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Conductivity

heather — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 16:21:54 +0000

Ana Freitas
Michaela Müller
Tommy Støckel
Andrea Yugoslavia Chirinos
June 28-July 28, 2012
Opening Reception June 28, 6-8pm
Curated by Claudia Calirman

Location One is proud to present Conductivity, an exhibition presenting different perceptions of time and space, featuring works by Ana Freitas, Michaela Müller, and Tommy Støckel, and a dance performance by Andrea Yugoslavia Chirinos. The opening reception will take place on Thursday, June 28, from 6–8pm, with Chirinos’s dance performances scheduled for 7pm and 7:30pm. An additional event on Friday, June 29, at 7pm, will feature artist Ana Freitas in conversation with scientist Brian Schwartz.

Conductivity looks at how these artists explore distinct ideas of time from a variety of perspectives—systemic, scientific, phenomenological, and experiential. The artists approach time as both transitory and universal, a force that continuously shifts our experience of the environment. Their works act as energy conduits, either evoking a sense of rapid flow through chaotic images and implied movement or conveying a sense of timeless quietude through a systemic and controlled composition. Time is not experienced sequentially or chronologically, but as a prolonged, directionless presence. The works on view abandon the idea of time as random and haphazard in favor of construction, concentration, and intention; although the works are themselves site-specific and temporal, they explore the timeless and constant quality of duration.

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In the animated installation Location Scouting: Airport, Swiss artist Michaela Müller uses airports as a paradigm for the highly standardized communication of global societies. Her film animations have no specific narrative. Her figures melt into an endless flow of moving images. Müller’s hyper-meticulous animation technique, which involves hand-painting each individual frame on glass, gives her films a lush, textured quality that emphasizes the vibrancy of color, the rhythm of brushstrokes, and the gravity, liquidity, and luminosity of paint. Location Scouting is a visual inquiry into the “painted” location of a film animation. Her accompanying installation, called Trial and Error, illuminates facets of her unique process.

Müller was born in St. Gallen, Switzerland. She lives and works in Croatia and in Switzerland. She graduated with an MA in Animation and New Media from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, Croatia (2009). Müller’s acclaimed eight-minute film animation, Miramare (2009), made its international premiere at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, and has been shown at more than one hundred festivals since that time. It has won eighteen prizes, among them the Grand Prix of Animateka International at the Animation Festival Ljubljana, the Golden Centaur for Best Debut Film at Message to Man Film Festival in St. Petersburg, and the Swiss Film Prize Quartz. In 2011, Miramare was among the thirty films nominated for the European Cartoon d’Or Award. Michaela’s residency is made possible by Pierre Nussbaumer, C. und A. Kupper Stiftung, Kulturförderung Kanton Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Kulturförderung Kanton St.Gallen

Danish artist Tommy Støckel’s installation Structured Studio Situation (New York) is a sculptural arrangement of approximately 1,500 objects placed directly on the gallery floor, according to a carefully planned composition. The display is based on the repetition of randomly placed elements. Through the replication of a single unit, Støckel creates a tight structure that shifts from an identical pattern into multiple compositions generating a variety of structural possibilities. His work plays with issues of scale, seriality, and repeated randomness—a study in controlled environment and organized chaos. Støckel’s sculptural installation for Conductivity, created during his residency at Location One, has the exact dimensions of the artist’s studio floor. It aggregates items accumulated by the artist in his studio and objects collected nearby in SoHo, from sculptural models to found materials like chopsticks and Styrofoam cups.

Støckel was born in Copenhagen in 1972, where he attended the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. He is currently based in Berlin. In his preferred medium of sculpture, he explores binary ideas—reality and artificiality, fiction and history, handmade versus digital, minimal and baroque, permanence and temporality. His solo exhibitions include What Already Was and What Could Have Been, at Helene Nyborg Contemporary, Copenhagen; 3 Sculptures, at SMART Project Space, Amsterdam; Simulation & Decoration, at Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco; Tommy Støckel’s Art of Tomorrow, at Arnolfini, Bristol; From Here to Then and Back Again, at Kunstverein Langenhagen, Langenhagen; and Ist das Leben nicht schön?, at Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main. Tommy’s residency is made possible by the Danish Arts Council.

Ana Freitas’s photogram series Dialogue about Time started with an inquiry: What is the nature of time? The work is based on an intense dialogue about time between the artist and cosmologist Mário Novello. The interdisciplinary encounter of arts and science is currently at the center of her artistic investigations. In this cacophonic dialogue, Freitas tries to visually represent a panoply of complex issues related to time and space. Her attempt to illustrate the nature of time based on a scientific discourse underscores the distance between these two worlds, since one language can never be fully translated into the other. Her photograms—photographic images without the use of the camera–are a visual conduit for issues related to the gravitational field, fluidity, matter, cosmic structures, geometry, continuum space, constant movement, density, and endless flow. They hint at the poetic notion of time and space as pure imagination, with its imprecision and endless interpretations. Ana’s residency is made possible by the Ministry of Culture of the Brazilian Government, Portas Vilaseca Gallery in Rio de Janeiro.

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Freitas lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Time, geometry, nature, and the morphology of the creative process are part of her research universe. Her mediums include drawing, photography, artist’s books, printmaking, and sculpture. She had exhibited at Galeria Portas Vilaseca, Solar Grandjean de Montigny Puc-Rio, and Castelinho do Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro. She is represented by Galeria Portas Vilaseca from Rio de Janeiro.

Andrea Yugoslavia Chirinos is a dancer and choreographer based in Mexico City and New York. Her work is influenced by the visual arts, dance, photography, and human attitudes and gestures. Chirinos uses movement to create nonlinear narratives that allow the viewer to experience their own perception of time, focusing on images, sensations, and emotional states. In her dance performance Everything Expires, she explores non-narrative, fragmented perception and distorted lapses of time, combining such disparate elements as humor, movement, and theatrical characters. Everything Expires borrows elements from the Japanese artist Daido Moriyama, a photographer who takes pictures in the Tokyo district of Shinjuku, recording reality but never trying to create a perfect image. Like Moriyama, Chirinos appropriates the raw power of reality, engaging in energetic movement as a gesture of internal desire. In her dance performance, the photographer and her assistant conduct a bodily dialogue about memory and time-related issues.

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Chirinos was born in Mexico City, where she studied dance and art history. She moved to New York in 1994. As the director of the Mexico City–based dance company Mitrovica Danza Contemporanea, she has choreographed several works, including Enredos, which won the Mexican National award. She often performs in galleries and museums instead of theaters in order to be closer to the viewer. Chirinos has collaborated with artists such as Martin Creed, Los Super Elegante, and Mario Garcia. Andrea’s residency is made possible by The Mexican Cultural Institute of New York and Location One’s International Committee.

For press inquiries, please contact Heather Wagner at press@location1.org

Location One is extremely grateful to The NY State Council on the Arts, The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Pierre Nussbaumer, C. und A. Kupper Stiftung, Kulturförderung Kanton Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Kulturförderung Kanton St. Gallen, the Ministry of Culture of the Brazilian Government, Portas Vilaseca Gallery in Rio de Janeiro, The Danish Arts Council, The Mexican Cultural Institute of New York, and Location One’s International Committee for making this event possible.

Rudy Shepherd: Portraits

heather — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:00:59 +0000

Rudy Shepherd: Portraits
July 8–31, 2009
Opening Reception July 8, 6–8pm
Location One IRP Exhibition

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).

In his “Taliban” series, also on view, Shepherd presents beautifully executed color drawings of anonymous Taliban members who, as the artist states “have lived and died for their cause and been completely forgotten.” The portraits are based on a book from 2004 that reproduces images of Taliban soldiers taken in photographic studios in Afghanistan before these men departed on “missions” from which they did not return.

In “The Healers” series from 2009 Shepherd examines his black heroes in large-scale paintings in which he presents the extraordinary individuals against luscious gold backgrounds, hung above eye level, like sacred icons in front of which the spectator is meant to pause, as if in the presence of a diety. Yet, Shepherd’s ‘dieties’–Alice Coltrane (musician, wife of legendary John Coltrane), Sun Ra (American jazz musician), Frantz Fanon (revolutionary author from Martinique who was immensely influential in the field of post-colonial studies), and Octavia Butler (American science fiction author)—are a far cry from the (Caucasian) sitters generally encountered in such traditional portraiture: Christ, Virgin Mary, and various saints, for instance.

Lastly, “Portraits” also features several small-scale paintings, all dated 2006, that could be called “house-portraits” of significant writers, cultural thinkers or places of historical import: Frederick Douglass’ House, Aerial View Neverland Ranch, Freud’s Childhood Home, and the gate to the Auschwitz concentration camp with the haunting phrase emblazoned on it, Arbeit Macht Frei (Work will make you free).

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

Based in Harlem, NY, Rudy Shepherd received a BS in Biology and Studio Art from Wake Forest University and an MFA in Sculpture from the School of Art Institute of Chicago. He has been in group exhibitions at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, NY, The Studio Museum of Harlem, NY, Bronx Museum of Art, NY, Art in General, NY, Triple Candie, NY, Socrates Sculpture Park, NY, Cheekwood Museum of Art, TN, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, CT, Southeastern Center of Contemporary Art, NC, Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL, Tart Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Analix Forever Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland and solo exhibitions at Mixed Greens Gallery, NY, Regina Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. He has been awarded Artist in Residence at Location One, New York, PS1 National/ International Studio Program, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY, Artist in Residence Visual + Harlem, Jacob Lawrence Institute for the Visual Arts, New York, NY and Emerging Artist Fellowship, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY. He is currently represented by Mixed Greens Gallery, NY and has an upcoming two-person exhibition at Paperwork Gallery, Baltimore, MD.

Hung Nguyen Manh – special sound performance

irp — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:19:18 +0000

January 11th, 2008, 20 Greene street, 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.

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Special Curator Tour for Members

admin — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 23:00:14 +0000

Special Curator Tour for Members

June 25, 2007
6:30 – 8:00 PM

Join Nathalie Angles, Director of the Residency Program, the 2007 Artists-in-Residence, and fellow Location One members for a special tour of the Summer IRP exhibition. The artists will talk about their work and how it developed during their residency. Refreshments will be served.

MAIN GALLERY EXHIBITIONS

admin — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 21:21:52 +0000

We exhibit artists’ work in our main gallery eleven months a year, and often in our two other public spaces as well. All of the work we exhibit is developed at Location One, much of it by artists in our residency program. While Location One seeks to nurture a critical awareness of the implications of technology for contemporary society in both our artists-in-residence and our audiences, and on a practical level, to introduce artists to the possibilities of new media in their art practice, the work we exhibit covers a full spectrum: painting, sculpture, video, digital, audio, installation and performance. It is the convergence of artists working in all these areas which is of paramount interest to us. We believe that collaborations across multiple disciplines, and conversations from many perspectives, produce rich insights and raise critical questions.

SELECTED PAST EXHIBITIONS:

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.

Nine International Artists Exhibit

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June 2nd – July 28th, 2007
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 2nd, 2007 5-7 pm
Exhibition open through Saturday July 28th (Tue – Sat, 12 – 6 pm)

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 (Ireland) – St. Patrick’s Day NY 2006-07

This triptych work addresses Doyle’s ongoing interest in the St. Patrick’s Day parade and how an event of this nature can segue into militarism. Framed against the entrance to the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, the video displayed in the central television features the parade in 2007 as it draws to an end. On the adjacent TVs, the artist has painted the image of a policeman that she photographed as he stuck out his tongue at the 2006 parade. A DVD of a solid color plays behind each painted television, green on one side and blue on the other. This new work reinforces the notion of the rendering of the self into spectacle, the Disney-fication and remote construction of National identity.

Jeanette’s residency at Location One is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland and The Irish American Cultural Institute.

Cliff Evans (USA) – Bare life: Booth Girl*s and Stormtroopers: Accumulation

A multi-channel photomontage animation that is presented as an object similar to an altar piece or a product display. It is constructed from an LCD screen and personal media players. It functions as a machine to contain, decipher and display images gathered from online sources. It situates itself within a soft-fascism, producing a baroque spectacle that unfolds and repeats. It, perhaps, is a clockwork meant to tell the time in an age of tech-fetish and availability at a glance.

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

Krist Gruijthuijsen (The Netherlands) – Alan (a memoir)

In Gruijthuijsen’s body of work, the in-depth investigation of personas such as Alan Abel’s underscores the artist’s interest in the relation between construction of myth, its process, and the fluctuating role of the contemporary artist. In this film, slow environmental shots of Abel’s current surroundings support the voice of the 82-year-old protagonist as he reads a letter that he wrote at age 16 describing his life so far and his future goals. This narration is followed by the reading of his obituary, recalling Abel’s last fictional action, when he placed his obituary in the New York Times. Abel’s extraordinary career consisted of “invisible actions” –such as Omer’s School for Beggars (talk shows on how to beg effectively), or mounting a decency campaign for animal underwear– that question the power of media, but also owe their existence to media.

Krist’s residency at Location One is supported by Fonds BKVB.

Ruey-Hsiaan Hsu (Taiwan) – Between

Ruey-Hsiaan Hsu uses mechanical elements as a creative medium, building technically complex and conceptually sophisticated machines. Their motions, which stimulate memories and emotions, are activated by the audience; it is the audience which makes the works complete. In this new body of work, the artist incorporates sound as a means to extend the language of his work.

Ruey-Hsiaan’s residency at Location One is supported by the Yageo Tech Art Award of the ACC (Asian Cultural Council).

SoYoun Jeong (Korea) – Natural Strawberry Flavor

This multiple media installation addresses the cute factor phenomenon that is ubiquitous in Korean culture, but also in the rest of the world. The title is derived from feelings of cuteness that can be experienced in the presence of a Korean female of extreme youth, vulnerability and cuteness as she sings cues from the “I like you, I love you ” melody in the video. However, cuteness and its appealing attributes are simultaneously paired off with a sense of cheapness, manipulation and exploitation. For SoYoun the specter of cuteness haunts the world, to such an extent that “it tastes like the artificiality of natural strawberry flavor. Thus it is natural for me to catch the ghost.”

SoYoun’s residency at Location One is supported by The Daeyu Cultural Foundation.

Miguel Palma (Portugal) – Deep Breath

This installation consists of a scale model of a city constructed on top of a platform/work bench. A dark nylon fabric encloses the city, thus making it impossible for the city to be seen from the outside. Three fans installed at the base of the device blow air into the fabric. Attached to the fabric is a micro camera that rises when the fans are activated. The images shot by the camera offer an aerial view of the cityscape and are projected onto a nearby wall. Every 70 seconds the fans are deactivated, the fabric falls, as does the camera attached to it. The image of this rising and falling process recalls a lung membrane under the scrutiny of a scan or an x-ray. The title of the work reflects this analogy.

Miguel’s residency at Location One is supported by Instituto das Artes and Fundação Ilídio Pinho.

Bundith Phunsombatlert (Thailand) – English Lesson (Something We Learn From One Another)

This video project is inspired by stories from Bundith’s classmates during English classes taken in New York. Bundith recontextualizes elements deriving from diverse nationalities, religious, and cultural points of view in a new “textbook” format of English Language Lessons that have little to do with the more traditional English textbooks. Bundith describes this piece as a collaboration between himself, a few classmates and their English teacher, Ms. A. Smith. It combines stories in which proverbs, idioms, and certain aspects of American culture are employed, as well as personal memories, pregnant thoughts and our hopes for the future. Based on real life stories, this innovative textbook constitutes the basis for conversation and pronunciation.

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

Jani Ruscica (Finland) – Futurama

The video, Futurama, takes as its focus the New York State pavilion for the 1964 World’s Fair. The building, a nonfunctional relic from the past, still stands on its site in Queens as testimony of failed utopias. The Pavilion, designed by architect Philip Johnson, was meant to epitomize all the bright promise of the future, as well as fulfill locally a social function beyond the duration of the fair. Ruscica’s video juxtaposes the ambiguity of the structure in its current state to a soundtrack of original newsreel reports from the 1964 Fair. The circular structure of the pavilion is paralleled to the circular nature of fairground attractions, theateramas, dioramas, futuramas.

Jani’s residency at Location One is supported by FRAME (Finnish Fund for Art Exchange).

Eric Van Hove (Belgium) – Ecumenopolis

Van Hove’s non-linear digital installation consists of some 2000 randomly selected video sequences of 5 to 20 seconds played from a database and generating a hypnotic narrative bound to déjà-vu. The impulse to recompose a fictive city from footage collected by the artist in 45 cities worldwide harks back to the original idea of Ecumenopolis as a single city that is continuous worldwide. This piece also brings forth Van Hove’s interest in the writings of Yanagita Kunio, the father of Japanese native ethnology, and his analysis on how earlier and essential layers of national life –custom, practice, and belief– are able to filter through the modern overlays and provide a map for the present. While reflecting on modern digital possibilities, Ecumenopolis, a still life of a sort, relates to other films’ attempt to envision the soul of a city, such as Jean Vigo’s A propos de Nice, and Walther Ruttmann’s Berlin, symphony of a great city.

Eric’s residency at Location One is supported by Service culturel, Commissariat general aux relations internationales de la Communauté française de Belgique.
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. The International Residency Program is a central part 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.

Project Gallery Events & Exhibitions

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SELECTED PAST EXHIBITIONS:

Main Gallery Exhibitions>>

Rudy Shepherd: Portraits

July 8-31, 2009
In “Portraits,” American Artist-in-Residence Rudy Shepherd presents a series of recent works that challenge and transcend traditional notions of who and what is a worthy subject of high-art portraiture, e.g., criminals, anonymous Taliban members, black heroes, or houses.The painted portraits in Shepherd’s “Criminal/Victim” series from 2009 depict both perpetrators and victims of the same crime side-by-side, visually blurring the line between innocence and guilt. By presenting the people first and the stories second a space is created for humanity to be re-instilled into the lives of people who have been reduced to mere headlines by the popular press (e.g. Timothy McVeigh).

Nicolas Grospierre & Kaeko Mizukoshi: Safe and Hymn.

Rob Kennedy: I Relish Your Balderdash

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

Rashaad Newsome: Compositions

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

Daniel Andersson & Tseng Yu-chin: IRP Exhibition 2008

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

Eric Siu & Luis Nobre

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

Nina Sobell: Internal Message Search – A Performative Installation

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

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

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

Hung Nguyen Manh: Special Sound Performance

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

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

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

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

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

Nine International Artists Exhibit

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

Jeanette Doyle: StarLine Tours

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

IRP Exhibition, Winter 2007

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

Leesa & Nicole Abahuni: In the Sky

November 21, 2006 – January 27, 2007
An opening reception and performance will be held on Wednesday, November 29th from 6 to 8 pm.
The multimedia installation, which was commissioned by Location One, is entitled In the Sky, is an exploration into the sharing of the senses and the interconnectedness between perception and sensation as experienced through visual, aural, and physical realms.

International Residency Program 2005-2006 – Group Show II

June 1st – July 29th, 2006
Featuring: Leesa & Nicole Abahuni, Simo Alitalo, Andrew Duggan, Mayumi Nakazaki, Trine Nedreaas, Yuki Okumura, Lydia Venieri, Wang Ya-Hui.
On Thursday, June 1st, Location One opens its Summer exhibition, showcasing new work developed by resident artists from the USA, Finland, Ireland, The Netherlands, Norway, Japan, Greece, and Taiwan who are participating in the Location One 2005-2006 International Residency Program. The show will be open to the public through Saturday, July 29th, 2006.

Andrew Duggan: ECHO

Thursday, May 18, 2006 – 6:30-8:30pm
Location One presents ECHO, a collaborative project created by visual/media artist Andrew Duggan and dancers Jonathan Kelliher and Joanne Barry of Siamsa Tíre, the National Folk Theatre of Ireland. For one-night only traditional Irish dance will be transported from the South West coast of Ireland to Location One’s Gallery space in New York City. Impromptu street performances and filming will take place in NYC at undisclosed locations leading up to the event. The resulting project will be presented at Location One.

International Residency Program 2005-2006 – Group Show I

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

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

Wednesday February 15th – 7:00 PM
A concert-performance conceived as a one-night audio-video event. The project explores the relationship between light and sound, looking for the natural correspondence between these two elements, between visible and invisible, playing with their frequencies.

Martin Beauregard: Somnambulic

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

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

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

Martin Beauregard & Marlena Kudlicka: IRP Exhibition Spring 2005 II

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

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

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

Cécile Paris: 3 videos and 3 songs

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

Mark Themann: PASSED for EXPORT: an installation.

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

IRP Exhibition 2004

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

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

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

Vesna Pavlovic: Casual Friday

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

Miguel Soares: Red Alert

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Xu Tan: Qing Hua Porcelain (Blue & White)

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

Francois Bucher: White Balance

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

Atsushi Nishijima: Subtractive Creation/Visible Sound

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

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

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

Katya Sander and François Bucher: RECORDERS

March 22 – April 21, 2001
“Recorders is an installation where a rotating camera and video projector interact with the visitor in a game of shadows and projection, images and text, narration and space, focus and blur. A pre-recorded conversation acts as voice-over for the entire set-up which is encompassed by a large image that resembles something like bits of information, white noise or a glittery seascape.

Project Gallery Events & Exhibitions

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SELECTED PAST EXHIBITIONS:

Main Gallery Exhibitions>>

Rudy Shepherd: Portraits

Nicolas Grospierre & Kaeko Mizukoshi: Safe and Hymn.

Rob Kennedy: I Relish Your Balderdash

Rashaad Newsome: Compositions

Daniel Andersson & Tseng Yu-chin: IRP Exhibition 2008

Eric Siu & Luis Nobre

Nina Sobell: Internal Message Search – A Performative Installation

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

Hung Nguyen Manh: Special Sound Performance

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

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

Nine International Artists Exhibit

Jeanette Doyle: StarLine Tours

IRP Exhibition, Winter 2007

Leesa & Nicole Abahuni: In the Sky

International Residency Program 2005-2006 – Group Show II

Andrew Duggan: ECHO

International Residency Program 2005-2006 – Group Show I

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

Martin Beauregard: Somnambulic

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

Martin Beauregard & Marlena Kudlicka: IRP Exhibition Spring 2005 II

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

Cécile Paris: 3 videos and 3 songs

Mark Themann: PASSED for EXPORT: an installation.

IRP Exhibition 2004

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

Vesna Pavlovic: Casual Friday

Miguel Soares: Red Alert

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

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

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

Xu Tan: Qing Hua Porcelain (Blue & White)

Francois Bucher: White Balance

Atsushi Nishijima: Subtractive Creation/Visible Sound

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

Katya Sander and François Bucher: RECORDERS

Previous Artists in Residence

irp — Fri, 18 May 2007 16:54:59 +0000

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(through Jan 2009) — former residents’ activities.

Jeanette Doyle – StarLine Tours

irp — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:26:33 +0000

April 13-May 25, 2007
Opening Reception April 12, 6-8pm

Location One is pleased to announce the opening of the installation StarLine Tours by resident artist Jeanette Doyle, on April 12th from 6 to 8 pm. The installation consists of video, audio (approximately 1h40mins.) and digital prints on watercolor paper, and will be on view in the Project Gallery through Friday May 25th.

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.

The video element was shot on a commercial celebrity-home tour through Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Bel Air and Rodeo Drive. The visual footage represents what is visible through the left-hand window of the tour-bus, often simply bushes, pavements, other vehicles and pedestrians but occasionally also the homes referenced in the soundtrack.

The soundtrack is provided by the bus-driver’s commentary as he describes the palatial homes, the ‘stars’ who live in them and other matters relating to property values and the career trajectories of the inhabitants. However the image of what is described although tantalizingly close is, in the main, denied to the viewer.

The accompanying digital prints are screens grabs from the video, some have had water applied to render them as watercolors, others project the gloss of the cinematic image. These prints are exhibited in a space where the same soundtrack as the video work is audible, further raising questions about the nature of representation, the relationship between different media and the choices made by an artist in the selection of particular images.

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.

Jeanette Doyle earned critical acclaim with her first post-graduate exhibition, winning the Overall Prize at ev+a ‘95, curated by Maria de Corral. Since then, her practice has concerned itself, often playfully, with the interrogation of a number of different disciplines and stances. Her work has been exhibited widely both in Ireland and abroad; including Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris; Museum of Modern Art, Croatia; Brisbane Institute of Modern Art; Australian Centre for Contemporary Art; the ICA and Studio Voltaire, London; Dublin City Gallery, the Hugh Lane and the Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork. Doyle has also held solo exhibitions at the Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, Helsinki; Limerick City Gallery of Art; City Arts Centre, Dublin; Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast and Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin. In 2003 and 2005 she showed at Eurojet Futures at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin.

In 2006, Jeanette received a First Class MA in Visual Arts Practices at the Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT). The work produced during this period was shown at an exhibition entitled ‘and then I place my face against the glass’ at Broadstone Gallery, Dublin; with a concurrent show ‘Portrayals’, at AXIS, Ballymun, a Breaking Ground 2 commission. In the past years she has been concentrating her practice on the painted image and its relationship to a variety of both lens based and digital technologies.

Upcoming shows include “SURGE”, 798 Art Festival, Beijing – which will then travel to Duolong Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai and Xiangning Art Museum in Shenzhen (Hong Kong), curated by The Artist’s Network, New York. Doyle will also exhibit at ‘EDGE’ Kochi Museum, Japan later this year.

Jeanette Doyle is the recipient of 2006/2007 Irish Fellowship at Location One.
This is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland and The Irish American Cultural Institute.

Further information about Jeanette Doyle’s practice is available at: www.jeanettedoyle.com

Virginie Yassef opens at Galerie Vallois, Paris

irp — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 15:22:28 +0000

Our fall 2006 French artist, Virginie Yassef, will be showing at the Galerie Vallois in Paris. She is presenting the works developed here at Location One during her residency from September till December last year. Coincidentally, she is co-exhibiting with artist Vincent Lamouroux, who was an artist in residence here in 2003-04. Her works will on view in the gallery till the 28th of April.

more info at http://galerie-vallois.com/

Daniel Blaufuks receives BES Photo Award

irp — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 15:20:34 +0000

Daniel Blaufuks, previous artist in resident here at Location One has just received the BES Photo Award, the “most prestigious award for photography in Portugal”, for his work Terezín (photography and video).

You can download images and a talk with fellow artist Alexandre Estrela: http://www.danielblaufuks.com/bes.pdf

http://www.danielblaufuks.com

IRP Exhibition: Winter 2007

irp — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 08:22:27 +0000

February 13th-March 31st, 2007
Natalie Bewernitz and 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:

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.

Wu Dar Kuen with Koan Jeff Baysa

irp — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 17:27:47 +0000

Wu Dar Kuen (Taiwan), IRP Resident 2005 interviewed by Koan Jeff Baysa , independent curator.
translator, Sandra Shen

Kenny Hunter (Scotland)

irp — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 07:27:30 +0000

Kenny’s figurative sculptures rely on the fusion of classical and contemporary references. By tackling subjects as different as Monica Lewinsky, Osama bin Laden or youth from today, Hunter’s concerns are political but also embraces the universality of human emotions through history and across nations.

In 1987, Kenny received a BA with Honors in Fine Art, Sculpture from the Glasgow School of Art (Scotland). He has exhibited extensively both in Scotland and internationally. His work is featured in major collections such as the Gallery of Modern Art and the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. Recent shows include “Beautiful Productions” at the Whitechapel Gallery, London (2001), “Sanctuary” at the Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art (2003) and a solo show at Conner Contemporary Art Gallery, Washington D.C (Fall 2004).

Kenny’s residency at Location One is supported by the James McBey Fellowship, administered by Aberdeen City Council.

Martin Beauregard (Canada)

irp — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 07:26:57 +0000

The Canadian artist explores multiple media including performance art using both low-tech and high-tech methods.

Martin received a Diplome National Supérieur d’Expression Plastique from the École des Beaux Arts in Bordeaux (France) and various grants from the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Canada and Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec.

Since 2000, he has exhibited regularly in France and Canada and has been invited to participate in international video festivals including: 5th Festival of Film, Manilla, Philippines (2004); Festival de Courts Metrages de Sherbrooke, Québec (2003).

Martin’s residency at Location One is made possible by a grant from the “Pamela Del Hierro Fellowship” and the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres, Québec.

Wu Ta-Kun (Taiwan)

irp — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 07:26:24 +0000

This Taiwanese artist creates videos and sound installations that attempt to convey physicality and sensation.

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 Furukawa (Japan)

irp — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 07:25:53 +0000

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

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.

Marlena Kudlicka (Poland)

irp — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 07:25:10 +0000

Marlena’s distinctive hybrid work mixes pared-down text with elements of architecture, painting and graphic design. Recently she has started integrating new technology into her work.

In 1993, Marlena received a BFA in painting at the College of Arts, Jaroslaw (Poland) followed by an MFA in painting and drawing at the Academy of Fine Art, Poznan, Poland (1998). Currently working on the research for the conference project ‘Post Image’ to be organized in cooperation with Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart (Germany) durning the residency program in 2005 and in 2003, was a resident at Art Omi International Arts Center Program (NY).

Recent solo exhibitions include: 2007, NN, Institute in Glasspavillon, Berlin/with Anne Gathmann. 2004, ‘POINT OF VIEW’, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany and in 2002, ”oxygenation” (solo show), Municipal Gallery, Poznan.

Projects and Exhibitions at Location One:
The Image With No Shadow: Video Projection: Residents’ Exhibition Spring 2005

Online:
Video Interview with by Katherine Carl, assistant curator of contemporary exhibitions at the Drawing Center

Marlena’s residency at Location One is supported by the Trust for Mutual Understanding.

C Magazine press on The Image with No Shadow

Fluid Sunset review part 1 & Fluid Sunset review part 2

English translation:

Marlena Kudlicka Fluid 08(54)2005
the space for words
text Alexandra Robakowska

Two glittering green words spread out along the 15 m long gallery wall. Sunset Sunset – the words are screaming. The colors are pulsating, passing through and infiltrating each other. The galley interior is immersed in a bright yellow, foggy glow. The words look self-assured; they allure and attract. The viewer’s attention is focused only on them. The enormous inscription is displayed on the wall from a video projector suspended on the opposite wall.

Sunset. Stop-frame. The projection of meanings is starting.

Marlena Kudlicka was recently a participant at the Location One Residency Program in New York. The project ’The image that emits no shadow/Sunset/’ was prepared for Location One Gallery. She has taken inspiration from the post-image trend. For her project, she selected a photograph by Steven Shore from a series dating from the 70s. The photograph shows a lonely cinema house with the letters SUNSET painted on the building facade. The building is located in a Texan desert landscape, seemingly in the middle of nowhere. Marlena renewed the hand painted fonts and shifted the words into digital space. With great precision, almost a painting process, she worked pixel by pixel, faithfully reconstructing the font, replicating the word and giving it a new tint.

Sunset Sunset the artist extracted the framed word from its original drift. Unchaining it from narrow syntactic categories, she opened the word up to multiple meanings, meanings that are expanded by the individual viewer’s potential. And he or she in confrontation with Kudlicka’s works becomes co-author; actively playing with semantic/aesthetic imaginary juxtapositions.

Sunset – natural phenomena, glistening exposure on the day/night border, the colors dance continuously passing through one other, light and darkness this time stay on the same side. The image in a move, a portrait of fascinating transformation. The word is frozen; drifting in our mind.

An American dream, romance, space and cinematography.

The art-work is apparently full contradictions. Created by a Polish artist, it is soaked with an American touch and vibrating with dreams and meanings.

To visualize language and language becomes a visual landscape Marlena Kudlicka writes. She is a graduate of the Painting and Drawing Department at The Academy of Fine Art in Poznan, Poland. The artist uses language as a medium in her work. She creates highly aesthetic/semantic landscapes – open work- moving senses that are floating along intentions: of the author, of the text, of the viewer.

In Marlena’s work, words are shaped into images in a universe of juxtaposed meanings. Her painterly multimedia works appear almost as a kind of architecture. Strongly based on the context of the exhibition space, they create their own space and formulate new rules from the beginning. Because Kudlicka builds space for words

A year ago at Akademie Schloss Solitude the artist exhibited an installation titled ’POINT OF VIEW’. In that gallery space she built a 25m long curving wall; suspending 82 ’traffic circle’ street signs. The signs were arranged into a gigantic ’POINT OF VIEW’ inscription. The dark gallery space was lit only by two neon black lights. Viewers who entered the space were suddenly placed into the nonidentity of black space. After a while, the viewer’s senses adapted to these conditions and from the darkness white arrows on the blue surface of the signs started to glow: so that the viewer experienced a vibrating hypnotic suggestion.

In the turning point of our times, we often direct our attention to things in themselves and not on their meanings. Marlena Kudlicka reveals a scholastic dimension of reflection on words. Her work touches a formal mannerism while uncovering a basic code structure from existing contexts. It is paradoxical, like Umberto Eco’s conception of work as a discussion of its own poetic.

In Marlena Kudlicka text based works there is room for a broad spectrum of interpretations along with a simultaneous pointing to a code source; bright green flash light, the last beam of sunset, neon cinema light, Hollywood dream factory or pulsating blood vessel system highways. These readings are evident but not imposed. This is art that stimulates senses.

Santeri Tuori (Finland)

irp — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 07:22:11 +0000

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).

Projects and Exhibitions at Location One:
Residents’ Exhibition: Spring 2005

Online :
Video Interview with Pieranna Cavalchini, Curator of Contemporary Art, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Santeri’s residency at Location One is supported by FRAME (Finnish Fund for Art Exchange).

Cecile Paris (France)

irp — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 07:17:34 +0000

As an artist who works mainly with video and photography, Cecile’s practice is informed by the exploration of narrative and its potential in still and moving images.

Cécile graduated with honors in 1996 and received a Diplome National Supérieur d’Expression Plastique in Nancy (France). She teaches, since 2002, at the École Nationale Régionale des Beaux Arts de Nantes.

She is represented by Gallery Eric Dupont in Paris and exhibits regularly in institutional contexts in France. Recent projects include a public art commission for the Barbès subway station in Paris (2004) and participation in the event “Off the Record/Sound Arc” at ARC/Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris (2004).
Cécile’s residency at Location One is supported by AFAA and Ville de Paris.

Projects and Exhibitions at Location One:
3 Videos and 3 Songs Video :: Winter Exhibition 2004-2005

Online:
Video Interview with Marc-Olivier Wahler, Swiss Institute.
Video Interview for CANAPE – CUNY TV

Website

Cécile’s residency at Location One is supported by AFAA and Ville de Paris.

Mariana Viegas (Portugal)

irp — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 07:04:24 +0000

Mariana works mainly with photography and video, questioning the media and subverting reality. In the artist’s view, landscape is an entity which is transformed by our presence and which, in turn, transforms us. Mariana observes and records the daily rituals performed by people in natural environments which are developed within the urban habitat, and draws out of these situations possibilities of existing narratives.

Mariana studied Fine Arts at AR.CO. and Photography Studies at AR.CO-Art and Communication Center, Lisbon. She has exhibited in Portugal, Europe and the US. In Spring 2005, her work was presented at Location One. Previous exhibitions include: Egon Schiele Arts Center, Krumlov, Czech Republic (2004); Galeria Promontorio, Lisbon (2004). In 2003, she participated in “Lisbonne-Lisboa”, La Villette, Paris.

Projects and Exhibitions at Location One:
The Last Conflict Photography and Video :: Residents’ Exhibition Winter 2005-2006
Landscape Within Video and C-print :: Residents’ Exhibition Spring 2005

Online:
Video Interview with Dr William Jeffett Curator of Exhibitions, Salvador Dali Museum, St Petersburg, Florida.

Website

Mariana’s residency at Location One is supported by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and
the Luso-American Development Foundation.

Nayda Collazo-Llorens (United States)

irp — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 07:02:49 +0000

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 often 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. She holds an MFA (Studio Arts) from New York University (2002) and graduated from Massachusetts College of Art, Boston with a BFA (Printmaking) in 1990. In 2004, she was awarded “Best Show, Year 2003”, (AICA), PR Chapter, San Juan. Recent exhibitions in 2005 include: Location One, NY; Philosophy Box, NY; Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan and Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Strasbourg, France. She has also shown at Artists Space and El Museo del Barrio, NY.

Projects and Exhibitions at Location One:
IRP Spring Exhibition 2005

Online:
Website

Nayda’s residency at Location One is supported by New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA).

Lydia Venieri (Greece)

irp — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 07:02:05 +0000

Lydia is a multiple media artist whose work ranges from sculpture to installations incorporating painting, photography, video and the Internet. The fusion of mythological references with the everyday lies at the heart of her inspiration : “I create universes and landscapes where I project stories, conspiracy theories related to the media and mythological legends”.

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.

Trine Nedreaas (Norway)

irp — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 07:01:20 +0000

Primarily a video artist, Trine’s works portrays people who are unknown but extraordinary and ambitious individuals. She focuses on their talent, aspirations and on their often unachieved desires and distant life goals. Recent videos feature individuals performing their speciality in a very particular way and setting. The use of humor to strengthen a sense of unease and lack of fulfillment is characteristic of Trine’s approach. In the artist’s words, “I make films about wanting to be wanted”.

Born in Bergen, Norway, Trine lives and works in London. Her work has been shown in numerous film and video festivals and she has received numerous project grants from the Norwegian Ministry of Culture. In July 2005, she received an award from “FAIR PLAY 2005 Video Art Festival”, Berlin (organized by Play-gallery for still and motion pictures, Berlin). Other exhibitions include: Rogaland Kunst Museum, Stavanger (2004) and Tromsoe Kunstforening, Tromsoe (2002).

Projects and Exhibitions at Location One:
Stalking Heads, Interactive Video :: Residents’ Exhibition June 2006

Online:
Website

Video Interview with Marie Losier, Film Programmer, French Institute Alliance Francaise, New York

Trine’s residency at Location One is supported by the Bergen City Council, Norway.

Wang Ya-Hui (Taiwan)

irp — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 07:00:52 +0000

Wang,Ya-hui is primarily a video and video installation artist. Her work is driven by the exploration of human consciousness and examines how hidden or conscious changes of “being” are triggered through illusion and imagination. Her installations often make apparent shifts of perception and the passage of one visible reality to another.

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.

Mayumi Nakazaki (The Netherlands)

irp — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 07:00:10 +0000

Mayumi refers to herself as a product of “Japanese-style Westernization”. She is interested in the notion of the “self that exists and interplays in between parallels”. Her practice is a balance between creating fiction out of reality and trying to elevate reality to the rank of narrative. She focuses on sociological and ethnological issues with subjects that deal with disguise, uniformity, identity, gender and more recently with behavioural and conversational patterns between people.

Born in Japan and based in the Netherlands since 1994, Mayumi graduated from the Gerriet Rietveld Academy and the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam. Recent exhibitions/presentations include: Barcelona Asian Film Festival (BAFF), Spain; Stedelijk Modern Art Museum, Amsterdam; Viper International Film Video and New Media Festival, Basel; Japan Foundation, New Delhi, India. In 1999, she was awarded the Rene Coelho prize by the Netherlands Media Art Institute Montevideo. Mayumi has also directed and written scripts for Avro Broadcasting, Netherlands.

Projects and Exhibitions at Location One:
Shifting Script interactive installation :: Residents’ Exhibition June 2006

Online:
Interview with Louky Keijsers, Independent Curator & Director of LMAK Projects

Mayumi’s residency at Location One is supported by the Fonds voor beeldende kunsten, vormgeving en bouwkunst (BKVB).

Yoon-Young Park (Korea)

irp — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 06:59:27 +0000

Trained as a traditional Oriental painter in Korea, Yoon-Young’s drawings and paintings integrate calligraphic and surrealistic methods of working into which the artist incorporates a wide range of contemporary cultural references ranging from fiction, documentary movies and plays to quiz sessions for the audience.

Yoon-Young holds her B.F.A. and M.F.A. from Ewha Women’s University in Seoul (1995). In 2004, she participated in the Gwangju Biennal. That same year , The Paradise Cultural Foundation supported her residency at the Changdong Art Studio, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea followed by the Art Omi Residency Program, N.Y. Her work is in the collection of The National Museum of Contemporary of Arts (MOCA), Seoul.

Projects and Exhibitions at Location One:
Logo Oriental Landscape Painting IRP Residents’ Exhibition Winter 2006

Online:
Interview with Yun Kyoung, independant curator.

Yoon-Young’s residency at Location One is supported by The Korean Culture and Arts Foundation.

Yuki Okumura (Japan)

irp — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 06:58:45 +0000

Artist, writer and curator, Yuki Okumura probes the concept of identity and what makes the human “mind” and “self” unique. More recently, his art practice has expanded the realm of body art through the creation of discrete and precious works constructed from fingernails and saliva. Clearly intended to provoke, they retain a “trace of self” and exploit the uneasy tension between animate and inanimate. Another focus of investigation for Yuki is the development of connections between the banality of every day life with quantum theories, supernova explosions and the sublime.

Born in Aomori and based today in Tokyo, Yuki graduated from Tama Art University and received an M.F.A at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music ( 2004). In 2000, he was awarded the Grand Prix, Philip Morris Asian Art Awards. In 2001, he participated in “First Steps: Emerging Artists from Japan”, at the Grey Art Gallery of New York University. Yuki also organizes exhibitions, and writes essays and reviews which present a critical perspective on his generation of artists.

Projects and Exhibitions at Location One:
Supersonic, interactive installation :: Residents’ Exhibition June 2006

Online:
Interview with Hitomi Iwasaki, Associate Curator, Queens Museum of Art.

Website ,includes links to other projects
Article in Imomus
Theroy of Everything

Yuki’s residency is supported by the Asian Cultural Council.

Paololuca Barbieri (Italy)

irp — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 06:58:03 +0000

Paololuca’s projects investigate the boundaries between art and science, and foster synergies among a host of other disciplines (electronic music, lighting engineering, programming, drawing and video). The artist confronts these relationships with both analog and digital media. The transversal use of digital tools combined with an interdisciplinary approach lies at the heart of Paololuca’s practice.

Born in Rome, Paololuca lives and works in Milan. He holds a B.A. in analog interface technology and its applications in the artistic field from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna, and an MFA in 3D Animation from Thames Valley University, London. In 2003, he was selected to take part in the 11th Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, Athens. Other exhibitions include: Museo di Arte Moderna, Pescara (2003); Centro per L’Arte Contemporanea, Genova (2004) and Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Bologna (2004).

Projects and Exhibitions at Location One:
Light Waves, February 2006
Reclaim the Media, interactive installation :: Residents’ Exhibition February 2006

Online:
Video Interview with Joe Hill, founder of Vision Connect.
Alterzioni Video

Paololuca’s residency at Location One is supported by Associazione Artegiovane, The FondiAnima and Comune di Milano.

Andrew Duggan (Ireland)

irp — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 06:30:22 +0000

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

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 Ferreira (France)

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Isabelle’s work seems to prevail within that unlikely calm preceding the breaking storm. Her videos and sculptures – on occasion performance and installations- appear to leave time at a loose end: gesture and motion are slowed down and hidden rhythms revealed.

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.

Geka Heinke (Germany)

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Geka’s paintings depict everyday objects, such as wallpaper, lamps, floors and curtains. Isolated from their usual surroundings, the focus is on the serial structure of the objects and the tension that arises between spatiality and ornamental flatness. As perception and a layered reading of different spaces are simultaneously engaged, the artist’s loose, free-flowing technique guides the viewer into the depths of illusionistic space. Above all, the works transmit Geka’s viewpoint that our understanding of the world is ever more complex despite rapid technological and analytical advancement.

Born in Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Geka lives and works in Berlin. She graduated from the Facultad de Bellas Artes, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain (1993), and received a “Meisterschüler” from Hochschule der Künste, Berlin (1998). In 2003, she was artist in residence at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. She regularly exhibits in Berlin and Europe. Recently at Galerie Françoise Heitsch, Munich; Kunstraum Kreuzberg/ Künsterhaus Bethanien, Berlin; Neue Kunst Gallery, Mannheims and Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.

Exhibitions at Location One:
Stars (2006), installation :: Residents’ Exhibition 2005-2006
Interview with Emilie Renard, Independent Curator

Geka’s residency at Location One is supported by Schloss Balmoral, Stiftung Rheinland Pfalz für Kultur.

Simo Alitalo (Finland)

irp — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 06:26:47 +0000

Simo Alitalo studied philosophy and musicology at the University in Turku, Finland. He is currently working on his doctoral dissertation at the Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki. As a sound artist and a radio producer, he develops experimental sound environments and narrative radioproductions that increase awareness of our surrounding soundscapes and their significance in our everyday existence.

Alitalo’s installation work has been shown and broadcast all over Europe, USA and other parts of the world. He is an active member of the sound art and acoustic ecology communities, a founding member of the international World Forum for the Acoustic Ecology (WFAE) and the Finnish Society for Acoustic Ecology. He is also a member of the WFAE international board. He is also very involved in the Radioatelier unit of Finnish Broadcasting Co (YLE). His radio projects have also been aired also in Australia, Germany, Italy and Austria.

Exhibitions at Location One:
Encounters/Kohtaamisia, interactive sound installation :: Residents’ Exhibition June 2006

Online:
Interview with Elena Sorokina, independent curator.

NY ARTS Magazine

Simo Alitalo’s residency at Location One is supported in part by FRAME (Finnish Fund for Art Exchange)

Leesa and Nicole Abahuni (U.S.A)

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

They have exhibited nationally and internationally including the 6th International Arts Biennial of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates; ICA, London; Sonic Interactions Conference, London; Redux, London; Gallery Mouri, Tokyo; Orb//Remote, Copenhagen; Half Machine Festival, Copenhagen; Eyebeam Atelier, NYC; Siggraph, Los Angeles; DUMBO Arts Festival, Brooklyn; DUMBO Arts Center, Brooklyn; 67 Gallery, Brooklyn; Deep Listening Space, Kingston; The Kitchen, NYC. Their solo performances includes The New York Hall of Science,Queens and NYC in 2000.

They have received awards and grants from the Experimental Television Center, NY; International Postgraduate Scholarship, Goldsmiths College, London, UK; Alumni Scholarship Award, School of Visual Arts, NY; Award of Distinction, School of Visual Arts, NY.

Projects and Exhibitions at Location One:
In the Sky, solo show installation : Fall 2006
Conductive Agents, interactive installation :: Residents’ Exhibition June 2006

Online:
Website :includes links to other projects

Video Interview with Radmila-Iva Jankovic, Croatia, Curator-in-Residence, ISCP (2006)

Leesa and Nicole Abahuni’s residency at Location One is supported by Warhol Foundation.

Virginie Yassef (France)

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Yassef’s videos, photographs, sculptures and installations reveal the poetry of everyday life, emphasizing the subtle gap between perception and reality. Strangeness and often even the supernatural surfaces when and where one least expects it.

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.

Kaori Tazoe (Japan)

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Kaori Tazoe’s recent mixed-media works explore the role of theater and entertainment in people’s lives. From 1995 to 2002, she 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.

Kaori Tazoe graduated from a two-year program at the Ohtsuka Textile Design Institute in 1993 and worked in an architectural firm for several years. She began designing costumes and stage sets for theater and performance art projects in Tokyo and in Yokohama, where she co-founded Scratch Tile Art Space in 2001, one of the first alternative spaces in the city. In 2005 she was selected as one of the few Yokohama artists included in the Yokohama Triennale.

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

Video Interview

Alessandro Nassiri (Italy)

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Alessandro started with photography and is now involved in a wide range of media from video to balloons and chocolate. He has been defined as an artist “who works for happiness, using metaphors of everyday objects”. Amazement, irony, and semantic transformation of objects and facts are inherent to his practice.

Alessandro studied art history at the State University of Milan. Faculty of Letters before earning and M.F.A.in visual arts at Fondazione Ratti, Como. Recent exhibitions include: Biagiotti Progetto Arte, Florence; Marco Canepa Arte Contemporanea, Genoa; Fondazione Ratti, Milan; “AssabOne”, Tirana, Albania; 1/60 Insurgent space. Milan; Stecca degli artigiani, Milan; Palazzo della Ragione, Milan.

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

Rie Kawakami (Japan)

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Kawakami works in the tradition of iron and steel welding. Her sculptures attempt to convey notions of life and its cycles, such as the ever-expanding universe, the dividing of a nucleus through an electron microscope, or the repeated cycles of construction and destruction of cities.

Recent solo shows include: Contemporary Art Institute and STV Entrance Art, Sapporo (Japan); Red Mill Gallery, Vermont, U.S.A. Recent group shows include: Hokkaido, Sapporo (Japan), Korea and Poland. She has also been awarded a fellowship from the Freeman Foundation (USA) and from the City of Ishikari (Japan).

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

Feel the Wind, 2006

Agnieszka Kalinowska (Poland)

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Kalinowska’s multifaceted video and installation practice investigates the observation of human behavior in extreme conditions and states of emotional and psychic tension. Her work makes visible the condensation of energy and the hidden potential revealed in such situations, such as fear or hope, in a contemporary social and political context.

Based between Warsaw and Paris, Agnieszka has exhibited widely in Europe and USA. Recent solo exhibitions include: Galerie Nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna; Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw; Arizona state University Art Museum, Tempe; Center of Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw. Selected recent group exhibitions include: Helsinki Kunsthall, Helsinki; Kunsthaus Dresden; Parker’s Box Gallery, New York.

She is represented by the Gallery Nachst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwaelder in Vienna and Czarna Gallery in Warsaw.

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Ujazdowski Castle, Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, 2002

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Teresa Henriques (Portugal)

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2006-2007 Residents

Henriques’s work revolves around the understanding of the concept of “Perception”. The guidelines of her research are defined by drawing, geometry, philosophy and optical phenomena. The resulting body of work consists of drawing machines and contemplative objects in space highlighting the relationship between artwork and human body.

In 1999, Teresa earned a degree in Drawing at the Fine Arte National Society, Lisbon, followed in 2001 by Live-Painting at Slade School of London. She then graduated from the Fine Arts Department at AR.CO, Lisbon in 2004. Recent exhibitions include: Feira de Madrid ARCO (2006); in 2005: Contemporaneous Art Fair in Lisbon; “Post-it”, Porto; Carlos Carvalho Art Gallery, Lisbon; “13:SETE”, Seven art Gallery, Coimbra; “GPO31031405″; Pedro Oliveira gallery, Porto, where she is represented.

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

Natalie Bewernitz / Marek Goldowski (Germany)

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2006-2007 Residents

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.

EPG, AV Performance 2003

IRP 2006 Group Show II Walkthrough

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June 7, 2006

ARTIST WALKTHROUGH

come meet Location One’s residents
hear them talk about their works
see the show after-hours
Leesa & Nicole Abahuni
Simo Alitalo
Andrew Duggan
Mayumi Nakazaki
Trine Nedreaas
Yuki Okumura
Lydia Venieri
Wang Ya-Hui

image: Mayumi Nakazaki “Shifting Script”, 2006

The exhibition will be open through July 29, 2006

Gallery Hours: Tue-Sat, 12 -6

International Residency Program 2005-2006 – Group Show II

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June 1st – July 29th, 2006

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.

Featured works represent a diverse range of artistic approaches:

	Conductive Agents by Leesa & Nicole Abahuni The opening performance of this installation will include copper, people, video, liquor, and chocolate. The artists will create “conductive agents” utilizing copper materials and digestible information, in an effort to make contagious the interrelationships of conveyance, surveillance, and reflexive experience. This performance will be followed by a series of ‘actions,’ scheduled at given times during the course of the exhibition.
	Encounters/Kohtaamisia by Simo Alitalo A sound installation whose aim is to provide a “Muybrigean” break-down of wave mechanics, this piece consists of several loudspeaker “chains” that are suspended from the ceiling and connected to each other with steel springs. Low sounds are routed to the sub-bass speakers which cause the loudspeaker chains to slowly rotate in mid-air. The sound material consists of water-earth encounters and waves hitting the shore. They were recorded by hydrophones and underwater microphones buried in sand or placed underwater.
	Act by Andrew Duggan Theatre curtains, split-screen video projection with no sound. An actor sits in his dressing room, before the curtain rises, before he delivers his performance. His mood is solitary, reflective, internal. He is applying makeup, and his makeup is camouflage since the actor is a soldier. The work is about the relationship between the actor and his performance, the soldier and his battle, the individual and his actions. It is about how we present ourselves, how we are perceived and seen, it is about the culture of representation and the legacy of our actions.
	Shifting Script by Mayumi Nakazaki An installation with video and drawings that investigates the multiple forms taken by visual experience in relation to reality and illusion. The video consists of five scenes dealing with the subject of memory and information. The first four scenes (loop) are intended to be experienced in the cinematic context of a black box. The fifth scene, screened on a separate monitor placed outside the box, is presented along with works on paper that evoke the neural processing of memory.
	Stalking Heads by Trine NedreaasThe installation consists of three video loops shown on separate monitors. Excruciating close-ups of televangelists; all words are omitted, leaving only the pauses between them. The breathing, gestures, and facial expressions of these spiritual predators become both sinister and humorous as they plead, sympathize and demonize to the camera and to each other.
	Supersonic by Yuki OkumuraA video that features the artist teleporting to different locations throughout New York City. The instant dematerialization of the artist’s presence at one spot and his sudden reconstitution at another site is triggered by sneezes, as he breathes air in and out. This experience raises questions about the significance of material versus immaterial, of existence versus nonexistence.
	The Last Conflict by Lydia Venieri A robotic baby representing God moves in dialog with performance artist Adrian Saich who incarnates Nature. Venieri creates stories where dreams reinforce reality, and reality reinforces dreams. This evocative installation/performance bridges mythology, history, fairytales and daily life with humor and self-reflection, touching on issues of the human condition in present times.
	Exchange by Wang Ya-Hui In this two-screened video projection, the narrative is generated through a succession of images depicting personal belongings and objects that are dislocated from their domestic place of origin. The drifting quality of these objects signifies the artistÕs interest in determining where the confines of personal reality begin and end.

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. The International Residency Program is a central part 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.

The residencies of the artists included in this show are generously supported by:
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (USA), FRAME (Finnish Fund for Art Exchange), The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon (Ireland), The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture, Bergen City Council (Norway), Asian Cultural Council (USA), J.F. Kostopoulos Foundation (Greece), The Yageo Corporation, (Taiwan).

Andrew Duggan – ECHO

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a one-night only dance and video event

Thursday, May 18, 2006 – 6:30-8:30pm – FREE

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.The event will take place on Thursday, May 18, 2006 (6:30-8:30pm). The video installation will be continuous throughout the presentation, with dance performances at 7pm and 8pm (approximately 10 minutes in length). The event is free and open to the public.ECHO is a multidisciplinary project that examines the creative dialogue between dance and video. The work explores folk movement vocabulary in an urban context. With a focus on the complex nature of ‘looking’, it breaks down some of the perceived barriers between art forms. In keeping with folk tradition, a crossroads becomes a symbolic space through which the dancers have a physical dialogue, questioning the origin of the echo. At its core, ECHO creates crossroads between traditional and contemporary forms, rhythmic structures, the physical dance space, and cultures.Andrew Duggan’s media and installation work investigates the space between tradition (fact/folk/lore, etc..) and contemporary space and time. He plays with cultural representations and perceptions and has presented many projects in the public domain. In Kerry, the Bán/Blane series (2004) were projected on to a building reputed to have been prepared for the escape and arrival of Marie Antoinette. He frequently collaborates with dancers, musicians and cultural institutions. In CentreStage, he worked with the National Folk Theatre of Ireland to create an installation on the traditional (Irish) crossroads and the nature of looking. Born in Cork and raised in Dublin, Duggan lives and works in Dingle (West Coast of Ireland). He studied at the Crawford College of Art and design, Cork; the National College of Arts and Design, Dublin; and the University of Ulster, Belfast.Siamsa Tíre (pronounced shee-am-sah tir-a: enjoyment of the ground), the National Folk Theatre of Ireland was founded in 1974. Its mission is to reflect Ireland’s great wealth of music, dance and folk tradition for the stage, through vibrant, colorful theatricality and to continue to create new folk theatre presentations, drawing on their traditions and rich cultural reservoir. The company has performed their unique brand of folk theater at venues all over Ireland, and in the US, Canada, Brittan, Germany, France, Belgium, Holland, Italy, Spain, South America, and Australia.Andrew Duggan has been an artist-in-residence at Location One since September 2005. His residency is supported, in part, by The Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon (Ireland).video documentation:[display_podcast]

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LIGHT WAVES live in NEW YORK

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February 15, 2006 – 7:00 PM

Paololuca Barbieri and art collective, ALTERAZIONI VIDEO.

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.

The group takes inspiration from the basic theory of physics that “light is an undulatory phenomenon”, and from the empirical discovery that these waves could be converted into sound by a solar panel.

For LIGHT WAVES, the performers will be using different kinds of lights as their “instruments”
Small solar panels will function as Òphoto microphonesÓ, capturing light from different kinds of lamps: neon, wood, table lamps, etc., as well as invisible infrared rays from a TV remote-control are used like a globular guitar.

ÊThe end result is a fascinating combination of sounds, lights and video (a live video recording of the ÒconcertÓ will be screened during the performance) which will entirely envelop the audience by bringing the spectators inside a universe of unexpected sounds and frequencies.Ê The entire performance will last approximately 15 minutes and may be repeated during the course of the night.

Special guest: Cheney Thompson

ALTERAZIONI VIDEO is an art collective based in Milan, Italy, that develops video, installation and electronic music projects.Ê Its members are Paololuca Barbieri, Alberto Caffarelli, Andrea Masu, Matteo Erenbourg, Giacomo Porfiri. Their installation RECLAIM the MEDIA! is included in the Location One International Residents’ Group Show.

International Residency Program 2005-2006 – Group Show I

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Paololuca Barbieri, Isabelle Ferreira, Geka Heinke, Yoon-Young Park, Mariana Viegas

Opening Reception: Thursday, 9 February 2006 6-8pm
Open through: March 4th, 2006 (Tue – Sat, 12 – 6 pm)

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:

Reclaim the Media! by Paololuca Barbieri and the Alterazioni Video collective, is a a three-piece installation that acts upon and reacts against the implications of unprecedented media control in our society.

Alterazioni Video develops software platforms and tools to question issues of conventional borderline of legal and illegal use of media technologies.“Baghdad Space Sharing” (2005), interactive video installation. “Blue Jack” (2005), bluetooth phones, software and media – experiment testing the limits of privacy protection at conventional consumer electronics devices.“If You Hear Something, Say Something” (2005), pirate radio transmitter, gold MP3 recordings. A project in collaboration with Nikolas Gambaroffand special guests Franco Berardi Bifo, Raddek Community, Sylver Lotringer, Avdey Ter Oganien, Los Osamas, Dj Pollution, Aldo Vignocchi, and others.

On the Road (dvd, 2’06″, 2005) and Parade (dvd, 1’49″, 2005) by Isabelle Ferreira

Ferreira describes On the Road as “a road-movie that has been short-circuited.” Through the depiction of an action that is quintessentially absurd, this short video aims to liberate landscape as a format from all narrative content and human representation. The second video Parade is a silent and visual dialogue between two mechanisms. More generally Isabelle’s work tends to create a time suspended atmosphere, where gesture and motion are slowed down and hidden rhythms revealed.

Stars (2006) by Geka Heinke

A monumental wall installation. Here a dynamic structure is achieved through the juxtaposition of a large monochromatic star motif painted directly on the wall against a backdrop of loose, free flowing technique on papersheets rearranged by the artist to engage the viewer into the depths of illusionistic space.

Logo Oriental Landscape Painting (2005-2006) by Yoon-Young Park

consisting of 6 vertical panels, painted in Chinese ink on rice paper. It is the artist’s reflection and comment on reading a western book on Oriental Painting which identifies Oriental landscape painting as Utopian, as opposed to the realistic approach of western landscape painting. Park observes the logos of several bottled waters that include mountains and rivers, and are depicted in a utopian and stylized manner. She elaborates these in the traditional technique of Oriental landscape panels with ink burshed on rice paper.

In her new work, Mariana Viegas

continues to investigate the impact of landscape as a transformative and transforming entity in urban contexts. The artist’s photographs suggest evidence of human activity in the design and articulation of parks and other green areas in the city. In the video, Mariana examines how objects in communal garden settings are placed in such a way that they become designations of each user’s area. Increased familiarity with these objects can also shift our perception and lead to the construction of possible narratives. All these investigations address the larger issue of the relationship between fiction and reality, nature and the construction of nature.

The residencies of the artists included in this show are generously supported by Associazione Artegiovane, Milan; The FondiAnima; Comune di Milano; L’Association Française d’Action Artistique – AFAA, and Ville de Paris; Schloss Balmoral, Stiftung Rheinland Pfalz für Kultur; The Korean Culture and Arts Foundation; Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Luso-American Development Foundation.

IRP Exhibition Spring 2005 III

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Yumiko Furukawa, Kenny Hunter, Wu Ta-Kun, and Mariana Viegas

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.

IRP Exhibition Spring 2005 II

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Martin Beauregard & Marlena Kudlicka

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.

IRP Exhibition Spring 2005

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Nayda Collazo-Llorens and Santeri Tuori

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).

3 videos and 3 songs

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Cécile Paris
Dec 15 2004 – Jan 29, 2005

Location One is pleased to present a selection of short videos by artist-in-residence Cécile Paris:
3 videos and 3 songs — (“Bianca”, “Etanche”, “Rosa”) and the recent video “The Doorman”, developed by the artist during her four-month stay in New York. Throughout her work, Cécile Paris explores the narrative potential in still and moving images. As they unfold, images detect and deploy the arbitrary and quirky nature of everyday reality. As signs of dysfunction, they remain essentially poetic. A work that leads a discrete battle against ambient normalization.

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.

1. “Bianca” (2 minute 30) :: A car follows a skateboarder at night on a road in the French countryside; the viewer’s gaze is drawn to the luminous point constituted by the skater’s white jacket as it disappears in the night.
soundtrack :: An old Italian song from the ’50s emphasizing the “romantic” tone of the work.

2. “Etanche” (“Watertight” – 2 minutes) :: The camera follows the head of a swimmer from the back advancing slowly at the surface of the water; a slow progression in the liquid mass illuminated by the summer sun.
soundtrack :: a melody emerges out of the water..

3. “Rosa” (4 minutes) :: A woman walks along a street in Brooklyn with her small keyboard; alone, she sings, and her voice is beautiful: “Inside of us” addressing herself to all the world, to us, to the city…

4. “Doorman” (5 minutes) :: A New York Doorman in his uniform walks along Battery Park as the sun goes down. Suddenly he lets his vest fall on the ground and disappears in the night.

Cécile Paris’s residency is made possible through funding support from AFAA and Ville de Paris.

Chris Csikszentmihalyi, Skin & Control

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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.

Chris Csikszentmihalyi, Skin & Control

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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)

Alexandra Do Carmo with Robert Knafo

irp — Thu, 17 Jun 2004 23:11:09 +0000

Alexandra Do Carmo, IRP Resident 2003-2004, interviewed by Robert Knafo, Art Critic & Curator

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IRP Exhibition 2004

irp — Fri, 28 May 2004 15:37:54 +0000

Koki Tanaka, Hsiao Sheng Chien, Mark Themann,
Federico Muelas, Miguel Soares, Alexandra do Carmo, Vincent Lamouroux

May 28 – June 30, 2004

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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).

On Translation: On View

irp — Tue, 30 Mar 2004 22:39:11 +0000

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.

Mark Themann (Germany/Australia)

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Mark Themann received his M.F.A. from the California State University Long Beach in 1984.

“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 Muelas (Spain)

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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/

Radical Low: “RL.1″

irp — Sat, 13 Dec 2003 22:58:14 +0000

Kurt Ralske and Chantal Yzermans
December 16, 2003 8 PM
Admission: $10, members free

“. . . 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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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. (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.

Radical Low: "RL.1"

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Kurt Ralske and Chantal Yzermans
December 16, 2003 8 PM
Admission: $10, members free

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Radical Low: "RL.1"

admin — Sat, 13 Dec 2003 22:58:14 +0000

Kurt Ralske and Chantal Yzermans
December 16, 2003 8 PM
Admission: $10, members free

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IRP Exhibition 2003

irp — Fri, 02 May 2003 06:54:49 +0000

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

May 22, 2003-June 28, 2003

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

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

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

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

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

Central Air Condition (Use and Care)

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

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

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

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.

Koki Tanaka (Japan)

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Koki Tanaka received his B.F.A degree from Tokyo Zokei University in 2000.

Tanaka is a mixed-media artist who uses video and found objects to create iconic reflections of everyday life. He integrates everyday life into an art practice that combines humor with social criticism. During his stay at Location One, the artist plans to investigate technical aspects of Hollywood films and the history of video art in relation to contemporary art criticism.

Recent exhibitions include: Contemporary Art Center in Mito, Japan; Institut fur Gegenwartskunst an der Akademie des Bildenden Kunste, Vienna, Austria; MIT List Visual Art Center in Massachusetts. In 2001, Tanaka was invited to participate in the Saison Art Program exhibition in Tokyo and in the third Bangkok Experimental Film Festival.
Tanaka’s residency at Location One is supported by the Asian Cultural Council.

Hsiao Sheng Chien (Taiwan)

irp — Fri, 17 Jan 2003 07:38:55 +0000

Hsiao Sheng Chien is Location One’s second recipient of the Yageo Tech-Art Award of the Asian Cultural Council. He is also the recipient of the Taipei Art Museum Award, and the Kaohsiun Art Museum Award.

In 2001, Hsiao Sheng Chien received his Masters degree in art from Taiwan National College of Arts. Over the past few years, Hsiao Sheng Chien has been developing interactive environments involving the active participation of viewers. “Thanks to science and new inventions in technology, I have chosen mechanics and video-recording devices as tools to reflect e-society, plus such mediums as feeling, listening, smelling and virtual pictures to produce interaction between viewers and my works. This enables viewers to break through purely static visual limitation and further experience what the artist intends to express in his works in an all round way. Personal participation can better stimulate the imagination of viewers.”

Hsiao Sheng-Chien’s residency at Location One is supported by the Yageo Tech-Art Award of the Asian Cultural Council.

Kurt Ralske (USA)

irp — Fri, 17 Jan 2003 07:37:57 +0000

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

Online ::
http://retnull.com/

Miguel Soares (Portugal)

irp — Fri, 17 Jan 2003 07:36:30 +0000

born in Braga, Portugal, July 5th, 1970
lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal

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

Javier Viver (Spain)

irp — Tue, 17 Sep 2002 08:20:28 +0000

Javier Viver received his Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts at The Universidad Complutense, Madrid.

In his art practice, Viver explores architectural structures that address the fragility of mankind’s temporal condition. His current project is EspHeM (“Empresa de Servicios para Habitar este Mundo” / “AService Company to inhabit this World”).This fictional online company produces prototypes of models of living that are founded upon the assemble/dismantle systems appropriated from package construction, and that are applied to the human scale. EspHeM offers aesthetic, well designed structures that quickly unfold as provisional habitats, reflective of society’s transient condition.

Javier Viver works are in the collections of the Spanish Academy in Rome, Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Spain, Caja Madrid Fundation, and Arte XXI Fundation.”

EspHeM website :: http://www.location1.org/esphem

Jiun-ting Lin (Taiwan)

irp — Tue, 17 Sep 2002 08:19:28 +0000

images from Loading… (2002) Media Installation at MoCA Taipei

Mr. Jiun-ting Lin is the first Recipient of the Yageo Tech-Art Award of the ACC.

Projects:
Previous multimedia projects include “Ecstasy Unleashed-Runaway Octopus amd Jellyfish”; “Recording the Instant”, “The Missing”. . .
The titles of these works are revealing of the artist’s intention to create what he calls “a different dimension” where “time and space are sealed like a capsule and devoid of venue meaning”. Artistic creation is meant to be a fully sensorial experience in which the audience comes into contact with this alternative time and space that are devoid of wordly context.

interview with Jiun-Ting by Melissa Chiu, Curator, Asia Society and Museum, New York.

Isabelle Jenniches (The Netherlands)

irp — Tue, 17 Sep 2002 08:18:25 +0000

click on images to enlarge

Interview from Isabelle Jenniches with Carole Stakena, Deputy Director and Curator,
Creative Time, New York

October 2002 –June 2003
Isabelle Jenniches received her Master’s degree in Scenography from the Academy of Applied Art in Vienna, Austria, and a postgraduate degree in Digital Media, Communication and the Arts from Media-GN, the Netherlands. In her work, which often evolves out of close collaborations with other artists, actors, dancers and musicians, Isabelle exploits the social and emotional impact of new forms of mediated communication in theatrical situations, using, for example, telepresent characters.

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

During Isabelle’s residency at Location One, she will explore the concept of solitary as well as shared realtime telecasting and streaming media.

Location One is grateful to The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture for supporting Isabelle’s residency.

website: http://www.9nerds.com/isabelle

Dominik Lejman (Poland)

irp — Tue, 17 Sep 2002 08:15:40 +0000

In his work, Dominik explores time-based painting in relation to his practice of using video projection layers that are optically merged with the physical painted image. Considered as paintings, all of his projection work paradoxically requires bright, lit space. As such, the gallery or the public space becomes the negative of the cinematic experience.

More recently, Dominik has used video documentary footage and statistical data to create his “crowd mural” projections as a way of presenting an ornament of social accumulation and crowd tension. During his stay at Location One, he will continue to explore the aesthetics of crowd ornament and the idea of “individual portable territory” in relation to the notion of collective fear and insecurity.

Dominik Lejman has exhibited at the Contemporary Art Center in Warsaw, the Moderna
Museet in Stockholm, and the Hamburger Banhoff in Berlin.

website: http://www.lejman.art.pl

Daniel Blaufuks (Portugal)

irp — Fri, 13 Sep 2002 08:22:40 +0000

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

Atsushi Nishijima with Yuzo Sakuraomoto

irp — Wed, 06 Feb 2002 16:29:19 +0000

Click here to view the embedded video.

Transcript:

(this interview was conducted in Japanese on February 9 2002).

YUKO SAKURAMOTO: I’m with Atsushi Nishijima. Atsushi is a sound artist from Kyoto, Japan. His work and activities are diverse, including sound installation, he live performance, and research on soundscape. He just made an installation at Location One in New York.

So, first please tell us about your installation at Location One :

ATSUSHI NISHIJIMA: I used TV monitors, video tapes, and solar batteries to design the sound system for the installation. For the video screening, I used two different types of sequences: one features images of natural glimmering from the sun and the moon, the other consists of a man-made rhythm resulting from evolving neon signs and the cityscape that I shot at Times Square. Sound was produced by the changing lights, and on screen, color and movement were transformed into electric signals through the use of solar batteries.

YS: Your exhibition was titled, “Subtractive Creation.” Could you explain the meaning of ‘subtractive creation’ , and tell us how you came up with the idea?

AN: Usually, when I think of an idea, I tend to think of different kinds of things by analogy. For instance, in the case of sound and light, they are interesting to me because they are both wave forms. We perceive colors when the waves within the sunlight or streetlights are reflected on things, so that the waves that could be seen red or blue out of all the spectrum of light only reach our eyes. In other words, we simply receive something that is subtracted from some existent totality. In this sense, I am interested in the relationship of the totality, a thing as its part, and myself, and how they interact with each other. Using the earlier example, rather than mixing or adding ‘red’ and ‘blue’ to create something, my concern is how something can be subtracted, mediated by my work, and what the outcome will look like.

YS: So-called “Sound Art” has been gaining popularity recently. As new technology or the computer software has become more available, it seems that everyone can become musicians. What is your definition of Sound Art?

AN: As for the technology, I don’t make any distinction between high and low technology. A friend of mine told me that some people still use the terms ‘new media’ and ‘old media’ for categorization. For me, it seems to be a matter of methodology or choice. Some people use a digital camera, and others opt for a traditional camera with photographic film. Rather than claiming which is good or bad, new or old, it’s becoming more like a matter of one’s taste. The question is how to utilize them, how to use the media ! I heard an interesting story concerning the invention of Hovercrafts. A group of ship specialists started the project in an attempt to produce a high-speed vehicle on the water. They first tried to elaborate the design of the hull, improve the screws, the engine and so on, but failed in their attempts. At some point a specialist on aviation technology joined the team that was working on this project and proposed to create a “flying ship”, which is neither a ship nor an airplane. Ship specialists couldn’t even conceive of such an idea. They were only concerned with the idea of updating the qualities of the ship, and could not imagine a ship hovering in the air. I found the story really interesting. I titled my installation at Location One, “Subtractive Creation” in a rather symbolic sense, as opposed to the idea of creation by addition or mixing. I don’t think adding or mixing is enough. You need to reach a completely different idea in order to create something interesting and new. Unless you can create different ways of looking or thinking, or produce interesting concepts; if I use the example of the ship, you would end up upgrading its performance, efficiency or comfort level. In my case, although I compose and perform music, I want to present different ways of listening to music through my work, or compose and create in relation to the way in which music is listened to. Proposing new ways of listening and hearing, that is my focus. As for the definition of Sound Art, it’s a difficult question. Generally when the work utilizes sound as a medium, it’s often refered to as “Sound Art”. For me, whether sound is used or not, this is not the issue. What matters is whether the work is conceived from “sound”. As long as it is conceived or designed from the perspective of sound, it can be called “sound art”, regardless of whether it is painting, sculpture, or photography. Because what we refer to as “sound” has various aspects. A good example is a musical instrument. Like, when we think of a box whose volume is identical to the volume of a violin, since the shape is different the box doesn’t produce the same sound as the violin, even though the volume is the same. In other words, shape, material, and volume as components of the instrument, the architectural space or environment in which these components are found, all these elements can relate to sound either as a whole or individually. Either way, since it is related to sound, it has that distinct shape and space. To put it in reverse, whether it’s painting, sculpture, photography or architecture, I think “sound art” has interesting possibilities.

White Balance (to think is to forget differences)

irp — Thu, 10 Jan 2002 07:19:26 +0000

François Bucher
White Balance (to think is to forget differences)
2002 DVD, color, sound; 30 minutes.

White Balance reviewed:
The Village Voice, Feb 5
Columna De Arena (in Spanish) Jan 31
Art Forum Feb 2002

The West Project: accompanying web project

January 10 – March 2, 2002
Opening Reception: January 10th, 6-8 PM
Where there is amenability to paraphrase, where the sheets have never been rumpled, there poetry, so to speak, has never spent the night.
—Osip Mandelstam
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. The video presents a question that needs to be visited over and over, a question that is always and necessarily larger than ourselves. Yvonne Rainer asked this question in her film Privilege: “…is ‘permanent recovering racists’ the most we can ever be?” In this sense, offering a meta narrative that would pretend to describe the issues at stake, is a failure to understand the layers of unspeakability that are hidden in the question of whiteness. The piece opts for a poetic language, an address that seeks to arouse thought by concentrating on the openings of the audiovisual experience, in the short-lived moment of the in-between.

Click here to view the embedded video.

François Bucher was born in 1972 in Cali, Colombia and lives and works in New York City. He graduated from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1999 with an MFA in film (MFA fellowship recipient). From 1999 – 2000 he attended The Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. He is co editor of Valdez Magazine, Bogotá, Colombia. Bucher has shown his work in Latin America, the United States and Europe. White Balance (to think is to forget differences) was funded in part by The New York City Media Arts Grant of The Jerome Foundation.

Location One (www.location1.org) is a new not-for profit art center, which fosters the convergence of all types of creative expression. We maintain a gallery space suitable for every form of performance and exhibition, and within this space, multimedia net-broadcasting facilities that allow us to webcast a 24-hour stream of both live and archived events. Our International Residency Program invites artists from other countries to experiment with emerging technologies. Location One is an exploration space for continual creative discovery.

go_Home

heather — Sun, 23 Sep 2001 21:05:14 +0000

go_Home

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

irp — Thu, 20 Sep 2001 22:59:59 +0000

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

Click here to view the embedded video.

François Bucher (Colombia)

irp — Mon, 17 Sep 2001 08:25:53 +0000

still from Bucher’s film Twin Murders, 1999

François was the first artist to participate in the International Residency Program

François Bucher is an artist from Calí, Colombia; he lives and works in New York City. He is co-editor of Valdez Magazine. From 1999-2000 he attended The Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in New York. His work has been exhibited internationally, most recently including a solo exhibition at Location One, New York, 2002, and Empire/State, artists engaging globalization, Whitney Museum Independent Study Program exhibition, 2002. His videotape White Balance (to think is to forget differences), 2002, was included in the special program of the Oberhausen Film Festival, Germany, and the New York Video Festival, Lincoln Center. He is currently working on a new film, commissioned by Gallery Porta 33, in Maderia. Bucher won a prize from the Alliance Française in Bogotà, Colombia—a residency at La Cité des Arts, Paris, commencing 2003. He was also a recipient of The New York City Media Arts Grant of The Jerome Foundation, in 2000. He was the first artist to participate in Location One’s residency program.

Projects and Exhibitions at Location One:

Recorders :: video installation created in collaboration with Katya Sander : March 2001
Museum of Mankind :: video projection :: Residents’ Exhibition June 2001
White Balance (to think is to forget differences) :: video installation : January-March 2002

Online:
website :: includes links to other projects
The West Project :: online project accompanying the White Balance exhibit

Interview between François Bucher and Koan Jeff Baysa

Marta Deskur (Poland)

irp — Sat, 01 Sep 2001 08:27:07 +0000

Marta Deskur was born in Krakow in 1962 and studied at the École de Beaux Arts, Aix-en-Provence. She received the Diplôme National Superieur d’expression plastique in 1998. Her latest work, Rodzina (Family) has been exhibited in Poland at the Goethe Institute and elsewhere in Europe.

Interview with Marta Deskur by Koan Jeff Baysa, Independent Curator.Web project New Baby? was created during Marta Deskur’s residency at Location One

Location One gratefully acknowledges The Trust for Mutual Understanding and The Asian Cultural Council for their invaluable support of the International Residency Program.

MARTA DESKUR
Born in 1962, Krakow, Poland.

1983-1988 — studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, in Aix-en-Provence, France,

1988 – Diplom National Superieur d’expresion plastique,1989-1990 — conducted the class of drawing at the School of Fine Arts, Aix-en-Provence, 1992 — „ Artist en residence” Escuela de Deseno, Altos de Chavon, Dominikana, 1998 — “Transfer” — scholarship of the Kultursekretariat Nordrhein-Westfalden “Artist en residence”, Bonn, and Munchengladbach,Germany.1999 — The Vardo-Seminar Fundation, Riga, Latva, 2000 — scholarship of the Kunstlerdorf Schoppingen, Germany, lives in Kraków.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS :

1991 – Galerie Caroline Serero, Marsylia, Francja,

Dziekanka Gallery, Warszawa, Poland

1992 – Modus, Galeria Zderzak, Kraków, Poland

1994 – Au Dela de Marie-Madeleine, Galeria Zderzak, Kraków, Poland

1995 – Irrelations, GaleriaKronika, Bytom / Galeria Grodzka, Lublin,

1996 – Krzysztofory Gallery, Krakow, Poland

Somebody else is using your eyes, Galeria Zderzak, Kraków, Poland

Human clear, Center of Contemporary Arts, Ujazdowski Castel, Warszawa, Poland

1997 - Memory : Slogans, Krzysztofory Gallery, Kraków Poland

1998 – Human —clear, Soros Center for Contemporary Arts, Prague, Czech Repablic

This is Klara and this is me, Pico, Zacheta Gallery, Warszawa, Poland

1999- Family, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, Poland

Visitation, Potocka Gallery, Krakow, Poland

Family, Goethe Institut, Krakow, Poland

2000
Family, The Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery, Krakow, Poland
Family, Polnisches Institut Leipzig, Lipsk, Germany

Marta vol 1 and many more, F/6 Gallery Kunstlerdorf Schoppingen, Germany

2001- This is Klara and this is me Pico, 400 Gallery, Chicago, USA

Family, Centre of Contemporary Art Laznia, Gdanck, Poland

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS :

1989 — Vasarely Fondation, Aix-en-Provence, France

1991 - We are, Zacheta Gallery, Warszawa, Poland

1992 - A Sketch to the Gallery of Contemporary Art, National Museum, Warszawa, Poland

- Cultural Center Foundation,Altos de Chavon, Dominikana,

1994 — Constraction in Proces Lonz, Poland

1995 - New I’s for New Years, Kunstelerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

1996 - Horizons Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea

1997 - Horizons, Chosun Ilbo Gallery, Seul, Korea,

Novalog, The Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery, Kraków, Poland

/ Paulinke Ulfe Berlin, Germany,

1998 - Transfer, National Museum-Krolikarnia, Warszawa, Poland/Wyspa Progress Gallery Foundation, Gdansk, Poland/ The Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery, Kraków, Poland / Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany / Museum Bochum, Germany / Kunsthale Bielefeld, Riccherd Kaselowski Haus, Germany

1999 - Art Negotiators faced with reality, Center of Contemporary Art Laznia, Gdanck, Pl

2000 - Wanted- International video program, The Bunkier Sztuki Cont. art Galery, Krakow,

Scen 2000, Center of Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castel, Warszawa, Poland

2001 — In Between-Art from Poland, 400 Gallery, Chicago, USA

Art Negotiators faced with reality, The Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery, Krakow, Poland

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

CATALOGUES OF SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

*M. Deskur, X. Wolski, tekst/text : Urszula Czartoryska, BWA Szczecin, 1991

*Marta Deskur, tekst/text : Maria Morzuch, Stowarzyszenie Wspólnota Polska, Kraków, 1993

*Deskur — Au dela de Marie-Madeleine, tekst/text : Tomasz Grylewicz, Galeria Zderzak, Kraków, 1994

*Marta Deskur. Irrelacje, teksty/texts ; Poza — Swiaty. Rozmowa Wita Kopytki z Martą Deskur ( oprac./elab.:Jarosław Suchan); Jarosław Suchan, De Relatinibus, Galeria Kronika, Bytom, 1995

*Rodzina/Family M. Deskur, tekst: Piotr Rypson „Marty Deskur Obrazy, Cytaty, Pytania“,Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok, 1999

*Rodzina/Famil M. Deskur The Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery, teksty/texts: Jaroslaw Suchan, wywiad z Maria Morzuch, cz. II, Piotr Pypson „Pamiec, Przyszlosc, Przedstawienie”, Jan Simon „Skad przyjezdzamy? Gdzie parkujemy? Dokad jedziemy? Sztuka M.Deskur a poszukiwanie sensu w sytuacji ponowoczesnej”Krakow 2000

CATALOGUES OF GROUP EXHIBITIONS

*Jestesmy, Galeria Zacheta, Warszawa, 1991

*Abattoirs 91, tekst/text: Urszula Czartoryska, Marsylia, 1991

*Artistas en Residenca, Galeria Principal, Altos de Chavon, Dominikana

*Zywioly, tekst/text: Urszula Czartoryska, Panstwowa Galeria Sztuki w Lodzi, 1993

*Wspolrzedne Mikolajska 20, Krakow, 1993

*Ikonopres, Zamek Ksiazat Pomorskich, Szczecin, 1994

*New I’s for New Years, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin / CSW Warszawa, 1995

*Unter einem Dach, Klosterstrasse 68-70, Podewil, Berlin, 1995

*Impact avan-garde cracovienne apres 1945, Instytut Polski w Paryzu, 1996

*Horizons,14 Polish Contermporary Artists, tekst/text : Piotr Rypson; Sonije Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea / Muzeum Sztuki w Lodzi,1996

*News from Cracow, Pecsi Galeria, Pecs, 1997

*Transfer, Muzeum Narodowe, Warszawa / Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal, 1998

*Negocjatorzy Sztuki wobec Rzeczywistosci, tekst/text: Bozena Czubak “Wobec Rzeczywistosci”, Maria Morzuch Rozmowa cz I CSW Laznia, Gdansk / Bunkier Sztuki Galeria Sztuki Wspolczesnej, 2000

*Scena 2000 , tekst/text: Stach Szablowski, CSW Zamek Ujazdowski , Warszawa, 2000

PERIODICALS:

*Obieg nr 55-56, Warszawa 1993, Lukasz Guzek Na Mikolajskiej strasza duchy (sztuki wspolczesnej). Wspolrzedne.

*Obieg nr 59-60, Warszawa 1994, Jaroslaw Suchan Przeczucie obecnosci.

*New Observations nr 102, Nowy York 1994, Marta Deskur Voice from Krakow.

*Art&Business nr 8-7, Warszawa 1996, Agnieszka Chmura Jasna strona czlowieka.

*Balkon Contemporary Art Magazine nr 1, 2, Budapeszt 1997, Piotr Rypson Marta Deskur kepei, idezetei, kerdesei.

*Art&Business nr 1-2, Warszawa 1997, Barbara Wroblewska-Bogon Widzialne I niedotykalne

*Znak Krakow 1998, Jan Michalski Ukrywamy sie na wolnosc (I transformujemy).

*Exit nr 1, Warszawa 1999, Maria Anna Potocka, Transfer Polnocna Nadrenia Westfalia — Polska.

*Polish Artists’Books in the 1990s and Three Libraries, Piotr Rypson, , [in:] Studies in Modern Russian and Polish Culture and Bibliography. Essays in Honor of Wojciech Zalewski, ed. Lazar Fleishman. Stanford Slavic Studies v. 20. Stanford 1999, 314-23

*Ksiazki I Strony Piotr Rypson, CSW Zamek Ujazdowski Warszawa 2000

*Przekroj nr 21/2865 Zbylut Grzywacz Rodzina w Bunkrze

*Ha Art wiosna 1(3) 2000, Monika Trzoslo Materia Zycia

*Opcje nr 6(35) 2000, Ralph Rugoff Widzowie potrzebni od zaraz, Joanna Mytkowska Impresja 2000, Adam Szymczyk Robie Scene

*Sztuka Kobiet Galeria Bielska BWA, Bozena Czubak W zmieniaonej roli miejscu plci..

WORK IN COLLECTION;

NATIONAL MUSEUM IN WARSAW, Poland

COLLECTION VACANCES BLEUE MARSEILLE, France

THE ALTOS DE CHAVON CULTURAL CENTER FOUNDATION, Dominikana Republic

CENTER OF CONTEMPORARY ART ZAMEK UJAZDOWSKI, Warsow, Poland

SONJE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS COLLECTION, Korea

MUSEUM BOCHUM, Germany

ZACHETA GALLERY, Warsow, Poland

MUSEUM SZTUKI IN LODZ, Lodz, Poland

ARSENAL GALLERY, Bialystok, Poland

CENTER OF CONTEMPORARY ART LAZNIA, Gdansk, Poland

CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM IN NIEPOLOMICE / POTOCKA GALLERY, Krakow, Poland

TERESA & ANDRZEJ STARMACH COLLECTION, Krakow, Poland

THE BUNKIER SZTUKI, GALLERY OF CONTEMPORARY ART COLLECTION

Atsushi Nishijima (Japan)

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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

IRP Exhibition 2001

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New works by François Bucher
Marta Deskur
Ksenija Turcic

June 9-July 28, 2001

Audio interviews of each resident artist by Koan Jeff Baysa:

Ksenija Turcic with Koan Jeff Baysa

Marta Deskur with Koan Jeff Baysa

François Bucher with Koan Jeff Baysa

Museum of Mankind : François Bucher

Museum of Mankind is a video installation depicting the statues that stand high on the roof of the Museum of Mankind in London. François Bucher has shot these cornerstones of Western philosophy and politics with a powerful zoom against a twilight blue sky. The hand-held camera endures the stare of the statues, defying immortality. Images are projected in the upper corners of the gallery. Sound is spatially distributed so that the viewer is surrounded by the direct sound of steady London traffic. Less audible selected tunes reach the ear as well. This piece reveals the hidden elements in the architecture that spell out an alphabet of supremacy. Being Latin American on the one hand while having a French father heavily involved with the history of Western thought, Bucher’s work is a continual critical negotiation between two cultural codes. Parallel to this there is a reflection on cinematic language and its metaphorical potential. The shooting of inanimate statues stems from a reflection on Jean-Luc Godard’s film “Le Mépris”. This visual metaphor was previously quoted by Bucher in his video works “Two Essays on Contempt” (2001) and “Twin Murders” (1999).

New Baby : Marta Deskur

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. As a socio-economic and political investigation, family has always been central to her work. For “Family in New York”, Deskur initially placed an advertisement in the Voice to interview “people who live alone, couples with no children, couples of different race and religion, gay and lesbian couples and singles, pregnant women, women who have terminated their pregnancies, people who have chosen not to have children”. She selected 14 individuals, submitted them to a questionnaire of identical questions dealing with this subject and then photographed them in her studio. The web site that she has created sums up all of this research and invites the viewer to pursue these discussions. Projected on the wall of an enclosed space, viewers are invited to enter one by one a confessional-like-space and interact directly over the web site. On the outside walls, color photographs of the interviewees are displayed in light boxes as a tribute to their physical presence.

Phase : Ksenija Turcic

Ksenija Turcic presents a new multimedia installation, Phase, where she pursues her investigation of emotional space. In this work, she is interested in the communication space between men and women. Motions of communication between two people are likened in her words to “a whirlpool of misunderstandings that circle within an energetic field”. Men are prone to hide their emotions, whereas women tend to scrutinize and elaborate, sometimes to an extreme. Turcic has filmed the face of a man performing familiar daily gestures (e.g. eating, drinking, shaving); the image is in slow motion and inexpressive. The sound of his breathing becomes audible as the viewer approaches the image. On another screen, a 3rd view of a woman’s face is projected. For a second, both images freeze. This moment in time reflects the possibility of a shared space of communication. A soundtrack of inaudible whispering voices of women can be heard. When both images resume motion, this sound disappears.

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Ana Freitas Michaela Müller Tommy Støckel Andrea Yugoslavia Chirinos June 28-July 28, 2012 Opening Reception June 28, 6-8pm Curated by Claudia Calirman

Rudy Shepherd: Portraits

Rudy Shepherd: Portraits July 8–31, 2009 Opening Reception July 8, 6–8pm Location One IRP Exhibition

Hung Nguyen Manh – special sound performance

January 11th, 2008, 20 Greene street, 7pm

Special Curator Tour for Members

Special Curator Tour for Members

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Ana Freitas
Michaela Müller
Tommy Støckel
Andrea Yugoslavia Chirinos
June 28-July 28, 2012
Opening Reception June 28, 6-8pm
Curated by Claudia Calirman

Rudy Shepherd: Portraits
July 8–31, 2009
Opening Reception July 8, 6–8pm
Location One IRP Exhibition