turns her personal narrative into fertile ground for thinking about the world we live in.

Katia Kameli & Kuba Bakowski: In Location One’s Project Space

December 13-22, 2007
With “Draft“, Katia Kameli continues her investigation into key issues that drive her film, video and installation practice, namely the construction of intersecting identities in a globalized world, hybridization, the notion of intercultural spaces and awareness of psychogeographical effects.

Nine International Artists Exhibit

June 2nd – July 28th, 2007
Location One presents the second IRP group show of the 2006-2007 season, featuring new work developed by our resident artists. The exhibition represents a diverse range of artistic approaches and many are works in progress.

Jeanette Doyle: StarLine Tours

April 13-May 25, 2007
Jeanette Doyle’s practice is primarily concerned with picture making. She is particularly interested in painting and its relationship to lens-based technologies. Her work is driven by conceptual concerns but is deeply engaged with the processes and mechanics of making, especially the production of images. Her works express a desire to crystalise complexity for a moment in an image which, on closer inspection, allows the fiction of coherence to dissolve. Disjunction between the image and text is a hint of this. This disjunction between word and image is a feature of the ‘StarLine Tours’ exhibition at Location One.

IRP Exhibition, Winter 2007

February 13-March 31st, 2007
Featuring: Natalie Bewernitz & Marek Goldowski, Teresa Henriques, Agnieszka Kalinowska,
Nina Katchadourian, Rie Kawakami, Alessandro Nassiri, Kaori Tazoe, Virginie Yassef
Location One presents the first of two exhibitions showcasing new work developed during their residencies by eight artists participating in the 2006-2007 International Residency Program. Featured works, some of which are exhibited as work-in-progress, represent a diverse range of artistic approaches.

Leesa & Nicole Abahuni: In the Sky

November 21, 2006 – January 27, 2007
An opening reception and performance will be held on Wednesday, November 29th from 6 to 8 pm.
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.

International Residency Program 2005-2006 – Group Show II

June 1st – July 29th, 2006
Featuring: Leesa & Nicole Abahuni, Simo Alitalo, Andrew Duggan, Mayumi Nakazaki, Trine Nedreaas, Yuki Okumura, Lydia Venieri, Wang Ya-Hui.
On Thursday, June 1st, Location One opens 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 will be open to the public through Saturday, July 29th, 2006.

Andrew Duggan: ECHO

Thursday, May 18, 2006 – 6:30-8:30pm
Location One presents 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. Impromptu street performances and filming will take place in NYC at undisclosed locations leading up to the event. The resulting project will be presented at Location One.

International Residency Program 2005-2006 – Group Show I

February 9th – March 4th, 2006
Featuring: Paololuca Barbieri, Isabelle Ferreira, Geka Heinke, Yoon-Young Park, Mariana Viegas.
On Thursday, February 9th, Location One presents the first of two Spring exhibitions showcasing new work developed by artists from Italy, France, Germany, Korea, and Portugal who are participating in the 2005-2006 International Residency Program. Featured works represent a diverse range of artistic approaches.

Paololuca Barbieri and art collective, ALTERAZIONI VIDEO: LIGHT WAVES live in NEW YORK

Wednesday February 15th – 7:00 PM
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.

Martin Beauregard: Somnambulic

7 December 2005 – 4 February 2006
Location One is pleased to present Somnambulic, the first New York solo exhibition by Canadian artist Martin Beauregard. This new body of work highlights persistent themes for the artist revolving around the relation between dream, illusion, and reality. It also produces a “fantastical strangeness” that is characteristic of Beauregard’s work, as he explores modes of perception through play and creation.

Yumiko Furukawa, Kenny Hunter, Wu Ta-Kun, and Mariana Viegas: IRP Exhibition Spring 2005 III

June 4th – July 30th, 2005
Tent for Poet (2005) (multimedia installation with tent, furnishings, video & DVD) is a work dedicated by the artist to a poet living in New York. Citizen Firefighter (2001) (resin sculpture), was conceived primarily to celebrate the men and women of Strathclyde Brigade in Scotland. The driving force behind Wu Ta-Kun’s varied body of work is expanding “ideas of sensibility”. Landscape is an entity –or a body– which is transformed by our presence and which, in turn, transforms us.

Martin Beauregard & Marlena Kudlicka: IRP Exhibition Spring 2005 II

April 28th – May 28th, 2005
Location One is pleased to present the second of three Spring exhibitions showcasing the work of artists participating in its 2004-2005 International Residency Program. The two installations by Canadian artist Martin Beauregard, and Polish artist Marlena Kudlicka were developed during their residencies at Location One.

Nayda Collazo-Llorens and Santeri Tuori: IRP Exhibition Spring 2005

March 18 – April 23, 2005
Artists-in-Residence Nayda Collazo-Llorens (USA) and Santeri Tuori (Finland) will present video installations in Location One’s main gallery. With special thanks to NYSCA (New York State Council on the Arts) and FRAME (Finnish Fund for Art Exchange)

Cécile Paris: 3 videos and 3 songs

Dec 15 2004 – Jan 29, 2005
Each video presents a singular character performing a simple action: a figure on a skateboard filmed from the back in a car, a young girl playing guitar on a traffic circle in the suburbs of Paris, a swimmer, a New York doorman as he progresses through the city at night.

Mark Themann: PASSED for EXPORT: an installation.

July 8 – July 31, 2004
PASSED for EXPORT, a site-specific installation by Mark Themann, raises questions about the American Landscape, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights in times of political crisis. Two videos of monumental US landscapes are projected in unnervingly slow and steady takes on opposite walls. Any potential romanticism is forestalled by the cacophonous clashing of two audio tracks in which the narrators are each reading from the Amendments to the Bill of Rights and the Constitution, reciting with an extreme stutter.

IRP Exhibition 2004

May 28 – June 30, 2004
Featuring:Koki Tanaka, Hsiao Sheng Chien, Mark Themann, Federico Muelas, Miguel Soares, Alexandra do Carmo, Vincent Lamouroux.
On Thursday, May 27, Location One presents its third annual artist-in-residence group exhibition. Eight works ranging from video, to sculpture, to robotic structures, to interactive installations were developed by emerging international artists during their stay. Featured in the main gallery, the show will be open to the public through Wednesday, June 30th, 2004.

Kurt Ralske: Re-Mapping 4 Dimensions: Three New Works

January-February, 2004
These three works explore time, and our perception of time. For me, one of the most interesting qualities of video is that it is in reality only a collection of still images. At 30 video frames per second, any 10 seconds of fluid movement can alternately be considered as a static collection of 300 related still images. Working in the digital realm in a real-time manner, there are endless possibilies for instantly treating a new video recording as a library of stills, then deriving new material by analyzing or modifying this library: reordering entries, comparing similarity or difference between entries, deriving a single image from multiple entries, etc.

Vesna Pavlovic: Casual Friday

December 10-30, 2003
Casual Friday will consist of several layers, only one of which will be photographic. Audio interviews, drawings and writings will constitute the other layers.
Collaborator and architect Srdjan Weiss, will address these themes through drawings of the layout and contents of the “perfect” office. He will do so through drawings, and will integrate into his work research on the history of the subject building, as well as information related to the taste and design of the architects who originally worked on the building.

Miguel Soares: Red Alert

November-December, 2003
“Do androids dream of electric sheep?” – Philip K. Dick
Gustavo is a robot that has been discarded in a black garbage bag. Out of this bag extends Gustavo’s motorized arm, with a laser that is carving a drawing on the wall. Do robots dream of being artists?

Saoirse Higgins and Simon Schiessl: Mechanism no.1: War

July 9 – August 2, 2003
This is an interactive video projection examining the critical moments leading to war. The visitor winds* up the mechanical toy drummer boy with the brass key. The action of the drummer boy correlates to a projected video that shows bombs dropping from the sky. The sound of the bombs keeps exact beat with the drum. The tighter the mechanism is wound the faster the bombs will drop. The visitor controls frequency of the bombing. Where are these bombs being dropped? What are the consequences?

Daniel Blaufuks, Isabelle Jenniches, Dominik Lejman, Javier Viver, and Jiun-Ting Lin: IRP Exhibition 2003

May 22, 2003-June 28, 2003
May 22, Location One, a not-for-profit multimedia arts organization, opened its second artist-in-residence group exhibition with multimedia work developed during their stay. Included artists: Daniel Blaufuks (Portugal), Isabelle Jenniches (The Netherlands), Dominik Lejman (Poland), Jiun-Ting Lin (Taiwan), and Javier Viver (Spain). This exhibition will be on view in Location One’s gallery through June 28, 2003 and will be streamed live on our website (www.location1.org).

Atsushi Nishijima, Erwin Redl, Laurie Spiegel and Heather Wagner: Signal to Noise

September 10 – October 19, 2002
Location One is happy to present “Signal to Noise“, a group exhibition featuring works that explore the relationship of sound and light waves. Not merely illustrations of audio-visual synaesthesia, several of the pieces act literally as transducers, that is, devices that convert input energy of one form into output energy of another.

Xu Tan: Qing Hua Porcelain (Blue & White)

May 23rd – June 29th 2002
Xu Tan draws his inspiration from the teachings of philosopher Chuang-Tzu (circa 250 BC). Successor to Lao Tzu and a foremost proponent of Taoism, Chuang-Tzu presumed that no matter how alike two things are, a difference between them can always be found and, conversely, no matter how different two things are, one can find a similarity between them. Objective similarities and differences do not justify any particular way of distinguishing between things.

Francois Bucher: White Balance

January 10 – March 2, 2002
White Balance (to think is to forget differences) is an effort to uncover the geographies of power, the frontiers of privilege. It revisits this problem from different angles, creating short circuits of meaning which are hosted by improbable audiovisual matches. Media and internet footage is intermixed with images shot in downtown Manhattan before and after the September 11th attacks.

Atsushi Nishijima: Subtractive Creation/Visible Sound

December 8th – 29, 2001
“Sound does not exist without space and space is always filled with sound. Space represents sound as something visible, sound represents space as something audible. Our daily life is made of inevitable factors such as time and space. As for myself, that is a place where contemporary music exists.” –Atsushi Nishijima

François Bucher, Marta Deskur, and Ksenija Turcic: Irp Exhibition 2001

June 9-July 28, 2001
Museum of Mankind is a video installation depicting the statues that stand high on the roof of the Museum of Mankind in London. In a multimedia installation and web site project, New Baby?, Marta Deskur questions the significance of family today and the conflicting issues this question addresses. Ksenija Turcic presents a new multimedia installation, Phase, where she pursues her investigation of emotional space.

Katya Sander and François Bucher: RECORDERS

March 22 – April 21, 2001
“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.

Project Gallery Events & Exhibitions

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SELECTED PAST EXHIBITIONS:

Main Gallery Exhibitions>>

Rudy Shepherd: Portraits

Nicolas Grospierre & Kaeko Mizukoshi: Safe and Hymn.

Rob Kennedy: I Relish Your Balderdash

Rashaad Newsome: Compositions

Daniel Andersson & Tseng Yu-chin: IRP Exhibition 2008

Eric Siu & Luis Nobre

Nina Sobell: Internal Message Search – A Performative Installation

Hermelinde Hergenhahn & Mafalda Santos: In the Location One Project Space

Hung Nguyen Manh: Special Sound Performance

Hung Nguyen Manh & Moira Ricci: In Location One’s Project Space

Katia Kameli & Kuba Bakowski: In Location One’s Project Space

Nine International Artists Exhibit

Jeanette Doyle: StarLine Tours

IRP Exhibition, Winter 2007

Leesa & Nicole Abahuni: In the Sky

International Residency Program 2005-2006 – Group Show II

Andrew Duggan: ECHO

International Residency Program 2005-2006 – Group Show I

Paololuca Barbieri and art collective, ALTERAZIONI VIDEO: LIGHT WAVES live in NEW YORK

Martin Beauregard: Somnambulic

Yumiko Furukawa, Kenny Hunter, Wu Ta-Kun, and Mariana Viegas: IRP Exhibition Spring 2005 III

Martin Beauregard & Marlena Kudlicka: IRP Exhibition Spring 2005 II

Nayda Collazo-Llorens and Santeri Tuori: IRP Exhibition Spring 2005

Cécile Paris: 3 videos and 3 songs

Mark Themann: PASSED for EXPORT: an installation.

IRP Exhibition 2004

Kurt Ralske: Re-Mapping 4 Dimensions: Three New Works

Vesna Pavlovic: Casual Friday

Miguel Soares: Red Alert

Saoirse Higgins and Simon Schiessl: Mechanism no.1: War

Daniel Blaufuks, Isabelle Jenniches, Dominik Lejman, Javier Viver, and Jiun-Ting Lin: IRP Exhibition 2003

Atsushi Nishijima, Erwin Redl, Laurie Spiegel and Heather Wagner: Signal to Noise

Xu Tan: Qing Hua Porcelain (Blue & White)

Francois Bucher: White Balance

Atsushi Nishijima: Subtractive Creation/Visible Sound

François Bucher, Marta Deskur, and Ksenija Turcic: Irp Exhibition 2001

Katya Sander and François Bucher: RECORDERS

SUPPORT

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We invite you to become part of Location One’s community as a member.

Location One welcomes support from friends of the arts at any level…
Membership at Location One offers plenty of opportunities to expand your mind and your circle of friends.

JOIN…

THE ADVISORY COUNCIL

Co-Chairs: Laura Skoler and Claudia Calirman
The advisory council is intended for people who welcome a high level of exposure to and interaction with artists and the artistic process. Here’s how:

DINNER

Twice a year, after a major opening, we invite 100 artists, writers, curators, art professionals and other interesting people to a private dinner at the home of Location One executive director Claire Montgomery. You’re invited.

SALON

Three times a year, Claire and Claudia invite major artists and art-world figures to take part in lively conversation (and a glass of wine) with board members. You’re invited.

OPEN

Visit all our artists-in-residence in our studios and see the projects they are working on during their stays in New York.

WORKS

From time to time, artists contribute pieces of their work to help support our work. They’re offered first to board members.

AND

Advisory Council members are invited to take part in all the activities of the Studio Council (below).

Membership in the Advisory Council is $2500 (tax-deductible).

Join…

THE STUDIO COUNCIL

Chair: Steve Cukierski

The Studio Council is designed for enthusiasts and professionals who’d
like a broad range of opportunities for exposure to our artists and their work.

Here’s how:

STUDIO

Let a major artist show you around his/her studio and talk to you
about current work and ideas, with a Location One curator as your guide.

COLLECTION

Let a major collector show you around his/her home and

tell you the stories behind the collection, with a Location One curator as your

guide.

GALLERY

There are 600 galleries in New York. Let a Location One curator
show you eight or nine exhibitions that are particularly worth your attention.

LUNCH

Join us for lunch in our studios as our fellows, curators, artists in residence discuss their work and their ideas.

PUBLICATION

Receive a copy of all of any new book or exhibition catalog or DVD we publish.

PERSONAL

We’re always happy to help members arrange private meetings with our artists (schedules permitting).

Note: Many of these activities require reservations, because they must be limited in size.
When anything is over-subscribed, we’ll try to arrange an encore.

Membership in the Studio Advisory Board is $1000 (tax-deductible).

PATRON

VIP RECEPTIONS

Twice a year you are invited to a members-only VIP reception with our artists-in-residence.

PUBLICATIONS

Receive a copy of any new book or exhibition catalogue or DVD we we publish.

AND

Patrons are invited to all the activities of the individual members.

Membership as a Patron is $500
(tax-deductible).

INDIVIDUAL MEMBERSHIP

PREVIEW

Get the first look at every Location One exhibition at these VIP-only receptions.

PORTFOLIO

Join us for a glass of wine as each of our artists show his/her portfolio and discuss the work with a curator or critic.

Individual Memberships are $100 (tax deductible).

Current Members

We extend special thanks to the following supporters who have contributed between $500 and $5000 toward our programs:

Diane Ackerman
Ann Barlow
Andrew Brimmer
Henry Buhl
Judi Caron
Margaret Cogswell
Michael and Noni Connor
Sophie Crichton-Stuart
Christian Duvernois
Pamela Grace
Jeanette Ingberman
Edward and Phyllis Kwalwasser
Caroline Lang
Gallery Lelong
Brenda Levin
James Lindon
James T. MacGregor
Matthew Marks
Elzbieta Matynia
DeCourcy E. McIntosh
Raj Moorjani
David and Brigitte Olsen
Alina Pedroso
Joyce Pomeroy Schwartz
Richard Prince
Dennis Rolland
Elsa and Marvin Ross-Greifinger
Adam Sheffer
Roger and Freddi Sherman
Clay Shirky
Melissa Soros
Sue Stoffel
Rachel Vancelette
Gordon VeneKlasen
Jane Wesman

Open House Wednesdays

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Free and open to the public. All events begin at 7pm.

Location One is happy to host exciting talks by renowned experts from many disciplines who reflect upon artistic and cultural themes that permeate our contemporary cultural landscape. Past speakers have included Martha Rosler, Chris Csikszentmihalyi, and Marcia Vetrocq. For a full list of our past Open House Wednesday talks, click here >>

We’ll reopen Open House Wednesday season with dorkbot NYC, starting Wednesday, September 3, at 7pm.

Open House Wednesdays

September 19, 2007: IMHO with Ligorano/Reese
Artists Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese will discuss their current exhibition: Crater New York, A Lunar Drawing Contest as well as past and future artworks. 7pm, free admission.

September 5, 2007: dorkbot NYC
“People doing strange things with electricity” Members of the Conflux 2007 curatorial team will introduce this year’s Conflux, highlighting several key projects and covering the schedule of events.
Presenting: Christian Croft & Kate Hartman: Energy Harvesting Dérive

Mouna Andraos: Sustainable practices in electronic art and design

Michael J. Dory: Concrete Crickets

Recent Open House Wednesday events have included:

June 20, 2007 International Residents’ Exhibition 2006-2007 – CURATOR/ARTIST TALK more…

May 30 2007 *IMHO* with Heather Wagner in conversation with artist Tianna Kennedy more…

May 23 2007 Amanda McDonald Crowley, Executive Director of EYEBEAM more…

May 16 2007
SLART(TM) Art in Second Life: a presentation by Richard Minsky. more…

"In the Sky" opening night performance, with Elliott Sharp, Glen Rumsey and others

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IN THE SKY
by Leesa and Nicole Abahuni

Wednesday November 29th, 6-8pm
Reception and special performance

Location One is happy to announce that dancer Glen Rumsey will be joining the special performance by New York-based avant-garde musician Elliott Sharp, and percussionists Danny Tunick and Christine Bard, during the opening of In The Sky (performance at 7pm, free).

The multimedia installation, which marks the first solo show for twin artists Leesa and Nicole Abahuni, 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 exhibition will be on view through January 27^th 2007 (Tue-Sat, 12-6pm).

		American multi-instrumentalist, composer, and performer Elliott Sharp has personified the avant-garde experimental music scene in New York City for over thirty years. Sharp describes himself as a lifelong “science geek,” having modified and created musical instruments from his teen years. (website)Dancer, choreographer Glen Rumsey has worked with Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Mark Morris, Pam Tanowitz, and others. His dance suite ignored in my heaven… was performed at Location One last year to critical acclaim (website)

In The Sky was conceived by Leesa and Nicole Abahuni in their Location One studio while participating in Location One’s International Residency Program with support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts.

This exhibition has received funding from the Peter Norton Family Foundation and assistance from Harvestworks

dorkbot-nyc 2004-05-05

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May 5, 2004

Location One is happy to host this month’s dorkbot-nyc meeting—a monthly gathering of artists (sound/image/movement/whatever), designers, engineers, students and other interested parties who are involved in the creation of electronic art (in the broadest sense of the term.)

Hosted by, and usually taking place at the Columbia University Computer Music Center (CMC), dorkbot-nyc meetings are coordinated by Douglas Irving Repetto.

featuring the lovely and talented:

Spot Draves: Electric Sheep
Electric Sheep is a distributed screen-saver that harnesses idle computers into a render farm with the purpose of animating and evolving artificial life-forms. Each clip of animation has a genetic code, and the collective voting of users determines its fitness. In the next version, a P2P network distributes the bandwidth for sharing the video and votes.
http://electricsheep.org

Rich LeGrand: Gameboy Hacks
The Gameboy Advance is famous for its ability to play games, but Nintendo has unwittingly put together a great embedded computer system that’s cheap and powerful. When using standard (and free) C compilers and a little extra hardware, you can program the Gameboy to do all sorts of cool stuff such as control motors, read sensors, talk, display graphics or simply run your code. In other words, screw Mario.
http://www.charmedlabs.com

Rob Seward: GTTM Analysis Software
The Generative Theory of Tonal Music (GTTM) was developed in the early 80s by composer Fred Lerdahl and linguist Ray Jackendoff. GTTM “relates the aural surface of a piece to the musical structure unconsciously inferred by the experienced listener” (Lerdahl and Jackendoff, 1983, book jacket). Working closely with Fred Lerdahl and with funding from the Keck Foundation, we have written software that performs a GTTM analysis on pieces written in the style of a Bach chorale. The software uses a unique user interface to display the “unconscious musical structures” that can be found in a piece. It also performs a complete Roman numeral analysis. In the process of automating the analysis, we revised elements of GTTM itself and developed a new key-finding algorithm. We have also created a unique compositional tool. If one wishes to make modifications to a chorale piece, they can immediately see the structural consequences of a revision. Eventually, we will create software that can work with music beyond the Bach chorale style.

dorkbot-nyc 2004-04-07

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April 7, 2004

Hosted by, and usually taking place at the Columbia University Computer Music center (CMC), dorkbot-nyc meetings are coordinated by Douglas Irving Repetto. This month’s presenters are Mikey Sklar, Andy Deck and Ben Woodeson.

Mikey Sklar – electric clothing
Mikey Sklar, an electric-clothing hobbiest, will discuss four wearable outfits he has developed over the last year. Materials used consist of computer fans, LEDs, El Wire, Flat El, PIC microcontrollers, homebrew PCBs, velcro and conductive thread.
http://www.electric-clothing.com

Andy Deck
Andy Deck will present several examples of his software art, focusing on online groupware image-making projects. He will discuss online collaboration and the peculiar division of creativity that occurs
when artists write software for ‘visiting artists’ to use.
http://www.artcontext.org

Ben Woodeson
Ben Woodeson is an artist based in Glasgow, Scotland. His practice consists of low tech experimentation into energy, magnetism, electricity, and heat. Current research directions include electromagnetic fields, concealed radio surveillance bugs and The X-Men.
http://www.woodeson.co.uk

IRP Exhibition 2003

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Daniel Blaufuks, Isabelle Jenniches, Dominik Lejman,
Javier Viver, Jiun-Ting Lin

May 22, 2003-June 28, 2003

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On Thursday, May 22, Location One, a not-for-profit multimedia arts organization, will open its second artists in residence group exhibition with multimedia work developed during their stay by Daniel Blaufuks (Portugal), Isabelle Jenniches (The Netherlands), Dominik Lejman (Poland), Jiun-Ting Lin (Taiwan), and Javier Viver (Spain). This exhibition will be on view in Location One’s gallery through June 28, 2003 and will be streamed live on our website (www.location1.org).

Daniel Blaufuks :: Two Hundred and Forty-three Postcards in Real Color
Based on the work of the French writer George Perec, “A Perfect Day” by Daniel Blaufuks takes us to the peaceful world of postcards, filled with pools, beaches, mountains, lakes and, above all, blue skies. George Perec wrote Two Hundred and Forty-three Postcards in Real Color; these short, happy messages, which sometimes remind us of our daily e-mails, are combined here with postcards chosen by the artist, creating a new reading of the original words. Parallel to this, Blaufuks presents a video series, catalogued as Perec would, with titles such as “Pools”, “Mountains”, “Water”, “Beach”, “Road”, bringing us closer to the original ideas of the writer. One could speak almost of the boredom of the perfect day. Daniel Blaufuks has been working extensively on the relation between photography and literature, through works like “My Tangier” (with the writer Paul Bowles) and the more recent “Collected Short Stories”.

Isabelle Jenniches :: true looks and readers in the subway
Isabelle Jenniches comes from a background of scenography and theater. Her more recent explorations focus on the open-ended yet highly ritualized postures of real life. Her newest work, true looks takes place in a SoHo furniture store. The artist’s friends and colleagues—a dancer, a cook, a choir member—become covert protagonists. Mingling with the clients, shop assistants and teamsters, they are instructed to initiate subtle dramatic occurrences amidst the beds and sofas. Everyday patterns of consumer behavior are being poached, subverted into micro-dramatic moments that are followed and captured by the store’s webcam system.

Jenniches’ second project, readers in the subway, zooms in on commuters engrossed in their books. Seemingly oblivious to the noise and the ads, cramped, wearing thick layers of winter clothes, they each escape into their own thoughts, creating a bubble around themselves. Expression, body language and the occasional book title offer an intimate glimpse of that inner world. Focusing in on this one particular group of people reveals nuances of a larger human condition and taps into the collective consciousness of the moment: the video stills and sound bites create a snapshot of what was on peoples’ mind during the NYC Winter of 2003.

Dominik Lejman :: Video Murals – Social Surfaces Central Air Condition (Use and Care)
In Video Murals – Social Surfaces, Dominik Lejman employs direct recordings of crowds and urban gatherings he has filmed. This original footage is then rendered into a purely abstracted form by the artist through the creation of ornamental crowd motifs that are projected on the wall. The projection on the wall is equivalent to painting’s surface for the emerging pattern of repetition. In Lejman’s words, “the structure of the mass ornament is abstract, but is not a mere abstraction. The aesthetic pleasure provided by the statistical tapestries is a form of information anesthesiology. It neutralizes the fact of being a product of a shared destiny and organic life, the function of individual personalities with unique souls”.

Central Air Condition (Use and Care)

is a work dedicated to the conditioning role of the information we “inhale” on a daily basis, and its physical effect on our survival. The gallery space is conditioned by the synthesis of information extracted from the media—creating a glass house effect, whereby information is reduced to temperature, humidity and ventilation conditions. The impact is direct. In this project, the ornamental, floral pattern designed for the gallery is created from recorded images of crowds in motion, both real and virtual.

Jiun-ting Lin :: Psyche-Zone
Jiun-ting Lin is the first recipient at Location One of the Yageo Tech-Art Award of the ACC. If “installation art” gives the audience a spatial perception at a fixed point in time, then Jiun-Ting Lin’s work can be experienced as “time and space installations.” His current work, Psyche-Zone, attempts to create a space in which the viewer experiences shifts of sensation between immediate perspective and experiential memory, a certain place in the “here and now,” simultaneously representing the infinite unfolding of the “there and then.” In his installations, Jiun-ting Lin attempts to create a time and space that is sealed like a capsule, devoid of “venue” meaning, distinct from heterogeneous art space or undefined “wasteland space.”

Javier Viver :: EspHeM
Javier Viver is currently developing EspHeM, a utopian company whose mission is to offer a new formula of portable habitat prototypes. Through the appropriation of packaging systems, EspHeM questions the concepts of material security in a mass consumer-driven society. During the exhibition, prototypes of temporary living structures will be displayed in a booth, while general information on EspHeM can be accessed at http://www.location1.org/esphem, a website that the artist created largely during his residency.

LOCATION ONE’S INTERNATIONAL RESIDENCY PROGRAM
The central purpose of Location One’s International Residency Program is to encourage collaboration by inviting artists from all over the world and different media to experiment with advanced technological tools and delivery systems, and to develop new work. We encourage artists at all levels of experience to participate: they are given studio space, unprecedented technical support and guidance, and access to computer-assisted digital tools.

SPONSORS:
Asian Cultural Council; Center for Dansk Billedkunst (DCA Foundation); Denmark Statens Kunstfond (National Endowments for the Arts, Denmark); Det Danske Kultur Institut, Denmark; Fonds voor Beeldende Kunst, Vormgeving en Bouwkunst (Netherlands); Fundacio Marcelino Botn (Spain); Fundao Calouste Gulbenkian (Portugal); Kosciuszko Foundation; Luso-American Development Foundation; The Milton and Sally Avery Foundation; Polish Cultural Institute in New York; Trust for Mutual Understanding; Yageo Corporation, (Taiwan) (The Yageo Corporation of Taiwan has recently created the “Yageo Tech-Art Award of the ACC”, a special annual award enabling a Taiwanese artist to participate in Location One’s International Residency Program for 6 months.

Signal to Noise

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A group exhibition of works in light and sound featuring work by Atsushi Nishijima, Erwin Redl, Laurie Spiegel and Heather Wagner

Curated by Heather Wagner
September 10 – October 19, 2002
Opening Reception: Tuesday, September 10th, 6-8pm

Location One is happy to present “Signal to Noise“, a group exhibition featuring works that explore the relationship of sound and light waves. Not merely illustrations of audio-visual synaesthesia, several of the pieces act literally as transducers, that is, devices that convert input energy of one form into output energy of another.The range of frequencies detectable by the human ear is about 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz, and the visible light spectrum is 400 terahertz (red light) to 740 terahertz (violet light). But there are also frequencies like radio waves, microwaves, infrared and ultraviolet light that, unless converted to a human-readable format, course through our environments invisibly and silently.

The notion of seeing the Invisible is both seductive and ordinary. From night vision goggles and microscopes to consumer software like iTunes that invites you to “visualize your music”; digital audio tools that render music as waveforms on a monitor, allowing an audio engineer to edit both visually and aurally, we are accustomed to a kind of mediated synaesthesia.

But in a sense, bringing to light the Invisible can be thought of as a metaphor for what all art (not to mention religion and philosophy) attempts to do. In “Signal to Noise” the artworks act as translators of sound waves to light waves (or vice versa) in elegant, sometimes quite low-tech and simple examples of this phenomenon.

Atsushi Nishijima, trained in experimental and contemporary music, creates sculptures and installations, which emphasize the idea that sound, and thereby music, is inherent in all objects and environments. He was artist-in-residence from Japan at Location One in 2001.

Erwin Redl uses sound and light to create both stunning large-scale installations and smaller meditative pieces. Most recently, his LED grid piece “Matrix VI” adorned the façade of the Whitney Museum for the 2002 Biennial.

Laurie Spiegel is a pioneer in computer music and one of the first composers to experiment with concepts of visual music. Though she navigates the upper echelons of high technology she “sees the computer as a new kind of folk instrument”. As she says, “music is a way to deal with the extreme intensity of moment to moment conscious existence.”

Heather Wagner has created sound installations and internet performances that explore ethernity, the imaginary connection between cyberspace and dreams. She also plays drums and is grateful to the curator for thinking of her.

Works by John Cage and Laurie Speigel

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March 6- March 30, 2002

Location One is happy to present the works of two innovative sound artists/composers: The late John Cage and Laurie Spiegel. John Cage’s 1992 film work One 11 and 103, an exploration of light and sound scores, will play in alternation with Laurie Spiegel’s electronic music, Obsolete Systems.

One 11 and 103 by John Cage
Abstractions of light travel across and into the sounds and space created by artist and composer John Cage. Writes Cage: “One 11 is a film without subject. There is light but no persons, no things, no ideas about repetition and variation. It is meaningless activity which is nonetheless communicative, like light itself, escaping our attention as communication because it has no content to restrict its transforming and informing power. 103 is an orchestral work. It is divided into seventeen parts. The lengths of the seventeen parts are the same for all the strings and the percussion. The woodwinds and the brass follow another plan. The shots of the cameraman still another. Following chance operations, the number of wind instruments changes for each of the seventeen parts.”
Director of Photography: Van Theodore Carson. Director: Henning Lohner.
Editor: Bernadine Colish.
Writer/Composer: John Cage.
From the Electronic Arts Intermix website

Obsolete Systems by Laurie Spiegel
Obsolete Systems, released last year through Electronic Music Foundation, is a collection of Spiegel’s compositions that spans more than thirty years. A display of Spiegel’s electronic music making mastery, Obsolete Systems includes the 1971 work Mines (Modular analog synthesizer, built by Don Buchla, mid-1960s) and Immersion, from 1983 (Electronic tape realized on McLeyvier computer-controlled analog synthesis music system). “Laurie Spiegel is one of those rare composers in whom head and heart, left brain and right brain, logic and intuition, merge and even exchange roles. Though she is one of the highest-tech computer composers in America, Spiegel is also a lutenist and banjo player, and sees the computer as a new kind of folk instrument. She makes her most intuitive-sounding and melodic music from mathematical algorithms, and her most complex computerized textures by ear and in search of a desired mood. Form and emotion are as difficult to separate in her music as they are in that of her idol, J.S. Bach.” From Kyle Gann, www.retiary.org/Is/obsolete_systems

Fall Music Series: Mark Feldman

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December 14th, 2001

Fall 2001 Music Series, curated by Ned Rothenberg
Time: 8PM
Tickets: $10

Location One is happy to announce the third performance of our Fall 2001 Music Series. Violinist and Composer Mark Feldman will present a concert of music for solo violin featuring compositions from his CD Music for Violin Alone (Tzadik). Synthesizing new music, virtuoso violin gestures and improvisation, Feldman injects new life into solo violin performance. MARK FELDMAN In 1994, Õ95, 99, 2000, and 2001 violinist and composer Mark Feldman received the First Place award for “Talent Deserving Wider Recognition” in Down Beat magazine’s critics’ poll. He has been a featured soloist with various European groups: Basel Sinfonetta, George Gruntz Big Band (Switzerland), WDR Radio Orchestra and WDR Big Band (Koln, Germany), UMO Big Band (Helsinki), and with the Sweet Basil Monday Nite Big Band in NYC. Last June he premiered a Violin Concerto by Bill Dobbins in the Vienna Concert House, Austria. Likewise, in jazz festivals and concerts, he has performed with John Zorn, Billy Hart, John Abercrombie, Joe Lovano, Paul Bley, Dave Douglas, Bill Frissell, Uri Caine, Tom Harrell, Sylvie Courvoisier, Ray Anderson, Don Byron, Trilok Gurtu, Pharaoh Saunders, Richard Galliano and Anthony Davis. Mr. Feldman has been recorded as a soloist in over 100 recordings including his own release, Music for Violin Alone (Tzadik). Other recordings include: Music for Violin and Piano (Avant) with pianist/composer Sylvie Courvoisier; “Book of Tells” (Enja), his music for string quartet; “Charms of the Night Sky” A Thousand Evenings (RCA/BMG), a quartet with Dave Douglas; Open Land (ECM) with John Abercrombie; and as a member of the Zorn Quartet, John Zorn: The String Quartets (Tzadik). As a studio musician in Nashville where he lived from 1980 to 1986, Feldman made over 200 recordings including albums by Johnny Cash, George Jones, Willie Nelson, Tammy Wynette, Jerry Lee Lewis, and television evangelist Jimmy Swaggart. He also performed in the ensembles that accompanied Country western singers Loretta Lynn and Ray Price. Mr. Feldman moved to New York City in 1986 where he worked as a studio musician with Sheryl Crow, The Manhattan Transfer, Diana Ross, Carol King, and They Might Be Giants. The Kronos Quartet and the WDR Radio Orchestra have commissioned FeldmanÕs compositions. Other projects include collaborations with Lee Konitz, The Arcado String Trio, Tim Berne, and Bobby Previte.

Subtractive Creation/Visible Sound

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A Multimedia Installation by composer and visual artist Atsushi Nishijima
December 8th – 29, 2001
Opening reception December 7th 6:00-8:00 pm
Live performance: December15th at 8:00 pm / $10

“Sound does not exist without space and space is always filled with sound. Space represents sound as something visible, sound represents space as something audible. Our daily life is made of inevitable factors such as time and space. As for myself, that is a place where contemporary music exists.” Atsushi Nishijima Location One is happy to announce two upcoming events by artist-in-residence Atsushi Nishijima: a multi-media installation opening on December 7th and a sound performance on December 15th. We are most grateful to the Asian Cultural Council for sponsoring his residency. 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. Trained in experimental and contemporary music, Nishijima creates sculptures and installations that emphasize the idea that sound, and thereby music, is inherent in all objects and environments. A particularly important resource for the artist is the city as a gigantic synthesizer from which everyday sounds are selected and transformed into a unique “sound” due to “space”.

Nishijima’s work has been exhibited and performed throughout Japan (solo exhibitions: Osaka Contemporary Art Center and Ashiya City Museum of Art & History, Hyogo 1992; Dohjidai Gallery of Art, Kyoto, 1998), as well as Singapore, Paris and New York (“Citycircus”, New Museum of Contemporary Art, 1994, an exhibition curated by Laura Trippi).

View a video interview of Atsushi Nishijima by Yuzo Sakuramoto

click on image to view perfomance:

Click here to view the embedded video.

Atsushi Nishijima was an artist-in-residence at Location One in 2001.
His residency was made possible by the the Asian Cultural Council.

Fall Music Series: Skuli Sverrisson and Jim Black

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Location One is happy to announce an evening of electro-acoustic music with bassist Skuli Sverrisson and drummer Jim Black. 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).

Skuli Sverrisson was born in Reykjavik, Iceland. His work in experimental and improvised music has spanned 15 years and has appeared on over 50 recordings. He has performed in Europe, Japan, South America, and Australia. Skuli has been the Music Director for renowned performance artist Laurie Anderson over the past two years. They completed the critically acclaimed electronic opera “Songs and Stories from Moby Dick” in 1999 and Laurie Anderson’s most recent recording, “Life on a String” for Nonesuch, which brought together great talents such as Bill Frisell, Lou Reed, Brian Eno, David Sanborn, Hal Wilner and Van Dyke Parks. Skuli’s group Pachora recently released their second CD “Unn” on Knitting Factory Works. Other recent releases include his solo work “Seremonie” on Extreme Music, his duo “Desist” with Anthony Burr and “Kjar” with Hilmar Jensson.

Jim Black has been playing drums for twenty-three years. He was born in 1967 and grew up in Seattle, WA, playing music ranging from garage rock to big band swing. In 1985 he attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA. During that time he taught summer classes, recorded numerous albums and performed in Europe. He relocated to Brooklyn, NY in 1991. Jim has co-lead and composed for Pachora (the Balkan-music-inspired quartet featuring Skuli Sverrisson, Brad Shepik, and Chris Speed) and the group Human Feel. He has recorded and toured extensively with diverse groups including Ellery Eskelin, Chris Speed’s Yeah No, Tim Berne’s Bloodcount, Dave Douglas’s Tiny Bell Trio and Uri Caine’s Mahler and Bach Projects. Jim is currently performing and recording a debut album with his quartet AlasNoAxis (available on Winter & Winter Recordings).

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O2=O3; Fractured Oxygen=Ozone

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O₂=O₃; Fractured Oxygen=Ozone
September 20 – November 28, 2001
Opening Reception: September 20th, 6-8 PM
Location One 26 Greene Street NYC 10013
Between Grand and Canal

Click here to view the New Yorker cartoon (pdf) for O₂=O₃; Fractured Oxygen=Ozone

Location One is happy to announce an exhibition of selected work created by the internationally celebrated artist Keith Sonnier. The exhibition comprises six pieces that result from Sonnier’s investigations into the work of Nikola Tesla during the period 1990-1997. The Tesla series “captures” raw electricity in its most spectacular form by stringing copper wires and causing the current to flow and spark between them.

Keith Sonnier, born in Mamou, Louisiana, gained international recognition 30 years ago with his sculptures and installations using neon and argon lights. His most spectacular work in Europe is the one-kilometer long “Lichtweg,” which runs the entire length of the Munich airport. Although neon and fluorescent light have been an important part of his artistic vocabulary, Sonnier’s work distinguishes itself above all by the variety of materials used, and by its formal as well as thematic complexity.

Beginning with his earliest explorations with light, sound, video, and live and taped broadcasts, Sonnier has engaged in a constant investigation into the process of exchange which constitutes communication. As early as 1975, he created a 2-way open channel performance event connecting New York and Los Angeles via NASA CTS satellite. He explores sometimes by redefining the functions of the transmitter/receiver, sometimes by indicating and reconfiguring elements of the process, but always with an awareness of the energy fields in which we live and maneuver.

Selections of early video work will be presented as part of the exhibition, both on the Location One website and in the gallery. Keith Sonnier was among the first artists to incorporate technology into his work. By making the communication process an integral part of the art context, he forever changed the environment of contemporary art.

Sonnier is a seminal figure at Location One, as our central purpose is to encourage artists from different media and different cultures to experiment with advanced technological tools and delivery systems. He continues to explore technology with the careful tenacity of a research scientist and the vision of a poet.

“These are the perfect images of ‘the medium as the message.’”
—Flash Light, 6/01/97

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Voices of Anxious Objects

heather — Thu, 12 Apr 2001 19:32:13 +0000

Ken Butler’s Voices of Anxious Objects
Thursday April 12, 2001 | 8:00 PM

Location One is happy to present Ken Butler’s Voices of Anxious Objects. The performance will take place in the gallery and be streamed live on our website.

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. Function and form collide as audio-visual antics and explorations create a provoking cultural portrait of man/machine adaptation and transformation. A performance may also include interactive hybrid audio-visual keyboards powered by motorized strummers which control lights, slide animation, motion, and video projections.

Press Quotes:
“One of music’s most ingenious and eccentric personalities.” — John Zorn, Tzadik records, 10/97

“. . . a crazy instrument builder who can get virtuoso riffs from anything.” — Kyle Gann, The Village Voice, 12/29/92

“Ken Butler’s work is enormously interesting, particularly his idea of recycling and giving voice to found objects.” — Laurence Libin, curator of musical instruments at The Metropolitan Museum, The New York Times, 6/12/94

artist bio
Ken Butler is an artist and musician whose hybrid musical instruments, collage drawings, performances, and installations explore the interaction and transformation of common objects, altered images, sounds and silence.

His works have been featured in numerous exhibitions and performances throughout the USA, Canada, and Europe including The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and Exit Art, Thread Waxing Space, The Kitchen, The Brooklyn Museum, Lincoln Center and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City as well as in South America, Thailand, and Japan.

His works have been reviewed in The New York Times, Artforum, The Village Voice, and Smithsonian and have been featured on PBS, CNN, MTV, and NBC, including a live appearance on The Tonight Show.

Awards include fellowships from the Oregon Arts Commisssion, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Ken Butler studied viola as a child and maintained an interest in music while studying visual arts in France, at Colorado College, and Portland State University where he completed his MFA in painting in 1977. He has performed with John Zorn, Laurie Anderson, Butch Morris, The Soldier String Quartet, The Tonight Show Band, and The Master Gnawa musicians of Morocco. His CD, Voices of Anxious Objects is on Zorn’s Tzadik label. Works by Ken Butler are represented in public and private collections in Portland, Seattle, Vail, Los Angeles, Toronto, Montreal, and New York City including the permanent collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Verses Dinosaur Club

heather — Wed, 29 Nov 2000 18:10:28 +0000

November 29-December 3 2000
STANLEY LOVE PERFORMANCE GROUP

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.
Since then they have performed at venues such as The Kitchen, Vineyard
Theatre, PS 122, Dixon Place, Gowanus Arts Exchange, Paula Cooper Gallery, Ohio Theatre and The Tunnel and Lime Light clubs, to mention a few. The Millenium Season is a continuation of last season’s collaboration with
Location One.
Stanley Love Performance Group is all about rhythm and emotion. Emotion
varies from happy to sad, funky to harsh and sometimes is both at the same time. Late 20th century’s pop music gives the rhythm. Movement comes from both social and modern dance idioms. The universal combines with the individual- different bodies doing the same thing. Diversity of culture and body types is a signature. 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”.

Three New Works

heather — Sat, 06 May 2000 18:49:12 +0000

May 6, 2000
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.
Since then they have performed at venues such as The Kitchen, Vineyard
Theatre, PS 122, Dixon Place, Gowanus Arts Exchange, Paula Cooper Gallery, Ohio Theatre and The Tunnel and Lime Light clubs, to mention a few. The Millenium Season is a continuation of last season’s collaboration with
Location One.

Stanley Love Performance Group is all about rhythm and emotion. Emotion
varies from happy to sad, funky to harsh and sometimes is both at the same time. Late 20th century’s pop music gives the rhythm. Movement comes from both social and modern dance idioms. The universal combines with the individual
- different bodies doing the same thing. Diversity of culture and body types is a signature. 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”.

Vivisection

heather — Mon, 01 May 2000 17:18:15 +0000

Video Installation group show : Carolee Schneemann, Lisa Bateman, Janene Higgins, Luther Price

May 1 – May 30, 2000

Lisa Bateman, Janene Higgins, Luther Price, Carolee Schneemann, Miroslaw Rogala

Location One is happy to announce 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.

“…suppressive taboos, the body of the artist in dynamic relationship with the social body”. This phrase, taken straight out of the biography of Carolee Schneemann, the brilliant multidisciplinary artist, whose collaborative video, made with Miroslaw Rogala, makes its US premiere in this show, is the key to all of these acutely perceptive short videos.

We will also begin our evening programming this month, every Monday through Thursday from 8-10 PM. The same day each week will be curated by a guest curator. Monday nights will belong to Pamela Grace, Tuesday to Mark McElhatten, Wednesday to Seamus Coutts, Thursday (TBA) Admission is $2.50.

Lisa Bateman
is a visual artist living and working in New York. Her current works are installations using painted and colored surfaces, mirrors, optics, found objects and video. She is increasingly interested in the history of particular sites, locations and institutions. She has exhibited in over thirty group exhibitions and six one-person shows in both the US and Europe. Her next projects will incorporate images of “learning” and “training” from the Global Institute of Technology and federal government programs in Manhattan. She teaches studio art and lectures in contemporary art at Pratt Institute in New York.

Janene Higgins
is a graphic designer and video artist living in New York City. Her videos and digital media have been presented in numerous festivals and galleries throughout North America, Europe and Japan. She has just completed her fourth artist residency at The Experimental Television Center in Owego, New York. Her work includes live video mixing in a performance setting, most often in an ongoing duo with electric harpist Zeena Parkins. Their latest piece, Arch, will premiere at Roulette this May.

Luther Price
Luxuriously laminated unforgiving process. Crusty enjeweled with imperfection. Oxygen tank, oxygen tank. Skies of white that turn blue the same day. Praying while fucking on a lollipop, for something to do with tomorrow. Ice cream cake. An eyeball kiss. Chickpeas and macaroni or hamburger stew. Toenails and colostomy bags full of corn and turkey gravy drag you down when your stomach is full of staples. Larger than life we scream, then whisper before we die.

Carolee Schneemann
multidisciplinary artist. 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, photography, performance art and installation works shown at Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art; Whitney Museum of American Art; Museum of Modern Art, NYC; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and most recently in a retrospective at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York entitled “Up To And Including Her Limits”. Film and video retrospectives Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Museum of Modern Art, NY; National Film Theatre, London; Whitney Museum, NY; San Francisco Cinematheque; Anthology Film Archives, NYC. She has taught at many institutions including New York University, California Institute of the Arts, Bard College, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Recipient of a 1999 Art Pace International Artist Residency, San Antonio, Texas; Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (1997, 1998); 1993 Guggenheim Fellowship; Gottlieb Foundation Grant; National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME. Lifetime Achievement Award, College Art Association.

An Exploration: Yves Musard, Ned Rothenberg

heather — Sat, 12 Feb 2000 17:08:02 +0000

Saturday, Februrary 12, 2000

We are happy to announce 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.

These two original performers have worked together previously at the Cartier Foundation in Paris, the Bolzano Festival in Italy and at Dia Center for the Arts in New York. They have developed a fascinating and complex interaction. The audience will experience a spell cast by Rothenberg’s quasi-polyphonic solo saxophone music in Location One’s beautifully reverberate acoustic space. Musard’s movement functions both to outline and interweave with the physical and sonic environment.

Ned Rothenberg composes and performs on saxophones, clarinets, and shakuhachi. He has been internationally acclaimed for his solo music, presented for the past 18 years in hundreds of concerts throughout North America and South America, Europe and Asia. He currently leads the trio Sync, with Jerome Harris, guitars and Samir Chatterjee, table and the ensembles Double Band, and Power Lines Close collaborators have included Sainkho Namchylak, Paul Dresher, John Zorn, Masahiko Sato, Samm Bennett, Elliott Sharp, and Katsuya Yokoyama.

Yves Mustard has been based in New York since 1979. In 1990 he began to create a series of “dance itineraries” in relation to specific views and details of architecture in public spaces. His most recent projects are “Spots and Loops” (1999), a guided visit through the Museum of Contemporary Art (MAMCO) in Geneva, Switzerland and “Between 19th and 14th” (1999), a promenade starting at the Kitchen in Chelsea, produced by the Downtown Arts Festival.

In 19: STANLEY LOVE PERFORMANCE GROUP

heather — Fri, 11 Feb 2000 16:57:47 +0000

February 11, 2000
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.
Since then they have performed at venues such as The Kitchen, Vineyard
Theatre, PS 122, Dixon Place, Gowanus Arts Exchange, Paula Cooper Gallery, Ohio Theatre and The Tunnel and Lime Light clubs, to mention a few. The Millenium Season is a continuation of last season’s collaboration with
Location One.

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