Location One presents newARTtheatre 2:

A conversation with playwright Paul David Young and artists Pablo Helguera, Ohad Meromi, and Xaviera Simmons
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
7pm, Free and open to the public

Pablo Helguera, Ohad Meromi, and Xaviera Simmons talk about their work and how, in different media and in performance, they draw upon and transform theatre for use in the visual arts context. They will discuss participatory theatre, the politics of theatre in the visual arts, theatre as process, community, virtuosity, the performance text, and the role of the body. The discussion, the second in a series moderated by Paul David Young, will be published in the special one hundredth issue of PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art in February 2012.

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Born in Israel, Ohad Meromi currently lives and works in New York City. Meromi graduated from Bezalel Academy (1992) and went on to receive his MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts (2003). He has exhibited internationally and nationally at venues including The Israel Museum, Tel Aviv; Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel; 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art; Lyon Biennial, France; Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin; Magasin 3, Stockholm; De Appel Museum, Amsterdam; Sculpture Center, New York; and PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York. Meromi has received numerous scholarships and awards including a Percent for Art commission (2009), the Fund for Video and Experimental film (2004), I.C. Excellence Foundation (2003), Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation Israeli Art Prize (1998). He was recently granted the Foundation for Contemporary Arts 2008 Grants to Artists Award.

Xaviera Simmons was born in New York City and lives and works in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. She produces photographic, audio, performative, sculptural, installation and video works. Xaviera received a BFA in photography from Bard College in 2004 after spending 2 years of walking pilgrimage retracing the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade with Buddhist Monks. She completed the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program in Studio Art (2005) and a two-year actor-training conservatory with The Maggie Flanigan Studio (2006). Major exhibitions and performances include The Museum of Modern Art (2011); Greater New York at MoMA PS1, (2010); The Studio Museum In Harlem (2010); Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (2007); The Sculpture Center, New York (2009); Zacheta National Art Gallery, Warsaw, Poland; and Art in General, New York. Simmons has works currently On View at The Bronx Museum, NY, the ICA (Boston) and The Galleries of Ogilvy and Mather. She is in upcoming exhibitions at Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, NY (April 2011) and at The Nouveau Musee National de Monaco (April 2011).

Paul David Young won the Kennedy Center’s 2009 Paula Vogel Playwriting Award. His work has been developed or produced at the Alliance Theatre, Kennedy Center, Kraine Theater, La Mama E.T.C., Lion Theatre on Theatre Row, Living Theatre, LMAK Projects, Marlborough Gallery, MOMA PS1, New York Theatre Workshop, Primary Stages, Philadelphia University of the Arts, Red Room, and, in Icelandic, at the Kaffileikhusid in Reykjavik, Iceland. In 2008, he co-curated with Franklin Evans the exhibition Perverted by Theater at apexart. He is a regular contributor to PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art (MIT Press). In October 2010, he moderated the first newARTtheatre panel at apexart.

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Participating Artists
Benjamin Orion Rush
David Dempewolf + Howard Huang [VJ]
David Tinapple
Eileen Maxson
Emcee C.M. [VJ]
Ip Yuk Yiu
Jennifer Levonian
Marc Andre Robinson
Michael Kontopoulos
Matthew Suib
Nadia Hironaka
Susana Gaudêncio
Steven Mygind Pedersen [VJ]

Monkey Town
September 26, Friday 8-10pm
58 N 3rd St
(btw. Kent & Wythe)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn 11211
$5 door; $10 minimum
Reservation is suggested: 718.384.1369

Hands together: New York Artists Gather for China Earthquake Relief to Benefit UNICEF

(download flyer in pdf format)

June 14, 2008 @ 3pm
The Players Theatre
115 MacDougal Street (between W 3rd and Minetta Lane)
Tickets: $45 / Group of Four: $125 (Promotional code is: 4UNICEF)

Tickets can be obtained through Theatermania at www.theatermania.com or call (212) 352-3101

OR click on the following link:
http://www.theatermania.com/content/show.cfm/show/144637
OR go to www.theatermania.com and search under Matrix Music Collaborators

Proceeds to benefit U.S. Fund for UNICEF

This special presentation will feature an international line up of artists to include:

Min Xiao-Fen, pipa / Wu Na, Gu Qin / Huang Ruo, composer / Eric Siu, visual artist /
Pan Asian Repertory Theatre / Asian American Writers’ Workshop /

Members of Matrix Music Collaborators:
Yoon Kwon, violin (acoustic & electric) /
Yuri Namkung, violin (acoustic & fiddle) /
Wendy Law, cello / Justin Berrie, flute / Christa Robinson, oboe /
Rachel Calin, bass / Sheryl Lee, piano & artistic director

Puppeteers:

Deborah Hertzberg / Serra Hirsch / Daniel Irizarry / Mary Robinette Kowal /
Chris McLaughlin / Jessica Scott / Meghan Williams / Jodi Eichelberger

led by Jane Catherine Shaw and Terry O’ Reilly, co artistic-directors

Program:

Drunken Man by Jiu Kuang, based on a famous poet of the western Jin dynasty (265 -420)
Blue Pipa (inspired by Miles Davis) by Min Xiao-Fen
The North of Sunset by Thelonius Monk, arr. by Min Xiao-Fen
Mo (dedicated to the victims of the Sichuan earthquake) by Min Xiao Fen and Wu Na

Four Fragments for solo violin by Huang Ruo

Excerpts from The Joy Luck Club

a play by Susan Kim, adapted from the novel by Amy Tan
with direction & musical staging by Tisa Chang
Oblivion by Piazzolla

“Super Cop World” video installation featuring mighty Mario and Jackie Chan

designed by Eric Siu
Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67 by Sergei Prokofiev – a staging with Chinese
Puppets with Matrix Music Collaborators

Involvement/ Support and special thanks to the following:
Asia Society; Asian Cultural Council; Asian American Advertising Media; Franklin Furnace Foundation; UNICEF for U.S. Fund; Chinese Consulate, NY; Chinese Mission to the United Nations; The Players Theatre; Mabou Mines; PS 122; Jeremy Klaperman; Lawrence Uy; Chinatown Ice Cream Factory; Matrix Music Collaborators; Pan Asian Repertory Theatre and Asian American Writers’ Workshop and bluepipa.org

Piano Courtesy of C.Bechstein America
Generously hosted by The Players Theatre

Co-producers: Terry O’Reilly and Sheryl Lee
Marketing Director: Barbara Okishoff
Graphic Designer: Yuan Zhou

Hands together: New York Artists Gather for China Earthquake Relief to Benefit UNICEF

(download flyer in pdf format)

June 14, 2008 @ 3pm
The Players Theatre
115 MacDougal Street (between W 3rd and Minetta Lane)
Tickets: $45 / Group of Four: $125 (Promotional code is: 4UNICEF)

Tickets can be obtained through Theatermania at www.theatermania.com or call (212) 352-3101

OR click on the following link:
http://www.theatermania.com/content/show.cfm/show/144637
OR go to www.theatermania.com and search under Matrix Music Collaborators

Proceeds to benefit U.S. Fund for UNICEF

This special presentation will feature an international line up of artists to include:

Min Xiao-Fen, pipa / Wu Na, Gu Qin / Huang Ruo, composer / Eric Siu, visual artist /
Pan Asian Repertory Theatre / Asian American Writers’ Workshop /

Members of Matrix Music Collaborators:
Yoon Kwon, violin (acoustic & electric) /
Yuri Namkung, violin (acoustic & fiddle) /
Wendy Law, cello / Justin Berrie, flute / Christa Robinson, oboe /
Rachel Calin, bass / Sheryl Lee, piano & artistic director

Puppeteers:

Deborah Hertzberg / Serra Hirsch / Daniel Irizarry / Mary Robinette Kowal /
Chris McLaughlin / Jessica Scott / Meghan Williams / Jodi Eichelberger

led by Jane Catherine Shaw and Terry O’ Reilly, co artistic-directors

Program:

Drunken Man by Jiu Kuang, based on a famous poet of the western Jin dynasty (265 -420)
Blue Pipa (inspired by Miles Davis) by Min Xiao-Fen
The North of Sunset by Thelonius Monk, arr. by Min Xiao-Fen
Mo (dedicated to the victims of the Sichuan earthquake) by Min Xiao Fen and Wu Na

Four Fragments for solo violin by Huang Ruo

Excerpts from The Joy Luck Club

a play by Susan Kim, adapted from the novel by Amy Tan
with direction & musical staging by Tisa Chang
Oblivion by Piazzolla

“Super Cop World” video installation featuring mighty Mario and Jackie Chan

designed by Eric Siu
Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67 by Sergei Prokofiev – a staging with Chinese
Puppets with Matrix Music Collaborators

Involvement/ Support and special thanks to the following:
Asia Society; Asian Cultural Council; Asian American Advertising Media; Franklin Furnace Foundation; UNICEF for U.S. Fund; Chinese Consulate, NY; Chinese Mission to the United Nations; The Players Theatre; Mabou Mines; PS 122; Jeremy Klaperman; Lawrence Uy; Chinatown Ice Cream Factory; Matrix Music Collaborators; Pan Asian Repertory Theatre and Asian American Writers’ Workshop and bluepipa.org

Piano Courtesy of C.Bechstein America
Generously hosted by The Players Theatre

Co-producers: Terry O’Reilly and Sheryl Lee
Marketing Director: Barbara Okishoff
Graphic Designer: Yuan Zhou

The international residence program at SoHo’s Location One convenes to perform and screen works on 4 screens. Artists showcased tonight include:

Rob Kennedy
Nina Sobell
Eric Siu
Rashaad Newsome
Aoife Collins
Kuba Bakowski
Daniel Andersson
Katia Kameli
Luis Nobre

http://www.monkeytownhq.com/5_11_08.html

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

Best,
Eric

www.ericsiuart.com

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

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

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

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

Best,
Eric

www.ericsiuart.com

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

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

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

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

Best,
Eric

www.ericsiuart.com

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

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

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

XU TAN
Searching for Keywords
November 28, 2007–February 9, 2008
opening reception November 28 6–8pm

PRESS COVERAGE: Rhizome

“Searching for Keywords”, an interactive multimedia installation created by Chinese artist Xu Tan will be presented in Location One’s main gallery from November 28th 2007 though Februrary 2nd, 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. It began with a series of interviews of different groups of people who are active in Chinese society: a first set of interviews were carried in the Zhangjiang Hi-tech Park, a sort of Silicon Valley near Shanghai, a second set covers different cities and people from all walks of life, from writers, to real estate developers, to Buddhist monks, to businessmen; and a third was conducted among the artistic community in China. The video interviews were then carefully analyzed, and Xu Tan has identified 100 keywords based on meaning (social values), frequency (repetition), sensitivity (political), and popularity (trendyness). These Keywords reveal much about the values and motivations of contemporary Chinese society, they give a pulse of the current social climate, and present an insight into the collective social consciousness of China.

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.

While the artist is present in the gallery he will also conduct interviews of different people and the analysis of these interviews will in turn generate other keywords that will help reveal the opinions and attitudes of a western audience towards the current status of China and its role in the global environment.

Xu Tan was born in Wuhan, Hubei Province in 1957 and currently lives in Shanghai and Guangzhou. In the early 1990s he joined the “Big Tail Elephant Group” in Guangzhou with Lin Yinlin, Chen Shaoxiong and Liang Juhui. The aim of this group is to develop critical strategies for negotiating the rapidly changing economic and cultural life in China. He was among the first artists to participate in Location One’s International Residency Program in 2002, and his work has been shown around the world including P.S.1 in New York, Biennale di Venezia, Berlin Biennial, Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art in Brisbane, Australia, Guangzhou Triennial, Taipei Biennial, De Appel in Amsterdam. Recent solo shows were held at the DAAD Gallery in Berlin, at the Vitamin Creative Space in Guangzhou, at BizArt is Shanghai.

XU TAN
Searching for Keywords
November 28, 2007–February 9, 2008
opening reception November 28 6–8pm

PRESS COVERAGE: Rhizome

“Searching for Keywords”, an interactive multimedia installation created by Chinese artist Xu Tan will be presented in Location One’s main gallery from November 28th 2007 though Februrary 2nd, 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. It began with a series of interviews of different groups of people who are active in Chinese society: a first set of interviews were carried in the Zhangjiang Hi-tech Park, a sort of Silicon Valley near Shanghai, a second set covers different cities and people from all walks of life, from writers, to real estate developers, to Buddhist monks, to businessmen; and a third was conducted among the artistic community in China. The video interviews were then carefully analyzed, and Xu Tan has identified 100 keywords based on meaning (social values), frequency (repetition), sensitivity (political), and popularity (trendyness). These Keywords reveal much about the values and motivations of contemporary Chinese society, they give a pulse of the current social climate, and present an insight into the collective social consciousness of China.

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.

While the artist is present in the gallery he will also conduct interviews of different people and the analysis of these interviews will in turn generate other keywords that will help reveal the opinions and attitudes of a western audience towards the current status of China and its role in the global environment.

Xu Tan was born in Wuhan, Hubei Province in 1957 and currently lives in Shanghai and Guangzhou. In the early 1990s he joined the “Big Tail Elephant Group” in Guangzhou with Lin Yinlin, Chen Shaoxiong and Liang Juhui. The aim of this group is to develop critical strategies for negotiating the rapidly changing economic and cultural life in China. He was among the first artists to participate in Location One’s International Residency Program in 2002, and his work has been shown around the world including P.S.1 in New York, Biennale di Venezia, Berlin Biennial, Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art in Brisbane, Australia, Guangzhou Triennial, Taipei Biennial, De Appel in Amsterdam. Recent solo shows were held at the DAAD Gallery in Berlin, at the Vitamin Creative Space in Guangzhou, at BizArt is Shanghai.

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.

The 1729th dorkbot-nyc meeting took place on Wednesday, November 1st, 2006, at 7pm.It featured the fragrant and marvellous:

	Albert Hwang: The Wiremap The Wiremap is a design that uses an LCD projector and a custom surface to make real and interactive 3d images. The images rendered exist in the same spatial dimension as our bodies do, bridging the gap between digital 3d and analogue 3d. With this project, I hope to redefine how we encounter digital 3d. Instead of a collection of weightless polygons, digital 3d can engage with our bodies and our intuitive spatial instincts in a visceral and tangibly real way. http://phedhex.com/wiki/index.php?title=Wiremap
	Cameron Browning: Electrosketch Electrosketch is an interactive art installation that uses a number of technological hacks to allow users to scribble paths onto the walls of their environment in real-time. During the short period of time the images are recorded, other users have the opportunity to use digital controls connected to the installation to manipulate the paths in 3D.http://www.5cameron.com
	Natalie Bewernitz & Marek Goldowski: sound artEPG (Expanded Polyphonetic Generation) is an audio installation performance that uses an artificial mouth palate to control voice fragments. Using the voice of artist Meredith Monk, which is fragmented in over 3000 pieces (sylables and phonemes), two performers attempt to control the triggered samples with the mouth palate interface to build up an improvised (musical) communication between them. http://www.bewernitzgoldowski.com

Some pics from the meeting.

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by Victoria Vesna with nanoscience pioneer James Gimzewski

December 16th, 2004 – January 29th 2005

Opening: Wednesday, December 15, 2004, 6-8 pm
Exhibition: December 16, 2004 through January 29, 2005

To salute World Peace in this Holiday Season, Location One presents an installation by media artist Victoria Vesna, in collaboration with nanoscience pioneer James Gimzewski.

The installation consists of a video projected onto a disk of sand, 8 feet in diameter. Visitors can touch the sand as images are projected in evolving scale from the molecularstructure of a single grain of sand—achieved my means of a scanning tunneling microscope (STM)—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 of Chakrasamvara seen in this installation was created by Tibetan Buddhist monks from the Gaden Lhopa Khangtsen Monastery in India, in conjunction with the “Circle of Bliss” exhibition on Nepalese and Tibetan Buddhist Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. This particular sand mandala had never before been made in the United States.

To complement the video, sound artist Anne Niemetz has developed a meditative soundscape derived from sounds recorded during the creative process of making the sand mandala.

Of the installation the artist says: “Inspired by watching the nanoscientist at work, purposefully arranging atoms just as the monk laboriously creates sand images grain by grain, this work brings together the Eastern and Western minds through their shared process centered on patience. Both cultures use these bottom-up building practices to create a complex picture of the world from extremely different perspectives.”

With generous support from the David W. Bermant Foundation.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Curated by Meredith Monk and Bonnie Marranca

Free and Open to the Public: Location One, 26 Greene St, New York, NY 10013 tel: 212.334.3347

Art as Spiritual Practice Panel
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Art as Spiritual Practice, Nov. 5, 7:30 pm

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Panelists:

Meredith Monk is a performer, composer, choreographer, and filmmaker. She has been creating multi-media and musical works for more than three decades, among them Atlas, Quarry, Education of the Girlchild, and Songs from the Hill. A major retrospective of her work was shown at the Lincoln Center Festival 2000. Meredith Monk and visual artist Ann Hamilton have collaborated on a new work, titled Mercy.

Linda Montano is best-known for her many duration performances. She is also a teacher and writer whose books include Performance Artists Talking and Art in Everyday Life. She has taught and given workshops at universities and spiritual centers throughout the U.S. Linda Montano is based in Kingston, N.Y., where she runs the Art/Life Institute.

Erik Ehn has been writing an ongoing cycle of plays loosely based on the lives of saints and biblical characters, many of which are published in a volume entitled, The Saint Plays. His work includes musicals, plays for children, and opera libretti. He is an artistic director of the Tenderloin Opera Company in San Francisco. Erik Ehn’s work has been produced in theatres and universites throughout the U.S.

Eleanor Heartney is an arts critic and contributing editor to Art in America and artpress. She is the author of Critical Condition: American Culture at the Crossroads and Postmodernism. Currently, she is working on a book about the Catholic imagination in contemporary art, entitled Postmodern Heretics.

Alison Knowles is one of the founding figures of the Fluxus group. She has recently performed and exhibited at the Drawing Center in Soho using beans and paper as acoustic materials. Her sound sculptures in paper have taken her to Germany, Italy and often to Japan. Among her several books are: Bread and Water, Event Scores, and Footnotes.

Bonnie Marranca, Moderator.
She is the author of Ecologies of Theatre and Theatrewitings, and editor of several anthologies, including Conversations on Art and Performance, Plays for the End of the Century, and The Theatre of Images. She is editor of PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art and Curator of Special Performance Projects at Location One.

Her music is available from ECM records. She is also the subject of the recent book, Meredith Monk, edited by Deborah Jowitt. Meredith Monk was recently the subject of a major retrospective at the Lincoln Center Festival 2000.

website :: www.meredithmonk.org

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Location One inaugurated the Locution interview series with Meredith Monk, the internationally-celebrated performer/composer/choreographer/filmmaker. Monk has been creating multimedia and musical works for more than three decades, among them Atlas, Quarry, Education of the Girlchild, Dolmen Music, and Songs from the Hill.

Her music is available from ECM records. She is also the subject of the recent book, Meredith Monk, edited by Deborah Jowitt. Meredith Monk was recently the subject of a major retrospective at the Lincoln Center Festival 2000.

website :: www.meredithmonk.org

Ned Rothenberg composes and performs on saxophones, bass clarinet, flute and shakuhachi (an end blown Japanese bamboo flute). He has been internationally acclaimed for his solo music which he has presented for the past 16 years in hundreds of concerts throughout North and South America, Europe and Japan. He leads the ensembles Double Band and Power Lines and was a founding member of the cooperative group New Winds (with Robert Dick, flutes and Herb Robertson, Trumpet). His newest project is Sync, a trio with guitarist/bassist Jerome Harris and Tabla virtuoso Samir Chatterjee. His co-collaborators in other projects have included Paul Dresher, Yuji Takahashi, Sainkho Namchylak, Richard Teitelbaum, Elliott Sharp, Samm Bennett, John Zorn, Katsuya Yokoyama, Kazuhisa Uchihashi and Fred Frith. He’s lived and worked in New York City since 1978.

Rothenberg’s musical interests are numerous and his work varies widely in its sonic, emotive and stylistic profiles. A strong underlying element of his instrumental voice is the extension of the woodwind language to incorporate polyphony and accurate microtonal organization through the manipulation of multiphonics, circular breathing, and overtone control, not only using his horns in their standard melodic role but also as rhythmic and harmonic engines in both solo and ensemble contexts. As a composer he can move from “Jazz-funk in cubist perspective, dizzying, yet visceral”* (Double Band) to a solo music that is “intense, slightly melancholic, rhapsodic without being sentimental”+, while avoiding the use of mere effect- “crafting distinct, evocative compositions that boast shape as well as texture^”. (*-Jon Pareles and +Edward Rothstein, NY Times and ^Neil Tesser, Chicago Reader).

A few of Rothenberg’s more notable sojourns have been 6 trips to Japan including a 6-month residency there during which he performed his music and studied shakuhachi with two of the foremost masters of the instrument, Goro Yamaguchi and Katsuya Yokoyama. 3 trips to the former Soviet Union in’89, ‘92 and ‘94 working solo, in various groups and in duo with Sainkho Namchylak. December ‘91 saw his first trip to South America where he presented his solo music. This is in addition to numerous tours in North America and Western Europe each year playing festivals, theatres and clubs as a leader or collaborator.

Ned Rothenberg’s discography includes: a solo CD, The Crux (Leo), Double Band’s ‘Over Lays’ and ‘Real & Imagined Time’, Power Lines’ premier recording (New World ), ‘Amulet’, duo with Tuvan vocalist Sainkho Namchylak (Leo), ‘Monkey Puzzle’, a duo with Evan Parker (Leo), a studio collaboration co-composed with Paul Dresher, ‘Opposites Attract’ (New World), 2 records by Semantics (Rift & SST), New Winds’ releases ‘Potion’,’Digging it Harder From Afar’ (Victo), ‘The Cliff’ and ‘Traction’ (Sound Aspects), Cafe 9.15 with the Japanese band Altered States (DIW) as well as 3 solo LPs: Trespass, Portal, and Trials of the Argo on Lumina. His work can also be heard on the Nonesuch, A&M, ECM, Recommended, Sub Rosa, Enemy and Virgin labels. (For a complete discography see url below)

Born in 1956 in Boston, Rothenberg graduated from Oberlin College and studied music at Oberlin Conservatory, Berklee School of Music, privately with Les Scott (saxophone & clarinet), and George Coleman (jazz improvisation). However, his trademark solo technique is self-taught. His musical efforts have been furthered by grants and commissions from the New York Foundation for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, Cary Trust, Lila Wallace Foundation, Chamber Music America, Asian Cultural Council, Roulette, Jerome Foundation, Meet the Composer, and ASCAP.

For booking information or other info Email Ned Rothenberg: location1@location1.org
To order CD’s Email Bruce Gallanter at New York’s Downtown Music Gallery: dmg@panix.com
For full discography posted on the web: http://www.nwu.edu/jazz/artists/rothenberg.ned/discog.html#ned_discography