Phosphene Variations
by Jason Akira Somma

September 12-November 17, 2012
Opening Reception Wednesday Sept 12, 6-9pm
Performances, 7pm
Opening night and weekly performances through November 15
Performance curator: Luke Miller

Location One is proud to present “Phosphene Variations”, a new video/performance/holographic exhibition by Jason Akira Somma.

The greatest dancers and performance artists of our time—Laurie Anderson, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Joan Jonas, Robert Wilson and others—perform their signature movements and are captured as floating holograms, which members of the audience can interact and perform with.

This new technology will redefine the ways in which we access, record and experience dance and performance. This is the first ever interactive performance holography exhibition, premiering September 12th at Location One.

“Phosphene Variations,” a performance happening-and-exhibition event created by Jason Akira Somma, introduces interactive archival performance holography to the worlds of dance and performance art. Somma’s approach has been described as “the future of dance and art” by Daniel Stern, Director of the Jerome Robbins Foundation; as “A true revolution…stupefying poetry, humanity and invention” by Le Figaro. Jiří Kylián, longtime Artistic Director of Nederlands Dans Theatre, has said, “dance has to be taken out of its isolation, and Jason has the range to do this.”

“Phosphene Variations” will premiere at Location One September 12th, featuring a holographic participation by Jiří Kylián, live and holographic performances by Frances Wessells, and Leslie Kraus, and an introductory context statement by Kate Valk of the Wooster Group. The exhibition will also include weekly performances by dance legends, as well as up-and-coming artists, throughout the duration of the exhibition. Somma will “perform” with the artists using his revolutionary video techniques, exploring the undiscovered edge between visual and performance art, as it uses performance as the well-spring for independent visual content.

The first wave of artists who have agreed to be turned into holograms in this project includes: Laurie Anderson, MIkhail Baryshnikov, Carmen DeLavallade, Joan Jonas, Jiří Kylian, Luke Miller, Richard Move, Gus Solomons Jr., Frances Wessells, Bill Shannon and Robert Wilson.

Live performances will take place each week through November 15th (Please note that November 8 and 15 are Thursdays). Interaction with holographic performers, and video works will be on exhibit during Location One’s normal gallery hours and otherwise available by prior arrangement.

LIVE PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE

Wednesday, Sept 12th – Frances Wessells, Leslie Kraus
Wednesday, Sept 19th – Kira Rae Blazek, Burr Johnson
Wednesday, Sept 26th – Flexers
Wednesday, Oct 10th- Dirty Martini, Julie Atlas Muz, Monstah Black
Wednesday, Oct 17th – Brian Brooks – Postponed
Wednesday, Oct 24th – Jeanine Durning, Manelich Minniefree – Postponed
Thursday, Nov 8th – Susan Marshall & Company, Bill Shannon, Vanessa Walters – Postponed
Thursday, Nov 15th – Phosphene Redux & Closing Party (Various artists who performed earlier in the season return to present short excerpts) – Cancelled

artists’ bios >>

Jason Akira Somma is an internationally recognized visual artist and choreographer known for his unique hybridization and extensive training in both fields. His most recent mentor is Jiří Kylián. He was the first American to receive, the Rolex Arts Initiative Award for dance, supporting his work in performance visual art and technology in 2008. “Phosphene Variations” was developed with support from the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative, which pairs emerging artists with masters in the fields of dance, film, literature, music, theatre, and visual arts for a year of creative exchange.

The “Phosphene Variations” approach involves video recordings of dancers and performance artists on stage, which are then made into holographic installations. This constitutes the permanent visual record of the artist, which will be made available to the artistic community. But Somma’s technology then allows the holographic recording to be projected onto a fine screen of water mist. When live participants interact with the screen, the image responds to their intervention, creating the “dance with legends” possibility.

Jason Somma is the only artist today applying this technology to archiving dance. A prototype of “Phosphene Variations” was premiered at the National Theatre of Paris in 2011, to rave reviews. William Forsythe said, “Jason has done for video what Jackson Pollock did for the canvas. He is an electronic archeologist and spearheading the next movement in dance.” Dance Magazine said, “a small piece of dance history. At times dazzling and full of brilliant colors, the performance is woven by a dialogue between the real and virtual, and the human and technological.” Telerama (Paris) said “offers performers, if not the role of their lifetime, a role that fits them perfectly. Suddenly before your eyes, true lighthearted beauty.”

“Dance IS a visual art,” says Somma. “ The body has always been the native land of any artistic endeavor. However, due to the ephemeral and ineffable nature of performance and kinesthetics, we’ve lost the wisdom of our historic predecessors. I want to generate performance happenings that create autonomous pieces of art and with “Phosphene Variations” go a step further and allow spectators to interact with such legends beyond their life span for future generations to enjoy and garner knowledge.”

Jason Akira Somma, raised in Virginia, graduated summa cum laude from Virginia Commonwealth University. In ensuing years, he danced with Bill T Jones/Arnie Zane Company and Pearson/Widrig, and choreographed for Sadlers Wells in London, Chaillot National Theater in Paris, and Lyon Opera Ballet. His video work has been exhibited at New York’s New Museum and Guggenheim Museum and Glasgow Center of Contemporary Art.

Location One is extremely grateful to The NY State Council on the Arts, The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs,and Location One’s International Committee for making this event possible.

Gallery Hours
Tuesday-Saturday 12-6pm
Opening Reception September 12, 6-9pm
Opening Night Performance 7pm, free and open to the public
All other Wednesday Performances $10

One and Many
Curated by Claudia Calirman
January 11-February 15, 2012
Opening Reception-Tuesday, January 10, 6PM-8PM

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

Danish artist Jacob Dahl Jürgensen’s video Un Voyage recounts a failed attempt to shoot a 16mm film during a boat trip on the Baltic Sea in the winter of 2011. Departing from an anecdote about the doomed fate of the Jürgensen family’s watch-making company, which was founded in Denmark in the late eighteenth century, the artist’s video-essay unfolds as a meta-narrative of the story itself. Like the 16mm film, the video itself has been manipulated and also falls apart at key moments, threatening at any point to disintegrate entirely. This all coincides with the failure of the family’s business, which in turn ultimately refers to the fall of capitalism. A constant sense of breakdown unites the multiple layers, with form and content at once complementing and collapsing into each other.

Dublin-based, Japanese artist Atsushi Kaga presents Nerd Bag, a performance-based installation in which the artist and his mother will be sewing nerdy bags inside Location One’s gallery. For ten days—January 11 through 21—the artist and his mother will sew bags in front of the public. The project is inspired by his mortifying childhood experience of having to bring his mother’s hand-made bags to the school, while other kids had official plain bags (purchased in shops). Kaga often uses Japanese vernacular visual language to explore the complex search for personal and cultural identity and the social issues we face in daily life. The installation includes some sculptures of dying vegetables, which reminds him of his parents’ fate in the near future.

Polish artist Agnieszka Kurant is interested in changing status of objects and icons. Her film Empire (2011) is a remake of Andy Warhol’s 1964 movie of the same name, which comprises eight hours and five minutes of continuous, static footage of the Empire State Building. In Kurant’s version, a single stationary shot of the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw—an unwanted gift from Joseph Stalin to the people of Poland—replaces the Empire State Building. After the fall of communism, in 1989, this hated icon became both a tourist destination and a local symbol of cool. In 2000, four clocks were added to the top of the building, again changing its collective memory. For the filming of Kurant’s Empire, the clocks were set to run backwards for one hour. No information about this fact was announced until the end of the day, provoking all sorts of confusion among city dwellers.

Tokyo-based artist Hiraku Suzuki presents his ongoing project GENGA (001 – 1000), an investigation of the constantly expanding field of drawing. Suzuki’s practice includes installations, live drawing performances, films, frottages, and books. His method is analogous to the act of archeological excavation, in which mundane elements from everyday life—asphalt, earth, leaves, markers—are transformed into universal hieroglyphs that abstractly suggest a broader galaxy. Suzuki mixes ancient and new symbols to create a universal language, generating an ever-shifting puzzle of essential shapes, forms, and rhythms.

Swedish artist David Molander creates animated and painterly tableaus of urban centers from the pool of documentary materials that he collects in digital photography and film format. In his series Through Bridges, Molander constructs large-scale, kaleidoscopically multilayered views of the cityscape, capturing the urban landscape and transforming it in images that are both abstract and disorienting. He dissects and reassembles interiors, samples streetlights and stitches together pavement, fusing parts of the city that although closely linked, seldom meet. Residing in the space between document and fiction, Molander’s work reveals a patchwork of possibilities, emphasizing the complex relationship between architecture, living spaces, and social environment.

Visual artist and filmmaker Monica Baptista, from Portugal, presents the super8 film All Is for the Best in the Best of All Possible Worlds, a title taken from Voltaire’s satire Candide ou l’Optimisme. Shot in the 15 October 2011 in Times Square, when demonstrations were held promising a global revolution, drawing a line coming from the Arab Spring, the Spanish “Indignants”, the Greek Protests and finally the Occupy Movement. On this loop film, the revolution seems suspended in the repetition, evoking the collective euphoria and arrhythmia regarding the future. Her experimental films play out like fragmented collages, artists’ notebooks, from documental to fictional cinema, exploring the relationship between moving image and stills. This immersive work is a reflection on the phenomenology of perception and the relationship between representation and reality.

Born in Copenhagen, 1975. Lives and works in London.

Jacob Dahl Jürgensen is an artist based in London. He works with several mediums—including sculpture, video, collage and printmaking—and often combines these in overall installations. It is, however, ideas that drive the work forward. Jürgensen is interested in how technological development, and its driving force, Capitalism, is changing the way we think about general issues such as time and space, and more specifically how it affects the way we create meaning and construct identity.
More information can be found at:http://www.jacob-dahl-jurgensen.com/

Jacob Dahl Jürgensen’s residency is made possible by The Danish Arts Agency.

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Dwelling in Perennial Dreams
Interactive installation by Bundith Phunsombatlert

April 14-May 27, 2011
Special Preview: Wednesday, March 30, 2011
6:30pm-8:30pm

Location One is pleased to present Dwelling in Perennial Dreams, an installation by Thai artist Bundith Phunsombatlert. The installation will be open for a special preview on March 30, from 6:30-8:30pm for Asian Contemporary Art Week.

Dwelling in Perennial Dreams is an interactive installation. This work invites the audience to imagine caring for orphaned babies in Thailand. Several cradles, each holding two TV monitors placed screen side up, play videos of the upper and lower part of a baby sleeping. Each baby sleeps for 15 minutes, then wakes up and cries. The audience participates by rocking the cradles to put the babies back to sleep. The audience can also wake the baby up if they make a loud noise; sensors pick up any noises from the audience and jolt and wake the babies. Furthermore, one crying baby can wake the other babies, showing how we are all interconnected in a community.

A political issue in Thailand inspires Dwelling in Perennial Dreams, but one that is equally applicable internationally in different ways and dimensions. The artwork represents the space where people from the upper class often control the way of lives of lower class people through the metaphor of taking great care of babies, by putting them to sleep. While sleeping is a necessary part for babies to grow up physically and mentally, the process of the work is to make the babies go to sleep as long as possible in order not to face the real world. This contradictory discourse is the subject of the artwork. By pacifying babies, people are simultaneously calming and oppressing them at the same time.

This new media artwork uses the old mechanism of a cradle to invite the audience to participate in the installation and also describe the story of how a group of babies is taken care of by a volunteer pregnant woman and the audience act as performers. The artwork transfers the story of two species of birds from a popular Thai lullaby into a form of interactive installation art using the process of taking care of Thai orphaned babies to another land. The sound of babies’ crying in this piece reflects the way of communication from micro to macro in the society. Whenever a small unit in a community is disturbed, this will consecutively connect to other units.

“My intention to display this artwork in another country is to fulfill the significant meaning of places in the artwork. The installation represents grounded and uprooted experiences of transformation of one land to another land. The audience can get the idea of places from the physical space of where they are; the transformative space between the sites they are; and where the orphaned babies are from—the imaginative space of another land. The real site itself is used as a medium to interpret another site as well as the imagination of the audience on the cultural and social context. The work questions the issue of identities beyond the boundary of geography—a transformation of the boundaries of collective identity.” -Bundith Phunsombatlert

*A pregnant woman will perform in the installation as well as viewers are invited to rock the cradles.

Video of this piece here:

“As
 an
 artist
 living
 in
 Thailand
 for
 the
 past
 decade
 and
 now
 residing
 in
 the
 US,
 I
 have
 reflected
 on
 ever‐changing 
social, 
economic,
 and political
 situations,
 particularly
 in 
the 
framework 
of 
globalization. 
 I 
seek
 to
 analyze
 and
 synthesize
 these
 issues
 within
 the
 context
 of
 history
 to
 form
 art
 that
 rethinks
 Thai
 identity
 in
 the
 world.
 Through
 interactive
 media
 installations,
 I
 design
 systems
 for
 sharing
 and
 communicating
 with
 the
 viewer
 that
 explore
 the
 transformation
 from
 fact‐based
 orientation
 to
 imagination.
 This
 parallels 
my 
own 
transformation 
as 
an 
artist 
working 
in 
the 
East 
and 
the 
West
 as
 well
 as
 my
 move
 from
 traditional
 to
 new
 media.
 Furthermore,
 it
 mimics
 a
 transmodal
 transformation
 that
 I
 argue 
is 
inherent
 in
 new
 media.
”

Mr. Phunsombatlert earned both his B.F.A. and M.F.A. degrees in graphic arts (printmaking) at Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, and his M.F.A in Digital+Media at Rhode Island School of Design. He has participated in international exhibition, such as the Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art 1999, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia, ISEA 2004: the 12th International Symposium on Electronic Arts, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland, The Third Guangzhou Triennial 2008, Guangdong Museum of Art, China, and The 4th Auckland Triennial 2010, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand. Among his selected awards and fellowships are Pollock-Krasner Grant in 2001, Second Prize Unesco Digital Art Award 2004, and Asia Cultural Council Fellow 2007.

“As
 an
 artist
 living
 in
 Thailand
 for
 the
 past
 decade
 and
 now
 residing
 in
 the
 US,
 I
 have
 reflected
 on
 ever‐changing 
social, 
economic,
 and political
 situations,
 particularly
 in 
the 
framework 
of 
globalization. 
 I 
seek
 to
 analyze
 and
 synthesize
 these
 issues
 within
 the
 context
 of
 history
 to
 form
 art
 that
 rethinks
 Thai
 identity
 in
 the
 world.
 Through
 interactive
 media
 installations,
 I
 design
 systems
 for
 sharing
 and
 communicating
 with
 the
 viewer
 that
 explore
 the
 transformation
 from
 fact‐based
 orientation
 to
 imagination.
 This
 parallels 
my 
own 
transformation 
as 
an 
artist 
working 
in 
the 
East 
and 
the 
West
 as
 well
 as
 my
 move
 from
 traditional
 to
 new
 media.
 Furthermore,
 it
 mimics
 a
 transmodal
 transformation
 that
 I
 argue 
is 
inherent
 in
 new
 media.
”

Mr. Phunsombatlert earned both his B.F.A. and M.F.A. degrees in graphic arts (printmaking) at Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, and his M.F.A in Digital+Media at Rhode Island School of Design. He has participated in international exhibition, such as the Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art 1999, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia, ISEA 2004: the 12th International Symposium on Electronic Arts, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland, The Third Guangzhou Triennial 2008, Guangdong Museum of Art, China, and The 4th Auckland Triennial 2010, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand. Among his selected awards and fellowships are Pollock-Krasner Grant in 2001, Second Prize Unesco Digital Art Award 2004, and Asia Cultural Council Fellow 2007.

Mr. Phunsombatlert’s residency at Location One is supported by the Asian Cultural Council.

English Lesson (Something We Learn From One Another)
Nine International Artists Exhibit
June 2nd – July 28th, 2007

Location One presents XtraCurricular*, a collaboration between Location One and the Columbia University School of the Arts.

Thursday, 24 February 2011 

Jill Magid

Shot from the Capitol Steps (A work in progress)

Co-Curated by Jovana Stokic and Daisy Nam 

7pm FREE and open to the public

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.

Goethe originally wrote Faust as a ‘closet drama’: a drama to be read alone or to a small group, rather than performed on stage. For the event at Location One, Magid experiments with the concept of “theatre of the mind” by inviting the audience for an intimate closet drama reading. 

Jill Magid’s event at Location One is part of a work-in-progress. The artist takes this program up on its idea of a safe place to try out something new and unfinished, and rough. This will not be a complete drama from beginning to end! Jill Magid seeks intimate relations with impersonal structures. She is intrigued by hidden information, being public as a condition for existence, and intimacy in relation to power and observation. Magid holds a M.F.A from Cornell University, and an M.S in Visual Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has shown nationally and internationally, with solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art; Tate Modern, London; Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam; and Gagosian Gallery, NY. Upcoming exhibitions include the Singapore Biennial, and the Matrix Program at Berkeley Art Museum, CA. Magid is represented by Yvon Lambert, New York and Paris. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Jill Magid received her BFA from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, in 1995 then her MS in Visual Studies from MIT. She was Artist in Residence at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, Netherlands from 2001-2002 where she lived for five years, and with Eyebeam, New York, NY from 2006 – 2007. In addition to an upcoming solo show at the Tate Modern, London, she has had shown at the Yvon Lambert galleries in New York and Paris, Gagosian gallery, New York, and The Hague, Netherlands. Her performances and installations have been shown worldwide in numerous group shows and fairs.

Jill Magid’s work explores means of penetrating closed systems of power. Taking institutional structures, rules, laws, and language as her media, Magid has developed a conceptually rigorous, largely performance-based practice in which she seeks to engage institutions of power on a personal, intimate level. Developed for the Whitney Museum’s first-floor Anne & Joel Ehrenkranz Gallery, Magid’s A Reasonable Man in a Box takes its point of departure from the “Bybee Memo,” a controversial 2002 document signed by Jay Bybee, Assistant Attorney General of the United States Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel, and declassified by President Obama in 2009. The document discusses acceptable methods of “enhanced interrogation” of a high-level Al Qaeda operative, including the use of a confinement box. As Whitney curatorial assistant Nicole Cosgrove writes in the introductory text, “A Reasonable Man in a Box explores the perversion of reason, and the malleability of language and law. Using video, collage, and text, Magid transforms an international and political issue into a physical and intensely personal experience.

The Performance Program at Location OneThe Abramović Studio is a space within Location One dedicated to the ongoing performance series of long-durational works focusing on open-ended forms of workshops, panels and discussions. All programs are curated by Jovana Stokić.

*XtraCurricular Series 
In Spring 2011, five artists and thinkers are invited to curate five nights, using the Location One space for an evening of play and extracurricular events.  
Co-curated by Jovana Stokic and Daisy Nam.

January 27 – Jenny Perlin 

February 24 – Jill Magid 

March 24 – TBA 

April 14 – TBA 
May 26 – TBA

In The Making
January 13–February 11, 2011
Opening Reception January 12, 6–8pm

Location One is proud to present “In the Making,” featuring new individual installations by Karolina Kowalska, Lovisa Ringborg, Yasuko Toyoshima, and Joana Villaverde.

Karolina Kowalska (b. Poland) deals with the bombardment and saturation of visual information in consumer society. Her new series of large digital photographs, titled An Unexpected Breakdown of the Advertising Market, re-imagines the streets of New York absent of their major source of visual pollution: advertisements and commercial images. To create the utopian world of her photographs, she removes all visual and written information, replacing them with empty white space. In this phantasmagorical city, billboards are transformed into abstract geometric constructions. Temples of consumerism, such as Times Square, Chinatown, and Chelsea resemble modernist grids from an earlier era.

Kowalska’s works are usually shown on billboards as site-specific interventions, challenging accepted ideas about copyright and public spaces.

Lovisa Ringborg (b. Sweden) explores states of mind that are at once familiar and unsettling. In her installation Figurines, she creates an uncanny and emotionally disturbing tableau exploring children’s mannequins. Without providing a defined narrative, her work raises questions about childhood, its complexity and its ambiguous states punctuated by moments of abandonment, solitude, and magical bewilderment.

In her signature works, Ringborg manipulates digital photographs to create a sense of disorientation and otherworldliness; these images suggest poetic spaces inhabited by young creatures veiled in reverie and mystery.

Yasuko Toyoshima (b. Japan) is attracted to games and their often-arbitrary rules. Her new series Motion #1 is based on a tote board from the Aqueduct Racetrack, a horse-racing track in Jamaica, New York. The artist plays with the odds and wagers of the race, recording the fluctuation of the bets and their numbers—which are uploaded on the tote board at 30-second intervals—and rearranging them in her constructed drawings. Her focus on the fleeting moment, the bets’ relentless velocity, and the rapid changes on the tote board undermine and contradict the fixed rules of the game.

Toyoshima’s work is concerned with various systems and structures that regulate contemporary society. She conceptually investigates social and cultural frameworks that are taken for granted, such as systems of measurement and financial markets in order to reveal how these frameworks are much more subjective than they appear to be.

Joana Villaverde (b. Portugal) creates spaces that lack a sense of proportion and proper scale. In her installation You Took from Me All the Air So I Can Breathe, an empty chair and a doorframe stands before a canvas, dwarfed by the large dimension of the portrait of a woman’s face. Although there is plenty of room between these objects, the gallery space becomes suffocating: the woman is too big for the painting in which she is entrapped, the chair is too small for its empty surroundings, and the door frame creates nothing more than an illusion of a place.

Villaverde’s works are often variations on the same theme: people in a space in need of more space. This closeness or suffocation, however, is more a mental than a physical one. Villaverde brings forth an intense sense of narrative and dialogue to the viewer using the plainest elements: a canvas, a chair, and a wooden frame.

André Feliciano (Brazil)
Brazilian Cultural Office and Location One International Committee

André Feliciano considers himself an art gardener. His utopian view of the world can be better understood by his concept of “Floraissance Art,” which mixes the words “flora” and “renaissance” and calls for a postmodern return to arcadia. Feliciano uses words like sprouting, cultivating, and gardening in his artistic practice. His colorful, artificial garden made out of resin-based flowers and dirt is majestically beautiful and leads us to an inner state of calm and contentment. Why not extend these feelings to our present condition so that we can start building a better future?

Feliciano, born in 1984, in São Paulo (Brazil), has exhibited at Photoville (New York, 2012), Bonni Benrubi Gallery (New York, 2011), and the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo (2010), among other venues. His work has been featured in the New York Times online, Time magazine’s photography blog, and the blog of the International Center of Photography. He is part of the upcoming exhibition Festival of Art and Gastronomy at the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo (November 2012). More information can be found at his blog, blog.natureza.art.br.

Feliciano’s Residency is made possible by Location One’s International Committee and by the Brazilian Cultural Office.

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 without the knowledge of the audience) as well as a variety of experimental formats of verbal presentation.

Helguera’s works have been presented in many venues including the Liverpool Biennial, Performa 05, Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid, ICA in Boston, MoMA, and many others. His play, The Juvenal Players, produced by Grand Arts in Kansas City, was presented at The Kitchen in 2010. His orchestral work Endingness was performed by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Leonard Slatkin. He is the author of more than 10 books including Theatrum Anatomicum (and other performance lectures), a collection of performative works. His social practice project, The School of Panamerican Unrest (2006), consisted of the creation of a nomadic schoolhouse that traveled by land throughout the Americas from Alaska to Chile, presenting collaborative performance and civic events in over 26 cities. He is a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Creative Capital Grant; and in 2011 was named the first winner of the International Award for Participatory Art of the Regione Emilia Romagna in Italy. As an educator, Helguera has worked in museums for over two decades and currently works as Director of Adult and Academic Programs at The Museum of Modern Art. He is the Pedagogical Curator of the 8th Mercosul Biennial, opening in September 2011.

Jacob Dahl Jürgensen (Denmark)
Danish Arts Agency

Born in Copenhagen, 1975. Lives and works in London.

Jacob Dahl Jürgensen’s sculptures pose as fictive relics; the possible artifacts of a future archaeology unearthing the ethnological debris of today. Influenced by early 20th century Modernism, Jurgensen often quotes from art history by intertwining recognizable forms and ideologies with fragments of popular culture to create ritualistic monuments divining a contemporary spirituality. His Folly, The Mystical’s Sphere, nods to the futuristic architecture of Tatlin and Fuller; the sparse copper structure standing as a theatrical oracle, emanating a primitive occultism from the power of low-watt light bulbs.
website: http://www.jacob-dahl-jurgensen.com/

Jacob Dahl Jürgensen’s residency is made possible by The Danish Arts Agency.

Maria José Arjona (Colombia)
Location One International Committee

Born in Bogotà, Colombia in 1973. She lives and works in New York
Ms. Arjona graduated from The Higher Academy Of Art Of Bogota (ASAB) in 2000 and her practice is exclusively focused on long duration performance.

She has been part of numerous exhibitions in different museums, galleries, and instituions in South America, The United States, Europe and China. Her work is a permanent part of many relevant collections around world.

Hiraku Suzuki (Japan)
Asian Cultural Council

Born in Miyagi, Japan, 1978. Lives and works in Tokyo.

Hiraku Suzuki obtained an MFA from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. Focusing on ideas of memory and excavation, his work centers on an expanded notion of drawing which encompasses works on paper and panels, installation, murals, frottages, and live performance drawing. Much of his work hinges on the vast library of signs and glyphs he has developed by focusing on the shapes, forms, rhythms, and materials of his immediate environment (which can be understood as the base units of the ever-changing hidden language of the city).

His recent solo exhibitions include WIMBLEDON space, London (2011); Galerie du JourAgnes b., Paris (2010); and Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo (2008). Group exhibitions include Roppongi Crossing, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2010); 100 stories of love, The21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (2009); Between site and space, ARTSPACE, Sydney (2009); Redbull House of Art, Hotel Central, Sao Paulo (2009); and Vision of Contemporary Art, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo (2009). His early works are held in the collection of The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan.

Publications include GENGA, published by Kawade Shobo Shinsha/Agnes b., and Looking For Minerals, published by BEAMS.
http://www.wordpublic.com/hiraku

Mr. Suzuki’s residency is made possible by The Asian Cultural Council

Michaela Müller
Location One International Committee

Born in St.Gallen, Switzerland. She lives and works in Switzerland and in Zagreb, Croatia.
Michaela is in love with paint and film, and through the process of animation she has found a perfect means of combination. She is currently researching and exploring the borders between narrative and abstract experimental film, based on rhythm and choreography via animation.
She likes to work on social topics of public concern. Her 8 minute animation, “Miramare” (2009), (paint on glass), is an impressive encounter between tourists and immigrants shown from a children’s perspective. It has been shown at more than 70 film festivals all over the world including Cannes, Annecy, London, Melbourne, Sarajevo, Rio de Janeiro and St. Petersburg. “Miramare” won more than 15 awards includion the Swiss Film Prize Quartz, the Centaur for Best Debut Film at Message to Man Film Festival, St. Petersburg, the Grand Prix at Animateka Film Festival, Ljubljana etc.
Michaela studied animated film and New Media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, Croatia. Miramare is her diploma film. She likes to collaborate on theatre and dance projects, where she contributes animated scenographic elements.
Michaela Müller’s residency is made possible by Pierre Nussbaumer and the Location One International Committee.
website: www.triboje.com

Na Yingyu (China)
Lijiang Studio
Location One International Committee

Na Yingyu is a Chinese artist, born in 1973 in Yichun, Heilongjiang, China, he lives and works in Beijing. Na Yingyu has exhibited extensively in China, Brazil and Israel. Our Homeland! Gone Just Like That will be Na Yingyu’s first solo show in the United States.

Na Yingyu’s residency made possible by Location One’s International Committee and Lijiang Studio, Lashihai, China.

Andrea Yugoslavia Chirinos (Mexico)
Location One International Committee

Andrea Yugoslavia Chirinos Brown was born in Mexico, where she studied dance, theater and art history. There she began to dance professionally and also to experiment with choreography. In 1994 she moved first to Boston and then to New York to achieve a Bachelor in Fine Arts (Dance major) at the Boston Conservatory and in Mary Mount Manhattan College. Around that time she danced with the Stanley Love Performance Group and with Anime Dance Japan, at the same time showing her own work in venues around the city of New York.

In 2000 she moved back to Mexico City where she was assigned as the director of the students company of the university Instituto Politécnico Nacional where she did several choreography and toured in all the campuses of this important public Nacional University. She also began her own company called Mitrovica Dance. Since the moment of its creation, Chirino´s Dance Company has performed in museums, schools and theaters. Her pieces, like the Faith Line, Restaurant Tesuyo, Tangled, Familiar Environment, Second Life and Ritual de lo Habitual have made the company to be named the Best Artistic Project of the City, an annual price voted by the people. In 2009 she won the first prize in the prestigious Mexican Contemporary Dance Award with the piece Tangled, for its originality and its use of space. This price is issued by the INBA, the Institute National of Bellas Artes, a pivotal institution in Mexican culture.

In March of 2011, she presented and installation called Hotel Irina, with more than 15 dancers, sponsored by Universidad National Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM). The company also tour in museums with the last project called Corridor Shadows Exterior Evening. In May 2011 Andrea Yugoslavia Chirinos move back to New York City.

Tommy Støckel (Denmark)
Danish Arts Council

Born in 1972 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

Tommy Støckel uses computer-generated calculations to create elaborate and intricate sculptural installations that resemble fractal-like architecture. Geometry, scale and perspective are essentials in the work of Tommy Støckel. His fascination of cool modernism and science fictions novels from both the 19th and 20th centuries is reflected in collages and installations that represent a constructed future seen in miniature worlds and deserted sci-fi landscapes. With a precise mathematic technique Støckel creates collages using figures cut out from catalogues and sculptures showing different layers and the inevitable decay of time. The use of materials as paper, cardboard and foam contrasts the sophisticated themes as deconstruction and chaos theory.

Monica Baptista (Portugal)
Gulbenkian Foundation

Born in S. Paio de Oleiros, Portugal, 1984. Lives and works in Portugal.

Monica Baptista is a painter-turned-documentary filmmaker who has created several films on topics ranging from Chechnyan soldiers on the TransSiberian Express, to tracts on herbal tea, to experimental investigations of architectural structures. Present in all of her work is a focus on the perception of space and time in relation to the particular community or subject matter of her films.

Monica Baptista’s residency is made possible by The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Luso American Foundation

Agnieszka Kurant (Poland)
Polish Cultural Institute
Trust for Mutual Understanding

Born in Łodz, 1978. Lives and works in Warsaw.

Agnieszka Kurant is an artist based in Warsaw. She represented Poland at the Polish Pavilion at Venice Biennale 2010 (collaboration with the architect Aleksandra Wasilkowska). She is interested in the ways in which trying to interpret the world logically results in a fictional version of reality. Her works explore how things created as fictions, rumors, paranormal phenomena as well as objects not existing materially, enter into economy and politics of contemporary world. She is interested in virtual capital, imaginary property, immaterial labour, hybrid authorship, changes of aura, value and status of objects in cognitive capitalism. Many of her works are related to the existence of the future in the present. Her works have been shown in art institutions including: Witte de With, Rotterdam (2011); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2004); Tate Modern, London (2006); Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York (2005) and Museum of Modern Art, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw. Kurant has participated in international contemporary art exhibitions including: Performa Biennial, New York (2009), Athens Biennale (2009), Moscow Biennale (2007) and Bucharest Biennale (2008). In 2008 she was commissioned to realize Frieze Projects at Frieze Art Fair, London. In 2009 she was shortlisted for the International Henkel Art Award (MUMOK, Vienna). Kurant was an artist in residence at Palais de Tokyo, Paris in 2004; ISCP, New York in 2005; Konstfak, Stockholm in 2007 and at the Paul Klee Center (Sommerakademie) in Bern, 2009. Sternberg Press published Kurant’s monograph “Unknown Unknown” in 2008 and the Venice Biennale catalogue “Emergency Exit” in 2010. Her solo show is currently on view at Montehermoso Cultural Center in Spain.

Agnieszka Kurant’s residency is presented in association with the Polish Cultural Institute in New York within its Poland-U.S. Artists-In-Residence Exchange Program, organized by a-i-r laboratory at the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, Poland and Location One in New York, with generous support of the Trust for Mutual Understanding.

Ana Freitas Machado (Brazil)
Location One International Committee

Ana Freitas Machado is an artist who lives and works in Rio de Janiero, Brazil. Many of her works are the result of a conceptual and visual theme. Time, geometry, nature and morphology of the creative process are part of its research universe in different media such as drawing, photography, artist book, printmaking and sculpture.

Atsushi Kaga (Ireland)
The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon

Born in Tokyo, Japan, 1978. Lives and works in Dublin, Ireland.

Atsushi Kaga’s work depicts a fictional world inhabited by a cast of invented characters. Through his alternative reality, Kaga explores personal and cultural identity, as well as complex social issues faced in daily life. His mixed media work, which includes paintings, animations and wall drawings, attest to his keen sensibility and sense of intimacy. His work is whimsical and playful but with a dark and biting sense of humor underlying deceptively ‘kawaii’ imagery. website: http://www.atsushikaga.com/

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Atsushi Kaga’s residency is made possible by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon

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David Molander (Sweden)
Hasselblad Foundation

Born in Stockholm, Sweden 1983.

In the project An Urban Anatomy visual artist David Molander is in pursuit of the essence of the urban centers. By the use of digital photography and animation, he collects a documentary material of hundreds of photos and film clips that he dissects and reconstruct into large still- or moving images that can be placed between document and fiction. He cut open interiors, sample streetlights, stitch together pavement and gather parts of the city that although closely linked, seldom meet. Molanders work put emphasis on new relationships between architecture, social environment, living memory and the humans within it. David Molander has been studying photography and film at Harvard University and has a BA in Rhetoric and a BA in Art history from Uppsala University. He graduated 2010 with a MFA from School of Photography in Gothenburg/Sweden. Website: http://www.davidmolander.com

David Molander’s residency is made possible by The Hasselblad Foundation

John O’Connell lives and works in Dublin. He holds an MA from the Royal College of Art, London and a BA from the National College of Art, Dublin. O’Connell has exhibited extensively in Europe, Ireland and in the USA employing a variety of working methods from drawing to sculpture and film.
Since graduating John has undertaken numerous residencies and has exhibited widely. Recent projects include: The Visitor, Riverbank Art Centre, Newbridge, Nothing Matters When Your Dancing, Stiftung Starke, Berlin (2009) Futures 09, Royal Hiberniam Accademy, Dublin (2009) Big Pink, Goethe Instuite, Dublin (2009)and The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Westgermany, Berlin (2009).

In a recent publication Fragmenting the Mould – An analysis of sculptural practice in the work of a selection of artists from Ireland and the UK, Donal Maguire noted:
John O’Connell is a sculptor whose films, photographs, drawings, assemblages and installations form a complex series of interrelated objects that operate and acquire meaning within the private and make-believe universe that he has created. It is a surreal dimension, inspired by the world of dreams and the supernatural, where bizarre and fragmentary narratives develop according to an unfamiliar logic.

John O’Connell’s residency is supported by the Irish Arts Council

John O’Connell lives and works in Dublin. He holds an MA from the Royal College of Art, London and a BA from the National College of Art, Dublin. O’Connell has exhibited extensively in Europe, Ireland and in the USA employing a variety of working methods from drawing to sculpture and film.
Since graduating John has undertaken numerous residencies and has exhibited widely. Recent projects include: The Visitor, Riverbank Art Centre, Newbridge, Nothing Matters When Your Dancing, Stiftung Starke, Berlin (2009) Futures 09, Royal Hiberniam Accademy, Dublin (2009) Big Pink, Goethe Instuite, Dublin (2009)and The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Westgermany, Berlin (2009).

In a recent publication Fragmenting the Mould – An analysis of sculptural practice in the work of a selection of artists from Ireland and the UK, Donal Maguire noted:
John O’Connell is a sculptor whose films, photographs, drawings, assemblages and installations form a complex series of interrelated objects that operate and acquire meaning within the private and make-believe universe that he has created. It is a surreal dimension, inspired by the world of dreams and the supernatural, where bizarre and fragmentary narratives develop according to an unfamiliar logic.

John O’Connell’s residency is supported by the Irish Arts Council

John O’Connell lives and works in Dublin. He holds an MA from the Royal College of Art, London and a BA from the National College of Art, Dublin. O’Connell has exhibited extensively in Europe, Ireland and in the USA employing a variety of working methods from drawing to sculpture and film.
Since graduating John has undertaken numerous residencies and has exhibited widely. Recent projects include: The Visitor, Riverbank Art Centre, Newbridge, Nothing Matters When Your Dancing, Stiftung Starke, Berlin (2009) Futures 09, Royal Hiberniam Accademy, Dublin (2009) Big Pink, Goethe Instuite, Dublin (2009)and The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Westgermany, Berlin (2009).

In a recent publication Fragmenting the Mould – An analysis of sculptural practice in the work of a selection of artists from Ireland and the UK, Donal Maguire noted:
John O’Connell is a sculptor whose films, photographs, drawings, assemblages and installations form a complex series of interrelated objects that operate and acquire meaning within the private and make-believe universe that he has created. It is a surreal dimension, inspired by the world of dreams and the supernatural, where bizarre and fragmentary narratives develop according to an unfamiliar logic.

John O’Connell’s residency is supported by the Irish Arts Council

Curated by Claudia Calirman

OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, 20 May 2010, 6–8 PM
DATES: 21 May – 31 July 2010
HOURS: Tuesday – Saturday 12–6 PM

Location One is proud to present Adel Abidin: I’m Sorry, the artist’s second solo exhibition in New York City. Born in Baghdad in 1973 and living in Helsinki since 2001, Abidin touches upon timely subjects such as fundamentalism, nationalism and religion. The artist engages in a variety of media, working primarily with video installations and short films. He assumes an ironic attitude in his deconstruction of prejudices and stereotypes. How can an Iraqi-born artist face the war with a sense of humor? That is exactly what his task entails.

The piece that gives the exhibition its title–a light box including a sound installation– comes from his experience as an Iraqi traveling in the U.S. In one of his trips, Abidin encountered people from diverse social backgrounds. Yet, surprisingly, every time he mentioned his nationality, the answer was invariably the same: I’m Sorry. Of course, this reply comes as a double entendre: Are people sorry for themselves, for feeling guilty for the infringements imposed by the U.S. on Iraq during the war, or are they sorry for the artist’s fate of being born in such place? The shift of position between audience and self is constantly present in his work.

Abidin’s witty criticism targets not only the U.S. invasion of Iraq but also Iraqi fundamentalists’ actions which serve as a pretext to justify the foreign hate against the country. In the video Jihad (2006), the artist explores a familiar scene shown in news coverage: a videotape of an Islamist terrorist with his covered face holding a Kalashnikov in his hands, reciting from the Koran a message of hate and death. Abidin appropriates the image subverting it. He places the fundamentalist against a painted background of a U.S. flag with its Stars and Stripes, reciting a verse from the Koran. Unexpectedly, he picks up an acoustic guitar and sings “This Land is Your Land.” The impact of the piece is immediate. What is the difference between beheading a Western man in front of the cameras and singing a nationalistic American anthem? Ultimately they can both function as U.S. propaganda pieces.

In the three-channel animation and video installation Memorial (2009) notions of fiction and reality are blurred. The piece is based on a real event witnessed by the artist when he was 17 years old, on the third day of the bombardments of Baghdad in 1991, when one of his favorite bridges was bombed. Next to the fallen bridge lay a dead cow. After almost 20 years, that scene still echoes in the artist’s mind as a reminder of the horrors of a city destroyed by the war.

Location One is extremely grateful to FRAME: Finnish Fund for Art Exchange, and The New York State Council on the Arts for making this exhibition and the artist’s residency possible.

About Adel Abidin: Abidin studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Baghdad and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki receiving a MFA in new media in 2005. He represented Finland in the 2007 Venice Biennale Nordic Pavilion with the internationally acclaimed piece Abidin Travels: Welcome to Baghdad. In 2010 he had a major solo exhibition at Kiasma, Helsinki’s Museum of Contemporary Art. His work is represented in major museum collections in Finland and has been featured in numerous exhibitions including On the Margins (2009, Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis); and the 2008 Cairo Biennale. He has held many solo exhibitions throughout Europe, Scandinavia and the Middle East.

ARTIST TALK::

Curated by Claudia Calirman

OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, 20 May 2010, 6–8 PM
DATES: 21 May – 31 July 2010
HOURS: Tuesday – Saturday 12–6 PM

Location One is proud to present Adel Abidin: I’m Sorry, the artist’s second solo exhibition in New York City. Born in Baghdad in 1973 and living in Helsinki since 2001, Abidin touches upon timely subjects such as fundamentalism, nationalism and religion. The artist engages in a variety of media, working primarily with video installations and short films. He assumes an ironic attitude in his deconstruction of prejudices and stereotypes. How can an Iraqi-born artist face the war with a sense of humor? That is exactly what his task entails.

The piece that gives the exhibition its title–a light box including a sound installation– comes from his experience as an Iraqi traveling in the U.S. In one of his trips, Abidin encountered people from diverse social backgrounds. Yet, surprisingly, every time he mentioned his nationality, the answer was invariably the same: I’m Sorry. Of course, this reply comes as a double entendre: Are people sorry for themselves, for feeling guilty for the infringements imposed by the U.S. on Iraq during the war, or are they sorry for the artist’s fate of being born in such place? The shift of position between audience and self is constantly present in his work.

Abidin’s witty criticism targets not only the U.S. invasion of Iraq but also Iraqi fundamentalists’ actions which serve as a pretext to justify the foreign hate against the country. In the video Jihad (2006), the artist explores a familiar scene shown in news coverage: a videotape of an Islamist terrorist with his covered face holding a Kalashnikov in his hands, reciting from the Koran a message of hate and death. Abidin appropriates the image subverting it. He places the fundamentalist against a painted background of a U.S. flag with its Stars and Stripes, reciting a verse from the Koran. Unexpectedly, he picks up an acoustic guitar and sings “This Land is Your Land.” The impact of the piece is immediate. What is the difference between beheading a Western man in front of the cameras and singing a nationalistic American anthem? Ultimately they can both function as U.S. propaganda pieces.

In the three-channel animation and video installation Memorial (2009) notions of fiction and reality are blurred. The piece is based on a real event witnessed by the artist when he was 17 years old, on the third day of the bombardments of Baghdad in 1991, when one of his favorite bridges was bombed. Next to the fallen bridge lay a dead cow. After almost 20 years, that scene still echoes in the artist’s mind as a reminder of the horrors of a city destroyed by the war.

Location One is extremely grateful to FRAME: Finnish Fund for Art Exchange, and The New York State Council on the Arts for making this exhibition and the artist’s residency possible.

About Adel Abidin: Abidin studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Baghdad and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki receiving a MFA in new media in 2005. He represented Finland in the 2007 Venice Biennale Nordic Pavilion with the internationally acclaimed piece Abidin Travels: Welcome to Baghdad. In 2010 he had a major solo exhibition at Kiasma, Helsinki’s Museum of Contemporary Art. His work is represented in major museum collections in Finland and has been featured in numerous exhibitions including On the Margins (2009, Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis); and the 2008 Cairo Biennale. He has held many solo exhibitions throughout Europe, Scandinavia and the Middle East.

ARTIST TALK::

Joan Jonas
Drawing/Performance/Video
March 20-May 8, 2010

“I didn’t see a major difference between a poem, a sculpture,
a film, or a dance. A gesture has for me the same weight as a drawing:
draw, erase, draw, erase–memory erased.”
-Joan Jonas

Location One is proud to present Drawing/Performance/Video, a new exhibition by Joan Jonas that highlights the role of drawing in the artist’s performance and video work.

OPENING RECEPTION:
Friday, 19 March 2010 6-8 PM
DATES: 20 March–8 May 2010
HOURS: Tues–Sat 12-6 PM

March 24th at 7 pm
Linda Nochlin speaks with Joan Jonas, moderated by Jovana Stokic, curator of the Abramovic Studio at Location One
April 8th at 7 pm
Bonnie Marranca and Claire MacDonald speak with Joan Jonas

Drawing is an underlying practice and ongoing concern that Jonas has pursued
throughout her life. All of Jonas’s performance drawings retain a working relationship to her individual video and installation projects. For Jonas, drawings can be lasting and autonomous objects or they may be ephemeral and destroyed during a performance.

Jonas considers the act of drawing and the physical objects themselves (media on
substrate), in terms of their relation to the camera, the monitor, the space, as well as their status of being descriptive, diagrammatic or iconic.

Drawing/Performance/Video will look at Jonas’s drawings within the context of her performance and video work, including the groundbreaking work Double Lunar Dogs, originally performed in 1984, Lines in the Sand, The Shape the Scent the Feel of Things, Organic Honey’s Vertical Roll and others.

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About the Artist: Joan Jonas is a pioneer of video performance art. Her experiments and productions in the late 1960s and early 1970s were essential to the formulation of the genre. Threads of Jonas’s influence can be found in many genres; from performance and video to conceptual art and theater.

Jonas has worked with composers such as Alvin Lucier and Jason Moran to develop video-performance works. Her work continues to explore the relationship of digital media to performance.

Jonas has had major retrospectives at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1994), and Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart, Germany (2000), and was represented in Documenta V, VI, VII and XI in Kassel, Germany. In 2004, the Queens Museum of Art presented Joan Jonas: Five Works, the first major exhibition of the Joan Jonas’s work in a New York museum. The exhibition included a selection of the artist’s most significant installations, a video room, and a survey of Jonas’ drawings, photographs, and sketchbooks.

The first installation and performance of Jonas’s Reading Dante was at the 2008
Biennale of Sydney. Later that year Jonas performed the work at the Yokohama
Triennale, and also performed a reading at The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Jonas was featured in the International Pavilion of the 2009 Venice Biennale where she installed Reading Dante II. Most recently, the artist presented Reading Dante II at the Performing Garage in New York as part of Performa ’09, and selected elements of this performance are featured in Reading Dante III at Yvon Lambert New York. Also at the Museum of Modern Art, through May 31, 2010, Performance 7: Mirage, which is a reimagining of the groundbreaking performance originally created in 1976. In 2009 Jonas was awarded the Guggenheim’s first annual Lifetime Achievement Award.

Joan Jonas is represented by Yvon Lambert Gallery, and was Senior Artist in Residence at Location One in 2008-09.

Artist Talks:
Joan Jonas with Linda Nochlin, Moderated by Jovana Stokic

Joan Jonas with Bonnie Marranca and Claire MacDonald

Location One Virtual Residency Project 2.0: “Levels of Undo”
New work by Virtual Artists-in-Residence Jessica Curry, Ursula Endlicher, Narinda Reeders, and Ben Woodeson
September 9–October 30, 2009
Opening reception: September 9, 6-8pm
Free and open to the public
26 Greene Street NYC 10013
(between Canal and Grand)
212-334-3347

Location One Virtual Residency Project 2.0: “Levels of Undo” Four artists from 4 different cities, who have never met—and were forbidden to do so during the three months of their “residency”—collaborate on a topic that they had no say in developing. Is this ethical? Are the parameters unnecessarily rigid? Were they able to produce anything worthwhile under such oddly stringent rules?

Come see the results of this virtual experiment at Location One, on Wednesday, September 9.

Confessedly the rules weren’t quite so harsh as they sound: there were no expectations or requirements to complete any finished artworks, in fact the entire project could conceivably have existed as a blog discussion (see it at http://vres.location1.org). But the four artists (two teams of two) Ben Woodeson (UK) & Ursula Endlicher (US) (Team X), and Narinda Reeders (AU) & Jessica Curry (UK) (Team 7), who were given the topic “Levels of Undo” and precious little else, spent the last three months marinating in that theme and communicating via blog, skype, snail mail, telephone, IM–so long as it did not include meeting face to face–to create some exciting new works, including a few that are not at all virtual.

Location One is pleased to present the fruits of their marination, which include Facebook impersonation performances, Spy pen surveillance video, Morse code sonatas, and analog “Tweets”. What are analog Tweets? Good question. Also making an appearance: a bottle of absinthe that may or may not burst into flames, and a live visitation from the “Old Internet” who tries to “friend” the “New Internet”. How does all this relate to the topic “Levels of Undo”? How indeed. The artists were encouraged to interpret the theme however literally or broadly they saw fit; their interpretations led them to challenge both the idea of “Undoing” as well as the nature of collaboration itself.

Two of the artists will be present at the opening to meet each other for the first time, the other two will teleport in via video chat. Ben Woodeson will also be previewing some of his Virtual Residency Project works at dorkbot-nyc on September 2, 7pm at Location One.

Location One is grateful to the artists for accepting the challenge with such good humor and and grace, and enjoyed watching them so brilliantly do, undo, redo–and ultimately undo our own expectations of this odd experiment.

Artist Bios:

Jessica Curry (Brighton, UK)  is a composer based in the UK who spends far too much time with her husband.
Making a child and making work together has formed the basis of their collaborative experiments for the past eight years.  A Wellcome Trust commission led on to several successful large-scale projects, including a series of experimental computer games.  The latest of these, Dear Esther, was selected for Prix Ars Electronica 2008 and is a finalist in Los Angeles based festival, Indiecade 2009. Their Second Life funeral, The Second Death of Caspar Helendale has recently been selected by The Royal Opera House, UK to be performed there in November 2009.  Jessica and her
husband still, however, argue over whose turn it is to do the ironing.

Location One offered Jessica the opportunity to commit collaborative infidelity with a mysterious Australian artist. The temptation proved too much for Jessica and the rest, as they say, is Levels Of Undo.

http://www.jessicacurry.co.uk

Ursula Endlicher (New York, USA)  is an Austrian artist living in New York. Her work bridges performance, installation, and the Internet. Using the Web since its days of inception she is interested in its inherent structures and languages – such as HTML – and translates them into visual formats, dance choreography, sound, and installations. Recent works such as the net art piece “html_butoh” as well as the live/web-driven performance series “Website Impersonations” are based on the “html-movement-library”, a database of user-submitted movement directions based on HTML code. Recent shows include venues such as Lightindustry in Brooklyn, New York, Theater am Neumarkt in Zürich, Switzerland, and Woodstreet Galleries in Pittsburgh, PA. She received commissions by Turbulence, and by the Whitney Museum of American Art for artport’s Gate Pages.

For “Levels of Undo” she developed new works that reflect on: the peculiar exchanges with her virtual residency
mate(s), the long and winding road of working online for one and a half decades, and the deep and mysterious experiences with Facebook.

http://www.ursenal.net

Narinda Reeders (Melbourne, Australia) is a media artist and a bona-fide nerd. She studied computer science in the dark ages, before hotmail had been invented and the HTML seemed revolutionary. She also obtained an honours degree in Photography from the Victorian College of the Arts. Her photographs and interactive installations have seen her exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently as part of Experimenta national touring exhibitions, and at the International Symposium for Electronic Art in Singapore, 2008.  Narinda is also one half of the performance duo Hit&Miss, with Tai Snaith, although she wishes there were a better word than “performance” to describe the acts of creative mischief they get up to. Dressed identically in red and white, Hit&Miss have been practicing the art of painful stillness and many other absurd acts for the past 6 years. They have popped up unexpectedly in public spaces, exhibitions, parties, flights, shopping festivals and car club rallies in Australia, Scotland and the US.

http://www.narindareeders.net

Ben Woodeson’s (London, UK) practice revolves around absurd and quietly confrontational sculptures. His works set out to challenge the viewer and the exhibiting institution in a playful kind of art chicken. Since December 2008 he has been working on a new series of “ deliberately dangerous” works entitled “The Health and safety Violations”, to date these have included 30,000 ball bearings for the audience to walk on, an electric fence which the audience had no choice but to climb over if they wished to enter the gallery and a motion activated vacuum pump which set about extracting the atmosphere from a sealed gallery every time a viewer was present. In June he was selected for a prize by the artist Mark Wallinger when he exhibited a corridor full of randomly activated trip wires at this year’s Creekside Open exhibition in London. The works sound overtly dangerous… but are they really? For the virtual residency he has
been collaborating with Ursula Endlicher, the two have never met but they will spend the last week before the exhibition opens finalizing works together in New York. He has shown throughout Europe, Canada, and America and he has an upcoming solo show at Electrohype in Malmo, Sweden.

Trained in Glasgow, Scotland he now lives in London, England with his wife the artist Andrea Jespersen and their dog Mia who is deeply unimpressed by his studio that unsurprisingly is full of dangerous shit and things that go “bang”…

http://www.woodeson.co.uk

Adachi’s residency at Location One is supported by the Asian Cultural Council.

Location One 10th Anniversary Exhibition
Laurie Anderson
From the Air: Two Installations

March 10 – May 2, 2009
Opening Reception, Tuesday, March 10, 6-8pm

Location One is pleased to announce the exhibition From the Air: Two Installations, by Laurie Anderson which will be presented in celebration of its 10th Anniversary. Anderson, who was invited to be Location One’s Senior Artist-in-Residence in 2008, will present a new piece and the revival of an older work, both addressing the concept of disembodiment, which has been a common thread throughout her oeuvre. The exhibition will be on view from March 10 through May 2, 2009, with an opening reception on Tuesday, March 10 from 6 to 8 pm.

The title piece, From the Air, uses a series of 3D projections, a technique Anderson has employed since the 1970s, to create a story about the artist and her dog. The second installation, Aleph, projects sound electronically into the gallery space, focusing the sound to make it seemingly emanate from midair. Originally commissioned for the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, the text for Aleph is inspired by the unspeakable nature of this Hebrew letter, and the installation examines the unconscious process of putting ideas into words.

Fostered by the experimental art scene of downtown New York in the early 1970s, Laurie Anderson created her earliest performances in Soho, where Location One is based. In addition to continuing her acclaimed performance work, she has gone on to broaden her artistic practice to include music, video, digital art, and sculpture.

Location One will organize its inaugural Benefit Gala in celebration of its 10th Anniversary on Thursday, March 5, 2009. Honoring Laurie Anderson and her contributions to the downtown New York art world and beyond, the gala will feature a preview of the exhibition and a special performance that the artist will reveal.

About Laurie Anderson:
Laurie Anderson is one of America’s most renowned—and daring—creative pioneers. She is best known for her multimedia presentations and innovative use of technology. As writer, director, visual artist and vocalist she has created groundbreaking works that span the worlds of art, theater, and experimental music.

Her recording career, launched by “O Superman” in 1981, includes the soundtrack to her feature film “Home of the Brave” and “Life on a String” (2001). Anderson’s live shows range from simple spoken word to elaborate multi-media stage performances such as “Songs and Stories for Moby Dick” (1999). Anderson has published seven books and her visual work has been presented in major museums around the world.

In 2002, Anderson was appointed the first artist-in-residence of NASA which culminated in her touring solo performance “The End of the Moon”. Recent projects include a series of audio-visual installations and a high definition film, Hidden Inside Mountains, created for World Expo 2005 in Aichi, Japan. In 2007 she received the prestigious Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize for her outstanding contribution to the arts. She recently completed a two-year worldwide tour of her latest performance piece, “Homeland”, which will be released on Nonesuch Records this year.

Location One exhibition related press:

NY Times[link] – PDF
Artcat[link] – PDF
ArtForum[link] – PDF
Artico[link] – PDF
Artlog
New York Observer[link] – PDF
Performa[link] – PDF
Theater Mania[link] – PDF

We’d like to extend an enormous thank you to everyone who helped celebrate Location One’s 10th Anniversary Benefit Gala on March 5. It was a lovely night and included a beautiful performance and preview of Laurie Anderson’s exhibition From the Air.

Special thanks to Location One’s Benefit Co-Chairs Sophie Crichton-Stuart, James Lindon, Alina Pedroso, Eric C. Shiner; and the Benefit Committee: Diane L. Ackerman, Henry Buhl, Judi Caron, Noni and Michael Connor, Bob Holman, Yung Hee Kim, Edward and Phyllis Kwalwasser, Caroline Lang, Matthew Marks, Elzbieta Matynia, DeCourcy E. McIntosh, Raj Moorjani, Richard Prince, Martha Rosler, Joyce Pomeroy Schwartz, Roger and Freddi Sherman, Clay Shirky, Laura Skoler, Gloria Steinem, Sue Stoffel, Rachel Vancelette and Gordon VeneKlasen.
Hope to see you all in 2019!

Claire Montgomery, Executive Director of Location One is pleased to announce its first-ever benefit gala held on the occasion of its 10th Anniversary. The gala will take place on Thursday, March 5, 2009 at 7pm at 26 Greene Street. On the night of the gala, internationally-renowned artist and 2008 Location One Senior Artist-in-Residence Laurie Anderson will stage a special performance.

Fostered by the experimental art scene of downtown New York in the early 1970s, Anderson created her earliest performances in SoHo, where Location One is based today. She has gone on to include a variety of media from music, video, digital art, and sculpture, in addition to continuing her acclaimed performance work. Following the gala, Location One will present an exhibition entitled From the Air: Two Installations and will be open to the public from March 10 through April 25, 2009.

Location One’s 10th Anniversary Benefit Gala will be limited to 125 guests, creating an intimate, private atmosphere in which to see the performance and share cocktails and dinner with artists and Location One patrons. The gala will take place as the art world convenes in New York for the Armory Show week.

Proceeds from the gala will fund Location One’s International Residency Program, which supports established and emerging artists in exploring new forms of artistic expression. The gala will also support Location One’s public programs, which include exhibitions of artwork created by artists in residence, as well as music, performances, and lectures.

Location One’s 10th Anniversary benefit gala committee is chaired by Sophie Crichton-Stuart, James Lindon, Alina Pedroso, and Eric C. Shiner. Location One extends special thanks to Champagne Nicolas Feuillatte, Havas, Barclays Capital, Goldman Sachs and Loews for their early commitment and generous support of the 10th Anniversary Benefit Gala.

Individual tickets to the event are $500 to $1,500 and tables are $5,000 to $15,000. Premium tickets include a limited edition sculpture by Nayland Blake. For ticket sales or further information, please contact Cody Montgomery at (212) 334-3347 or cody@location1.org.

Individual tickets to the event are $500 to $1,500 and tables are $5,000 to $15,000. For ticket sales or further information, please contact Cody Montgomery at (212) 334-3347 or cody@location1.org.

Note to the media:
Please note that advance registration is required for access to the event.

Media Contact:
For more information, images, interviews, or registration for the event, please contact
Cody Montgomery
Location One
T. (212) 334-3347
F. (212) 334-3289
E. cody@location1.org

A lyrical, textual composition, Voiceover is based on Collazo-Llorens’ research of the archives and oral histories section of PRdream.com, a web site on the history, culture and politics of Puerto Rico and its diaspora.  Fragments from these oral histories are combined with texts from public spaces, literature, the media, as well as the artist’s own writings. The projected words become transmitted signals, simultaneously truncated and expanded, pointing to multiple narrators while triggering viewers to connect to their own experience. The ephemeral quality of the projected light and the fleeting texts suggests the fragility and transient nature of memory and story telling.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Nayda Collazo-Llorens was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and is a visual artist based in New York City and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She received an MFA from New York University in 2002 and a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art, Boston in 1990. She works in various media, including works on paper and canvas, video, and installations, exploring the way in which the mind processes information.
Recent individual exhibitions include Route/Journal at LMAKprojects (Williamsburg), Brooklyn, NY, 2007; Navigable Zones at Project 4, Washington DC, 2007; Mindscapes at Space Other, Boston, 2006; Roaming, CSV Cultural Center, NYC, 2006; and Configuraciones, Galería Raíces, San Juan, PR, 2005. Notable group shows include the IX International Cuenca Biennial in Ecuador, 2007; 12th International Media Art Biennale, Wroclaw, Poland, 2007; None of the Above: Contemporary Works by Puerto Rican Artists, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT, 2004, and Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR, 2005; and Here & There: Six Artists from San Juan, at El Museo del Barrio, NY, 2001 and Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, TX, 2002. She was an Artist in Residence at Location One, New York, NY, 2004-05, and a 2006 Grant recipient from the Urban Artist Initiative/New York City. Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Art Net, Art US, Art Nexus, Art News and NY Arts, among others. More information on the artist’s work can be found at www.naydacollazollorens.com.

Nayda Collazo-Llorens appears courtesy of LMAKprojects, New York.

Other upcoming shows:

Beyond a Memorable Fancy
Print, Perception and the Artist’s Intervention
Curated by Michelle Levy
October 30 – December 13 2008
Opening Reception, November 1, 6-9
Artists: Glen Baldridge, Robert Buck, Benjamin Cohen, Nayda Collazo-Llorens, Ian Cooper, Jenelle Covino, Alex Dodge, Rachel Foullon, David Gatten, Dylan Gauthier, Graffiti Research Lab, Lynne Harlow, Adam Helms, Wennie Huang, Matthew Day Jackson, Heidi Neilson, Evan Roth, Jennifer Schmidt, Peter Simensky, Mary Temple, and Stephan von Muehlen.
EFA Project Space, 323 W 39th Street, New York, NY
212-563-5855, projectspace@efa1.org
Gallery hours: 12-6, Wed- Sat

Ellipsis
A public intervention piece viewable after dusk
Oct 30 – Dec 5 2008
Ellipsis consists of a video projection onto Future Tenant’s storefront window in downtown PIttsburgh. A constant flow of text interweaves the narrative of a personal journey with specific references to air travel, weather conditions, technological data, and current news headlines. The work invites the viewers to reflect on the complexities of the mind, language and the fragmented manner in which we perceive and process information.
Future Tenant, 819 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, PA

10th Havana Biennial
Integration and Resistance in the Global Age
27 March – 30 April 2009
Havana, Cuba
The 10th Havana Biennial will gather artists from Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

Other current shows:

En sus marcas…
Contemporary Puerto Rican Painting
Curated by Rebeca Noriega
Oct 2 – Dec 12 2008
Sala de las Artes, Universidad del Sagrado Corazón, San Juan, PR
Organizador: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña
Artistas: Osvaldo Budet, Nayda Collazo Llorens, Fernando Colón, Karla Cott, Rabindranat Díaz, Radamés Figueroa, Ivelisse Jiménez, José Lerma, Michael Linares, Miguel Luciano, Héctor Madera, Sofía Maldonado, Melvin Martínez, Javier Martínez, Roberto Márquez, Nora Maité Nieves, Fernando Paes, Enoc Pérez, Fernando Pintado, Isabel Ramírez, Gamaliel Rodríguez, José Jorge Román, Chemi Rosado, Aarón Salabarrías, Miguel Trelles, Frances Gallardo, Nathan Budoff y Eric Schroeder.

La curadora define el proyecto con estas palabras, “Ésta exposición pone de manifiesto algunas características de la nueva pintura realizada por artistas emergentes en Puerto Rico durante las últimas dos décadas”. Continúa explicando y añade “…es una muestra que reconoce la vigencia y la renovación del medio pictórico desde lo técnico hasta lo conceptual”.

nayda collazo-llorens

http://www.naydacollazollorens.com

Opening Reception

Virginie Yassef:
Alloy

Thursday, September 11, from 6-8pm

Please join FIAF for the opening reception of Virginie Yassef’s Alloy,
as part of the Crossing the Line festival. The videos, photographs,
sculptures, and installations of Virginie Yassef reveal the poetry
of everyday life, emphasizing the subtle gap between perception
and reality.

Currently, Ms. Yassef is represented by the Georges-Philippe
& Nathalie Vallois Gallery in Paris.

Virginie Yassef: Alloy, September 16—October 4

RSVP gallery@fiaf.org 646 388 6667

More Info

FIAF Gallery 22 E 60th St

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Andre Goncalves, Pong – The Analog Arcade Machine 2008

Born 1979, Vila Franca de Xira, Portugal. Since 1998 André have been working in several artistic fields such as painting, music, video, installation and performance. In 2002 he found his attention leaning towards ‘do it yourself’ electronics, and started experimenting with sensor interfaces, soldering, and programming. Recently he has been collecting and recycling found electronic hardware, and hacking it with the goal to create analog devices that act like robots. They in turn have specific functions like printing, drawing, create tv graphics, create sound, etc…

He aqcuired his University Degree in Visual Design by IADE, Lisbon in 2001. Since then he has presented, performed, published and executed a wide variety of works  such as: 2006, Barcelona, Lisbon, Oporto, Tokyo 2006. Soundtrack for the short film “Fall”, by Ivo Serra 2006. ‘Coding For Automation” – selected pages for the Musa Book,  2006. “Sound Studies” presented in the exhibition Abstract Visual Music for the New York Digital Salon, School of Media Arts MFA, New York 2006. “Resonant Objects” installation at FILE 2006, Electronic Language  International Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil 2006. “Resonant Objects” installation at “Luzboa 2006”, Lisbon’s Light Bienal,  Lisbon, Portugal

http://www.undotw.org/

http://www.undotw.org/ctrl/installations/doubts/

http://www.undotw.org/ctrl/installations/resonant/

http://ww.undotw.org/ctrl/installations/tapeloop/

Andre’s residency at Location One is supported by the Gulbenkian Foundation and Luso American Foundation for Development.

Wednesday, July 16, 2008
7:00 pm

Jean Shin in conversation with Nathalie Anglès, Director of Location One’s International Residency Program

A Conversation on The Topic of Jean Shin’s Exhibition “And we move”
Wednesday, July 16, 2008 7pm
Free admission, Open to the public
at Location One 26 Greene Street (between Canal and Grand)

Jean Shin’s current exhibition at Location One “And we move” is an installation that explores the nature of music and musical production by analyzing some of its fundamental structures: the score, the conductor, the magnetic tape on which is it is recorded. A site-specific work developed during her residency at Location One, “And we move” incorporates large-scale inkjet prints, magnetic tape, and a video projection of a close view of a conductor’s back as he leads an orchestra, the folds of his jacket undulating with each of his movements. We don’t see his arms or the musicians, but the quiet passages and dramatic swells of the music (Ma Vlast (My Country), by Czech composer Bedrich Smetana, and Ibert’s Flute Concerto) are expressed in the rippling shadows and folds of the fabric.

Artist Jean Shin will talk about her work with Director of Location One’s International Residency Program, Nathalie Anglès on Wednesday, July 16 at 7pm. The event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.

Jean Shin creates elaborate sculptures and site-specific installations that suggest imaginary communities through the use of accumulated cast-offs. Mary Ceruti writes, “Jean Shin uses discarded material (the excess, the forgotten, the no longer useful) in works that operate between abstraction and representation. Made from the remnants of contemporary urban life, Shin’s sculptures form a sort of visual history and a social mapping.”

A Brooklyn-based artist, Jean has exhibited widely in the U.S. and abroad. Recently awarded a GSA Art in Architecture commission, she is working on a permanent large-scale work in the lobby of the Fallon Federal Building in Baltimore, Maryland. Exhibitions include the Museum of Modern Art, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Asia Society, Brooklyn Museum, Sculpture Center, Fabric Workshop, Socrates Sculpture Park, PKM Gallery (Beijing), Ssamzie Space (Seoul), Frederieke Taylor Gallery, and Galerie Eric Dupont (Paris).
Website: http://www.jeanshin.com

Jean Shin’s residency at Location One is supported by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

http://www.naydacollazollorens.com/installations1.html

SPACE
invites you to
You Are Here
Guest Curator: Robert Raczka
June 27 – August 9, 2008
Opening Reception + Gallery Crawl:
July 11th  5:30 – 9pm
Art that addresses place, real or imagined, and will include various forms of representation from literal depiction to expressive interpretation to symbolic mark-making.
Artists: Nayda Collazo-Llorens, Michael Sherwin, Clayton Merrell, Melissa Kuntz, Carin Mincemoyer, Robert Raczka, Liana Dragoman, Bill Radawec, Carlos Rosas, Mary Jean Kenton, and Pranja Parasher
Saturday, July 19, 1-2pm
Artist Talks with Nayda Collazo-Llorens, Melissa Kuntz, Carin Mincemoyer, Pranja Parasher and Robert Raczka
SPACE: 812 Liberty Avenue, Downtown Pittsburgh, PA (412) 325-7723
GALLERY HOURS: Tuesday-Thursday 11am-6pm, Friday-Saturday 11am-8pm
A project of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust

A screening and reading and talk with artists Rob Kennedy and Peter Rose
Wed 25th June 2008 7pm

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 paraphernalia

A 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.

Hapless, Helpless and Hopeless is a video by Rob Kennedy and Peter Dowling produced entirely of sampled television advertisements that attempts to adapt and re-define the codes at work in these sales pitches, building a “grammar” that can be used to suggest other readings, other outcomes, other problems, than those nominally prescribed in the role of the advertisement, This is not in some vain attempt at trying to negate the power of these adverts, but in order to construct a constantly shifting series of relationships that mines the psychological, emotional and semiotic power of these highly produced images and sounds.

http://www.steadykammer.net/pages/CollaborationsKennedy.html

Grouped together under the title VOX 13 is a series of films by Peter Rose dealing with the complexities of language. By disturbing generally understood codes and conventions these films both critique the problems of communication whilst savouring the joy and humour of language as it is let loose on itself. ‘Secondary Currents’ and ‘The Gift’ are just two of the films from this fascinating series.

www.peterrosepicture.org

A variety of other texts and sounds will be read and played to further present the obscurity of language and our fragile relationship to the signs and conventions that we so readily rely on.

With thanks to Peter Rose, Location One, Filmmakers Coop, NYC.

Rob Kennedy’s residency at Location One is funded by Scottish Arts Council.

Rob Kennedy is an artist from Glasgow, UK, working mainly with video and installation. Coming from a background in sculpture, his video work is concerned more with the physical manipulation of material, language and time rather than acting as a framing device to view the world through a lens. A series of current projects are focused on collaborations with several composers/musicians using techniques of improvisation both live and in the studio, to play with certain generic conventions of television production.

His work has been screened and exhibited in numerous festivals and galleries including Tate Britain, Venice Biennale, Tramway, Transmediale, Impakt, Backup and the Edinburgh film festival.

Since 1968 Peter Rose has made over thirty films, tapes, performances and installations. Many of the early works raise intriguing questions about the nature of time, space, light, and perception and draw upon Rose’s background in mathematics and on the influence of structuralist filmmakers. He subsequently became interested in language as a subject and in video as a medium and generated a substantial body of work that played with the feel and form of sense, concrete texts, political satire, oddball performance, and a kind of intellectual comedy. Recent work has involved a return to an examination of landscape, time, and vision and takes the form of installation. Rose has been widely exhibited, both nationally and internationally, and has been included in shows at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Biennial, the Centre Pompidou, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Film Society at Lincoln Center, and the Rotterdam International Film Festival.

Programmation Satellite. Cycle “Terrains de jeux” 4/4

du 01 juillet au 28 septembre 2008

Virginie Yassef crée des vidéos, des photographies et des sculptures qui semblent puiser leur source dans le monde de l’enfance. Sous le regard de l’artiste, les gestes du quotidien, des situations simples prennent une dimension nouvelle. Sollicitant régulièrement la participation du visiteur dans ses installations, Virgine Yassef interroge, pour son projet au Jeu de Paume, le rôle du corps dans l’espace d’exposition. En collaboration avec d’autres créateurs (artistes, compositeurs…), elle expérimente une collaboration scénographique.

Installé dans l’espace du foyer, un éléphant constitue le cœur du dispositif. Conçue spécifiquement pour l’exposition, cette œuvre explore les liens ambigus entre sculpture et architecture, art majeur et art populaire. Cette structure, qui semble issue d’un décor de théâtre, évoque la figure emblématique du cheval de Troie. Des sons, qui s’échappent des entrailles de l’animal, suggèrent la présence d’un possible atelier clandestin.
L’œuvre est mise en scène au sein d’une plus large installation constituée de chaises reproduisant la “Crate chair” que Gerrit Rietveld — designer, architecte et ébéniste néerlandais — dessina en 1934. Ce modèle représente un archétype de l’assise : il est conçu pour être réalisé de façon extrêmement simple avec des matériaux sommaires, des planches issues de palettes en bois. Le dialogue s’instaure ici encore entre la logique de production de masse et la création artistique.
Pensée à la fois comme un travail autonome mais aussi comme un lieu à habiter, cette installation devrait accueillir ponctuellement des performances.

Dans l’espace de la mezzanine, l’artiste réinterprète, l’œuvre intitulée Alloy. Dans ce film, un enfant manipule des éléments aimantés et les assemble de façon aléatoire, créant ainsi des édifices à l’équilibre précaire.
Faisant écho à cette vidéo, un des éléments de cet étrange jeu de construction fait éruption, à l’image d’un cerveau hypertrophié, dans l’espace de l’exposition. Dans un univers proche de celui de la science-fiction, Virginie Yassef crée une narration onirique qui s’ancre dans un réel lointain.

Exposition organisée avec le soutien de la Fondation nationale des arts graphiques
et en partenariat avec Art Press et Oui FM

“Proposal for Bagman & Straight Ladies” spoken word transformed into media. A work for two beamers & a cutter”. 2008

is addressed to New York.
Its footage is found on the street through accidental meetings and observations.
Text and title are illusive, both material and immaterial.
They exist in, on and through wall and exhibition space.
While giving ‘Bagman’ a shelter in an Art Gallery, a driving force will not be stopped to carve or scratch the wall.
Different possible self’s reveal vulnerability and aggression depending on the point of view.

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)
analyse the connection between these anxieties in private and how they occur in the arena of everyday life (media/advertisement). She described her approach as of a “critical nearness”.

With special thanks to Vicky, Howard and a nameless person, who discovered me, hh, in NY, January, 2008.” Hermelinde Hergenhahn.

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.

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.

It featured the convex and polytopic:

	John Huntington: The Gravesend Inn–An Interactive Haunted HotelCity Tech’s Gravesend Inn is a high-tech, audience-driven haunted attraction. 2007 marks the show’s eight annual edition. The show control system Medialon Manager gives control over the entire attraction to the audience, which (unknowingly) triggers the effects as they move through the maze. A variety of industrial sensors are currently used to sense the position and location of audience members, and an infrastructure has been created for more sophisticated sensing in the future. John, author of the just released third edition of the book Control Systems for Live Entertainment, will describe and demonstrate the show control systems he designed for this attraction.http://www.gravesendinn.org
	Spencer Russell: SensorBibSpencer will be presenting his most recent project, the SensorBib. SensorBib is a set of capacitive distance sensors embedded in a fabric covering for an upright bass. A chopped-up Arduino board sends the data to a laptop running PD which uses the player’s body position to process the bass sound in real time. The sensors themselves (called “MouseTrap”) are of Spencer’s own design, and all the schematics and PCB layout files are available on his website.http://www.columbia.edu/~sfr2105
	Eric Singer: robots on fireEric Singer is a musician, artist, engineer and programmer and the Founder and Director of LEMUR: League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots, a group of artists and technologists who create robotic musical instruments and installations. Eric will talk about robots, fire and anything else that’s on his mind.http://lemurbots.org

Click here to view the embedded video.

OPENING
29 September 2007, 6 pm
>From 29 September to 9 November 2007

Gallery opening times
3 pm -7 pm every day except Sundays and holidays

The Fabio Paris Art Gallery is proud to present Night Talk of the Forbidden City #2, the first Italian solo exhibition of the collective Alterazioni Video, after the presentation of the video entitled Painting at the 52nd Venice Biennale (in the Italian Pavilion), Think with the Senses – Feel with the Mind. Art in the Present Tense (curated by Robert Storr) .

Night Talk of the Forbidden City # 2 presents the latest developments in the original project of the same name, which was shown for the first time at the DDM Warehouse Gallery in Shanghai in April 2007.
During their time in China, Alterazioni Video explored the topic of language, and the possible outcomes of the agreements between multinational communications companies and the state censorship system.
The various “cells” of Alterazioni Video networked on a local basis using an anonymizer (a tool which guarantees anonymity while surfing), which enabled them to draw up a list of words and phrases prohibited on the main search engines and instant messenger programmes in use in China, with the aim of working out the semantic basis behind these filters.
Alterazioni Video then put these terms back “into circulation”, by printing the offending phrases on plastic bags, in English and Chinese, and handing them out free of charge on the streets of Shanghai, with the intention of restoring their full communicative potential. The exhibition includes a number of photos depicting this part of the project.
The encounter between Alterazioni Video and Alighiero Boetti’s work on linguistic codes and signs stimulated a more intellectually sophisticated project, “encrypting” its message on a literal and metaphoric level. Based on the idea that censorship has always driven linguistic evolution, Alterazioni Video utilized Boetti’s work as a medium, a coding system which the art world was already familiar with, and which could therefore be used to convey this new message.
The result is Timbri, ideograms etched onto printing stones which can be assembled in a grid, forming endlessly reproducing matrixes, and Tappeti, multi-colored combinations of symbols embroidered on canvas.
Boetti’s tapestries and drawings often require a key to decode them. Alterazioni Video noticed the similarities between Boetti’s modules (like the one which appears in Alternando da uno a cento e viceversa, 1977) and QRCODE tags (matrix codes used in the car industry that can be photographed and decoded via mobile phone), and set about creating a new series of tapestries which convey information about Chinese activists and political refugees. By photographing these tapestries and sending them by smartphone to a specific online decodifier, you can access this information and use it to contact the people in question if need be, and pledge support for their cause. And in this way, by means of a complex process of encoding and decoding, the censored information can be restored to the intangible flow of communications on the net, while art and language return to play a social, as well as aesthetic role.

Established in Milan in 2004, Alterazioni Video is a collective of five artists (Paololuca Barbieri Marchi, Andrea Masu, Alberto Caffarelli, Giacomo Porfiri and Matteo Erenbourg) based in Milan and New York. The collective acts as an international network, geographically dispersed and mobile, and focuses on issues of disinformation and the relations between truth and representation, legality and illegality, freedom and censorship, mingling art with political activism and utilizing all media: from painting to video, installations to internet. Since 2004 Alterazioni Video has taken part in international events like Disobedience (Kunst Behetanien Museum & Play Gallery, Berlin 2005) and Remote Control (MoCA, Shanghai 2007), with solo exhibitions in venues like Location One (New York, 2006) and the Chelsea Art Museum (New York, 2006).

fabioparisartgallery
via Alessandro Monti 13 – 25121 Brescia – tel. 030 3756139 – Skype: fabioparisbs
www.fabioparisartgallery.com

Whose crater is it anyway?CRATER NEW YORK: a Lunar Drawing Contest

September 6–26, 2007Opening Reception: Thursday, September 6th, 6-8Drawing Contest: September 6–22, Rounds begin at 12:30click here to see the artists who participated >>Awards Ceremony: Wednesday, September 26th, 6-9pmJudges: Jimmy Breslin, Roger Anderson, Karen Helmerson, Bob HolmanList of Finalists and WinnersPRESS: Rhizome [link] – pdf download / Art in New York [link] – pdf downloadWATCH THE CEREMONY

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Here is a selection of some of the drawings completed so far…

To kick off the 2007-2008 season Location One presents Crater New York, a participatory project created by the artist duo of Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese. The project takes on the form of a drawing contest that is free and open to the public, artists and not-artists alike. Contestants fill out an entry form and select either a digital or analog medium to create a rendering of the model installation of the Moon that will be placed at the center of the gallery. On one of two computer stations or two traditional artist easels, contestants will have 30 minutes to complete their drawing, which will then be hung on the walls of Location One’s main gallery for the duration of the project. The winner will be chosen by a panel of judges including artists, critics, real estate developers and celebrities. The Jury will be announced once the competition has begun. Three prizes will be awarded on September 26th with each winner receiving a deed for a plot of land on the Moon. Here is a note about it on our blog.At a time when many seek a virtual life in metaverses like Second Life, when property on the moon is available for sale and ownership, Ligorano/Reese have devised a contest to evaluate contemporary artist skills in hand drawing and computer aided design. Using the moon as a drawing model, this project recontextualizes the tradition and practice of the “en plein air” landscape.Proceedings of the drawing challenge and the work created will be shown simultaneously in Second Life, hosted by artist/critic Richard Minsky in his SLART gallery outpost on the island of Artropolis, and will also be live-streamed on Location One’s website.Joining mankind’s ancient fascination with the small celestial body that circles the Earth, Ligorano/Reese’s interactive performance-exhibition invokes questions about imagination, representation, and judgment. It explores the concepts of virtual space and virtual reality, as well as artistic practice, the place of artists in society and in the future of New York. Will artists have to move to the moon to afford working and living space? Will they help redefine outer-borough living? To this end Ligorano/Reese have asked several artists to participate in populating the 8 foot diameter maquette of the moon by creating models of the first lunar artist colonies, using recycled materials in novel ways.The contest is free and open to all visitors of Location One, with prior sign-up and registration. There will be two contest sessions on weekdays, and four sessions on Saturdays. Thirteen contest match-ups, reflecting the 13 annual lunar cycles, and a chance to own a piece of the pie in the sky.LIGORANO/REESENora Ligorano and Marshall Reese have collaborated as Ligorano/Reese since the early 80′s. Their work examines contemporary trends in society and the media through the manipulation of images and sound from print, television, the Internet, and radio. Their installations, limited edition multiples and artists books have been exhibited at Jim Kempner Fine Art, Kent Gallery, the Beall Center, the Cleveland Museum of Art, Museum fur Angewandte Kunst (MAK) in Frankfurt, Germany, MIT MediaLab, Museum of Arts & Design, the Neuberger Museum of Art, and Lincoln Center. They have received fellowships and funding from the Jerome Foundation, The Puffin Foundation, NYFA, NYSCA, the NEA, Art Matters and have been artists in residence at the MacDowell Colony and Djerassi Resident Artists Program.

We are grateful to Tekserve and Material for the Arts for their generous contributions to this exhibition:

Jean creates elaborate sculptures and site-specific installations that suggest imaginary communities through the use of accumulated cast-offs. Mary Ceruti writes, “Jean Shin uses discarded material (the excess, the forgotten, the no longer useful) in works that operate between abstraction and representation. Made from the remnants of contemporary urban life, Shin’s sculptures form a sort of visual history and a social mapping.”

A Brooklyn-based artist, Jean has exhibited widely in the U.S. and abroad. Recently awarded a GSA Art in Architecture commission, she is working on a permanent large-scale work in the lobby of the Fallon Federal Building in Baltimore, Maryland. Exhibitions include the Museum of Modern Art, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Asia Society, Brooklyn Museum, Sculpture Center, Fabric Workshop, Socrates Sculpture Park, PKM Gallery (Beijing), Ssamzie Space (Seoul), Frederieke Taylor Gallery, and Galerie Eric Dupont (Paris).

Jean’s residency at Location One is supported by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

Events & Exhibitions

Jean Shin: And we move
June 19th – July 26th 2008

International Residents’ Exhibition 2006-2007 – CURATOR/ARTIST TALK

Join Nathalie Anglès, Director of the Residency Program at Location One, invited guest Miguel Amado (Curator and critic, Curatorial Fellow at Rhizome.org) for a walk-through and discussion of the exhibition.

The exhibition features new work and installations developed by nine artists who have been in residence at Location One in 2006-2007. It represents a diverse range of artistic approaches and many are works in progress.

• Jeanette Doyle (Ireland) / St. Patrick’s Day NY 2006-07
• Cliff Evans (USA) / Bare Life: Booth Girls and Stormtroopers: Accumulation
• Krist Gruijthuijsen (The Netherlands) / Alan (a memoir)
• Juei-Hsien Hsu (Taiwan) / Between
• SoYoun Jeong (Korea) / Natural Strawberry Flavor
• Miguel Palma (Portugal) / Deep Breath
• Bundith Phunsombatlert (Thailand) / English Lesson (Something We Learn From One Another)
• Jani Ruscica (Finland) / Futurama
• Eric Van Hove (Belgium) / Ecumenopolis

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Na Yingyu: Our Homeland! Gone Just Like That

7 March – 6 May 2012
Curated by Jay Brown
Shot in the highland villages of the Jade Dragon Naxi Autonomous
Prefecture of Lijiang, Yunnan, China in 2006 and 2007, this composite of video, sound,
and still images chronicles the encounters of the Manchurian video artist Na Yingyu among the Naxi
people in the sandy pines at the foothills of the Himalaya. This area of the world hosts a richness
of land, family, music, ritual and the natural beauty that someone in the video describes as
“home”. The massive new video installation, consisting of of 59 video “chapters” is arranged as
constellations in a starry night sky.

Project Gallery Events / Exhibitions>>

One And Many

11 January – 15 February 2012
Location One is proud to present One and Many, a group show featuring works by Monica Baptista, Jacob Dahl Jürgensen, Atsushi Kaga, Agnieszka Kurant, David Molander, and Hiraku Suzuki. These artists engage a variety of mediums, from digital film and photography to the traditional art of sewing, transforming one piece into many as they channel possible meta-narratives in their work.

Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen: Afghan Hound

29 October – 23 December 2011
Through photographs. sculpture, video, song, costume and performance, Cuenca explores the fragile structure of political hegemony and patriarchal domination. Her premise: When sexuality is repressed, new constructions of gender develop.The title refers both to the long-haired dog breed (the artist uses hair in extreme exaggeration throughout the work) and to Afghanistan (the male-dominated culture from which her characters are drawn).

Sounds Good

15 June – 29 July 2011
Curated by Claudia Calirman
Sounds Good, features 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. The pieces relate to movement, rhythm, vibration, energy, and the expanding visual field.

John O’Connell: Like a Shark in the Grass

14 April – 27 May 2011

The gallery space is transformed with floor-to-ceiling cardboard tubes, a large hand-painted mural, a series of drawings, and a huge papier-mâché structure, creating the sense of a forest that the viewer is invited to explore. This imaginary landscape—in which bizarre and unfamiliar narratives seem to unfold before the viewer’s eyes—is loosely inspired by an earlier drawing by O’Connell, Like a Shark in the Grass (2009), which depicts a ghostly white shark uncannily drifting inside a forest.

Davide Balliano: Giving My Back To The Night I Heard You Lying To A Giant
First Giant

10 February – 19 March 2011

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

Sharon Stone in Abuja
Co-Curated by Zina Saro-Wiwa and James Lindon

5 November 2010 – 22 January 2011

Location One is proud to present SHARON STONE IN ABUJA an exhibition conceived by Zina Saro-Wiwa, British-Nigerian film-maker and founder of AfricaLab, an organisation dedicated to re-imagining Africa. Includes work by Saro-Wiwa, Pieter Hugo, Wangechi Mutu, Mickalene Thomas, and Andrew Esiebo.

Rachel, Peter, Caitlin, John
A Project by Lucy Skaer

16 September – 16 October, 2010
Experimental new work from acclaimed Turner Prize finalist.
Location One is proud to present important new work in 16mm film and sculpture from Lucy Skaer, the young Scottish artist shortlisted for the 2009 Turner Prize and recently featured at the Venice Biennale and the Berlin Biennial
Artist Talk: Friday, Sept 24, 2010, 7pm
with Chrissie Iles, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator, Whitney Museum

Adel Abidin: I’m Sorry

20 May – 31 July 2010
The piece that gives the exhibition its title-a light box including a sound installation- comes from his experience as an Iraqi traveling in the U.S. In one of his trips, Abidin encountered people from diverse social backgrounds. Yet, surprisingly, every time he mentioned his nationality, the answer was invariably the same: I’m Sorry. Of course, this reply comes as a double entendre: Are people sorry for themselves, for feeling guilty for the infringements imposed by the U.S. on Iraq during the war, or are they sorry for the artist’s fate of being born in such place? The shift of position between audience and self is constantly present in his work.

Joan Jonas:

Drawing/Performance/Video

20 March – 8 May 2010
Drawing is an underlying practice and ongoing concern that Jonas has pursued
throughout her life. All of Jonas’s performance drawings retain a working relationship to her individual video and installation projects. For Jonas, drawings can be lasting and autonomous objects or they may be ephemeral and destroyed during a performance.

Yes, But…

14 Jan – 6 Mar 2010
Yes, But…explores works that dwell in the borderline between real and fictional, process-based and result-oriented, temporal and permanent, literal and metaphorical, orderly and undisciplined. Within the fabric of these works lies an array of artistic choices that emphasize contradictions and ambiguities, playing games upon the viewer at every turn.

Richard Bell: I Am Not Sorry

8 Oct – 25 Nov 2009

Brisbane-based Richard Bell is one of Australia’s most talked-about artists. Bell’s works address–and protest–the commodification of indigeneity in the western art market. They draw attention to frustrations and grievances brought about through the European colonization of Australia. His paintings play with the practice of appropriation, often mining the Pop Art styles of Roy Lichtenstein and Jasper Johns, the paint drips of Jackson Pollock, or the dot matrix style of Aboriginal painter Emily Kngwarreye while including texts that complicate the way we think about racism and race politics.

Virtual Residency 2.0: Levels of Undo

9 Sept – 30 Oct 2009
Location One Virtual Residency Project 2.0: “Levels of Undo” Four artists from 4 different cities, who have never met–and were forbidden to do so during the three months of their “residency”–collaborate on a topic that they had no say in developing. Is this ethical? Are the parameters unnecessarily rigid? Were they able to produce anything worthwhile under such oddly stringent rules?

Conrad Shawcross: Control

20 May – 1 Aug 2009

Extended! 9-26 Sept 2009

Shawcross is known for his multi-media, kinetic sculptures and mysterious structures that are imbued with an appearance of scientific rationality yet beneath the surface are also haunted by the search for the unobtainable and inexpressible. In this new work the artist continues the series of investigations that started with Slow Arc Inside a Cube (2008), which was initially inspired by the late British chemist Dorothy Hodgkin, who said deciphering the structure of pig insulin ‘was like trying to work out the structure of a tree from seeing only its shadow’.

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.

Laurie Anderson: From the Air: Two Installations

5 March – 2 May 2009
Fostered by the experimental art scene of downtown New York in the early 1970s, Laurie Anderson created her earliest performances in Soho, where Location One is based. In addition to continuing her acclaimed performance work, she has gone on to broaden her artistic practice to include music, video, digital art, and sculpture. Her Location One installation features a duet of video and sound.Location One will organize its inaugural Benefit Gala in celebration of its 10th Anniversary on Thursday, March 5, 2009. Honoring Laurie Anderson and her contributions to the downtown New York art world and beyond, the gala will feature a preview of the exhibition and a special performance that the artist will reveal.

Nayland Blake: Behavior

2 Dec 2008 – 14 Feb 2009
With a surprising dearth of bunnies, Nayland Blake’s: Behavior, a 25-year survey of the renowned artist’s work, will feature some thirty pieces from every aspect of Blake’s career as a painter, sculptor, illustrator, performer, and gorgeinstallation artist. They include the iconic Magic (1991), Heavenly Bunny Suit (1994), a restraint piece, Jim (2000), as well as a generous selection of works never before exhibited in NYC. Nayland Blake: Behavior will be accompanied by a magiccatalogue, as well as by a series of artist-curated performance nights, one of which will include a re-staging of Blake’s “Gorge” (1998).

Catalog availiable.

Jane Philbrick: PULL

10 Sept – 8 Nov 2008PULL confronts an America seemingly crippled by fear and uncertainty. Developed in collaboration with 18 engineers from Honeywell’s Fire Systems Group, PULL urges viewers to realize their hidden desire to sound the alarm, here in the form of an historic fire call box situated in the center of the gallery space. Once triggered, the work blossomsinto a flourish of lights, words and deafening sirens–a wake up call. Philbrick utilizes 502 fire alarms, strobes, smoke detectors, siren horns, control panels–and one customized vintage fire pull station to sound the alarm and remind us to question our notions of security and it’s sources.

Virtual Residency Project: Mission Accomplished

10 Sept – 8 Nov 2008
Can three complete strangers – from different continents, cultures and creative disciplines – collaborate from afar to create a forceful artistic statement about a political event? They can, they have! Their work, prepared without ever meeting face-to-face, uses Google Earth, Second Life, wikis and blog technologies – not to mention old-fashioned hand-printed Agitprop posters – to address the forthcoming U.S. Presidential election. The three artists all speak English, and all are fluent in Internet media. They were given no restrictions other than not meeting in person, and no directions other than the topic of the forthcoming Presidential election. Heather Wagner, director of online exhibitions, coordinated the project for Location One.Mission Accomplished?The chosen three:  Susanne Berkenheger (Berlin), Andy Deck(NYC), and Hidenori Watanave (Tokyo)

Jean Shin: And We Move

19 Jun – 26 Jul 2008
Conceived as a site-specific installation, And we move continues Jean Shin’s investigation into the nature of music and its production. The installation utilizes the display of clothing, a video projection on fabric, unwound audio tape, embroidery, and compositional scores on prints, to explore how music is visualized and expressed through movement of the body, and how sound can be imprinted onto a surface.

Aoife Collins: Wet Eye

24 Apr – 14 Jun 2008Aoife’s interdisciplinary practice is shaped by recurrent themes of permutation, multiplicity, cultural paraphernalia and mass identification. She utilizes collage, found object and the reinterpretation of prefabricated forms to communicate new ideas and the mutability of image over context.

Nina Sobell: Internal Message Search

18 – 26 Apr 2008Nina Sobell pioneered the use of video, computers, and interactivity in art, as well as performance on the Web. Since 1969, when she first used video to document participants’ undirected interactions with her sculptures, she investigates the extent to which video enables her to manipulate the relation between time and space, and to create a vortex for human experience, in which the mediated event coincides with public experience, memory, and relationships.

Tracey Moffatt: Social Edit

26 Feb – 19 Apr 2008
Curated by Eric C. Shiner
Moffatt’s narrative films offer the viewer a penetrative gaze into the realities and implicit fantasies that subjugation based on race and gender churns out. In her dual role as cultural critic and maker of art, Moffatt combines hard-edged life experiences with the technologies of video and photography to seam together pastiche-like vignettes that open a window onto the lives of her characters, whether that be an Australian aborigine or an African-American woman.

Xu Tan: Searching for Keywords

28 Nov 2007 – 9 Feb 2008
Xu Tan’s work deals with the hidden motivations and intentions of individuals through a high-tech analysis of their vocabulary. “Searching with Keywords” is the New York leg of an ongoing project which the artist launched in 2005. The project will be unfolding simultaneously in Beijing, China, in Sittard, Holland, and in New York, through a website created specifically for this happening. Gallery audiences in New York will be invited to interact with the keywords, which are presented by means of four video projections and four computer stations equipped with laptops, video cameras, and Internet connections. The goal is to have gallery visitors pronounce the keywords as illustrated in drawings and video clips, to ask questions of the artist thorough an on-line forum and message board, and to leave comments. Their reactions and input will be immediately transmitted through the website to the other venues where the installation is present.

Lida Abdul: What We Saw Upon Awakening

4 Oct – 17 Nov 2007
Location One presents the first New York exhibition by Afghan artist Lida Abdul whose work is rooted in the devastation of war and in a sublimation of healing. In her videos, Afghani ruins appear as images from a dreamscape-both real and surreal-steeped in forgotten histories and mystery.

Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese: Crater New York: A Lunar Drawing Contest

6 – 26 Sept 2007
On September 26th, Location One was proud to give away three deeds to land on the moon. All you had to do to enter the contest and vie for a chance to own extra-planetary property was show up, draw an image of a moon model that had been installed in the gallery, and then hope the judges liked it! Next stop, NASA – to purchase a de-comissioned space shuttle of course!

IRP Exhibition: Summer 2007

June 2 – July 28, 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.Featuring:Jeanette Doyle (Ireland), Cliff Evans (USA), Krist Gruijthuijsen (The Netherlands), Ruey-Hsiaan Hsu (Taiwan, Miguel Palma (Portugal), Bundith Phunsombatlert (Thailand), Jani Ruscica (Finland), and Eric Van Hove (Belgium).

Martha Rosler: Virtual Minefield

13 Apr – 25 May 2007
Location One is pleased to present Virtual Minefield, an installation by Martha Rosler which features two elements: a burlesque of a minefield, as a reminder of current combat zones and as a metaphor of the world political situation, and a mockup of a “phrasealator”, a two-way speech-to-speech device developed by the Defense Department to provide a mechanical translation of set phrases in situations where personnel are unable to speak the local language.

Jeanette Doyle: StarLine Tours

13 Apr – 25 May 2007Location One is proud to present new work by the recipient of the 2006-07 Irish Fellowship award. Ms. Doyle’s practice is primarily concerned with picture making, specifically painting and its relationship to lens-based technologies. The artist manipulates the various media she employs in order to generate very particular effects, questioning the notion of representation and creating a metaphor of what we think we are seeing versus what we actually see or what is given to be seen.

IRP Exhibition: Winter 2007

13 Feb – 31 Mar 2007
Location One presents the first of two exhibitions showcasing new work developed 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.Featuring:Natalie Berwernitz & Marek Goldowski (Germany), Teresa Henriques (Portugal), Agnieszka Kalinowska (Poland), Nina Katchadourian (U.S.A.), Rie Kawakami (Japan), Alessandro Nassiri (Italy), Kaori Tazoe (Japan), and Virginie Yassef (France).

Lisa and Nicole Abahuni: In the Sky

21 Nov 2006 – 27 Jan 2007
In the Sky was a multimedia installation, commissioned by Location One, and developed into an exploration into the sharing of the senses and the interconnectedness between perception and sensation as experienced through visual, aural, and physical realms by populating the gallery with strands of metallic beads, a six-channel audio component and a video installation depicting repetitious images that speak to the weaving and unweaving of time and memory.

Artbots: The Robot Talent Show

10-12 Nov 2006
Curated by Douglas Irving Repetto.ArtBots was an international art exhibition for robotic art and art-making robots. Featuring artists Jason Van Anden, Brett Doar, Yoav Bergner and LoVid, Bob Huott & Eric Singer, Mark Esper, Ranjit Bhatnagar, James Powderly and Jonah Brucker-Cohen.

Cliff Evans: The Road to Mount Weather

14 Sep – 4 Nov 2006
Curated by Pieranna Cavalchini, curator of contemporary art, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
A grand, three-channel moving image installation/projection (15 minute loop) by Cliff Evans. “Mount Weather” is a personal artifice assembled from ideas and images found across the socio-environment of the Internet. Its form is reminiscent of historic epics as represented in cinema and in grand panoramic paintings, while also mimicking the ubiquitous technology used for website banner advertisements.Catalog is available.Sponsored by Location One and the Peter Norton Family Foundation.

Lukasz Skapski: Video and Photographic Works

11 Apr – 20 May 2006
Debut solo show in New York of Polish artist whose work concerns cultural and political issues common to many national groups: the emotional ambivalence of women and nursing mothers, people’s views of the environment in which they live, the legacy of Communist practices in farming communities, as well as the practice and tradition of film itself. In all his work, the artist demonstrates an uncanny ability for capturing people’s circumstances on film and video. Installation sponsored by Location One and the Trust for Mutual Understanding.

Carlos Amorales and Javier Viver: Manimal and The Audience

8 Mar – 1 Apr 2006Mexican artist Carlos Amorales and former artist-in-residence Javier Viver and exhibit video works “Manimal” and “The Audience.” “Manimal” (2005, 6 mins.) is a black and white video animation about the transformation of animal emotions into human rationality. “The Audience” (2005, video and theater chairs, 4.5 minutes) is a three-channel video installation based on El Grand Teatro del Mundo. Sponsored by Location One. Javier Viver’s installation was supported in part by Consulate General of Spain in New York.

Collaborative Exhibition: Slowscan Soundwave (III) and The Telaesthetic Finger

11 Oct – 26 Nov 2005Curated by Heather Wagner”Slowscan Soundwave (III)” was an immense, interactive sound sculpture by artist and dorkbot instigator Douglas Repetto, consisting of enormous strips of sound-sensitive transparent mylar strewn from the ceiling, motors, and custom electronics. “The Telæsthetic Finger”, a selection of works by Kevin Centanni, Atsushi Nishijima and Heather Wagner, function as acoustic crab traps, devices that are cast out and reeled back in, filled with booty…or not. Sponsored by Location One.

Creative Atelier: Open Stitch

7 Sep – 1 Oct 2005
Co-Curated by Claire Montgomery and Sebastien Sanz de Santamaria15 artists spent seven days at Location One working intensely and in restricted conditions to produce wearable creations with only the tools and materials provided to them. A cross between art and fashion, the project temporarily removed the gallery from the appointed function of “showing” and moved it to the world of artistic production, raising questions about the circumstances, both physical and mental, of the creative process. Participating artists: Ayah Bdeir, Jessie Cohan, Barry Doss, Stefany Anne Golberg, George Hudacko, Selma Karaca, Ryan Kennedy, Miranti Kisdarjono, Katherine Moriwaki, David Quinn, Chris Sanders, Davina Semo, and Wikiwikicorp, a collective that includes Jean Barberis, Aya Kakeda and Sebastien Sanz de Santamaria.Commissioned by Location One.

Chris Csikszentmihalyi: Skin & Control

22 Sep 2004 – 26 Feb 2005
Rising out of the gallery floor and disappearing into the walls, two large-scale installations by MIT artist Chris Csikszentmihalyi explores two central technologies of our late industrial society: the airplane and the control panel, rehearsing our dependence on complex technologies and the vulnerability they engender. “Skin” was an aluminum cylinder, the fuselage of a Boeing 737 that emerges from the gallery floor, stopped in the act of flying. “Control” was composed of panels, roughly modeled on those used in Chernobyl, that wend their way through the gallery.Catalogue is available.Commissioned by Location One.

Victoria Vesna: Nano Mandala

15 Dec 2004 – 29 Jan 2005
An installation by media artist Victoria Vesna, with nanoscience pioneer James Gimzewski. It consisted of a video projected onto a disk of sand, 8 feet in diameter. Visitors could touch the sand as images were projected in evolving scale from the molecular structure of a single grain of sand to the recognizable image of the complete mandala, and then back again. This coming together of art, science and technology is a modern interpretation of an ancient tradition that consecrates the planet and its inhabitants to bring about purification and healing. The sand mandala seen in this installation was created by Tibetan Buddhist monks from the Gaden Lhopa Khangtsen Monastery in India. Sound artist Anne Niemetz developed the soundscape derived from sounds recorded during the creative process of making the sand mandala.

Group Exhibition: Creative Intelligence

20 – 27 May 2004
New work from the MIT Visual Arts Program featuring work by Carrie Bodle, Ross Cisneros, Clementine Cummer, Lukasz Lysakowski, and Hiroharu Mori.

Muntadas: On Translation: On View

30 Mar – 15 May 2004
On View, a new work from the On Translation Series, conceived and shot in Japan, post-produced in New York at Location One, is about viewing, looking… waiting… as contemporary rituals. “On Translation”, a series of work begun in Helsinki in 1995, groups a set of thirty works reflecting on the concept of translation and interpretation from a perspective that encompasses cultural, linguistic, political and economic issues produced and presented in different contexts and mediums.

Claude Closky: Television

12 Sep – 30 Dec 2003
Curated by Nathalie Anglès
The first US solo installation by French artist Claude Closky. Television focused on the production of signs and systems that articulate the world in a society driven by consumerism. Television was a caricatured reflection of the web and television networks that questioned their rapid and continuous growth, regardless of the information they broadcast. Sponsored by Location One. This exhibition was made possible through the generous additional support of Étant donnés, The French-American Fund for Contemporary Art; Cultural Services of the French Embassy (US); and DICREAM-CNC, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, France.

Gozo Yoshimasu: Poetic Spectrum: Images, Objects and Words of Gozo Yoshimasu

3-23 Sep 2003
The New York debut exhibition and special performance reading by renowned Japanese poet Gozo Yoshimasu, recent recipient of the Purple Ribbon Award from the Japanese Government for his significant cultural contributions. “Poetic Spectrum” presented Yoshimasu’s photographs and copperplate calligraphies for the first time to a New York audience, and brought the legendary poet to New York to perform after a ten-year absence. Sponsored by Location One with generous support from The Japan Foundation.

Saoirse Higgins & Simon Schiessl: Mechanism No. 1: War & The Doom_Machine

9 Jul – 2 Aug 2003
Two new interactive works by Saoirse Higgins and Simon Schiessl addressing our concerns and fears in the world as we embrace technology and its powers, both good and bad. “Mechanism No. 1″ is an interactive video projection examining the critical moments leading to war. “The Doom_Machine” takes a daily measure of how close we are to a possible end to the world via related sites on the Internet and a doom voting website.Sponsored by Location One.

Group Exhibition: Signal to Noise

10 Sep – 19 Oct 2002
Curated by Heather Wagner A group exhibition featuring works that explored 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. Work exhibited by Atsushi Nishijima, Erwin Redl, Laurie Spiegel, and Heather Wagner.Sponsored by Location One.

Xu Tan: Qing Hua Porcelain (Blue & White)

29 May – 29 Jun 2002
Xu Tan’s debut solo exhibition in New York City. “Qing Hua Porcelain (Blue & White)” was a new video/sound installation in which Xu Tan explored the differences in American and Chinese cultural interpretations of what is “real” and what is “fake”. Although each culture distinguishes and classifies “real” from “fake”, neither clearly defines these terms.Commissioned by Location One.

François Bucher: White Balance (to think is to forget differences)

10 Jan-2 Mar 2002
“White Balance (to think is to forget differences)” by Columbian artist François Bucher, is a meditation after 9-11 and 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.Underwritten by Location One.Additional funding was provided by The New York City Media Arts Grant of The Jerome Foundation.

Keith Sonnier: O2 = O3; Fractured Oxygen = Ozone

20 Sep – 28 Nov 2001
Exhibition by internationally celebrated artist Keith Sonnier comprised of six pieces that resulted 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.Sponsored by Location One.

Inagural Exhibition: Life After the Squirrel

9 Sep-8 Oct 2000
Location One’s first exhibition featured many European and American artists including Janet Cardiff, Mason Cooley, Filipe Miguel, Aernout Mik, John Neff, Vincent Pruden, relax (Marie-Antoinette Chiarenza, Daniel Hauser, Daniel Croptier), Pipilotti Rist, Ugo Rondinone, Greg Simsic, Kirsten Stoltman, Tony Tasset and Pia Wergius. Sponsored by Location One with additional generous support by The Mondriaan Foundation.

Collaboration in New Media Art:
Does collaboration constitute compromise, act as a catalyst, or infer complexity?

There has been much debate in recent times around collaboration in new media art practice. Amanda McDonald Crowley, Executive Director of EYEBEAM Art and Technology center in New York, will raise questions, deliberate on the issues and propose some answers:

• Does collaboration necessitate compromise?
• Does it mirror the practice of artists working in this field?
• Are new media practitioners even artists?
• What is the role of the curator in a collaborative cultural endeavor?

Amanda McDonald Crowley is the Executive Director of Eyebeam art and technology center in New York. In 2005 Amanda relocated from her native Australia where she had been based while working nationally, as well as in Europe and Asia, as an arts producer, facilitator, researcher and curator specializing in creating new media and contemporary art programs that encourage cross disciplinary practice, collaboration and exchange. Positions she has held include serving served as the Executive Producer of the 2004 International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA2004), developing the event from concept to major conferences, exhibitions, performances, concerts and site specific installations on a ferry in the Baltic Sea and locations in Estonia and Finland; Associate Director for Adelaide Festival 2002; and Director of the Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT), an organization with a national brief to foster links between the arts, sciences and new technology.
Eyebeam’s website >>

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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.

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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.

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, 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.

International Fellows:

Lucy Skaer
Skaer was born in Cambridge and studied at the Glasgow School of Art. Much of her work consists of her interacting with, and changing, public spaces. In one piece, she took up a paving stone on Glasgow’s Buchanan Street and then had the Earl of Glasgow ceremoniously lay down a replacement, while in an Amsterdam-based piece, she left a diamond and a scorpion side-by-side on a pavement. She has also secretly hidden moth and butterfly pupae in criminal courts in the hope that they will hatch in mid-trial.
Skaer has also exhibited drawings and is a member of the Henry VIII’s Wives collective of artists.
In 2003, Skaer was shortlisted for the Beck’s Futures prize. She currently lives and works in Glasgow.
In 2008 Skaer was the subject of a mid-career retrospective at the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh, Scotland which included newly commissioned work. There was a comprehensive monograph published to accompany the show.
Her most recent major solo exhibition is ‘A Boat Used As A Vessel’, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland (April 2009 – June 2009).
Lucy Skaer is represented by doggerfisher, Edinburgh (www.doggerfisher.com)
In April 2009, she was shortlisted for the Turner Prize.

Richard Bell

Richard Bell was born in 1953 in Charleville, Queensland, Australia, and is a member of the Kamilaroi, Kooma, Jiman and Gurang Gurang communities. Based in Brisbane, Bell has held numerous solo exhibitions since 1990. He is represented in major collections in Australia and New Zealand and is internationally recognized through numerous exhibitions, including the significant European touring exhibition Aratjara: Art of the First Australians, 1993; Culture Warriors, National Indigenous Art Triennial, National Gallery of Australia, 2007; the 9th and 16th Sydney Biennales, 1992 and 2008; Australian Perspecta 1993, Art Gallery of New South Wales, and the Unfamiliar Territory, Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art in 1991. His work was the subject of the survey exhibition Positivity, presented by the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, in 2006. He won the National Telstra Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award in 2003. A past member of the Campfire group, Bell is a founding member of proppaNOW, the Brisbane-based Aboriginal artists collective. He is represented by Milani Gallery, Brisbane, Australia.

Bell’s fellowship at Location One is supported by the Queensland Indigenous Arts Marketing and Export Agency (QIAMEA).

International Residents

Adel Abidin
Adel Abidin was born in 1973 in Baghdad, Iraq, where he studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts before moving to Helsinki, Finland in 2001 to pursue a MFA in new media, a degree he received in 2005. He is represented in major museum collections in Finland and is internationally recognized through numerous exhibitions, including the 2007 Venice Biennale; On the Margins (2009, Kemper Art Museum, St Louis); and the 2008 Cairo Biennale. He has held solo exhibitions throughout Europe, Scandinavia and the Middle East, and, in 2010, Abidin’s work will be the subject of a major solo exhibition at Kiasma, Helsinki’s Museum of Contemporary Art. For more information on Abidin’s work visit his website at http://www.adelabidin.com/

Adel’s residency at Location One is supported by FRAME, the Fund for Art Exchange.


Tomomi Adachi
Tomomi Adachi was born in Kanazawa, Japan in 1972 and graduated from Waseda University in Tokyo in 1994 with a degree in philosophy and aesthetics. He has created multiple sound installations inspired by Fluxus, played improvised music with voice, live electronics, self-made instruments (e.g. the “Tomomim”), and has composed works for his own group “Adachi Tomomi Royal Chorus,” which is a punk-style choir. He has also organized experiment music concerts and inter-disciplinary performances in Japan and Germany, working collaboratively with artists such as Chris Mann, Trevor Wishart, Nicolas Collins, Jaap Blonk, Carl Stone, Akira Sakata, Erhart Hirt, Butch Morris, and Jon Rose. Recently, he is focusing his activities on solo performance (with voice, sensors, computer, self-made instruments), sound poetry (especially to the unknown Japanese sound poetry tradition), video installation and workshop style big ensemble with non-professional voice and instruments. To learn more about Adachi’s work, please visit his website at http://www.adachitomomi.com/

Adachi’s residency at Location One is supported by the Asian Cultural Council.


Alexandra Mota de Aguiar
Alexandra 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 study sculpture at the Center for the Arts and Visual Communication (AR.CO), completing her degree in 2004. Since then, she has held solo exhibitions at several venues in Portugal, and has participated in international group exhibitions, most notably Anteciparte (2005, Parque Eduardo VII, Lisbon) and Drawing Attention (2008, Invaliden Gallery, Berlin). She currently lives and works in Berlin.

Aguiar’s residency at Location One is sponsored by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and FLAD, Luso American Foundation.



Wojtek Doroszuk
Doroszuk was born in 1980 in Glogów, Poland and currently resides in Kraków where he received his MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts in 2006. In addition to critically acclaimed solo exhibition Special Features at BWA Awangarda Gallery (2009, Wroclaw), and another at the Bunkier Sztuki (2007, Kraków), he has participated in innumerable group exhibitions throughout Europe since 2003, including, most recently, Double Movement: Migratory Aesthetics (2008, The Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway); Blankly, perfect summer (2008, vertexList, New York); Where the East Ends (2008, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Germany); Flowers of Our Lives (2008, CSW Znaki Czasu, Toruń, Poland); Ain’t No Sorry (2008, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland); The Memory of this Moment from the Distance of Years (2007, Schindler’s Factory, Kraków); At the Center of Attention (2006, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw).

Doroszuk’s residency at Location One is supported by the Trust for Mutual Understanding, Ministry of Culture, Poland, and the Polish Cultural Institute, New York.


Mattias Ericsson
Mattias Ericsson will join Location One as the first winner of the Hasselblad Foundation’s Victor Award, an honor that recognizes the best young Scandinavian artist working in photography. Ericsson was born in 1979 in Ängelholm, Sweden, and received his MFA in 2009 from the Academy of Fine Arts, Umea University. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions throughout Sweden, including most recently, What is identity? (2009, Ha Noi Art Academy, Ha Noi), Ny nordisk fotografi / From Now On (2009, Hasselblad Foundation, Göteborg), It’s about time (2009, Andersson Sandström, Stockholm), Baart, Bachelor utställning (2007, Konsthögskolan, Umeå), Tavlor på en utställning? (2006, Norrlandsoperan, Umeå), and Singalong your solosong (2005, Gallery Tapeten, Visby). Recent solo exhibitions include: 1532 Photographs (2009, Galleri 60, Umeå) and Kanske är allt grått ändå, Konstföreningen Aura (2009, Fotografi I Fokus, Lund). To learn more about Ericsson’s work, please visit his website at http://www.mattiasericsson.se

Ericsson’s residency at Location One is sponsored by the Hasselblad Foundation.


Lyra Abueg Garcellano
Lyra Abueg Garcellano was born in 1972 in Manila, Philippines, and graduated from the Ateneo de Manila University with a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies (1994) and from the University of the Philippines with a BFA (2000). She has held numerous solo exhibitions and was an artist in residence for the Cemeti Art Foundation in Jogjakarta, Indonesia, which was made possible through the UNESCO-ASCHBERG Bursaries for Artists in 2002. She has also participated in countless international group exhibitions, including Post-Tsunami Art, Emerging Artists from Southeast Asia (2009, Milan, Italy), Jakarta Biennale XIII (2009, Jakarta), Trauma Interrupted (2007, Cultural Center of the Philippines); Balancing Act (2006, Future Prospects, Quezon City); Flippin’ Out: From Manila to Williamsburgh (2005, Goliath Visual Space, NY); and the 2002 Gwangju Biennale. Garcellano is also an accomplished illustrator of children’s books and is the author of a comic strip in a national daily newspaper in the Philippines.

Garcellano’s residency at Location One is supported by the Asian Cultural Council.


Jesse Jones
Jesse Jones was born in 1978 in Dublin, Ireland, and is a graduate of the National College of Art & Design (BA, 2002), and the Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art and Design (MA, 2005). She has held solo exhibitions throughout the U.K.; and has participated in numerous international group exhibitions, such as I Have Doubts, Centre for Visual Introspection, Bucharest, Romania (2009); Ubersong, Plan 9, Bristol, UK (March 2009); Historians of the Present 2, Ghost of Buildings, Blancpain Art Contemporain, Geneva (2009); Nought to Sixty, ICA, London (2008), with upcoming exhibitions including Red Thread (2009, TANAS, Berlin), and The 11th International Istanbul Biennial (2009).

Jones’s residency at Location One is sponsored by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon and the Irish American Cultural Institute.


Zhou Tao
Zhou Tao was born in 1976 in Changsha, China and now resides in Guangzhou, China. He graduated from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts with an MFA degree in 2006. In addition to numerous solo exhibitions held internationally, Zhou has participated in many group shows, including the 7th Shanghai Biennale (2008); Guangzhou Station: Special Exhibition of Contemporary Art of Guangdong (2007); China Power Station Part II at the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo (2007); 24 HR Art, NT Centre for Contemporary Art, Sydney
(2007); Platform China, Beijing
(2006); Accumulation-Canton Express Next Stop, Tang Contemporary Art Center, Beijing (2006); Gambling, Para / Site Art Space, Hong Kong (2005); Archaeology of the Future: The 2nd Triennial of Chinese Art, Nanjing Museum, Nanjing (2004); and FEI, FEI, FEI, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai (2004).

Zhou’s residency at Location One is supported by the Asian Cultural Council.

SLART(TM) : Art in Second Life a presentation by Richard Minsky

In Second Life there is a virtual art world where Artists, dealers, curators, collectors and critics are represented by “avatars,” animated characters which can look like anything from realistic humans or animals to cartoons or geometrical objects. At any given time 25-35,000 people are simultaneously occupying this Metaverse. There are over 500 art galleries, and the range of art varies from shopping mall kitsch to huge animated sculptural installations that defy the laws of terrestrial physics. In this world you ARE art.

Artist and entrepreneur Richard Minsky started a website and blog titled SLART (TM), a critical review and journal of art in Second Life. Now he is planning to issue SLART as a paper magazine, beginning with a summer 2007 issue. During his presentation at Location One, Minsky will be navigating in Second Life under his in-world identity to show us some of the variety of artists, art galleries, museums, artists’ studios and university galleries there. These locations can disappear as rapidly as they appear, when owners change their mind about what they are doing, or don’t pay the rent.

Richard Minsky is the Founder of The Center for Book Arts, which was the first not-for-profit organization in the USA dedicated to advancing the art of the book through exhibitions, classes and studios. A graduate in Economics at Brown University and The New School, Minsky has participated regularly in the Art & Cognition symposia as a member of the Guest Panel [see http://interdisciplines.org/artcog and http://interdisciplines.org/artcognition ]. Richard’s work is on the web at http://minsky.com. Last year he published American Decorated Publishers’ Bindings 1872-1929, a profusely illustrated catalog and analysis of his collection, which was recently acquired by the university of Alabama.

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Art Slant [link]

Anagnorisis Picks [link]

Sharon Stone in Abuja

Co-curated by Zina Sara-Wiwa and James Lindon of Pace Gallery

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Zimbio [link]

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Lucy Skaer

Rachel, Peter, Caitlin, John

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Adel Abidin

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Time Out New York

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Volume: Experiments with Sound + Video
Curated by Mariko Tanaka

Exhibition: March 30th-April 19, 2007
Opening Reception: Friday, March 30th, 2007, from 6-9 pm

http://www.3rdwardbrooklyn.org

Featured Artists:
Natalie Bewernitz & Marek Goldowski, Ian Curry, Åsa Elzén & Markus Wetzel,
Shaun Irons & Lauren Petty, Miwa Koizumi and Marco Scoffier, Todd Michael Makinen, Yuko Oda,
Dan Perrone, Callie Roach, Carlos Roque, Josh Steinbaner, and Hong-Kai Wang

Volume covers a new media terrain of sound, 3-d animation and video by bringing it into
the gallery space. As technologies for new media work have allowed for new levels of
complexity to flourish, it gives rise to that complexity a need for a venue where it can be
experienced. The concept of the exhibition is to use the gallery space and its entire audience
as its participators and creators. It amplifies sound into a complex layered form of the show itself.
In the activity around the show, parts will be orchestrated and controlled, but most will be left untended.
It signals the form of content to be interactive installations, filtering and rippling out across an increasingly
uncontrollable terrain. By infiltrating almost every level of the gallery space, Volume will have a thoroughly
deep understanding of this combined new media with acoustic and amplified sound meant to be
encountered. Volume explores the evolution of sound art with narrative structures and compositional methodologies
for the creation of interactive sound installation, sound sculpture, and live performance projects.
http://www.3rdwardbrooklyn.org/news/view/volume

Volume: Experiments with Sound + Video
Curated by Mariko Tanaka

Exhibition: March 30th-April 19, 2007
Opening Reception: Friday, March 30th, 2007, from 6-9 pm

http://www.3rdwardbrooklyn.org

Featured Artists:
Natalie Bewernitz & Marek Goldowski, Ian Curry, Åsa Elzén & Markus Wetzel,
Shaun Irons & Lauren Petty, Miwa Koizumi and Marco Scoffier, Todd Michael Makinen, Yuko Oda,
Dan Perrone, Callie Roach, Carlos Roque, Josh Steinbaner, and Hong-Kai Wang

Volume covers a new media terrain of sound, 3-d animation and video by bringing it into
the gallery space. As technologies for new media work have allowed for new levels of
complexity to flourish, it gives rise to that complexity a need for a venue where it can be
experienced. The concept of the exhibition is to use the gallery space and its entire audience
as its participators and creators. It amplifies sound into a complex layered form of the show itself.
In the activity around the show, parts will be orchestrated and controlled, but most will be left untended.
It signals the form of content to be interactive installations, filtering and rippling out across an increasingly
uncontrollable terrain. By infiltrating almost every level of the gallery space, Volume will have a thoroughly
deep understanding of this combined new media with acoustic and amplified sound meant to be
encountered. Volume explores the evolution of sound art with narrative structures and compositional methodologies
for the creation of interactive sound installation, sound sculpture, and live performance projects.
http://www.3rdwardbrooklyn.org/news/view/volume

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:

Natalie Bewernitz & Marek Goldowski (Germany) – Unveiled Presence (secret sounds 2)
Natalie and Marek’s intermedial video and sound installations are a theoretical and practical attempt to map the possibilities and limits of depicting identity, individual personality and existence in its physical, spiritual and psychological dimensions. Mapping out these characteristics is achieved in the form of interactive and multi-channel installations that deal with the perception of space and sound, and are realized with computer-based self-generating sound creation in real time.

The conceptual premise for Natalie and Marek’s new work is Marcel Duchamp’s ready-made Bruit Secret (New York, 1916). The work contains an object in its center, and Duchamp never knew what it was. It only reveals its presene by shaking the work. With this in mind, Natalie and Marek have recorded secret sounds of the City, which constitute the backbone of this installation.

Bewernitz & Goldowski’s residency at Location One is supported by Schloss Balmoral, Stiftung Rheinland Pfalz für Kultur, and has received additional support from Staatskanzlei Nordrhein-Westfalen, and the Consulate General of Germany, New York

Teresa Henriques (Portugal) – Drawing in Space

Grasping the concept of “Perception” is the focus of Teresa’s body of work. Drawing, geometry, philosophy and optical phenomena are the parameters of her investigations. For this new work Teresa used the open-source animation software, Blender, which she acquired during her residency at Location One. The resulting 3D line drawing/object evolves out of the artist’s extensive research into drawing by women artists in the 20th and 21st centuries. As one walks around the work, two different view points reveal themselves to the spectatpr. This drawing in space becomes a sculpture in the space of the gallery, which in turn becomes an extension of the medium.

Henriques’ residency at Location One is supported by Gulbenkian Foundation and Luso American Foundation for Development.

Agnieszka Kalinowska (Poland) – Doormen

A film and photographic project realized by Agnieszka Kalinowska during her residency, the work features six doormen of different gender, age and faith who come together to narrate personal emotions and observations. Their conversation also touches on politics, ecology and women’s rights. Privy to the hidden worlds of elite Manhattanites, doormen are usually perceived as an invisible people from a different social class. By empowering them with speech, Kalinowska points to reevaluating one of New York’s more conventional practices. The slide presentation here at Location One constitutes a prologue to the film of the same title. Photographs of these “heroes” in their every day outfits alternate with portraits of their uniformed selves.

Kalinowska’s residency at Location One is supported by the Trust for Mutual Understanding and Ministry of Culture, Poland – Program Operacyjny “Promocja Polskiej Kultury Za Granica”, and the a-i-r Laboratory at the Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle

Nina Katchadourian (U.S.A.) – Zoo (2001-ongoing; a work in progress)

For the past five years Katchadourian has been videotaping extensively in zoos around the world for this project, gathering footage of animals with the goal of rendering them somewhat unplaceable, thus working against the common goal of zoos to project animals as approachable, understandable, and ultimately “like us.” She is also trying to work with the sound in a way that builds an aggregated audio environment, where sound from one monitor will sometimes match, invade, or even dominate, the image of another. The piece shown at Location One is a work-in-progress that reflects the first phase of the project developed during her residency.

Katchadourian’s residency at Location One is supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

Rie Kawakami (Japan) – Untitled

Of her work Kawakami says that it lies “in revealing the expression of mystery in life and its cycles. I am interested in the unique and aesthetic phenomenon that can be drawn from the nature of materials, both in physical and theoretical terms. My artistic practice is based on the attempt to develop new forms of life in sculpture, installation and interactive work.”

Trained in the tradition of iron and steel welding, this is Rie’s first animation piece. Combining images of Japanese Sumi ink and the Fude brush, the work is modulated by expressions of rhythm and the passage of time. A sense of intense concentration permeates the work as one witnesses the tension between the brush and ink leading to the appearance of the Sumi drawing.

Kawakami’s residency at Location One is supported by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan.

Alessandro Nassiri (Italy) – My private demonstration (a project for 10-20 people, their minds and some T-shirts)

“A demonstration is the display of the common opinion of a group of people. The opinion is demonstrated to be significant by gathering a crowd associated with that opinion. Demonstrations can be used to show a viewpoint (either positive or negative) regarding an issue…” (from wikipedia.org)

For the art video project My Private Demonstration, the artist asked some people to create a small and quick demonstration, to decide on the issue and to take part in it. A sentence was chosen to represent the issue, then transferred onto white T-shirts in red letters (one letter for each T-shirt). Participants came together on December 16th, and went out on the streets to demonstrate: their t-shirts read “coming soon.”

Nassiri’s residency at Location One is supported by Associazione Artegiovane, Fondi Anima, and Comune di Milano.

Kaori Tazoe (Japan)

This new work addresses Kaori’s long term interest in the investigation of the boundaries between reality and fiction and the pursuit of identifying what she calls a “special place,” where these boundaries meet. Surveillance cameras, works on paper and leathercrafted pieces are combined in an attempt to reach this place.

From 1995 to 2002, Kaori collaborated with artist/fashion designer Junko Ito in “Suit,” a series of conceptual art projects exploring the relationship between the individual and the collective mind, and the ways that the act of wearing a uniform affects both the individual and the group. In 2001, she co-founded Scratch Tile Art Space, one of the first alternative art spaces in Yokohama.

Tazoe’s residency at Location One is supported by the Asian Cultural Council.

Virginie Yassef (France) – Les Eparpillés / The Scattered

Virginie’s multi-faceted body of work reveals the poetry of everyday life and emphasizes the subtle gap between perception and reality. Strangeness and the supernatural surfaces when one least expects it. This sculpture continues in the same vein and belongs to a new series of objects referred to by the artist as Les Eparpilles. According to Virginie, these objects have regular shapes, are made of metallic scales, weigh several tons, and are loaded with supraconductive magnets. In appearance they are small metallic spheres, or dirty snowballs whose diameters measure one kilometer. The piece presented at Location One is made in aluminum foil, is attached to its base by a magnet, and produces cold air.

Yassef’s residency at Location One is supported by CulturesFrance and Ville de Paris.

The 28098th dorkbot-nyc meeting took place on Wednesday, February 7th, 2007, at 7pm.

It featured the fragrant and marvellous:

	free103point9: Transmission Arts Two of tonight’s presenters, 31 Down and Tianna Kennedy, are free103point9 “transmission artists”. Tom Roe and Galen Joseph-Hunter will give us a quick intro to free103point9: free103point9 is a non-profit arts organization focused on establishing and cultivating Transmission Arts. This genre includes experimental practices in radio art, video art, light sculpture, and installation and performance utilizing the electromagnetic spectrum. With locations in Upstate and Brooklyn, New York, free103point9 activities support and promote artists exploring transmission frequencies for creative expression. free103point9 programs include public performances and exhibitions, an experimental music series, an online radio station and distribution label, an education initiative, and an artist residency program and study center. http://www.free103point9.org
	31 Down: Pay-Phone Theater represented by Mirit Tal and Shannon Sindelar 31 Down is a theater company that uses radio and network technologies as the backbone for their storytelling in performances and installations. 31 Down has provided a TRIXBOX server (based on Asterisk) for free103point9: transmission arts. Transmission Artists with free103point9 now have access to an open source PBX for use in their artwork. Mirit Tal and Shannon Sindelar, of 31 Down, will introduce the use of this server in their upcoming theater projects, including the subway pay-phone mystery installation, Canal Street Station, opening this March. http://www.31down.org
	Brad Borevitz: The State of the Union Lamenting the triumph of iconicity over rhetoricity in political speech, Brad Borevitz created the State of the Union project to consider if evidence for this assertion exists in the language of the the yearly address which stands as a controlled sample over the course of U.S. history. The website provides searchable access to the corpus of all the State of the Union addresses from 1790 to 2007, and uses visualization software which allows a user to explore how specific words gain and lose prominence over time. State of the Union focuses on the relationship between individual addresses as compared to the entire collection of addresses, highlighting what is different about each document. From this information, users are invited to try and understand the connection between politics and language — between the state we are in, and the language which names it and calls it into being. http://www.onetwothree.net/
	Tianna Kennedy Tianna’s artistic endeavors are collaborative explorations of human/information interaction with an emphasis on the transmission of affect. Though her work often takes shape via sound recording, web-streaming, and radio technologies, her focus inevitably returns to the people involved in the process(es). For her presentation at dorkbot, Tianna will talk about the paradoxical role of nostalgia in the avant-garde of sound technology. Along the way she’ll touch on edison’s gramophone, Sir Oliver Lodge’s Etheric experiments, and her collaborator, Tarikh Korula’s own recent archaeoacoustic stylus, which is supposed to retrieve latent ambient historical sound trapped in objects at the moment of their production. http://www.free103point9.org/artist.php?artistID=10

Here’s a printable flyer for the meeting. Thanks, Joel.

Some images from the meeting! More images from Roberto.

Wu Ta-Kun obtained undergraduate and graduate degrees in Fine Arts from the National Taipei University of Arts, Taiwan in 2000 and 2003.

In 2001, his work was included in the Osaka Triennale and in 2002, he was invited to participate in the NIFCA Artists Residency Exchange Program in Finland.

Wu Ta-Kun is Location One’s third recipient of the YageoTech-Art Award of the ACC (Asian Cultural Council).

Yumiko attended the National University of Fine Arts and Music in Tokyo with a scholarship from the Japan Foundation and obtained her MFA in 2002. In 1997, she was awarded the prestigious “Kume Keiichiro” award followed by the “Takahashi Geiyukai” award in 2003.

Her work has been shown extensively and she has participated in various international art events: in 2003, at Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial (Nigita); “Good Luck” exhibition at Tama City Cultural Foundation (Tokyo) in 2003, and in 2000, “The Future of Art” curated by Manabu Goto at the Kitakata Museum (Fukushima), Japan.

Projects and Exhibitions at Location One:
Tent for Poet Multimedia Installation :: Residents’ Exhibition Spring 2005

Online:
Video Interview with Yukie Kamiya, Associate Curator of New Museum of Contemporary Art.

Website

Yumiko’s residency at Location One is supported by the Asian Cultural Council.

Established in New York since 1997, Lydia was born in Athens and studied at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts de Paris. Her latest video project ‘Sleeping Beauty Conscience” traveled to New York, Paris, Moscow and Athens. Recent exhibitions include: In 2005: Galerie Quang, Paris and Fondation Hippocrene, Agence de Rob Mallet-Stevens, Paris. In 2004: Vernikos Foundation, Kastella, Athens ; Open Air Sculpture, Central Athens and New York Public Library, New York. Lydia is also regularly commissioned to create set designs for theaters in the US and Europe.

Projects and Exhibitions at Location One:
The Last Conflict Performance :: Residents’ Exhibition June 2006

Online:
Website
Video Interview with Sarah Tanguy, Curator, Writer, and Consultant.
Press NY ARTS Magazine

Lydia’s residency at Location One is supported by the J.F. Costopoulos Foundation.

Wang,Ya-hui lives and works in Taipei. She received a B.A. from National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei (1998) followed by an M.F.A. at the National Taipei University of Arts (2004). In 2002, she received the Taipei Arts Award from the Taipei Fine Arts Museum as well as the [Gap] Award from the National Cultural and Arts Foundation, Taiwan. In 2002, she participated at the Taipei Biennial and has exhibited at the Seoul Museum of Art (2003).

Projects and Exhibitions at Location One:
Exchange Interactive Video :: Residents’ Exhibition June 2006

Online:
Video Interview with Yuka Yokoyama, Assistant Director, ISE Foundation.

Wang, Ya-hui is the fourth recipient of the YageoTech-Art Award of the ACC (Asian Cultural Council), awarded yearly for a residency at Location One.

Born in Cork and raised in Dublin, Andrew lives and works in Dingle (west coast of Ireland). Exhibitions include : Roscommon Arts Centre (2005); Kerry Film Festival (2004). He studied at the Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork, The National College of Art and Design, Dublin, and University of Ulster, Belfast.

Projects and Exhibitions at Location One:
ECHO video event, May 2006
Act video :: Residents’ Exhibition June 2006

Online:
Interview Project

Andrew’s residency at Location One is supported by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon (Ireland)

Isabelle lives and works in Paris. She holds a Fine Arts degree from the Sorbonne, Paris (1997) and graduated with honors from Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2003. Her work has been exhibited in Europe and throughout the world. Recent exhibitions/projections include Galerie Hengevoss-Durkop, Hamburg (2005), Galerie Anton Weller (2005), Guangdong Museum of Art, Canton, China (2004) and the International Izmir Short Film Festival (Izmir, Turkey).

On the Road and Parade, video :: Residents’ Exhibition 2005-2006
Interview with Muriel Quancard, Curatorial Advisor

Isabelle’s residency at Location One is supported by L’Association française d’action artistique/ AFAA, and Ville de Paris.

Yassef earned a graduate degree in Visual arts from both ENSBA, Paris and Sorbonne University. She just completed a post-graduate degree at La Seine research program (ENSBA), and earned a residency fellowship from the Quartier Museum in Vienna. She is represented by the Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois gallery, Paris. Recent exhibitions include: Centre d’Art Contemporarain, Brétigny-sur-Orge, France; Kunsthalle, Baden Baden and Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris.

Virginie’s residency at Location One is supported by CulturesFrance and Ville de Paris.

Video Interview

Passe Apache, 2006. Sculpture. Photo de Ludovic Jecker.

Mr. Phunsombatlert earned both his B.F.A. and M.F.A. degrees in graphic arts (printmaking) at Silpakorn University, Bangkok. He is now a guest lecturer at the School of Fine and Applied Art of Bangkok University and a prolific artist who is considered as a rising star among the new generation of Thai artists.

Mr. Phunsombatlert’s residency at Location One is supported by the Asian Cultural Council.

English Lesson (Something We Learn From One Another)
Nine International Artists Exhibit
June 2nd – July 28th, 2007

Born in Seoul, Korea, So Youn earned a B.F.A. and M.F.A in Painting at Ewha Womans University, Seoul, followed by an MA in Communication Arts at NYIT, New York, and a Ph.D. in Art Technology of Chungang University, Seoul. Recent exhibitions include: “Fiction @ love-Ultra New Vision in Contemporary Art”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai; “Art Spectrum”, Samsung Leeum Museum, Seoul; “Alchemy in Daily Life”, Christ Church Art Gallery, New Zealand; “Happiness-Mori Art Museum Inaugural Exhibition”, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo.

SoYoun’s residency of Location One is supported by The Daeyu Cultural Foundation, Korea.

Natural Strawberry Flavor, 2007
Nine International Artists Exhibit
June 2nd – July 28th, 2007

Berwernitz / Goldowski have been working together since 2000. Their work focuses on tracing the possibilities and limits of depicting individual personality in its physical, spiritual and psychological dimensions. Mapping out the characteristics and peculiarities inherent to each individual is achieved in the form of interactive and multi-channel installations realized with computer-based self-generating sound creation in real time.

Natalie earned a Diploma with distinction from the Hochschule der Bildenden KŸnste Saar (Germany) in Fine Arts/New Artistic Media/Sculpture. Marek studied in Theater, Film and Television Science at Ruhr-UniversitŠt-Bochum. Both studied Media Arts together at the Academy of Media Arts, Cologne. Since 2000, their collaborative work has been shown extensively throughout Germany, most recently at the Kunstraum in DŸsseldorf.

Bewernitz & Goldowski’s residency at Location One is supported by Schloss Balmoral, Stiftung Rheinland Pfalz für Kultur, and has received additional support from Staatskanzlei Nordrhein-Westfalen, and the Consulate General of Germany, New York

EPG, AV Performance 2003

	Sam Freeman: 1000 Ways It Doesn’t Work1000 Ways It Doesn’t Work is a multimedia art project which attempts to come to terms with the General Electric Corporation. Through installations, performances, videos, programs, correspondence, and web pages the project seeks the human dimensions and implications of the multi-national behemoth that is GE. The presentation will include an overview of all the pieces involved, and a discussion of where the project can go from here. http://1000ways.org
	Marisa Olson: Oh.Yeah.I.Love.You.BabyMarisa’s work deals with popular music and the cultural history of technology. She’s just started production on her first sound art album, “Oh.Yeah.I.Love.You.Baby,” in which each word in the album title is also the title of a respective track whose lyrics consist solely of that word. To her, these words are the “greatest hits” of pop lyrics, and each utterance of them is culled from hours and days of pop music samples. Of course, Marisa’s work is also often about failure, humiliation, and a lack of talent. Accordingly, she’s not sure whether her project sucks or not. She could use a little feedback on this work in progress.http://www.marisaolson.com
	Rick Silva: RSS Jockeysilva will do a short presentation of his work in the last 8 years that has used the d.j. and d.j.ing as a metaphor. including a screening of silva’s 1999 short film ‘scratch’, brief overviews of recent projects rssjockey.com and satellitejockey.net and a sneak preview of his upcoming project ‘natural selection.’http://rssjockey.com

Some images from the meeting. More images from Joel.

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	Dan Iglesia: Generative ProcessesThree audio/video projects that use generative processes to yield unexpected results unpolluted by the human hand. “Temporide” does a pixel-by-pixel delay on a video, showing many time lapses simultaneously. Spectral splicing, morphing, and reconstitution creates new audio based out of what you feed it. And “Ghost Jockey” generates a continuous stream of mashup audio and video. http://www.music.columbia.edu/~daniglesia
	LoVid: Kiss Blink Sync VesselThe interdisciplinary artist duo LoVid will present different permutations of their AV synthesizer Kiss Blink Sync Vessel. LoVid has been incorporating this handmade modular analog audio/video synth into sculptural instruments, installations, and media objects. LoVid will also give a short performance with their most recent wearable version of KBSV, Coat of Embrace, which allows them to break out family style while getting middle ages real old school. http://www.ignivomous.org/projects/lovid
	Jason Van Anden: Intelligent DesignerWhat do you get when you combine probablistic programming paradigms, computers with feelings and a room full of the gifted and talented? Artist/Technologist/Robot Maker Jason Van Anden will demonstrate IntelligentDesigner (beta) – software that enables pretty much anyone to control things in an uncontrollable way. ID was originally invented to enable improvisational behavior simulating human emotional mechanics between his life-size emotive robots Neil and Iona. In its current incarnation, ID can be used to easily create rich multilayered living music from samples, with many more esoteric applications coming down the pike. Jason hopes to get feedback of ID beta from the Dorkbot ranks and recruit some early adopters to start making things with it before its official release, next Fall. http://www.smileproject.com

Here are some images from the meeting.

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Location One presents
video installations by Carlos Amorales & 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.

Opening Reception: Wednesday March 8th, 2006, 6-8pm
Open through: April 1st, 2006 (Tue – Sat, 12 – 6 pm)

In the Main Gallery, “Manimal” by Carlos Amorales, a black and white video animation (2005, 6 minutes). Reminiscent of a tale from the Middle Ages, in this animation narrative a pack of wolves emigrates from the forest into the city, substituting, as they overtake the streets, its human population. The piece was made by combining 3D animation tools with flat two dimensional drawings of silhouettes, in a form that looks like a shadow theatre happening in a virtual environment. The music, an orchestral slow tempo heavy metal sound, keeps in tension the narrative suggested by the drawings; the story of the wolves becomes a dark epic. Manimal is about the transformation of animal emotions into human rationality, it is about how, when the moon disappears, the werewolf returns to people’s normality.

In the South Gallery an installation by Javier Viver “The Audience”, (2005, video and theater chairs, 4.5 minutes). The three video channels are projected on contiguous panels while the viewer sits on red theater chairs that are constantly lit. Viver draws an analogy with The Big Theater of the World (El Gran Teatro del Mundo) a masterpiece written by Calderón de la Barca during the Spanish Golden Age. In the video we can see the last minutes of an opera performance: each singer bows and receives the deserved applause from the audience, but the audience is missing. We can hear the clapping, but we can not see where it comes from. The minimalist monotony of the empty theater is broken by three mysterious eyes looking around. Could this be the eye that sees everything?

Javier Viver’s installation is supported in part by Consulate General of Spain in New York.
Carlos Amorales is represented by the Yvon Lambert Gallery in New York and Paris.
Theater seats kindly provided by Poltrona Frau USA.

Location One presents
video installations by Carlos Amorales & 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.

Opening Reception: Wednesday March 8th, 2006, 6-8pm
Open through: April 1st, 2006 (Tue – Sat, 12 – 6 pm)

In the Main Gallery, “Manimal” by Carlos Amorales, a black and white video animation (2005, 6 minutes). Reminiscent of a tale from the Middle Ages, in this animation narrative a pack of wolves emigrates from the forest into the city, substituting, as they overtake the streets, its human population. The piece was made by combining 3D animation tools with flat two dimensional drawings of silhouettes, in a form that looks like a shadow theatre happening in a virtual environment. The music, an orchestral slow tempo heavy metal sound, keeps in tension the narrative suggested by the drawings; the story of the wolves becomes a dark epic. Manimal is about the transformation of animal emotions into human rationality, it is about how, when the moon disappears, the werewolf returns to people’s normality.

In the South Gallery an installation by Javier Viver “The Audience”, (2005, video and theater chairs, 4.5 minutes). The three video channels are projected on contiguous panels while the viewer sits on red theater chairs that are constantly lit. Viver draws an analogy with The Big Theater of the World (El Gran Teatro del Mundo) a masterpiece written by Calderón de la Barca during the Spanish Golden Age. In the video we can see the last minutes of an opera performance: each singer bows and receives the deserved applause from the audience, but the audience is missing. We can hear the clapping, but we can not see where it comes from. The minimalist monotony of the empty theater is broken by three mysterious eyes looking around. Could this be the eye that sees everything?

Javier Viver’s installation is supported in part by Consulate General of Spain in New York.
Carlos Amorales is represented by the Yvon Lambert Gallery in New York and Paris.
Theater seats kindly provided by Poltrona Frau USA.

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

Nina Sobell is a pioneer video artist whose improvisational time-based sound and image Web performances are embedded with her drawing, sculpture and video background. She is inspired by the collaborative process that evolves from crossing the lines of music, art and technology, and opening up these channels interactively to the public, initially through interactive video installations, and more recently on the Web. Sobell is primarily interested in non-narrative work that leaves open the possibility for multiple interpretations. Her collaborations and installations as a core member of ParkBench stem from her efforts to demystify technology by assisting in the implementation of ParkBench Public Access Web kiosks run by inner city youth. Sobell envisions ParkBench as a way to promote multicultural, transmedia dialogue and as a safe place to congregate in cyberspace. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including grants from the NEA and NYSCA for her pioneering video performance art. She received a BFA sculpture and printmaking from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, and an MFA in sculpture from Cornell University. Her sculptures, installations, and video art have been shown throughout the World.

	Jonah Brucker-Cohen: Deconstructing NetworksJonah will discuss his work in the theme of “Deconstructing Networks” in both physical and online instantiations. He will discuss his projects that attempt to challenge and subvert accepted notions of network interaction from software manipulation and rule-based systems to translating virtual processes and conventions into the physical world. Some projects he will discuss include BumpList, an email community for the determined, Alerting Infrastructure!, a website hit counter that destroys a building, PoliceState a fleet of radio controlled policecars who’s movements are dictated by keywords sniffed on a local network, and SimpleTEXT a performance that is controlled by participants through texting messages from their mobile phones.http://www.coin-operated.com
	Carol Salmanson: Environments of pulsating colorCarol Salmanson builds installations that combine optics with light to create environments of pulsating color. Two years ago she started working with light, taking the spatial and color concerns that had long dominated her paintings into a whole different realm. Her work has both an architectural and a theatrical component, a fascination with how to transform ones perception of space. Instead of being about energy and motion, her installations seek to expand stillness.http://www.carolsalmanson.com
	Chris Vecchio: CubeChris Vecchio is an electrical engineer who began creating electronic devices to help him better understand the relationship between man and technology. Chris will present an overview of his work over the past few years including the Meterbox series – an investigation into the narrative potential of electronic circuitry, Evidence of Toolmaking – a series of handheld sculptures integrating electronics and bone, and concluding with a demonstration of Cube – an interactive sound installation and study in the design of ambiguous but suggestive user interfaces.http://www.chrisvecchio.com

Image gallery from the meeting

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Sound Installations at Location One
Slowscan Soundave (III) & The Telæsthetic Finger
October 11 – November 26, 2005
with works by Douglas Repetto, Atsushi Nishijima, Kevin Centanni, Heather Wagner
curated by Heather Wagner

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

Slowscan Soundwave (III) is an immense, interactive sound sculpture by artist and dorkbot instigator Douglas Repetto. Consisting of enormous strips of sound-sensitive transparent mylar strewn from the ceiling, motors, and custom electronics, the piece “breathes” in sympathy with the ambient sounds in the gallery, rippling and reflecting light when there is a sound and resting, invisible, when there is silence. Because of the transparency of the mylar strips, the effect is subtle and eerie, a gossamer membrane that functions as acoustic barometer, making visible sonic phenomena that are often heard, but rarely seen.

Telæsthesia is the perception of events or objects not actually present. In Location One’s Project Room, we present The Telæsthetic Finger, a selection of works that function as acoustic crab traps: devices that are cast out and reeled back in, filled with booty…or not. On display: the booty and the devices.

Works by Kevin Centanni (sneaking into frequencies usually accessible only by police radios and emergency pagers, this piece uses a computer script to convert the data to ASCII and the messages are presented in real time on a scrolling LED display like so many stock quotes); Atsushi Nishijima (recordings at the end of a kite sent out of sight and reeled back in), and Heather Wagner (“Attempted–Not Known” comes out of an old hobby of sending recording devices through the mail, gathering acoustic documentation of their journeys. In this version, the packages are sent to impossible addresses, for example “GOD”, or “Amelia Earhart” and are, hopefully, returned to sender. Inexplicably, the reasons for nondelivery – “Insufficient Address”, “Outside Delivery Limits” – vary from addressee to addressee.

Artist Biographies:

Douglas Irving Repetto
is an artist and teacher. His work, including installations, performances, recordings, and software has been presented internationally. He runs a number of arts/community-oriented groups in New York City and on the web, including dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity, ArtBots: The Robot Talent Show, organism: making art with living systems, and the music-dsp mailing list and website. When not teaching or making art, Douglas spends much of his time cooking, coveting buildings, and socializing with members of the plant kingdom. He is Director of Research at the Columbia University Computer Music Center and lives in New York City with his wife, writer Amy Charlotte Benson; two cute/bad cats, Pokey and Sneezy; and many plants.

Kevin Centanni
is a veteran of physical computing and interactive multimedia. His technological wizardry and innovative approach to high-tech problems have led to his involvement in many projects, ranging from museum installations to corporate trade show exhibits.Kevin is currently President of Controlled Entropy, a Brooklyn based technology consulting firm that has been producing interactive technology for over 10 years. From 2000 to 2004, Kevin was also one of the owners of Remote Lounge, a unique interactive bar/nightclub in New York City. Previously Kevin Centanni was Director of Technology for Interfilm, an interactive motion picture company that went public in 1994.

Atsushi Nishijima
is a composer and visual artist. Originally from Kyoto and trained in experimental and contemprary music, Nishijima creates sculptures and installations which 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, which becomes a gigantic synthesizer. He participcated in Location One’s International Residency Program and had a solo show entitled “Subtractive Creation: Visible Sound”, 2001. His work has been show in Asia and the US, including Art Omi International Arts Center, New York, 2003, Sound in the Landscape; The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, 1994 with Rolywholyover A Circus as part of the Citycircus. Nishijima is also a performer and was featured in Roulette’s Festival of Mixology 2003, New York and the Tokyo Performing Arts Market – Alternative “Discovering New Talent – Music”.

Heather Wagner
is an artist and practicing ‘pataphysician with a black belt in Taiwan (inadvertently left in hotel room). She plays drums with the indie-rock band Morex Optimo and is director of online exhibitions at Location One. She is grateful to the curator for thinking of her.

Sound Installations at Location One
Slowscan Soundave (III) & The Telæsthetic Finger
October 11 – November 26, 2005
with works by Douglas Repetto, Atsushi Nishijima, Kevin Centanni, Heather Wagner
curated by Heather Wagner

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

Slowscan Soundwave (III) is an immense, interactive sound sculpture by artist and dorkbot instigator Douglas Repetto. Consisting of enormous strips of sound-sensitive transparent mylar strewn from the ceiling, motors, and custom electronics, the piece “breathes” in sympathy with the ambient sounds in the gallery, rippling and reflecting light when there is a sound and resting, invisible, when there is silence. Because of the transparency of the mylar strips, the effect is subtle and eerie, a gossamer membrane that functions as acoustic barometer, making visible sonic phenomena that are often heard, but rarely seen.

Telæsthesia is the perception of events or objects not actually present. In Location One’s Project Room, we present The Telæsthetic Finger, a selection of works that function as acoustic crab traps: devices that are cast out and reeled back in, filled with booty…or not. On display: the booty and the devices.

Works by Kevin Centanni (sneaking into frequencies usually accessible only by police radios and emergency pagers, this piece uses a computer script to convert the data to ASCII and the messages are presented in real time on a scrolling LED display like so many stock quotes); Atsushi Nishijima (recordings at the end of a kite sent out of sight and reeled back in), and Heather Wagner (“Attempted–Not Known” comes out of an old hobby of sending recording devices through the mail, gathering acoustic documentation of their journeys. In this version, the packages are sent to impossible addresses, for example “GOD”, or “Amelia Earhart” and are, hopefully, returned to sender. Inexplicably, the reasons for nondelivery – “Insufficient Address”, “Outside Delivery Limits” – vary from addressee to addressee.

Artist Biographies:

Douglas Irving Repetto
is an artist and teacher. His work, including installations, performances, recordings, and software has been presented internationally. He runs a number of arts/community-oriented groups in New York City and on the web, including dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity, ArtBots: The Robot Talent Show, organism: making art with living systems, and the music-dsp mailing list and website. When not teaching or making art, Douglas spends much of his time cooking, coveting buildings, and socializing with members of the plant kingdom. He is Director of Research at the Columbia University Computer Music Center and lives in New York City with his wife, writer Amy Charlotte Benson; two cute/bad cats, Pokey and Sneezy; and many plants.

Kevin Centanni
is a veteran of physical computing and interactive multimedia. His technological wizardry and innovative approach to high-tech problems have led to his involvement in many projects, ranging from museum installations to corporate trade show exhibits.Kevin is currently President of Controlled Entropy, a Brooklyn based technology consulting firm that has been producing interactive technology for over 10 years. From 2000 to 2004, Kevin was also one of the owners of Remote Lounge, a unique interactive bar/nightclub in New York City. Previously Kevin Centanni was Director of Technology for Interfilm, an interactive motion picture company that went public in 1994.

Atsushi Nishijima
is a composer and visual artist. Originally from Kyoto and trained in experimental and contemprary music, Nishijima creates sculptures and installations which 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, which becomes a gigantic synthesizer. He participcated in Location One’s International Residency Program and had a solo show entitled “Subtractive Creation: Visible Sound”, 2001. His work has been show in Asia and the US, including Art Omi International Arts Center, New York, 2003, Sound in the Landscape; The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, 1994 with Rolywholyover A Circus as part of the Citycircus. Nishijima is also a performer and was featured in Roulette’s Festival of Mixology 2003, New York and the Tokyo Performing Arts Market – Alternative “Discovering New Talent – Music”.

Heather Wagner
is an artist and practicing ‘pataphysician with a black belt in Taiwan (inadvertently left in hotel room). She plays drums with the indie-rock band Morex Optimo and is director of online exhibitions at Location One. She is grateful to the curator for thinking of her.

June 4th – July 30th, 2005

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Yumiko Furukawa
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. “This tent is for her, her words, her language, her poems, and her world. She lives in New York City, but I think that she needs a change of pace. The tent is easy to move. She can move it whenever she wants to go to a new place.” Conceptually, the tent functions as a metaphor for the artist’s experience in New York City in particular in her relation and practice of the English language and ensuing communicational issues that she handles with humor and lightness.

Kenny Hunter
Citizen Firefighter (2001) (resin sculpture), was conceived primarily to celebrate the men and women of Strathclyde Brigade in Scotland. It is also an attempt to reclaim the political and civic space associated with the historical form of the public statue. While maintaining the clear, formal language of the past, the content and narrative of the work differ in many ways from historical tradition. The form has been treated reductively.

Subtraction peels away pathos. The work itself is left partially open, thus creating a space which can be reinvested by the onlooker. This in turn prompts us to come to terms with our own responsibility, not only as onlooker, but also as a citizen.

Untitled (2005) (painting and drawing) was conceived and made in New York. The statues and signage of the city have given the artist access to a pool of inherited historical and social experience from which to work.

Wu Ta-Kun
Flourishing Blue Sky (2005) (single channel video, 15 min)
The driving force behind Wu Ta-Kun’s varied body of work is expanding “ideas of sensibility”. He does this by investigating different mediums with unwavering humor. For Flourishing Blue Sky, the artist has devised a rotating mechanism that allows him to capture his journey in Manhattan on video: earth, horizon, and sky are looped in a continuous narrative. The spinning effect mimics the sense of dizziness and displacement experienced by the artist in his encounter with the city. Ta-Kun says “I enjoy this kind of confusion and fall into it. Everything is so true; everything is untrue, but the world will not stop rotating.”

Two video installations, Illusion and The Pink Doll, will also be exhibited.

Mariana Viegas
Landscape Within (consists of a DVD, The man in the center, 2005 and 3 C-prints from the series Borrowed Landscape, 2004-2005).
Landscape is an entity –or a body– which is transformed by our presence and which, in turn, transforms us. With this association in mind, Mariana Viegas observes in her photographic and video work the daily rituals performed by people in the green spaces created within the urban habitat. Under the camera, the locations and situations that she films show up as sets, and ordinary people that move within them seem to be directed. Of this body of work the artist says “In these fake set-ups of reality I want to evoke the possibility of a narrative existing upon what surrounds us, by taking a closer and longer view.”

Yumiko Furukawa’s residency is supported by the Asian Cultural Council; Kenny Hunter’s by the James McBey Fellowship, administered by Aberdeen City Council; Wu Ta-Kun’s by the Yageo Tech-Art Award of the Asian Cultural Council; Mariana Viegas’ by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Luso-American Development Foundation.

Location One is a not-for-profit organization devoted to the convergence between visual, performing and digital arts in a time of rapidly changing technology.

Location One’s International Residency Program is the central focus of its activities. It encourages collaboration by inviting artists from all over the world, and working in different media, to experiment with advanced technological tools and delivery systems, and to develop new work.

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. An opening reception will be held from 6 to 8 pm on Thursday April 28th and the exhibition will be open to the public through Saturday, May 28th, 2005.

“Soap Operation”, single-channel video projection (6 minutes), by Martin Beauregard.
How do film and television modify our perception of reality. Martin Beauregard examines this question throughout his work by merging elements of popular imagery produced by the media, cinema and television, with events from his personal life. The formal and linguistic propositions that he sets forth investigate this terrain between fiction and reality (or autobiographical documentary), and the viewer is left unsettled.

In “Soap Operation” the artist draws from such televised series as Loft Story, Bachelor and Nouvelle Star, but the protagonist here is played by the artist himself, filmed in real life during a hospital stay. A cameraman, who was given specific screening instructions, follows him during an operation to the nose while under anesthesia, and then into the recovery room where he is in the company of his girlfriend. Beauregard reconstitutes the footage into a cinematographic document, giving particular emphasis to images that appear to have emerged from a fictional movie plot. The vapid and naïve dialogues between the patient and his girlfriend draw on elements from their love life and enhance the soap opera effect.

“The Image That Emits No Shadow”, video projections and photographs, by Marlena Kudlicka. Kudlicka’s installations create a state of mind that stimulate perception in a very special way. In her own words, she is interested in moments that are “ephemeral and fail to stay in our memory as a definable image.” In “The Image That Emits No Shadow,” the artist’s has taken the word “Sunset” from the wall of a 1950′s movie house and transposed it to our times. The word itself is meant to evoke the viewer’s own recollections and associations to the concept and to images of a sunset. Her intent is to “visualize these post image moments so that they can be recognized and questioned in every day life.”

Location One is a not-for-profit organization devoted to the convergence between visual, performing and digital arts in a time of rapidly changing technology. Location One’s International Residency Program is the central focus of its activities. It encourages collaboration by inviting artists from all over the world, and working in different media, to experiment with advanced technological tools and delivery systems, and to develop new work. Martin Beauregard’s residency is supported by the “Pamela Del Hierro Fellowship” and the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres, Quïbec; Marlena Kudlicka’s, by the Trust for Mutual Understanding.

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)

Nayda Collazo-Llorens
Nayda’s work in multiple media deals with issues of communication, accumulation and displacement. A combination of text, marks, objects, images, gestures or sounds are structured in a nonlinear manner. The work invites the viewer to reflect on the complexities of mind, language and the fragmented nature of our lives through a process of perceiving and understanding what is inside and around us.
Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Nayda lives and works in New York. In 2002, she received an MFA (Studio Arts) from New York University after graduating from Massachusetts College of Art, Boston with a BFA (Printmaking) in 1990.
She regularly exhibits in Puerto Rico and the US. 2004 projects include: “Channel V-6” for “The Peekskill Project” (Peekskill, Hudson, NY); “None of the Above: Contemporary Works by Puerto Rican Artists” (Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT), “Painting as Paradox”, Artists Space (NY); “Here and There: Six Artists from San Juan”, Museo El Barrio (NY). In 2004, she was awarded “Best Show, Year 2003”, (AICA), PR Chapter, San Juan.
website :: http://www.naydacollazollorens.com/

Santeri Tuori
As a filmmaker, video artist and photographer whose main interest lies in the exploration of portrait identity and its construction, Santeri’s work is centered on the relationships between portraiture, photographs and moving images.
In 2003, Santeri completed an MFA at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki (Finland). In 1999, he received a Master of Law at the University of Helsinki.
He exhibits regularly in Finland and Europe. Recent exhibitions include a solo show at Malmoe
Art Museum in Sweden (2004), Galerie Anhava in Finland (2004) and Galerie SPHN in Germany (2004).
Santeri’s residency at Location One is supported by FRAME (Finnish Fund for Art Exchange).

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:
The Asian Cultural Council; The Trust for Mutual Understanding; Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Portugal); Luso-American Development Foundation (Portugal); The Yageo Corporation, (Taiwan); Fonds voor Beeldende Kunst, Vormgeving en Bouwkunst (The Netherlands); La Fundació Marcelino Botín (Spain); The Kosciuszko Foundation (New York and Poland); The Polish Cultural Institute in New York; The Milton and Sally Avery Foundation; Center for Dansk Billedkunst (DCA Foundation, Denmark); Denmark Statens Kunstfond (National Endowments for the Arts, Denmark); Det Danske Kultur Institut (Denmark); AFAA – Ville de Paris (France); INJUVE (Ministerio de Trabajo y Asuntos Sociales); The New Media Arts Board-Australia Council; Arts Victoria; City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs; Pamela Del Hierro Fellowship of Canada; the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres, Québec; FRAME (Finnish Fund for Art Exchange); the James McBey Fellowship, administered by Aberdeen City Council (Scotland).

a reception to celebrate the publication of a catalogue documenting the two installations by Chris Csikszentmihályi.

The new illustrated catalogue for “Skin” and “Control”, Parallel installations by Chris Csikszentmihályi

64 pages, 44 illustrations including 38 in color :: $28
signed limited edition of 100 copies accompanied by a CD-ROM $65
With texts by Chris Csikszentmihályi, Caroline Jones, and McKenzie Wark

Skin & Control catalogue
$28 or $65 special edition (signed by the artist, includes CD-ROM)

“My goal as an artist is to understand and intervene into the production of material power and technologies. My day job as MIT professor involves doing that at a very literal level. “Skin” and “Control” do this at a more symbolic level, in the form of installations that operate as immersive environments, walk-in tableaux with everyday drama being enacted moment by moment.”
–Chris Csikszentmihályi “Csikszentmihályi is conceptual and scalar ambitions locate him within a specific generation that has its own characteristic forms of artistic practice. For artists coming of age since the 1980s, (Damien Hirst, Matthew Ritchie, and Anselm Kiefer come to mind), science and technology are not truth as much as culture they form the mythic structures of our time .”
–Caroline Jones

What Csikszentmihályi offers is a way of visualizing a certain kind of power at work in the world. The power of control, of telemetry, of the ways and means of speed. It is a surprisingly abstract art.
–McKenzie Wark

Friday, January 21 st , 2005

8:30 pm
Tickets: $12

Fifteen years after making a brief splash as an ill-fated downtown supergroup in the avant jazz and experimental music scene, Odd Job (Shelley Hirsch, Ned Rothenberg, David Weinstein and Samm Bennett along with new member bassplayer Stomu Takeishi) will give a one night reunion concert at Location One on Friday, January 21st , 2005.

In 1990 the group surprised and thrilled audiences by mixing skilled free noise improvisations with revisionist post-pop arrangements of rock and jazz standards. Their imaginative revisiting of songs by The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Bill Withers and other well-known pop icons subjected familiar melodies and structures to brutally altered arrangements and irreverent reconstruction.

Their inside-out recording of Hendrix’s Foxy Lady (female vocalist Hirsch, guitarless band) has earned them near legend status (Live at the Knitting Factory, Vol 2).

After one year the group disbanded amidst a host of invitations and exaltations, citing schedule conflicts and personal differences.

	Shelley Hirsch is an unorthodox, extraordinary fusion of vocalist, composer and performance artist whose work encompasses story telling pieces, staged performances, compositions, improvisations, collaborations, installations and radioplays, which have been presented on 5 continents. Hirsch has performed hundreds of concerts of improvised music with Anthony Coleman,Christian Marclay, Toshio Kajiwara, Aki Onda, Ikue Mori, Butch Morris, Billy Martin, DJ Olive, Dennis Delzotto, Fred Frith, Min Xiao Fen, David Watson and many many others. Her vocals can be heard on 30 cds including her most recent releases “The Far In Far Out Worlds of Shelley Hirsch” (Tzadik) and “Duets” with guitarist Uchihashi Kasuhisa ( Innocence) and “O Little Town of East New York” (Tzadik) and “Haiku Lingo” both with longtime collaborator, keyboardist/composer David Weinstein.
Photo by Caroline Forbes	Composer/performer Ned Rothenberg has been internationally acclaimed for both his solo and ensemble music, presented for the past 25 years in North and South America, Europe and Asia. He leads the trio Sync, with Jerome Harris, guitars and Samir Chatterjee, tabla. Recent recordings include Intervals, a double-CD of solo work, and Are You Be, by R.U.B. (Rothenberg/Kazuhisa Uchihashi/Samm Bennett) on Rothenberg’s Animul label. Chamber music releases include Ghost Stories, on Tzadik and Power Lines on New World, along with Port of Entry, Sync’s release on Intuition. Other collaborators have included Sainkho Namchylak, Paul Dresher, John Zorn, Marc Ribot, Yuji Takahashi and Evan Parker. For more visit www.nedrothenberg.com
photo by Mark Lentz	David Weinstein is keyboardist, composer and multimedia artist whose musical works juxtapose sound effects, traditional and non traditional instruments, synthetic sound, ancient and exotic tunings and noise. His group Impossible Music uses sound effects, found sound and cheap electronics to construct virtual soundtracks. As a keyboardist Weinstein has recorded and performed in collaboration with musician/artists including Shelley Hirsch, Angie Eng, Elliott Sharp, Doris Vila, Ned Rothenberg, John Zorn, Zeena Parkins, Rhys Chatham, Butch Morris, Christian Marclay and many others. Weinstein’s discography includes “Perfume” (Avant/Hips Road) and “A Classic Guide¡¨ (No Man’s Land).
	Samm Bennett is a composer and percussionist who over the past 25 years has blazed his own paths in the exploration of rhythm and polyrhythm. He’s long maintained an interest in electronic instruments as well as acoustic percussion, and his music has always been defined by an enthusiastic embrace of new sonic possibilities. The years he spent in NY saw him working as an improvisor or bandmember with Elliott Sharp, Shelley Hirsch, Ned Rothenberg, Hahn Rowe, Tom Cora and many others, as well as a bandleader and singer/songwriter with his own groups Chunk and History of the Last Five Minutes. Since 1995 he has resided in Tokyo, where he’s performed and recorded with musicians such as Haino Keiji, Yoshigaki Yasuhiro, Haco, Uchihashi Kazuhisa, Carl Stone, Akiyama Tetuzi, Tanaka Yumiko and others. He is a member of the the song/electronica project Skist, along with vocalist and sound creator Haruna Ito. Solo performance has become Bennett’s main focus over the last couple of years, and in 2004 he released “Secrets of Teaching Yourself Music” (Improvised Music From Japan IMJ-516), a live recording from solo concerts at various Tokyo venues. The album features his work on WaveDrum plus various other instruments and gadgets. The Wire’s Edwin Pouncey called the record an “amusing and entertaining DIY musical primer… Bennett’s lively manipulation of sound never fails to uncover some new means of communication between the objects he has assembled.”
photo from downtownmusic.net	Electric bassist Stomu Takeishi has recorded and toured with Myra Melford’s Crush Trio, Henry Threadgill’s Make A Move band, Eric Friedlander’s Topaz and with Dave Tronzo’s Tronzo Trio. He has recorded with Paul Motian and Mick Goodrick and has performed with Don Cherry, Bob Moses, Dave Liebman, Wynton Marsalis, Randy Brecker, Rasheed Ali, and Leni Stern.

The thirty thousandth dorkbot-nyc meeting took place on Wednesday, January 5th, 2005, 7pm.

It featured the lovely and talented:

Paul Davies: A New Type of Unfortunate Occurrence
Paul Davies work explores issues of technology in society through interactive sculpture and installations which are often driven by surplus technology that he finds in various local and mail order surplus shops. His art is explicitly about contemporary cultural issues involving the role of media and technology in our society. Paul will present a recent collaboratively built environment called ‘A New Type of Unfortunate Occurrence’.
http://www.xraylab.org

Michelle Rosenberg: Sound Dispensers
Michelle Rosenberg makes devices to listen through. In an on-going project called “Dynamic Headphones”, she make headphones that mediate a listener’s relationship to recorded and live sounds. She modifies portable headphones as well as makes ear trumpets. Michelle will talk about her “Dynamic Headphones” and the antique hearing aids that inspired them.
http://www.michellerosenberg.com

Jason Van Anden: Farklempt! 1.0 – World Premier
Farklempt! is an online multiplayer video game that challenges its players to manage their emotional-health through the skillful management of feelings against other players others trying to do the same. Farklempt! continues Jasons ongoing series of artworks that strive to represent human emotional behavior through art and technology. Farklempt! was commissioned by Rhizome.org with the support of the Jerome Foundation, The Greenwall Foundation, and The Warhol Foundation. The fun doesn’t stop at Dorkbot! After the meeting, you can go home and play Farklempt! to your heart’s delight.
http://www.smileproject.com

Some images from the meeting are here.

The artist speaks on his current installations at Location One, “Skin” and “Control”, raising questions about power, control, what lies beneath the surface of our lives today. Csikszenmihalyi is an artist working at MIT. He directs the Media Lab’s Computing Culture group.

Parallel installations by Chris Csikszentmihályi
“Skin” and “Control”
September 22 through February 26, 2004
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see slide show of installation

Skin & Control catalogue
$28 or $65 special edition (signed by the artist, includes CD-ROM)

Rising out of the gallery floor and disappearing into the walls, two large-scale installations by MIT-based artist Chris Csikszentmihályi (cheek-sent-mee-high) will occupy Location One’s space for the Fall Season 2004. The installations explore two central technologies of our late industrial society, the airplane and the control panel, rehearsing our dependence on complex technologies and the vulnerability they engender. “Skin” is an aluminum cylinder, the fuselage of a Boeing 737 that emerges from the gallery floor, stopped in the act of flying. Viewers will feel the vibrations of the plane in flight and hear the muffled conversations of passengers. “Control” is composed of panels, roughly modeled on those used in Chernobyl, that wend their way through the gallery. The visitor will manipulate the puzzling array of buttons, dials, and indicators of this complex technological system, all the while wondering what kind of control he gains by his interaction.

Of his work Chris Csikszentmiháyi writes “my goal as an artist is to understand and intervene into the production of material power–technologies. My day job as MIT professor involves doing that at a very literal level. “Skin” and “Control” do this at a more symbolic level, in the form of installations that operate as immersive environments, walk-in tableaux with everyday drama being enacted moment by moment.”

As with all Location One events, the exhibition will be live-streamed on the Internet. During the exhibition Location One will present a series of conversations, lectures and discussions with the artist and international speakers from many fields to debate the ideas generated by the installations. The installations will be accompanied by an illustrated catalogue with texts by Caroline A. Jones, Professor of Art History at M.I.T. and author of Machine in the Studio: Constructing the Postwar American Artist, by McKenzie Wark, author of A Hacker Manifesto (Harvard University Press) and Professor of media & cultural studies at Lang College, New School University. It will be published by Charta Art Books, Milan and distributed by D.A.P.

Parallel installations by Chris Csikszentmihályi
“Skin” and “Control”
September 22 through February 26, 2004
[display_podcast]

see slide show of installation

Skin & Control catalogue
$28 or $65 special edition (signed by the artist, includes CD-ROM)

Rising out of the gallery floor and disappearing into the walls, two large-scale installations by MIT-based artist Chris Csikszentmihályi (cheek-sent-mee-high) will occupy Location One’s space for the Fall Season 2004. The installations explore two central technologies of our late industrial society, the airplane and the control panel, rehearsing our dependence on complex technologies and the vulnerability they engender. “Skin” is an aluminum cylinder, the fuselage of a Boeing 737 that emerges from the gallery floor, stopped in the act of flying. Viewers will feel the vibrations of the plane in flight and hear the muffled conversations of passengers. “Control” is composed of panels, roughly modeled on those used in Chernobyl, that wend their way through the gallery. The visitor will manipulate the puzzling array of buttons, dials, and indicators of this complex technological system, all the while wondering what kind of control he gains by his interaction.

Of his work Chris Csikszentmiháyi writes “my goal as an artist is to understand and intervene into the production of material power–technologies. My day job as MIT professor involves doing that at a very literal level. “Skin” and “Control” do this at a more symbolic level, in the form of installations that operate as immersive environments, walk-in tableaux with everyday drama being enacted moment by moment.”

As with all Location One events, the exhibition will be live-streamed on the Internet. During the exhibition Location One will present a series of conversations, lectures and discussions with the artist and international speakers from many fields to debate the ideas generated by the installations. The installations will be accompanied by an illustrated catalogue with texts by Caroline A. Jones, Professor of Art History at M.I.T. and author of Machine in the Studio: Constructing the Postwar American Artist, by McKenzie Wark, author of A Hacker Manifesto (Harvard University Press) and Professor of media & cultural studies at Lang College, New School University. It will be published by Charta Art Books, Milan and distributed by D.A.P.

May 28 – June 30, 2004

Click here to view the embedded video.

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 and will be streamed live on www.location1.org

Vincent Lamouroux (France)
A site-specific wall drawing that consists of simple sets of words culled by the artist from Joseph Lanza’s writings “Gravity” as he investigates roller coaster structures as a social and cultural phenomenon in the US.

Alexandra do Carmo (Portugal)
In the installation “50 Richards” the artist explores issues of surveillance and voyeurism. The visitor is invited to sit at a microscope to view a continuous recording of the artist’s studio practice. Music inspired by the video and composed by Paul de Jong pours in from the ceiling.

Miguel Soares (Portugal)
H2O is a 3d animation about marine trash and the often absurd reactions of maritime flora and fauna to these “alien visitors”.

Federico Muelas (Spain)
What do Apples Sound Like? An interactive audio visual environment where the artist questions human perception by translating into sound the spatial values of the 365 vertices on an apple – symbol of wholeness and forbidden knowledge.

Hsiao Sheng Chien (Taiwan)
Watch is an installation with video robot and sensor that features an eye. The robot perceives the presence of the visitor and begins interacting with him, drawing him in, watching him and then pushing him away.

Koki Tanaka (Japan)
Things Happen Again presents a humorous reflection on the question of how we perceive the world by filming the simple and repetitive motion of rolls of tape that glide inside the frame.

Mark Themann (Germany/Australia)
Go Into This Space presents an evocative single screen DVD work, a silent film that consists of phasing texts, interrupted by flashing color fields, and utilizing structures of invocation and evocation.Location One is a not-for-profit organization devoted to the convergence between visual, performing and digital arts in a time of rapidly changing technology.
Location One’s Residency Program is a central part of its activities. It encourages 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.

SPONSORS: INJUVE, Asian Cultural Council, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Jerome Robbins Foundation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Turkey, Moon and Stars Project, AFAA – Ville de Paris, Yageo Tech-Art Award of the ACC (Asian Cultural Council), Australian Council for the Arts, Arts Victoria, Luso-American Development Foundation, Instituto das Artes (Lisbon).

MUNTADAS
On Translation: On View

March 30 to May 15, 2004
Opening reception: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 6 – 8 PM
On View, a new work from On Translation Series, conceived and shot in Japan, post-produced in New York at Location One, is a work about viewing, looking… waiting… as contemporary rituals. Waiting in lines, airport standby, museum audience, tourist photo opportunities… Interrogations on where, when, why, who and what are part of the intention of the work.

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On Translation, a series of work begun in Helsinki in 1995, groups a set of thirty works reflecting on the concept of translation and interpretation from a perspective that encompasses cultural, linguistic, political and economic issues produced and presented in different contexts and mediums.

MUNTADAS
Antoni Muntadas – born in Barcelona, Spain in 1942 – has lived and worked in New York since 1971. His work addresses social, political and communications issues, the relationship between public and private space within social frameworks, and investigations of channels of information and the ways they may be used to censor central information or promulgate ideas. His projects incorporate different media such as photography, video, publications, Internet and multi-media installations.

His works have been exhibited throughout the world, including the Venice Biennale, Documenta VI and X in Kassel, the Sao Paulo Biennal, and The Museum of Modern Art in New York. During the past year the MACBA in Barcelona and the Dortmund Museum in Germany presented the on-going series On Translation (1995-2003) and produced an extensive publication on these works. His upcoming public works include On Translation: Die Stadt (Graz/Lille/Barcelona) and On Translation: Tren Urbano (San Juan, Puerto Rico-Roosevelt Station). Upcoming shows include exhibits at Laboratorio de la Alameda in Mexico, the Neuen Museum Weserburg-Bremen, and In Site 2005 in San Diego/Tijuana.

MUNTADAS has taught and directed seminars at the San Francisco Art Institute, the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris, the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil, Cooper Union and many other institutions. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, Visual Arts Program.

“RE/ general focus of work

1.Collaborate with the contexts + possibilities at Location One. This open approach, refuses a pre-determinism + echoes my 20 years of nomadicism within: Site specific “Installations”, Performances and a Sculptural practice, enacted across Australia, Western and Eastern Europe, and the USA.

2.Given the artists and cross media and cross cultural contexts, accessible via Location One, how can a context specific practice, continue to objectify, as an intuitive process, a paradoxical occurrence and a conceptually pointed manifestation?

3.Can a materiality (including the “high –tech” + the collaborative) and the conceptual – can each be utilized, to (both) reflect on itself and question the other. Start with the video/DVD media “finish” with the question: Where does one gesture end and the other begin?”
Recent exhibitions include: Palazzo della Pappesse, Siena, Italy; ARCO, Madrid, Spain; Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France.

Mark Themann’s residency at Location One is sponsored by the New Media Arts Board-Australia Council and Arts Victoria.

Federico was born in Madrid, Spain where he obtained his undergraduate degree in Fine Arts at University of Castilla. In 1999, he was granted a scholarship for an MFA program in Computer arts at the School of Visual Arts, where he specialized in computer aided installations.He has exhibited throughout Europe, the United States and South America. Recent solo shows include “The Sound of Chocolate Flavour” at Metronom, in Barcelona. In 2003, he was awarded with a prestigious grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) in Computer Arts.

Having a background in both academic fine arts and in new media technology, his work ranges from audiovisual pieces to highly complex installations incorporating sensors and microcontrollers.

Federico Muelas is sponsored by INJUVE (Ministerio de Trabajo y Asuntos Sociales).

Online ::

http://federicomuelas.com/

“. . . the power of this solo lay in its unarticulated yet strong emotions, conveyed through impressive physical and emotional control.”
-Jennifer Dunning, in review of “R-1″ for New York Times (April 3, 2001)

“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. In “RL.1″, she performs blindfolded. Video artist Kurt Ralske uses a camera to capture images of the dancer in real-time. The images are processed and layered in real-time, creating a dialogue of shapes and forms with the dance. Dance and image drift in and out of abstraction, simultaneously or in contrast. The video functions variously as a set design, as a commentary on the dance, and as counterpoint to the dance. At times, multiples of images of the dance act as a “real-time Greek chorus” to the solo dancer, providing a record of what has occurred, expanding on what is occurring, and hinting at what is to come. At other times, the dancer’s motions have the quality of a ritual, with the video’s abstractions serving to make the invisible aspects of the ritual visible. “RL.1″ utilizes two very different techniques of communication via the presentation of image (dance and video), while achieving a harmony and simultaneity of expression. “RL.1″ premiered at Joyce Theater Soho in May 2001.

RADICAL LOW is a dance and multimedia ensemble formed in Spring 2001 by Kurt Ralske and Chantal Yzermans. Radical Low has performed at Joyce Theater Soho, Merce Cunningham Studio, at Recyclart Centre (Bruxelles, Belgium), the 92nd St. Y, Judson Hall, and Galapagos Art Space.

RADICAL LOW is exploring the intersection of dance and technology by using custom software created by the artists. New avenues are opened for the relationship between dance and sound and image. Some techniques the artists have used are: video capture, real-time video processing, image analysis, sensors, and networked audio-video control systems

Click here to view the embedded video.

In February 2003, Kurt received received the Image Award at Transmediale International Media Art Festival in Berlin, for for his work on the DVD “Live in Bruxelles” by real-time video improvisation ensemble 242.pilots.

Kurt works mainly as a performer: as a soloist, with other video artists, with live dancers, or with live musicians. He has created interactive video installations, software art, and video-derived still images. He is the author of Auvi, a commercially released software environment for creating custom real-time video programs. (http://auv-i.de)

Chantal Yzermans [dancer/choreographer] was born in Ostend, Belgium, currently residing in NY. Chantal worked in Europe as a freelance choreographer in collaboration with Belgian composer Starfish Pool. Together they toured throughout Europe and Canada with “Ritual for the Dying.” Yzermans was invited to work for the Belgian National Television, German National Television and Festival van Vlaanderen for which she choreographed a contemporary opera “Turm aus Zimst” by German composer Hans Rotman and Belgian film director Jaak Servaes. As a choreographer in residence, she worked at the Keizer Karel Hogeschool in Antwerp, Belgium, where she created “11 Windmills and One Dandelion,” presented at venues throughout France, the Netherlands, Germany and Spain. She received an award “The Vondelpreis (reisestipendium)” from the arts granting organization Alfred Toepfer Stifftung (Hamburg, Germany) for Choreography in 1998. In NYC, her work has been performed at venues such as Judson Church, presented by Movement Research; 92nd Street Y; the Merce Cunningham Studio; and Joyce Theatre Soho.

“. . . the power of this solo lay in its unarticulated yet strong emotions, conveyed through impressive physical and emotional control.”
-Jennifer Dunning, in review of “R-1″ for New York Times (April 3, 2001)

“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. In “RL.1″, she performs blindfolded. Video artist Kurt Ralske uses a camera to capture images of the dancer in real-time. The images are processed and layered in real-time, creating a dialogue of shapes and forms with the dance. Dance and image drift in and out of abstraction, simultaneously or in contrast. The video functions variously as a set design, as a commentary on the dance, and as counterpoint to the dance. At times, multiples of images of the dance act as a “real-time Greek chorus” to the solo dancer, providing a record of what has occurred, expanding on what is occurring, and hinting at what is to come. At other times, the dancer’s motions have the quality of a ritual, with the video’s abstractions serving to make the invisible aspects of the ritual visible. “RL.1″ utilizes two very different techniques of communication via the presentation of image (dance and video), while achieving a harmony and simultaneity of expression. “RL.1″ premiered at Joyce Theater Soho in May 2001.

RADICAL LOW is a dance and multimedia ensemble formed in Spring 2001 by Kurt Ralske and Chantal Yzermans. Radical Low has performed at Joyce Theater Soho, Merce Cunningham Studio, at Recyclart Centre (Bruxelles, Belgium), the 92nd St. Y, Judson Hall, and Galapagos Art Space.

RADICAL LOW is exploring the intersection of dance and technology by using custom software created by the artists. New avenues are opened for the relationship between dance and sound and image. Some techniques the artists have used are: video capture, real-time video processing, image analysis, sensors, and networked audio-video control systems

Click here to view the embedded video.

In February 2003, Kurt received received the Image Award at Transmediale International Media Art Festival in Berlin, for for his work on the DVD “Live in Bruxelles” by real-time video improvisation ensemble 242.pilots.

Kurt works mainly as a performer: as a soloist, with other video artists, with live dancers, or with live musicians. He has created interactive video installations, software art, and video-derived still images. He is the author of Auvi, a commercially released software environment for creating custom real-time video programs. (http://auv-i.de)

Chantal Yzermans [dancer/choreographer] was born in Ostend, Belgium, currently residing in NY. Chantal worked in Europe as a freelance choreographer in collaboration with Belgian composer Starfish Pool. Together they toured throughout Europe and Canada with “Ritual for the Dying.” Yzermans was invited to work for the Belgian National Television, German National Television and Festival van Vlaanderen for which she choreographed a contemporary opera “Turm aus Zimst” by German composer Hans Rotman and Belgian film director Jaak Servaes. As a choreographer in residence, she worked at the Keizer Karel Hogeschool in Antwerp, Belgium, where she created “11 Windmills and One Dandelion,” presented at venues throughout France, the Netherlands, Germany and Spain. She received an award “The Vondelpreis (reisestipendium)” from the arts granting organization Alfred Toepfer Stifftung (Hamburg, Germany) for Choreography in 1998. In NYC, her work has been performed at venues such as Judson Church, presented by Movement Research; 92nd Street Y; the Merce Cunningham Studio; and Joyce Theatre Soho.

“. . . the power of this solo lay in its unarticulated yet strong emotions, conveyed through impressive physical and emotional control.”
-Jennifer Dunning, in review of “R-1″ for New York Times (April 3, 2001)

“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. In “RL.1″, she performs blindfolded. Video artist Kurt Ralske uses a camera to capture images of the dancer in real-time. The images are processed and layered in real-time, creating a dialogue of shapes and forms with the dance. Dance and image drift in and out of abstraction, simultaneously or in contrast. The video functions variously as a set design, as a commentary on the dance, and as counterpoint to the dance. At times, multiples of images of the dance act as a “real-time Greek chorus” to the solo dancer, providing a record of what has occurred, expanding on what is occurring, and hinting at what is to come. At other times, the dancer’s motions have the quality of a ritual, with the video’s abstractions serving to make the invisible aspects of the ritual visible. “RL.1″ utilizes two very different techniques of communication via the presentation of image (dance and video), while achieving a harmony and simultaneity of expression. “RL.1″ premiered at Joyce Theater Soho in May 2001.

RADICAL LOW is a dance and multimedia ensemble formed in Spring 2001 by Kurt Ralske and Chantal Yzermans. Radical Low has performed at Joyce Theater Soho, Merce Cunningham Studio, at Recyclart Centre (Bruxelles, Belgium), the 92nd St. Y, Judson Hall, and Galapagos Art Space.

RADICAL LOW is exploring the intersection of dance and technology by using custom software created by the artists. New avenues are opened for the relationship between dance and sound and image. Some techniques the artists have used are: video capture, real-time video processing, image analysis, sensors, and networked audio-video control systems

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In February 2003, Kurt received received the Image Award at Transmediale International Media Art Festival in Berlin, for for his work on the DVD “Live in Bruxelles” by real-time video improvisation ensemble 242.pilots.

Kurt works mainly as a performer: as a soloist, with other video artists, with live dancers, or with live musicians. He has created interactive video installations, software art, and video-derived still images. He is the author of Auvi, a commercially released software environment for creating custom real-time video programs. (http://auv-i.de)

Chantal Yzermans [dancer/choreographer] was born in Ostend, Belgium, currently residing in NY. Chantal worked in Europe as a freelance choreographer in collaboration with Belgian composer Starfish Pool. Together they toured throughout Europe and Canada with “Ritual for the Dying.” Yzermans was invited to work for the Belgian National Television, German National Television and Festival van Vlaanderen for which she choreographed a contemporary opera “Turm aus Zimst” by German composer Hans Rotman and Belgian film director Jaak Servaes. As a choreographer in residence, she worked at the Keizer Karel Hogeschool in Antwerp, Belgium, where she created “11 Windmills and One Dandelion,” presented at venues throughout France, the Netherlands, Germany and Spain. She received an award “The Vondelpreis (reisestipendium)” from the arts granting organization Alfred Toepfer Stifftung (Hamburg, Germany) for Choreography in 1998. In NYC, her work has been performed at venues such as Judson Church, presented by Movement Research; 92nd Street Y; the Merce Cunningham Studio; and Joyce Theatre Soho.

Under Strange Skies
A Documentary by Daniel Blaufuks
Narrated by Bruno Ganz, 57 min, digital, color, 2002.
prod.: LX Filmes, Lisboa

December 3rd, 2003 at 8pm
Free Admission

(New York, NY – November 14, 2003) – On December 3rd, 2003 Location One will present a free public screening of Daniel Blaufuk’s documentary Under Strange Skies, the story of his German Jewish family’s flight from Nazi Germany to Lisbon.

During the Second World War, Lisbon, like Casablanca, was a corridor for refugees going from Hitler’s occupied territories to America. This film tells two parallel stories about exile and accommodation. Through a narrated memoir and photographs, the tale of a German Jewish family that decided to stay in Portugal is recounted. The larger, more sociological account of artists who used Lisbon’s escape route is skillfully told as well, using beautifully shot historic footage and written memoirs by some of the era’s leading intellectuals, including Heinrich Mann (The Blue Angel) and Alfred Döblin (Berlin Alexanderplatz). This film evokes a desperate, intensely romantic period of exile, despair, and, ultimately, freedom.
-Marc Glassman, Hot Docs, Toronto

“The filmmaker’s narration interweaves with the recollections of his grandfather and of such famed Lisbon refugees as Heinrich Mann and Alfred Döblin, highlighting a montage of old photos, home movies, and archival footage of delicate beauty.” -Peter Keough, The Boston Phoenix

“haunting, elegiac” -The Jewish Advocate

Under Strange Skies has been shown at Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, The Boston Jewish Film Festival, Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montreal, DocLisboa and the Goethe Institute, New York.

Daniel Blaufuks
In 1989, Daniel Blaufuks won the national Kodak Award. In 1996, he was among the final eight chosen for the European Photography Award. Daniel Blaufuks has been working on the relation between photography and literature, through works like My Tangier with the writer Paul Bowles. More recently, Collected Short Stories displays several photographic diptychs in a kind of “snapshot prose,” a speech based on visual fragments that give indication of private stories on their way to become public. He has been showing widely in Europe and works mainly in photography and video, presenting his work through books, installations and set designs. Recent solo exhibitions include: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal; Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy; LisboaPhoto, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal. Blaufuks’ residency at Location One is supported by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Luso-American Development Foundation.

For more information see http://www.danielblaufuks.com

The Doom_machine
by Saoirse Higgins

Mechanism no.1: war
by Saoirse Higgins and Simon Schiessl

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Both the Doom_machine and Mechanism no.1 address our concerns and fears in the world as we embrace technology and its powers, both good and bad. Ultimately we are responsible for the power of technology and how it is used. This exhibition looks at the fear factor in the world particularly during these times of uncertainty and paranoia. It examines our innate pessimism regarding the world and our expectations for the future.

The Doom_machine
by Saoirse Higgins
This piece includes a physical machine, remote actuated sound, video installation and live broadcast.

The Doom_machine takes a daily measure of how close we are to a possible end to the world. Particularly after the events of September 11th, pending disaster has become a regular feature of our lives; thereby increasing the apprehension about the future of our personal and planetary safety. We are in an apocalyptic holding pattern.

The Doom_machine was inspired by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists prediction clock, which has been in use since 1947. The Doom_machine is constantly monitoring the doom level via related sites on the Internet and a doom voting website. It interprets the data as sound that correlates to a doom scale from 0 to 5. Each hour there is an announcement of the daily doom forecast, which can be collected from the Location One website and downloaded onto an mp3 player, printed out, or broadcast on radio.

Mechanism no.1: war
by Saoirse Higgins and Simon Schiessl
Interactive video installation

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?

*to wind up…to screw to a certain pitch, to involve, to implicate, expresses rapid, forceful motion…

Saoirse Higgins
For the past six years Saoirse Higgins has been engaged in experimenting and developing installations that examine our changing digital and physical environment. Higgins’s work is concerned with humankind’s relationship to technology in our present time. These works have been shown both in Europe and in the States in exhibitions including Transmediale in Berlin, Siggraph, Guinness Storehouse 5th gallery, Dublin. Higgins is currently working as a researcher in Chris Csikszentmihalyi’s Computing Culture Group at the Media Lab MIT, Boston. She is also a summer artist in residence at the Location One gallery in New York.

website :: http://web.media.mit.edu/~saoirse

Simon Schiessl
Berlin-based artist Simon Schiessl is currently working on a graduate degree at the MIT Media Lab after having spent several years working in the field of art and technology. Coming from an engineering background, his artistic material is technology, which he explores to achieve new forms of aesthetic experience. The main focus lies in interactive installations that integrate various forms of active electronics, media elements, and artefacts from the non-digital world. His work was shown at several major festivals, including Transmediale/Berlin 2001, Sonar Festival/Barcelona 2002, and Ars ElectronicaCenter/Linz 2002.

website :: http://web.media.mit.edu/~simon_s

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.

Radical Low :: Music and Video Performance by Kurt Ralske and Chantal Yzermans
Tuesday, December 16, 2003 8 PM

Re-Mapping 4 Dimensions: Three New Works
January-February, 2004

Kurt Ralske is a Manhattan-based video artist and composer. His work is exclusively created with his own custom software, written in C, Java, and Max/MSP, and involves the expressive improvisation of both sound and image, simultaneously and in real-time. Kurt has performed at museums, galleries, and theaters throughout Europe, Canada, and the US, including the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art and the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art. The New York Times has praised his “compelling, ingenious alliance of sound and motion” and his “technological wizardry”.

In February 2003, Kurt received received the Image Award at Transmediale International Media Art Festival in Berlin, for for his work on the DVD “Live in Bruxelles” by real-time video improvisation ensemble 242.pilots.

Kurt works mainly as a performer: as a soloist, with other video artists, with live dancers, or with live musicians. He has created interactive video installations, software art, and video-derived still images. He is the author of Auvi, a commercially released software environment for creating custom real-time video programs.

Online ::
http://retnull.com/

In 1995, Miguel Soares graduated with a degree in Industrial Design from the Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade, Lisbon. Prior to this, he studied photography at Ar.Co (Lisbon) and attended the Atelier Livre de Desenho at the Galeria Monumental (Lisbon).

Although Soares has been experimenting in several mediums, his more recent installations tend to combine video animation, DVD projection, and stereo sounds of his own composition. As an example, in 2003, he worked in conjunction with the San Francisco Bay Area group, “Negativland,” known for its struggle against restrictive copyright laws in the 90′s, and created “Time Zones” — where he investigates the use of media as a vehicle for psychological warfare, and of computers to control the “imperfections” of mankind.

New York City and the United States have always been a focus of interest to this artist.
Miguel’s residency at Location One is supported by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Luso-American Development Foundation.

Recent exhibitions include: Galeria Monumental, Lisbon; ESTGAD, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. In January 2004, the Hierba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco will present an exhibition that focuses on the theme of computer games, and issues of Internet culture and intellectual property rights.

Online ::

http://migso.net/

address:Rua Conde de Almoster 22. 2E 1500-194 Lisbon Portugal
mobile: +351 96 533 0839
email: migsomail@yahoo.com

(For information on the journal and PAJ books: mitpress.mit.edu/paj)

Bonnie Marranca is the author of two collections of essays, Ecologies of Theatre and Theatrewritings, and has edited several anthologies, including Conversations on Art and Performance, Interculturalism and Performance, Theatre of the Ridiculous Plays for the End of the Century, The Theatre of Images, American Dreams: The Imagination of Sam Shepard. She is a Guggenheim Fellow, Fulbright Senior Scholar, and winner of the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism. She has taught and lectured in numerous American and European universities and is the Anschutz Distinguished Fellow in American Studies at Princeton University for 2001. (all with Gautam Dasgupta);

At Location One Bonnie is director of Locution, a series of interviews with artists and writers in the performance community. In 2002, she is organizing a series of artist talks called PerformanceContemporary.

Under Strange Skies :: Public Screening, Wednesday, December 3, 2003 8 PM

Daniel Blaufuks has been showing widely in Europe and works mainly in photography and video, presenting his work through books, installations and set designs.

Daniel Blaufuks – artist in residence, interviewed by Anne Barlow in July 2003His latest work Collected Short Stories can be seen at present at the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon, displaying several photographic dipthycs in a kind of “snapshot prose”, a speech based on visual fragments that give indication of private stories on their way to becoming public. Last year, Daniel Blaufuks finished the documentary Under Strange Skies, a personal tale on the Jewish refugees, who passed through Lisbon during the Second World War. This film was selected, among other festivals, for the Hot Docs Festival in April in Toronto.

website :: http://www.danielblaufuks.com
read an article by Sérgio Mah in Lab 71 :: http://www.lab71.org

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.

Friday March 22nd: The Julius Hemphill Sextet (Marty Ehrlich, Music Director) $15
Saturday March 23rd: Dave Douglas and Trisha Brown- An Evening of Improvisation $20
Sunday March 24th: Atsushi Nishijima $10

Special Ticket Price: $35 for all three nights, or the individual rates listed above. Members: FREE Advanced tickets are available Tuesday- Saturday 12-6:00PM at Location One

Atsusuhi Nishijima
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. 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).

IN HOT PURSUIT at Location One
New Theatre. Innovative Directors.
Curated by Jocelyn Ruggiero

SONNETS FOR AN OLD CENTURY
A New Play by Jose Rivera
Directed by KJ Sanchez
January 24 and 25
8:00 PM Tickets $10 (Members free)

With Carolyn Baeumler, George Bass, Doug Bost, Alison Briner, Ron Cohen, Michael Escamilla, Dion Graham, Bridgett Ane Lawrence, Kriste Peoples, Bray Poor, Jocelyn Ruggiero and Dawn Saito;
Stage Manager Emily Mendelsohn
Live Sound by Atsushi Nishijima and Richard Huntley

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. In a series of exquisitely written monologues, using dance and live music, SONNETS captures the subtle, often overlooked treasures of everyday life.

KJ SANCHEZ (Director)
recently starred as Thyona in Charles L. Mee’s BIG LOVE at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. KJ was also fight captain this production which began at the 2000 Humana Festival, then moved to Long Wharf Theater, Berkeley Rep, The Goodman and culminated in the Next Wave Festival at BAM. This past year KJ created, choreographed and directed TOO MUCH WATER, a dance theatre piece about Ophelia, for the graduate theatre training program at the University of Washington in Seattle. KJ was a member of Anne Bogart’s SITI Company for many years with whom she co-created plays such as GOING GOING GONE, SMALL LIVES BIG DREAMS and CULTURE OF DESIRE and performed extensively throughout the US and internationally.

JOSÉ RIVERA (Playwright)
Puerto Rican-born Jose Rivera’s plays have been seen nationally, internationally and translated into seven languages. Rivera’s plays havebeen performed at the Joseph Papp Public Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, South Coast Rep, the Goodman Theatre, the Mark Taper Forum, Actors Theatre of Louisville’s Humana Festival, Hartford Stage Company, and Manhattan Class Company — as well as theatres in Mexico, Puerto Rico, Peru, Scotland, Greece, Rumania, Sweden, Norway, England, and France. They include the Obie Award-winning plays MARISOL and REFERENCES TO SALVADOR DALI MAKE ME HOT, as well as CLOUD TECTONICS, EACH DAY DIES WITH SLEEP, THE PROMISE, THE HOUSE OF RAMON IGLESIA, GIANTS HAVE US IN THEIR BOOKS, THE STREET OF THE SUN, SONNETS FOR AN OLD CENTURY, and SUENO. His work has been generously supported by the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays, the National Arts Club, the NEA, the Rockefeller Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Fulbright Commission, PEN West, the Whiting Foundation, and the Berilla Kerr Foundation. THE HOUSE OF RAMON IGLESIA appeared on the public television series American Playhouse. Rivera has studied with Nobel Prize Winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez at the Sundance Institute and has been a writer-in-residence at the Royal Court Theatre, London. Television credits include co-creating and producing the critically-acclaimed NBC series “Eerie, Indiana” as well as “The Eddie Matos Story” for HBO; episodes of “Goosebumps,” “The Great Brain,” and “Night Visions” for the Henson Company; “The Brothers Garcia” for Nickelodeon; and “A.K.A. Pablo” for ABC. Films include “The Jungle Book: Mowgli’s Story,” “Mr. Shadow,” and “Family Matters,” all for Disney, as well as the 3-D IMAX film “Riding the Comet” for Sony. Current theatre and film projects include SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS and BRAINPEOPLE (both commissioned by South Coast Rep), ADORATION OF THE OLD WOMAN (commissioned by La Jolla Playhouse), and the films “A Bolero for the Disenchanted” (Showtime), “Somewhere in Time, II” (Universal Home Video), “The Motorcycle Diaries,” (Robert Redford’s Wildwood Co. directed by Walter Salles), “Lucky” (Interscope), and “Cesar Chavez” (Showtime).

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. 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).

The New York City based percussionist RICHARD LIVINGSTON HUNTLEY plays a wide variety of music including jazz, Brazilian, klezmer, and avant garde. He has performed and recorded with jazz greats Mulgrew Miller and Cameron Brown. Huntley has performed with notable jazz musicians such as Billy Drewes, Don Braden and Shunzo Ohno; the Brazilian pianist Dom Salvador; klezmer music with Frank London from the Klezmatics, among others. Huntley co-leads a band with the Danish saxophonist Emil Hess. The Hess/Huntley group has released two CDs, most recently “Skovens Nat.” The Hess/Huntley group has toured extensively throughout Europe and performs regularly in New York City. Huntley is also an endorser/clinician for Bosphorus cymbals and Regal Tip sticks and brushes.

EMILY MENDELSOHN (Stage Manager)
recently graduated from SmithCollege where she studied theatre and a whole lot else.She has dabbled in stage managing atTNC, The Bloomsbury Theatre in London and New England Actor’s Theatre in New Haven.
CAST BIOGRAPHIES:

GEORGE BASS
is a graduate of the High School of Performing Arts in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he worked as an actor, singer, dancer, director and choreographer. In New York City since 1975, he has been actively working in theatre both English and Spanish. Principal credits include JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, HAIR, ANTHON Y AND CLEOPATRA, ARSENIC AND OLD LACE , DEATH AND THE MAIDEN, LATE NITE CATECHISM and a concert version of DESIREE, a comic opera by J.P. Sousa (CD Recording). He is well known by Spanish audiences for his performances in Zarzuelas (Spanish Operettas) such as THE PHARAOH’S COURT, THE MERRY GENERAL’S WIFE, THE BARBER OF SEVILLE and LA PARRANDA. Mr. Bass received several awards and his voice can be heard in numerous T.V. and radio jingles and commercials. Film credits: THE BREAK and THE CRYSTAL CAGE. T.V. appearances include LAW & ORDER, AMERICA’S MOST WANTED, THE SOPRANOS, STRANGERS WITH CANDY and THE BEAT.

CAROLYN BAEUMLER
spent most of last year appearing with KJ Sanchez in Charles L. Mee’s BIG LOVE, directed by Les Waters (2000 Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Long Wharf Theatre, Berkeley Repertory, The Goodman Theatre, and the 2001 Next Wave Festival at BAM). Other recent credits include: Marilyn Monroe in MISS GOLDEN DREAMS (ACT,Seattle); Mae West in SEX (The Hourglass Group); understudy for Blanche and Stella in A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (NYTW); A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (Steppenwolf); Courtney Love in LOVE IN THE VOID; THE EROTICA PROJECT and IN-BETWEENS. She is a co founder of The Hourglass Group and a Usual Suspect at New York Theatre Workshop and Doug’s wife.

DOUG BOST
is an original member of the sketch comedy group Euphobia. He has been heard in the award-winning radio dramas DEAD MAN’S HOLE and DECEMBER17, both broadcast on Bavarian State Radio and National Public Radio’s NPR Playhouse. Doug is well known to lovers of Japanese hentai video as THE MASTER from the series BRIDE OF DARKNESS. Doug is also a writer.

ALLISON BRINER
was most recently seen in The Great Lakes Theatre Festival’s pre-Broadway production of LONESTAR LOVE OR THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, TEXAS. Prior to that she played the role of Chic in The Cape Playhouse production of CRIMES OF THE HEART, starring Sandy Duncan. Off Broadway: RETURN TO THE FORBIDDEN PLANET, FORBIDDEN BROADWAY, JACQUES BREL…THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY, FORBIDDEN HOLLYWOOD, SONG OF SINGAPORE and PETE “N” KEELY. National Tours: LES MISERABLES, TITANTIC…A NEW MUSICAL. Ms. Briner will be featured in The Denver Center for the Performing Arts’ production of ALMOST HEAVEN, the musical based on the life and music of John Denver.

RONALD COHEN
has appeared such roles as Shakespeare’s Othello, Vershinin in THE THREE SISTERS, and Graham in Stuart Spencer’s 10011/MANHATTAN ZIP. This past fall he was in Chiori Miyagawa’s WOMAN KILLER at HERE! Films include Frank Whaley’s THE JIMMY SHOW, show last week at Sundance Film Festival. For many years he was an editor at Women’s Wear Daily where he also reviewed theater and cabaret. He currently covers New York theater for Musical Stages Magazine, published in Britain.

MICHAEL RAY ESCAMILLA
NYC: Mayi-Theatre at The Public, Lincoln Center Theatre, Classic Stage Company, Theatre for a New Audience, Cherry Lane Theatre, Soho Rep. and Camilla’s. Regional theatre: ATL (Humana Festival), Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and North Shore (Boston). TV: THE JOB.

BRIDGETT ANE LAWRENCE
is thrilled to be performing in this fabulous space with such talented people. Stage credits include: EINSTEIN’S DREAMS at the Kraine Theatre, the two-woman play SHE FINDS HER at the Manhattan Theatre Source, Nina in THE SEAGULL with StreetSigns Center for Literature & Performance, the American Globe Theatre’s ANTIGONE, Drew Pisarra’s YES IS FOR A VERY YOUNG MAN at the Brooklyn Arts Exchange and two seasons of A CHRISTMAS CAROL at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago; BA received her BFA in Acting from Ithaca College. She would like to thank KJ for this rare opportunity and her beautiful, daring direction. BA dedicates this performance to her husband, Chris, a constant inspiration.

KRISTE PEOPLES
is not new to the stage, though SONNETS marks her first acting experience in some time. She can usually be found singing jazz and blues at clubs in and around Manhattan with her trio. Website: http://www.kristepeoples.com

JOCELYN RUGGIERO
last worked with KJ Sanchez developing an original project about medicine this past summer. They met while acting in a production of FEFU AND HER FRIENDS at Santa Fe Stages, directed by Maria Irene Fornés. Other acting credits include THE MAN WHO SHOT HIS WASHING MACHINE, directed by Tom O’Horgan at TNC; THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT, directed by Sonja Moser; SPRINGTIME at The Image Theatre and LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING at Long Wharf Theatre, directed by Mike Bradwell. In March, she will perform at Location One in PHILOCTETES, directed by Sonja Moser. Jocelyn is currently rehearsing PERSEPHONE, written and directed by Emily Davis, a play that will use masks and puppets by Shannon Harvey. She is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College.

DAWN AKEMI SAITO
actress/performance artist, writer and Butoh dancer/choreographer has collaborated with major innovative performance groups, as well a presenting her own works in New York, Los Angeles and Europe. Her works include: A FACE OF OUR OWN, in collaboration with composer Myra Melford presented at the Orpheum Theatre in Graz, Austria; Leaves, Water, Sun (Berkshire Theater); Red Eye (Whitney Museum at Philip Morris); HALO (Asian American Theater Workshop at Mark Taper and Highways); HA directed by Maria Mileaf (Dance Theater Workshop, New York Theater Workshop); PASTIME (LaMaMa, E.T.C.); DreamCatcher (Dance Theater Workshop and Aaron Davis Hall). Other Dance/Theatre background includes performing in: Arden/Ardennes at Theatre du Rond-Point in Paris; MY HOUSE WAS COLLAPSING TOWARD ONE SIDE, conceived and directed by Charles Mee, Jr. with music composed by Myra Melford (Dance Theater Workshop); Bill T. Jones’ LAST SUPPER AT UNCLE TOM’S CABIN at Brooklyn Academy of Music; Ping Chong’s DESHIMA and ELEPHANT MEMORIES; Music-Theater Group’s MOBY DICK IN VENICE directed by Roman Paska at the Public Theater’s Henson Festival; CHILDREN OF WAR directed by Larry Sacharow at the Taganka Theatre in Moscow; ‘MAID by Erik Ehn and directed by Maria Mileaf at Lincoln Center’s Summer Festival; HEDDA GABLER at The Old Globe Theater; PHOTOGRAPHS AT S21, directed by William Carden; SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER and THE POET at Hartford Stage Co., directed by JoAnne Akalaitis. Dawn is currently an Artist-In-Residence and teaches at Fordham University.

Myth and the Contemporary, Dec. 11, 7:30 pm
Panelists: Meredith Monk,, John Jesurun,, Mary Lucier, Eiko Otake, Theodora Skiptares,
Moderator: Bonnie Marranca

Meredith Monk is a composer, choreographer, singer, creator of new opera, musical theatre works, films, and installations. A pioneer in what is now called “extended vocal technique” and “interdisciplinary performance,” she has created more than 100 works. She is a recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship. Monk has made more than a dozen recordings, and her music has been heard in numerous films.

Mary Lucier has been a sculptor, photographer, and performance artist before turning to video in the early seventies. Her video pieces are widely exhibited in museums and galleries in the U. S. and abroad. Among her many works are Ohio at Giverny, Last Rites (Positano), Noah’s Raven, and House by the Water. Mary Lucier is represented in the current Whitney Museum exhibition entitled Into the Light.

Eiko Otake is one half of the dance partnership known as Eiko and Koma who choreograph and perform only their own works. Since leaving their native Japan almost three decades ago, they have presented their works at theatres, universities, museums, galleries and festivals across North America, Europe, and Asia. Recently, they premiered a new piece, Be With, in collaboration with dancer/choreographer Anna Halprin and Joan Jeanrenaud, a former member of Kronos Quartet, at the Kennedy Center in Washington. In January it will be seen at the Joyce Theatre.

John Jesurun is a playwright, director, and media artist. Among his many plays are Deep Sleep and fifty-two pisodes of his serial play Chang In a Void Moon. His White Water is currently running in Mexico City. The End of Cinematics, an opera in collaboration with composer Mikel Rouse, premieres in fall 2002 at the Orange County Performing Arts Center. His new media work, Virtual Actor, made in collaboration with scientists from Bell Labs, will be presented in December as part of the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Arts in Multimedia program.

Theodora Skipitares is a visual artist and theater director who has been working for more than two decades in New York. She began as an autobiographical solo performer before incorporating realistic puppet figures, original music scores, film and video in larger theatre works that examined historical and social themes. Recently, she has been working in Vietnam and India. Next month, she will travel to Cambodia where, with La MaMa’s Ellen Stewart, she will create an opera with life-size shadow puppets. Along with Dan Hurlin, she is co-director of the Arts at St. Ann’s Puppetry Lab.

Bonnie Marranca, Moderator.
She is the author of Ecologies of Theatre and Theatrewitings, and editor of several anthologies, including Conversations on Art and Performance, Plays for the End of the Century, and The Theatre of Images.

This project is supported, in part, with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Challenge Program, The New York State Council on the Arts and Ellynne Skove. Special thanks to Barbara Dufty of Meredith Monk/The House Foundation for the Arts and to the Location One staff for their technical and administrative support.

“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:

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

Collaboration of Bosnian Artist Danica Daki + Croatian Artist Sandra Sterle
Nov-Dec, 2001

Project Description: In the four-month residency and online project go_HOME, Bosnian artist Danica Daki and Croatian artist Sandra Sterle will explore physical, cultural, and psychological dislocation and strategies for rebuilding and renewal. In September 2001, the artists, two women of different ethnic backgrounds from the former Yugoslavia who maintain homes and careers in both West and East Europe, will relocate to New York City to live together for four months in an experimental home. Artist Marjetica Potr_ from Slovenia and artist Milica Tomic with theorist Branimir Stojanovic from Serbia, will participate in the project in September and December respectively. The artists will utilize the physical residence and their website – a virtual home on the internet — as a haven for creating video and photographic projects, and as a common meeting ground for engaging the interested public in dialogue around issues of migration, national identity, technology, and globalization. The project will provide time and space for highly personal reflection and artmaking as well as public discussion from fresh perspectives not often heard in the United States. The go_HOME website will feature photographic, video, and sound works; recipes; a bibliography; texts from the US and from Eastern Europe; a calendar of events; chatrooms; and a guestbook. Each month, the artists will invite artists, architects, scholars, representatives from immigrant service organizations, and neighbors for Sunday dinner discussions, which will be webcast live through the new media center Location One in New York.

The themes of the dinners will interweave an exploration of the impact of the internet on culture and community with the topics: Architectures of Migration; Women Who Travel Too Much: Relocating Culture, Reproducing Home; Transitory Cases: Language, Media, and Migration; Imagined Homes: Nationalism and Globalization. The October dinner discussion will be point-to-point web-streamed with the Sarajevo Center for Contemporary Arts’ media lab. In November, the dinner discussion will be point-to-point web-streamed with the new media center Mama (Mi2), in Zagreb, Croatia. These two sites will each organize a parallel, interactive dinner gathering for their evening of web-streamed dialogue with New York.

Artist Biographies:
Bosnian artist Danica Daki_ creates sculptural installations, site-specific video projections, and public architectural sound projects to investigate the corporal and global aspects of identity and language, as well as the tensions that arise between collective and individual experience. Her video installation Zid/Wall (1998) comprises 64 square images of mouths telling stories in different languages, edited into a collage recalling bricks in a wall or a patchwork of parallel individual stories. Zid/Wall highlights Daki_’s concern with the relationship between architecture, the body, and identity. In her video installation

Autoportrait (1999), two languages and stories emerge from a barely animated bust of the artist. In this image, the artist’s mouth is doubled, replacing her eyes and enabling her to tell fairytales simultaneously in Bosnian and German. As this disconcerting image obscures recognition of Daki_’s face by obliterating the artist’s eyes, it also portrays the composite of language, stories, and homes that make up her identity. Daki_’s work has been shown at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (1999); Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria (1999); and she has created site-specific public projects in Bratislava, Slovakia, and in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She was an ArtsLink Fellow in 1999. Daki_ was born in Sarajevo and studied at the Academy of Art in Sarajevo, the Academy of Art in Belgrade, and the Academy of Art in Dusseldorf. She lives and works in Dusseldorf, Germany, and in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovinia.

Croatian artist Sandra Sterle creates fantastic and enigmatic personas in her practice of video, media installation, web projects, photography, and performance. Inhabiting various quasi-fictional identities, including a mad woman, a Croatian peasant, an eery Minnie Mouse, and a poet, in her CD-ROM The Characters (1998), she investigates shifts, gaps, and areas of overlap in identities and language. For Sterle, the identity of the medium itself can be multiple, as she explores how the lives of ephemeral, process-oriented works of art are affected, and in some cases eluded, by sophisticated modes of documentation. Sterle examines the tension and coexistence of traditional and contemporary ways of life, and situations in which technology and tradition inform each other as they represent human emotions and fears. Sterle collaborated with artist Dan Oki on the performance and interactive language media project, To Forget, To Remember, and to Know (1998) at Amsterdam College in The Netherlands, the school that nearly all new immigrants attend to learn Dutch. Her work has been shown at _kuc Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia (2000); Museum of Modern Art, Arnhem (1998); Videomedeja, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia (1997); and she has created site-specific public work in Nettlecombe, United Kingdom, and has designed several online projects. She was an ArtsLink Fellow in 1999. Sterle was born in Zadar, Croatia, and she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, Croatia, and the Academy of Art in Dusseldorf. She teaches video art at the Art Academy in Split, Croatia, and lives there and in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Slovenian artist and architect Marjetica Potr_ has been concerned for the past half decade with the phenomenon of migration. An urban anthropologist, Potr_ investigates the shifting terrain of the contemporary city. Potr_ champions a growing trend of what she terms “individual initiatives” in urban construction that include such diverse manifestations as squatter cooperatives, shantytowns, and private gated communities. Her large-scale architectural projects grow out of her in-depth research of specific instances of migration. Potr_’s Core Units are small functional buildings designed for modification and use by settlers, and her House for Travelers (2000) can be erected as needed by migrants. She is the recipient of the Guggenheim Museum’s 2000 Hugo Boss Prize, and her work has been shown most recently at the Guggenheim Museum, New York (2001); Manifesta 3, Ljubljana, Slovenia (2000); and at the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria (1999). She was an ArtsLink Fellow in 1995. Marjetica Potrc lives and works in Ljubljana and is currently Associate Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Ljubljana, and this year she is an artist in residence at the Kuensterlhaus Bethanien in Berlin. Serbian theorist Branimir Stojanovic and artist and actress Milica Tomic live and work together in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Stojanovic holds a graduate degree in Philosophy from Belgrade University, and has published numerous articles on contemporary philosophy and psychoanalytic theory. In her work, Tomic highlights the disjunctures between personal experience and historically and media constructed images. Tomic’s public photographic installation Erlauf Remembers (2001) sited on roadside billboards around Erlauf, Austria, continues her interest in the role of personal responsibility in constructing memory, nationality, and recording political violence. Her earlier video installation I am Milica Tomic (1998) is a personal meditation on the historical and political significance of building identity through language. Tomi_ has had solo exhibitions at the Secession, Vienna, Austria (2000); Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria (1999); and she has created an online project on Cygnet Virtual Gallery for the company Shiseido (1999). Her work has been exhibited in group exhibitions at the Venice Biennial (2001); Generali Foundation, Vienna (2001); Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (1999); the Sao Paulo Biennial (1998); and her work will be included in an upcoming exhibition at Kiasma in Helsinki, Finland, in 2002.

Go_HOME is co-directed by Fritzie Brown and curator Katherine Carl.

Locations and Dates:
Go_HOME will take place in New York City and online from September 15, 2001 to December 31, 2001. Four Sunday dinner discussions with special guests will be held during the course of the project. Each dinner will be webcast at www.project-go-home.com and www.location1.org starting at 2:00 pm US Eastern Time and 8:00 pm Central European Time on the following dates:

September 23 : Architectures of Migration
October 14 : Women Who Travel Too Much: Relocating Culture, Reproducing Home
November 11 : Transitory Cases: Language, Media, and Migration
December 16 : Imagined Homes: Nationalism and Globalization

Partners:
Go_HOME is an ArtsLink Special project funded by the Animating Democracy Initiative, a program of Americans for the Arts funded by the Ford Foundation; the Trust for Mutual Understanding; the Kettering Family Foundation; CEC International Partners; and Franklin Furnace’s “The Future of the Present” program.

Location One, New York, will conduct the web streaming activities through its network of international affiliates. The Sarajevo Center for Contemporary Arts will host the point-to-point online discussion in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on October 14. The new media center Mama (Mi2), with the non-governmental organization What, How, and For Whom, will host the point-to-point online discussion in Zagreb, Croatia, on November 11.

IMAGES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST
Press Contact: Fritzie Brown: 212.643.1985 x23
Katherine Carl: 718.398.0107

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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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. A particularly important resource for the artist is the city, which becomes a gigantic synthesizer from which everyday sounds are selected and transformed them into a unique “sound” due to “space”. Laura Trippi , curator of “Citycircus” in 1994 (New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York) included Nishijima’s “Mondrian Ping Pong”. She connects his work to the aesthetic sensibility of John Cage, who employed chance operations and rule-governed improvisations. Ong Ken Sen, artistic director of Theatre Works in Singapore, considers Nishijima to be an artist of extraordinary talent and inventiveness who addresses the critical relationship between art and science. His works have been exhibited and performed throughout Japan (solo exhibitions in 1992 at the Osaka Contemporary Art Center; in 1998 at the Dohjidai Gallery of Art, Kyoto and Ashiya City Museum of Art & History, Hyogo) , as well as Singapore, Paris and New York (1994, “Citycircus”, New Museum of Contemporary Art).

View a video interview of Atsushi Nishijima by Yuzo Sakuramoto.
with excerpt in english.

Subtractive Creation/Visible Sound
A Multimedia Installation by composer and visual artist Atsushi Nishijima
December 8th – 29, 2001

“One of my earliest media memories: the celebrity tic-tac-toe game of Hollywood Squares. At the time, I had no idea who the celebrities were, what the questions were about, or why their answers were so funny, but the display of nine “caged” personae springing to life on cue still provides, to my mind, a kind of model for how electronic media deliver the goods. Meanwhile, real and prosthetic heads multiply like Hydras: click away from one and find two more in its place. War, stocks, sex scandals, murder, fashion and show business all beckon to the Hydra’s multitask faces. Delivery System No. 1 offers them a theater, by way of an installation play in three acts: GOOD MORNING, CATASTROPHE, and COURAGE. Synchronized swimming for the face, loops of refigured text, jumping the gap from inside the grid—who’s there?

—Gregory Whitehead

Gregory Whitehead is a playwright, audio artist, voice performer, radiomaker. Since 1984, Whitehead has written, performed and produced over eighty audio features, documentaries and earplays for broadcast in the US and abroad, together with an extensive list of credits in new media, theater, film and installations.

mp3 clips of some of his radio and audio works

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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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.