Born in St.Gallen, lives and works in Switzerland and in Zagreb, Croatia.

Michaela is in love with paint and film, and in animation she found a perfect way to combine the two. She is currently doing animation research, exploring the borders between narrative and abstract experimental film, based on rhythm and choreography.

She likes to work on social topics of public concern. Her 8 minute animation “Miramare” (2009, paint on glass) is an impressive encounter between tourists and immigrants shown from a children’s perspective. It has been shown at more than 70 film festivals all over the world, among other in Cannes, Annecy, London, Melbourne, Sarajevo, Rio de Janeiro and St.Petersburg. “Miramare” won more than 15 awards, like the Swiss Film Prize Quartz, the Centaur for Best Debut Film at Message to Man Film Festival, St. Petersburg, the Grand Prix at Animateka Film Festival, Ljubljana etc.

Michaela studied animated film and New Media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, Croatia. Miramare is her diploma film. She likes to collaborate on theatre and dance projects, where she contributes animated scenographic elements.

Michaela Müller’s residency is made possible by Pierre Nussbaumer and the Location One International Committee.

website: www.triboje.com

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Born in Stockholm/Sweden.

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

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

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

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

His recent solo exhibitions include at WIMBLEDON space, London (2011), Galerie du JourAgnes b., Paris (2010) and Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo (2008). Group exhibitionsinclude Roppongi Crossing, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2010); 100 stories of love, The21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (2009); Between site and space, ARTSPACE, Sydney (2009); Redbull House of Art, Hotel Central, Sao Paulo (2009)and Vision of Contemporary Art, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo (2009). His early works are held in thecollection of The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa. Publications include GENGA, published by Kawade Shobo Shinsha/Agnes b., and Looking For Minerals, published by BEAMS.http://www.wordpublic.com/hiraku

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

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Luis Nobre graduated in 2001 from the Escola Superior de Arte e Design, Caldas da Rainha, Lisbon. Exhibitions include the 5th International Biennial of Sculpture and Drawing, Caldas da Rainha; Sub.864-873, Museu Malhoa, Caldas da Rainha; Between Heaven and Hell, Museum of Natural History, Lisbon; Year of the Dog, Ale and Porter Arts, Bradford, UK; Ohhh Naturel! Madame Lillies, London.

At Location One , Luis Nobre’s residency is supported by dgArtes,Ministerio da Cultura, Lisbon www.dgartes.pt, Fundação Ilidio Pinho, & Instituto Camões

Online: http://www.luisnobre.net/

http://www.spikeisland.org.uk/programme.html?section=view&event_id=70

Events & Exhibitions

Eric Siu & Luis Nobre
May 21, 2008

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

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

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

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Performance by Zane Saunders
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
7 pm

Curated by Jovana Stokić

Location One is proud to present Time Walk, a new work by artist in residence at Location One, Zane Saunders.

The indigenous Australian artist performs in a set designed from his sculptures. Part ritual, part dance, part battle preparation.

Time Walk is a performance that examines the cross-cultural practice connecting the artist to his heritage. The artist paints his face and body while he engages with different objects of his own making in a ritualistic fashion. The artist’s actions occur in five distinctive environments within the performance space. One of these stages take the artist outside of the gallery. Zane challenges the conventional notion of story-telling: his story is told in a non-verbal manner but the story is undoubtedly there. It is the oldest story about man vs. nature, about survival and wisdom one gets while living in harmony with one’s surroundings. Ritualistic movements are accompanied by electronic music, which point to another cross-cultural reference. It situates the work in the context of contemporary performance art between ritual and technology. These are some of the issues that are not told, but expressed in a way one has to respond instinctively. Zane explains: “Performance is a vehicle for the spirit to connect to audience”. Modern devices/costume are utilized to convey the message, with an emphasis on the absurdity of contemporary ‘western’ norms.

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Zane Saunders is an artist from Cairns, Nothern Queensland, Australia. He is both visual and performance artist. His residency is sponsored by the Australia Council for the Arts and Location One. Zane’s relatively recent performance work has provided him with a unique medium to take his prolific visual practice ‘off the wall’, and into space shared with the audience. Over the past three years, Zane has developed a distinctive approach to contemporary dance/performance, drawing from his indigenous cultural heritage, and from his many experiences of contemporary society.

Performances
Tuesday, June 14, 7 & 8pm
Thursday, June 16, 8pm

Sophie Hunter’s installation Lucretia is based on fragments of Benjamin Britten’s opera “The Rape of Lucretia” – specifically, the image of a group of women spinning at a loom as their husbands are off waging war.

The piece extracts various elements of the opera; the singers and orchestra, the narrative, and the operatic process itself, and deconstructs and examines them devoid of their original context.

These are then rewoven to record an altogether new sonic experience – a densely knitted soundscape incorporating elements of live singing, recorded instruments and mechanical noise. Parallels are drawn between the act of weaving and the recording or ordering of information. Single threads from the visual and sound worlds combine and resign their original identity to become bound to and part of each other – assimilated into new forms and patterns.

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Lucretia centers around a room made of fishing wire, illuminated by naked light bulbs. Outside the room, several monitors are placed at varying heights. They reference the whirring and clicking of the loom, the sewing machine, cogs and connectors, the telephone switchboard, the spectrum of beeps and tones that provide the soundtrack to modern technology and women’s connection and interaction with them. The women in the space operate in infinite detail; they become agents of change and controllers of information.

Myth is populated with weavers, from Penelope to Philomela. In these stories and traditions, weaving is more than a domestic pastime; it becomes a means of expression, a metaphor for survival, power and faithfulness. Weaving in essence is a recording of information, a means to encode it, a system of memory and a system of creativity. In this installation, Lucretia’s looms are transferred from the domestic sphere and changed into monitors; exacting machines capable of decoding information. Instead of pictures woven in tapestries or yarn, these women weave in a digital visual form.

Sophie Hunter has assembled an international team of collaborators from the worlds of opera, film and theatre to create the piece.

Andrew Staples – collaborator, musical director, additional sound design; Singers: Kirsten Allegri, Valerie Kraft Sonya Headlam, Syvlie Jensen;
Performers: Justine Salata, Claire Helene, Jacqueline Kerrod – Harp, Melissa Mizell – Lighting designer, Sarah Outhwaite – Assistant Director, video editing, Poppy de Villeneuve – Original video content,
John Fitzwilliam – additional video design, Asa Wember – Sound design, Raphael Zinman – Production

Sophie Hunter studied at Oxford University and Jacques Lecoq, Paris. She has devised, developed, directed and performed in theatre and performance pieces throughout Europe as well as in the Middle East and New York.In 2007, she was awarded the prestigious Oxford Samuel Beckett Award for new voices in experimental theatre. Most recently, Sophie has been exploring new directorial and performative approaches to opera. Sophie has just collaborated on a production of Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte (performances in France and London). Forthcoming projects include Benjamin Britten’s The Rape Of Lucretia (New York) and Mozart’s The Magic Flute (Africa, with Vignette Productions) She recently directed a reimagining of Ibsen’s Ghosts, performed in New York in November, and is researching a large-scale multi-media performance based on the poetry of Sappho, in collaboration with the writer Maureen Duffy. Sophie is currently working with New York based company, Phantom Limb and will be directing their latest work, 69 DEGREES SOUTH which will premier at BAM Harvey Theatre in November 2011 Sophie Hunter’s residency is supported by the Location One International Committee.

Like A Shark in The Grass
Solo Exhibition by John O’Connell

Curated by Claudia Calirman

Opening Reception: Wednesday, 13 April 2011 6-8PM
Exhibition Dates: 14 April – 27 May 2011

Location One is proud to present: Like a Shark in the Grass, John O’Connell’s first solo exhibition in New York.

John O’Connell, a multimedia artist from Dublin, Ireland, works with sculpture, photography, drawing, and film animation. For Location One, he creates an intimate and dreamy environment, built from a myriad of interrelated elements borrowed from his make-believe universe. 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.

O’Connell is best known for his film animations, many of which likewise depart from his drawings, paintings, and miniature set designs. He also composes and plays piano for the animations’ melodic and soothing soundtracks. Straddling the line between real and fictional, process-based and result-oriented, these animated works seem to be involved in their own imaginary journey, oblivious to the exterior world. They ultimately belong to the artist’s poetic, whimsical, and lyrical universe.

About the Artist:
John O’Connell holds an MA from the Royal College of Art, London, and a BA from the National College of Art, Dublin. He has undertaken numerous residencies and has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally. Recent solo shows include New Work at The Dock, Ireland (2011); The Visitor, at the Riverbank Art Centre, Ireland (2010); Big Pink at the Goethe Institute, Dublin (2009); Nothing Matters When Your Dancing, at Stiftung Starke, Berlin (2009); and The Garden Project at Wicklow County Hall, Ireland (2007). Recent group shows include By a Route Obscure and Lonely at the Triskel Art Centre, Cork (2011); Contemporary Sculpture Show at the F. E. McWilliam Gallery, Ireland (2010), Re:Public at Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin (2010); Clear Skies Above at SIM House, Reykjavik (2010); Futures 09 at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin (2009); and The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter at West Germany Project Space, Berlin (2009).

Location One is extremely grateful to John O’Connell’s residency sponsors: The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon, and The Irish American Cultural Institute, and to The New York State Council on the Arts, The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and media sponsor OneArtWorld.com.

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

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

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

Katy Dove graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee, UK in 1999. Over the past 10 years she has worked across many areas including animation, film, sound, music, drawing, painting, photography and printmaking. Recent projects include a residency and solo exhibition at La Criee, Rennes, France, a commissioned temporary animation installation at BBC Scotland, Pacific Quay (2009) and Now is the Time a collaborative exhibition with Simon Yuill at The Changing Room Gallery, Stirling (2009).

Solo exhibitions include Artis, Den Bosch, Netherlands (2008), Hales Gallery, London (2006), Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh (2006) and Sies and Hoeke Gallerie, Dusseldorf (2005). Other projects include Sun by Ear, an exhibition with Victoria Morton at Tramway, Glasgow (2007) and solo presentations at Art Statements, Basel (2005) and Art Now, Lightbox, Tate Britain (2003).

She is a member of the band Muscles of Joy.

She currently lives and works in Glasgow.

Katy Dove is represented by Hales Gallery, London. www.halesgallery.com

Katy Dove’s residency is sponsored by Creative Scotland.

Lyota Yagi was born in Ehime, Japan, in 1980 and currently lives and works in Kyoto. He graduated from the Department of Space Design, Kyoto University of Art and Design, in 2003.

Yagi’s solo exhibitions include Circuit, Mujin-to Production, Tokyo (2008); Open Space 2008: emergencies! 008: Lyota yagi [Kai-Ten: the world's spinning], NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo (2008); Line, Circle or Layer, Mujin-to Production, Tokyo (2007); criterium70: Lyota Yagi, Art Tower Mito, Mito, Japan (2007); For the Ontology of Letters, Voice Gallery pfs, Kyoto (2006); side b: waltz, Mujin-to Production, Tokyo (2006); and side a: timer, Mujin-to Production, Tokyo (2006).

Group exhibitions include sound draw scenery/scenery draw sound, Yokohama Civic Gallery Azamino, Kanagawa, Japan (2010); Winter Garden: The Exploration of the Micropop Imagination in Contemporary Japanese Art, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (2009); Re:Membering-Next of Japan, Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul (2009); Ogaki Biennale Ogaki City, Gifu, Japan (2008); Exhibition as media, Kobe Art Village Center, Hyogo, Japan (2007); ready made remix, Voice Gallery pfs, Kyoto (2007); Arte Povera Now and Then-Perspectives for a New Guerrilla Art, Esso Gallery, New York (2007); Kobe Art Annual, Kobe Art Village Center, Hyogo, Japan (2005); and stereorium, ARTZONE, Kyoto (2005).

Mr. Yagi’s residency is made possible by the Asian Cultural Council.

Joana Villaverde was born in Lisbon, Portugal 1970
She has exhibited regularly in Portugal and abroad since 1998, most notably: Je Vous Garde, Pavilhão Branco, City Museum, Lisbon; Ferro e Fogo, http://www.formatocomodo.com; E Ela Dança, House of Arts Tavira; Drawings, Sala do Veado, Lisbon; Este Ano, Casa dos Dias da Água, Lisbon; Identities- continuation # 4,National Society of Fine Arts, Lisbon EDP Foundation, NY Scope Art Fair, Black & White Gallery. Co-author with Mafalda Ivo Cruz’s book Emma. www.cavalodeferro.com In theater makes set design for plays by Kleist, Büchner, Walser, Jarry, Feydeau, presented at Teatro do Bairro Alto/Cornucopia; Centro Cultural de Belém; Culturgest; Teatro Nacional São João, Oporto. Currently working at Location One sponsored by the FCG
www.gulbenkian.pt
and FLAD www.flad.pt In Lisbon she has a studio in Fábrica Braço de Prata
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www.joana-villaverde.com

Joana Villaverde’s residency is made possible by the Gulbenkian Foundation, Portugual

Born in 1967 in Japan, Toyoshima obtained an MFA from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, and has participated in a number of solo and group exhibitions and international residencies. Since early in her artistic career, Toyoshima has concerend the with various forms of systems and regulated values in a contemporary society that one applies and unconsciously internalizes. By experimenting with various everyday objects, commodities and spaces, she conceptually investigates the social and cultural systems that are taken for granted, such as measurement, finance, color, or counting, in order to reveal how those systems influence the construction of a subject. In doing so, she further explores new realms of meaning and ideas by manipulating and intervening with the contexts and boundaries in various forms and approaches.

Ms. Toyoshima’s residency is made possible by the Asian Cultural Council.

Lovisa Ringborg started as a painter and the influence of painting, especially the Flemish and Baroque artists, is evident in her work. ‘In all of my pictures, I have worked in a painterly way, with texture and colours in the photographs. Coming from painting, that’s a natural way for me to work, it’s only the media that have changed…’

Ringborg works at ‘the borders between fantasy and reality’. She uses child models in fictional settings and narratives and digitally manipulates the images. The children in her photographs seem somehow detached, depersonalised. ‘That’s my intention, I’m not interested in working with portraits. I work with my models, change them until they become something else, become my own… I want them to evolve into symbols or signs rather than individuals.’

Education:
2003-2008 University of photography, Göteborg    
2002-2003 Göteborgs artschool                      
2001-2002 Gerlesborgs artschool, Bohuslän 

Selected solo exhibitions:
2009
If Your Secret Was an Animal, What Animal Would it Be, Harlem Studio Fellowship, New York City
Limbo, Kulturhuset, Stockholm
 2008
Rotwand Gallery, Zürich
Investigations, Passagen / Linköpings konsthall
 2007
Kungsbacka Konsthall, Göteborg
Uppsala teatergalleri, Uppsala
 2006
JR Konsthallen , Linköping
 2005
Wonderland, Westberg/Spåman , Göteborg
Uppsala teatergalleri, Uppsala
 2006
JR Konsthallen , Linköping

Lovisa Ringborg’s residency is made possible by the Hasselblad Foundation, Sweden

Gonzalo Puch lives in Madrid, teaches at the University in Cuenca, and is a native of Sevilla. He creates situations or “incidents”, generally in neutral environments such as classrooms, or his own apartment, which he then records photographically and presents as large, color photographic prints. Although his working methods and environment are hermetic, the work itself addresses and tries to make order of the chaos of the world. His themes are linked to various traditional academic subjects such as math, science, music, biology and environmental studies. The settings are sparse and practical, well lit and benign. Recently he has been working in the landscape more immediately addressing environmental themes. However, the events taking place are inscrutable rituals or quiet procedures which are both serious and comic. They appear to have their own logic in which we can recognize the elements, but not their organization, like words without syntax.

In Globus (also a self -portrait) Puch lies on the floor under a paper globe comprised of a collage of maps which have been recombined with no logical order, surrounded by tools and cords, and attempts to inflate it. In one of his most poetic images, a young man is seated in front of vermillion wall covered in huge cutout numbers. He diligently cuts out additions to this nonsensical equation with great seriousness of intent. For Sale, a nine foot mini eco environment constructed by Puch in his bedroom, links plants, animals and water systems in a world where all real estate is for sale.

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Puch has been exhibiting in Spain since 1985, and in 2004 a major retrospective was held at the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo in Sevilla, and in 2002 at the Fundacion Antonio Perez in Cuenca. His work is included in numerous collections in Spain including the Centro Nacional Reina Sofia, and the Arco and Coca-Cola Foundations in Madrid. His first solo exhibition in the United States was held at Julie Saul Gallery in 2005 and he subsequently entered the collection of the Blanton Museum at the University of Texas in Austin.

Gonzalo Puch’s residency is supported by the Location One International Committee.

Born 1978, Lives and works in Krakow.

Karolina Kowalska is a versatile artist based in Kraków, working with dark humor and irony in the media of installation, photography, animation, and video. Kowalska has collaborated with the experimental and performative art collective, the 36.6 Foundation, and with the feminist interactive art group, Grzenda (The Hen House), known particularly for their online game, Contraception (2005). From these collaborations, she brings a spirit of play, a consciousness of gender, and an element of performance into her individual work.

Studied in the graphics department of Krakow Academy of Fine Arts (MFA 2002), and in the animation department at Hogeschool Gent (Belgium).
2006 Artist in Residence of the Forum Stadtpark Graz (Austria).
In 2007 she acheived a Ministry of Culture creative grant.
In 2009 invited to the program Artist Pension Trust / Berlin.
In 2010 she achieved a Ministry of Culture creative grant “Mloda Polska”.
2010 – Artist in Residence in Location One, New York.
www.karolinakowalska.pl

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

The Location One International Committee

Sophie Hunter studied at Oxford University and Jacques Lecoq, Paris.

She has devised, developed, directed and performed in theatre and performance pieces throughout Europe as well as in the Middle East and New York.In 2007, she was awarded the prestigious Oxford Samuel Beckett Award for new voices in experimental theatre.

Most recently, Sophie has been exploring new directorial and performative approaches to opera. Sophie has just collaborated on a production of Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte (performances in France and London). Forthcoming projects include Benjamin Britten’s The Rape Of Lucretia (New York), Janacek’s The Cunning Little Vixen (Italy), Mozart’s The Magic Flute (African tour), and Beethoven’s Fidelio (Palestine).

She recently produced a reimagining of Ibsen’s Ghosts, performed in New York in November, and researching a large-scale multi-media performance based on the poetry of Sappho, in collaboration with the writer Maureen Duffy.

Sophie Hunter’s residency is supported by the Location One International Committee.

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

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

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

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

Artists 2011-2012

Pablo Helguera (Mexico)
Location One International Committee

Born in Mexico City, 1971. Lives and works in New York

Pablo Helguera (based in New York, born in Mexico City, 1971) works in the fields of pedagogy, literature, musical composition, and theater. His projects have included performance lectures, scripted symposia, and panel discussions (with or without the knowledge of the audience) as well as a variety of experimental formats of verbal presentation.

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

Jacob Dahl Jürgensen (Denmark)
Danish Arts Agency

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

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

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

Maria José Arjona (Colombia)
Location One International Committee

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

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

Hiraku Suzuki (Japan)
Asian Cultural Council

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

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

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

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

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

Michaela Müller
Location One International Committee

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

Na Yingyu (China)
Lijiang Studio
Location One International Committee

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

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

Andrea Yugoslavia Chirinos (Mexico)
Location One International Committee

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

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

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

Tommy Støckel (Denmark)
Danish Arts Council

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

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

Monica Baptista (Portugal)
Gulbenkian Foundation

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ana Freitas Machado (Brazil)
Location One International Committee

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

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

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

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

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

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David Molander (Sweden)
Hasselblad Foundation

Born in Stockholm, Sweden 1983.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

OPENING RECEPTION:

Wednesday, September 15, 2010, 6–8 PM

DATES: 16 September – 16 October 2010

HOURS: Tuesday – Saturday 12–6 PM

Artist Talk: Friday, Sept 24, 2010, 7pm

with Chrissie Iles, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator, Whitney Museum

Skaer’s practice explores the relationship between viewer and image, altering
normal processes of interpretation to create ruptures between what is seen
and what is understood. Her new work comprises 16mm films depicting important
cultural artifacts from different periods of time. Skaer physically alters the film prints to
create voids and effects that intervene on both the timeline and the picture. Accompanying
the films are sculptures that correspond both to the qualities of the original artifacts and
her interruptions in the film.

Gilda Williams, Editor for Contemporary Art at Phaidon Press, London and correspondent
for Artforum, says about Skaer: “everything is in a perpetual state of instability and in-
betweeness”. Lucy uses a remarkable intellect and extraordinary skills to create rules in
order to break their inner logic, challenging the viewer to question traditional ways of
perception.

This is Skaer’s first solo project in New York. The work was developed during Skaer’s
recently concluded year as an international fellow at Location One.

Click here to view the embedded video.

About the Artist: Lucy Skaer is a visual artist working in sculpture, painting, film, video and
installation. Her many international exhibitions include the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007 and
the 5th Berlin Biennale in 2008. She is currently showing at Forum 65 at the Carnegie
Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, K21 in Dusseldorf and Elle at the Centre Georges Pompidou.
She works collaboratively with the artist group Henry VIII’s Wives and with Rosalind
Nashashibi as Nashashibi/Skaer. Born in Cambridge in 1975, she holds a BA Hons Fine
Arts from Glasgow School of Art

We are grateful to the International Committee of Location One and The New York
State Council on the Arts, and The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs for making this exhibition and the artist’s residency
possible. Thanks to media sponsor OneArtWorld.com. Lucy Skaer is represented by doggerfisher, Edinburgh and Murray Guy, New York.

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new paintings by Lyra Abueg Garcellano, and video work by Kwan Sheung Chi

Curated by Claudia Calirman

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ARTIST TALK::

Curated by Claudia Calirman

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ARTIST TALK::

Performance artist Ragnar Kjartansson with Jovana Stokic
Wednesday, February 24, 2010, 7 pm

Curator of Location One’s Abramović Studio, Jovana Stokić will speak with artist Ragnar Kjartansson about his current and past work, focusing on his performative works. The artist grew up to become, among other things, a pop star in his native Iceland, with his band Trabant. He is also recognized as an artist from performances such as The Opera (his 2001 graduation piece from the Academy of Arts in Reykjavík, in which he created a Rococo theatre in a small room and performed for ten days straight), Death and the Children (2002) or The Great Unrest (2005), in which he dressed as a Viking and sang the blues for an entire week in an abandoned theatre in the countryside. Artist will talk about his experience of his   six-month long performance at the Pavilion of Iceland at 53rd  Venice Biennale, 2009.

The evening is a part of activities of Abramović Studio at LOCATION ONE. Beginning October 2009 the studio, curated by Jovana Stokić, involves artists from Location One residency program in engaging with performance art. The ABRAMOVIĆ STUDIO within Location One is dedicated to exploring long-durational performance works through open-ended forms of workshops, panels and discussions. Marina Abramović is the subject of a major retrospective exhibition at MoMA in March 2010 titled “Artist is Present” in which she will be performing continuously throughout the whole duration of the exhibition.
The talk is free and open to the public.

Ragnar Kjartansson (b. 1976, Reykjavík, Iceland) conjures up emotions in his work that he can pass on to his viewers, with a keen eye for the tragicomic spectacle of human experience where sorrow collides with happiness, horror with beauty, and drama with humor. In his versatile artistic career, he has focused on video, painting, and drawing, with performance at the heart of his practice. Both of Kjartansson’s parents are actors, and acting, repetition, and identity are ever-recurring themes in his work. He has taken on countless roles in his performances, combining his own personality with personas from cultural history. His work incorporates a mélange of show business icons and nostalgic imagery from bygone eras of theater, television, music, and art, allowing him to blur the border between life and art, reality and fiction, and to create bold statements that strike chords with his audiences. Kjartansson graduated from the Iceland Academy of the Arts in 2001, and is the youngest artist ever to represent Iceland at the International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia in 2009. He has built an impressive roster of international exhibitions, including several major solo shows in museums, galleries, and art festivals in the last few years. He is representative of the vibrant young art scene in Iceland and has formed an engaging individual style that has
drawn the attention of the international art world. Kjartansson is represented by i8 Gallery in Iceland and Luhring Augustine in the United States.

Belgrade-born, New York-based art historian and critic Jovana Stokić holds a Ph.D from the Institute of Fine Arts at the New York University. Her dissertation, titled “The Body Beautiful: Feminine Self-Representations 1970 – 2007,” analyzes works of several women artists — Marina Abramovic, Martha Rosler, Joan Jonas — since the 1970s, particularly focusing on the notions of self-representation and beauty. Jovana has been writing art criticism for several years, and has curated several thematic exhibitions and performance events in the US, Italy, Spain and Serbia. Jovana was a fellow at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, a researcher at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the curator of the Kimmel Center Galleries, New York University. She has most recently written an essay for Marina Abramović’s MoMA exhibition catalogue.

Here is the video of this artist talk:

February 4, 2010

Curator of Location One’s Abramović Studio, Jovana Stokić spoke with artist Lucy Skaer about her current and past work focusing on the collaborative artist group Henry VIII’s Wives, who have been working together since 1998, mainly in film and video. The talk was free and open to the public. Skaer was shortlisted for the prestigious Turner Prize in 2009 and was an International Fellow in Location One’s Residency Program.

Curator of Location One’s Abramović Studio, Jovana Stokić will speak with artist Lucy Skaer about her current and past work, focusing on the collaborative artist group Henry VIII’s Wives, who have been working together since 1998, mainly in film and video. The talk is free and open to the public. Skaer was recently shortlisted for the prestigious Turner Prize and is currently an International Fellow in Location One’s Residency Program.

A collective was formed in 1997 in Glasgow with the intention of experimenting around collaborative art projects. Its first exhibition was named “Henry VIII’s Wives” and its very title implied their ideology signifying, according to them “a surviving curiosity, a physical impossibility, or just a collection of people who should have known better.” Henry VIII’s Wives’ practice points to the obsolescence of traditionally interpreted ideologies by gently mocking collective spirit: their initial motto was: “We March Under the Banner of Visual Art.” They developed performative projects in which they involved local communities not limited to ordinary gallery-going audience. Tonight’s discussion will focus on issues of non-hierarchical collaboration, dissemination of artworks both within and outside of gallery system and age-old question regarding utopian aspect of art practice. For the first time in New York, several of Henry VIII or I’s Wives’ films will be shown.
for more info >> www.h8w.net and www.tatlinstowerandtheworld.net

Lucy Skaer was born in Cambridge and studied at the Glasgow School of Art. Much of her work consists of her interacting with, and changing, public spaces. In one piece, she took up a paving stone on Glasgow’s Buchanan Street and then had the Earl of Glasgow ceremoniously lay down a replacement, while in an Amsterdam-based piece, she left a diamond and a scorpion side-by-side on a pavement. She has also secretly hidden moth and butterfly pupae in criminal courts in the hope that they will hatch in mid-trial. Skaer has also exhibited drawings and is a member of the Henry VIII’s Wives collective of artists. In 2003, Skaer was shortlisted for the Beck’s Futures prize. She currently lives and works in Glasgow.

In 2008 Skaer was the subject of a mid-career retrospective at the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh, Scotland which included newly commissioned work. There was a comprehensive monograph published to accompany the show. Her most recent major solo exhibition is ‘A Boat Used As A Vessel’, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland (April 2009 – June 2009).

Lucy Skaer is represented by doggerfisher, Edinburgh (www.doggerfisher.com). In April 2009, she was shortlisted for the Turner Prize.

Belgrade-born, New York-based art historian and critic Jovana Stokić holds a Ph.D from the Institute of Fine Arts at the New York
University. Her dissertation, titled “The Body Beautiful: Feminine Self-Representations 1970 – 2007,” analyzes works of several women artists – Marina Abramovic, Martha Rosler, Joan Jonas — since the 1970s, particularly focusing on the notions of
self-representation and beauty. Jovana has been writing art criticism for several years, and has curated several thematic exhibitions and performance events in the US, Italy, Spain and Serbia. Jovana was a fellow at the New Museum of Contemporary
Art, New York, a researcher at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the curator of the Kimmel Center Galleries, New York University. She has most recently written an essay for Marina Abramović’s MoMA exhibition catalogue.

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

Curated by Claudia Calirman

OPENING RECEPTION:

Wednesday, January 13, 2010 6–8 PM

DATES: January 14 – March 6, 2010

HOURS: Tuesday-Saturday 12–6 PM

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.

Yes, But… features works by Vik Muniz (b. Brazil; works in New York) together with artists currently in residence at Location One: Alexandra Mota de Aguiar (b. Portugal), Wojtek Doroszuk (b. Poland), Mattias Ericsson (b. Sweden) and Zhou Tao (b. China).

Vik Muniz uses photography to create images from non-traditional materials. In series such as Pictures of Junk, he re-creates works by Great Masters, undermining the grandiose mythological aspect implied in the historical tableaux with his use of everyday discarded materials. His work usually involves strategies of appropriation–he sets out to create a copy of a copy, which, during the process of transformation, becomes a work by Vik Muniz. It is not only the artist’s materials that have a temporal quality to them; it is also the performative aspect of his works that call to mind issues of time and impermanence.

Working outside Rio de Janeiro in a space the size of a basketball court, the artist collaborates with residents from nearby favelas to remake a series of canonical images, directing his crew from a scaffold high above and then capturing the image through a large-format camera; the resulting works incorporate intriguing discrepancies of scale. In his process, what starts as a permanent object (usually a reproduction of a canonical work of art) becomes an impermanent installation made out of detritus, only to be turned again into a permanent work of art (a conventional gelatin-silver print). Repulsive or tasteful, visual or tactile—all these are choices are games played out in Muniz’s illusionist tableaux, leaving the viewer amused and complacent in being fooled and deceived.

Mattias Ericsson

In the installation September 2001 – March 2009, Mattias Ericsson’s hundreds of black-and-white photographs, which he carefully arranges into a formal grid, are all part of his ongoing work. Many of the images refer to the artist himself, his wife and child; others focus on the idyllic Swedish landscape in which Ericsson was born and still lives with his family. For this work, Ericsson chose images from his archive of thousands of photographs, then meticulously classified, sorted, and displayed them, trying to create order out of chaos.

In Mattias Ericsson’s video 1630 Photographs, the mundane also interferes in the supposedly grand narrative of the past seven years of the artist’s life. He recorded his voice for the video, creating a methodic narrative about the technical process of developing the film, making contact sheets and selecting photographs—a strikingly impersonal accompaniment to the intimate photos. There exists a tension between the work’s visuals and its narrative; the artist’s monotone voice is juxtaposed with his personal images, creating a disjunction between oral description and visual field. While the passage of time is registered in these intimate photographs (self-portraits, daily domestic interiors, family, friends, relatives, even time and aging…) his droning voice-over in a mantra-like rhythm renders these personal images from a distant place, as if subject and object were in reality two different beings, disconnected from each other.

Zhou Tao
Zhou Tao plays with notions of chance and everyday life subverting our understanding of the urban environment. In videos such as Obstacle, Power Here, Mutual Exercise, and East 6th Street to Location One he explores ordinary activities in public spaces.

In Obstacle, Zhou takes a stroll on a Sunday morning in the streets of his native Chinese city of Guangzhou, letting chance lead the way as he interacts with the many different elements that he encounters. Whether swimming in a public pool, scaling an electric pole, or simply just walking on the streets, there is always an element of civil disobedience involved in his actions. In Power Here, he turns on a fan, a loudspeaker, and a floor lamp using the city’s public electricity energy, exposing the lack of surveillance by official authorities. In Mutual Exercise, a collaboration with a friend, they walk the streets of Guangzhou, exploring new situations and creating connections out of randomness, as they encounter obstacles in their way. In East 6th Street to Location One, a collaborative work completed during the artist’s residency at Location One in New York, Zhou and a friend rely upon each other’s bodies to complete the trajectory from his home in the East Village to his studio in Soho.

Wojtek Doroszuk

In his humorous videos, Wojtek Doroszuk sarcastically comments on societal behavior. As an acute observer of social relations, his work deals with elements still considered taboo in society, such as transgender operations, the theatricality of death, and the exploitation of illegal workers. Weighty themes are rendered in a casual way, with Doroszuk acting like a passer-by, or a mere spectator blandly observing the situations around him, as if he could be left unaffected by the huge impact of these major transformative experiences. Special Features–which are the artist’s commentaries on some of his original projects–shows three different situations: Polish citizens collecting raspberries in a farm in Norway, a Turkish transgender man telling the story of changing his gender identity, and Polish employees working for a Turkish boss in Germany. In each of these narratives, there is an element of surprise–something that was expected to happen but somehow gets contradicted or denied. A great dream goes sour, a bad rumor gets buffered.

In Dissection Theatre, a woman lies in a morgue table being dressed and beautified for her burial. The careless and mundane attitute of the workers attending her corpse, contrasts with the sacredness of the situation. This mechanical act is indeed the funereal image of her last deadly appearance.

Alexandra Mota de Aguiar
Alexandra Mota de Aguiar works mainly with drawing remaining close to the expressive mechanisms explored among others by Phillip Guston and Francis Bacon. Using oil pastel, charcoal, graphite, and gouache, she approaches the creative process culminates in a wide range of hybrid organic forms. Part anthropomorphic and part just abstract marks in space, her figures carry strong gestural traces generating ambiguous narratives. These organic enigmatic forms occasionally even suggest erotic actions. Completely immersed in the process of image-making, Aguiar creates works that are in-between abstraction and figuration, alternately whimsical and poetic—and often humorous.

Yes, But… is a kaleidoscopic portrait of a group of international artists working in dramatically different practices but somehow all expressing the contradictions of contemporary daily life–its fragmented experiences, the desire to transgress the norm, the disappointment with stratified rules—and, ultimately, the bewilderment with the possibility of transformation.

After all, Yes, life is short, But…not necessarily small.

Marina Abramović:
Performing the Gallery/Performing the Museum

Tuesday, October 27, 2009,
doors at 6pm, talk begins promptly at 7pm
Public Discussion with MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ
Inauguration of ABRAMOVIC STUDIO AT LOCATION ONE
presented by Jovana Stokić

The discussion will focus on Abramović’s investigations of transformative quality of time in context of a gallery exhibition. The exclusive video material from Abramovic’s innovative group exhibition in Manchester Whitworth Art Gallery, held July 3 – 19 2009, will be shown. For this groundbreaking event, the Whitworth emptied every gallery space in order to create room for this unique work to develop and breathe. The show began with an hour-long performance initiation with Marina Abramović, leading up to a series of extraordinary encounters between artists and audience. Quite unlike anything staged before in a museum or a gallery, it provided a transformative gallery-going experience.

The evening inaugurates Abramović Studio at LOCATION ONE. Beginning October 2009 the studio, curated by Jovana Stokić, involves artists from Location One residency program in engaging with performance art. The ABRAMOVIĆ STUDIO within Location One is dedicated to exploring long-durational performance works through open-ended forms of workshops, panels and discussions. Marina Abramović, will be the subject of a major retrospective exhibition at MoMA in the spring of 2010 titled “Artist is Present” in which she will be performing continuously throughout the whole duration of the exhibition.

Marina Abramović
Since the beginning of Marina Abramovic’s career, during the early 1970s, where she attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade, Abramović has pioneered the use of performance as a visual art form. The body has been both her subject and medium. Exploring the physical and mental limits of her being, she has withstood pain, exhaustion and danger in the quest for emotional and spiritual transformation. As a vital member of the generation of pioneering performance artists that includes Bruce Nauman, Vito Acconci and Chris Burden, Abramović created some of the most historic early performance pieces and continues to make important durational works. In 2005, she held a series of performances called Seven Easy Pieces at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. She was honored for Seven Easy Pieces by the Guggenheim at their International Gala in 2006 and by the AICA USA with the “Best Exhibition of Time Based Art” award in 2007. Marina Abramović is represented by Sean Kelly Gallery.

Jovana Stokić
Belgrade-born, New York-based art historian and critic Jovana Stokić holds a Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts at the New York University. Her dissertation, titled “The Body Beautiful: Feminine Self-Representations 1970 – 2007,” analyzes works of several women artists – Marina Abramovic, Martha Rosler, Joan Jonas — since the 1970s, particularly focusing on the notions of self-representation and beauty. Jovana has curated several thematic exhibitions and performance events in the US, Italy, Spain and Serbia. Her recent exhibition “Best Regards form the Blind Spot,” focused on videos by Marina Abramovic, and younger women artists from the region of Serbia and Montenegro. Jovana was a fellow at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, a researcher at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the curator of the Kimmel Center Galleries, New York University. She has most recently written an essay for Marina Abramović’s MoMA exhibition catalogue.

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Doroszuk’s residency at Location One is part of an exchange program between the artists-in-residence laboratory at Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw and Location One, NYC. This exchange program is made possible with funding from the Mloda Polska Grant from Narodowe Centrum, Kultury, Poland, as well as the Trust for Mutual Understanding, Ministry of Culture, Poland, and the Polish Cultural Institute, New York. This exchange program is made possible with funding from the Mloda Polska Grant from the Narodowe Centrum, Kultury, Poland (Ministry of Culture, Poland) as well as the Trust for Mutual Understanding, and the Polish Cultural Institute, New York.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Artist Bios:

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

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

http://www.jessicacurry.co.uk

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

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

http://www.ursenal.net

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

http://www.narindareeders.net

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

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

http://www.woodeson.co.uk

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

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

EXHIBITION PROGRAM

Each year five major exhibitions are presented in the main gallery by mid-career or well-established artists. With the assistance of Location One staff, they are attempting to expand their artistic vision by experimenting with new ideas or means of production and sometimes through novel collaborations with other artists. Throughout the year numerous smaller exhibitions from emerging artists are shown in our project gallery. selected list of past exhibitions >>

PERFORMANCE AND PUBLIC PROGRAMS:

Location One’s performance program features complex multi-disciplinary productions, often based on ideas that emerge during residencies and are commissioned for further development and presentation.

DISCOURSE

Throughout the year we organize readings, panels, lectures and workshops by artists, critics, technology experts and thinkers from different fields that are linked to our core philosophies. In addition, we sponsor dorkbot, a global group where artists, designers, and scientists hold a monthly meeting at Location One in which participants present new electronic media work for peer review.

RESIDENCY PROGRAM

Senior Artist-in-Residence
Each year one artist at the top of their career is invited by Location One to spend time in our studios and with the other artists-in-residence. Location One staff works with them to define a project that they might not consider within the normal confines of their practice.

International Fellowship
The International Committee has been formed to support an invitation-only artist fellowship program. The committee proposes outstanding mid-career or established artists who might benefit from a fellowship in New York and the chance to experiment and create work they might never make if working commercially or within the bounds of their daily lives. Artists invited into this program are selected and sponsored by Location One’s International Committee.

International Residency Program
This is our core program for artists, who spend from 5-10 months in residence at our studios. It is not open to students or recent graduates. Artists selected are accomplished artists with a history of exhibition.

The program seeks artists who wish to experiment with their practice, including those interested in new technologies, to create new work. The curators and staff who help select our artists remain involved to help develop exhibitions of their work.

Artists invited into this program are selected by a double panel system of curators and critics from their home countries who submit the short list of artists to our New York-based panel for final selection

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.

Nicolas Grospierre, “Bank” (L), “Safe” (R) click for larger image

Kaeko Mizukoshi, Hymn

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 and Kaeko Mizukoshi.Polish artist Nicolas Grospierre will present a photographic installation consisting of several photographs that depict the interiors of New York City bank vaults, as well as a small sculptural component. Grospierre’s project, brewing conceptually since 2007, yet not realized until this 2009 residency, is particularly prescient in today’s economic crisis and daily bank bailouts.In her video, “Hymn” (2009), Japanese artist Kaeko Mizukoshi, documents a nighttime scene at a Los Angeles bus stop that depicts a seemingly endless dialogue between a man, who rants indecipherably, and an awaiting passenger who responds with unrelated religious exclamations.

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

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Call for Submissions
Application Deadline: midnight, April 15, 2009
Dates of Residency: May 15-August 15, 2009
Theme: “Levels of Undo”

Invitation to Participate
Call for submissions for Location One’s “Virtual Residency Project 2.0″. Please send your URL or submit electronic materials to virtualresidency@location1.org.

Location One presents its second Virtual Residency Project in the form of a call to artists and other creative individuals with the purpose of fostering collaboration and creativity across geographical expanses and areas of expertise. The goal of this residency is to find 2 participants who are not physically proximate but who are willing to work with someone they’ve most likely never met before using some form of non-F2F (face to face) interface such as webcams, email, chat, video, blogs, telerobotic prostheses, Second Life, MIDI, skype, social networks, walkie-talkie, snail mail, mental telepathy, radio, networked video gaming, POTS (plain old telephone service), tin cans on string, or any other means of collaboration to develop a project that will be presented at Location One in the Fall of 2009, either on our web space or in our exhibition space. The theme of this project is “Levels of Undo”.

The two participants will also use a blog set up expressly for the Virtual Residency Project to discuss ideas, possible projects and to track the progress of the work. The conversation will be public and open for public comments and will be considered an intrinsic part of the Virtual Residency.

International applicants are encouraged to apply but knowledge of English (to communicate with Location One’s Virtual Residency liason) is necessary. The theme can be interpreted as broadly or as literally as the participants would like; the project will be developed collaboratively by the 2 individuals chosen for this residency project, in conversation with a curatorial advisor at Location One (to ensure the feasibility of the project and help with practical and techquestions, not to influence or reject project ideas).

VRP FAQ

What are acceptable forms of submission?
A website that includes CV and work samples is preferable, but you can also email electronic materials to virtualresidency@location1.org by the deadline, April 15, 2009. Please include a few lines describing why you are interested in a collaborative virtual residency such as this.

Who can apply?
Anyone who thinks the idea of working publicly with a total stranger about whose selection you have absolutely no say on a theme that is imposed on you is exciting rather than scary.

If I applied for the last VRP can I reapply?
Absolutely, we had many exciting and qualified applicants for the first residency but we chose the three we thought would make a good team.

Should I send a project proposal?
No, project proposals are not necessary, but a few lines describing why you are interested in this sort of collaboration would be helpful.

What kind of work should it be?
The project will be developed wholly by the participants. Location One will provide curatorial and technical assistance, but the final work will be created “offsite” or online.The final work may, however, have a physical manifestation–this will be developed with Location One’s curatorial advisor. Online performance, remote music jam, streaming video, blogs, flash animations, radio transmissions, podcasts, Second Life theatre, iChat panel discussions, remote-controlled MIDI robot kittens acting out the news are all examples of acceptable forms that the project may take. We are leaving the parameters intentionally broad in the hopes that it will elicit deeply creative responses to this topic.

Will there be an exhibition?
Depending on the nature of the work and the availability of the exhibition space at Location One, an exhibition is possible. The first Virtual Residency Project was on exhibit in our gallery space from September 10-November 15, 2008.

Is there a stipend for the selected artists?
Not yet, but we are working on it!

Why do you call it a “residency” if there is no “place of residence”?
(nasally falsetto): “Why do you call it a ‘residency’ if there is no ‘place of residence’”. Come on, aren’t we past that? Isn’t the “placeness” of cyberspace made real by the presence of a community? Free your mind.

What if I do not like my collaborator?
You should have thought of that before you agreed to all of this.

Virtual Residency Project
The first Virtual Residency Project featured three artists from three different countries: Andy Deck (New York, USA), Susanne Berkenheger (Berlin, Germany), and Hidenori Watanave (Tokyo, Japan). They communicated via blog and email and collaborated on an exhibition at Location One in the Fall of 2008. Titled “Mission Accomplished”, it featured works by each of the artists that can be seen on our website: http://location1.org/missionaccomplished. The first Virtual Residency Project was an experiment in virtual collaboration that was meant to work out the kinks so that the second would run more smoothly. We have not.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Brina Thurston received a BFA in Film and Video Production from NYU, and an MFA in Photographic studies from Bard-ICP. In the past year she completed a residency at the Vermont Studio Center and has exhibited at Rivington Arms, Dean Projects and Gavin Brown @ Passerby. Her video works have also been presented in numerous venues such as the New York Underground Film Festival at Anthology Film Archives, a WWII Bunker in Kiel Germany, a bar in Austin Texas and on the internet.

video stills from “Colon Karaoke” 2008

website: http://www.brinathurston.com

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

Recent exhibitions include: 2008, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London; Sorcha Dallas Gallery, Glasgow Print studio, Centre for Contemporary Arts , Glasgow; Spike Island , Bristol, 2007. In 2003, Sophie was included in the group show “Half the World Away”, Hallways contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, New York.

Sophie’s residency at Location One is supported by the  Scottish Arts Council.

She is also represented by Sorcha Dallas Gallery in Glasgow.

image: White screens the decline of the principal boy – 2007

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A satirist from Berlin. . .
. . . a metaverse scholar from Tokyo. . .
. . . and an artist from New York. . .
. . . create joint work – without meeting in person

Can three complete strangers – from different continents, cultures and creative disciplines – collaborate from afar to create a forceful artistic statement about a political event?
Obamabot Vs. McCainbot in Metaverse

They can. They have. Location One presents “Mission Accomplished,” a virtual-residency collaboration of Hidenori Watanave, Susanne Berkenheger, and Andy Deck. 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.

“Mission Accomplished” will be on view at Location One’s project gallery, September 10 to November 15, 2008. The opening is 6 to 8 p.m. September 10. Virtual audiences will be able to view and participate in the work at http://location1.org/missionaccomplished.

“The tools of tele-collaboration have become incredible rich and powerful in the ten years of our existence,” said Location One executive director Claire Montgomery. “We were founded on the themes of collaboration, technological experimentation and social consciousness. When we found that three talents this interesting were willing to take on the elections together, how could we resist? You have to see what they did.”

Susanne Berkenheger (Berlin) is an author and journalist, who writes for “SPAM”, the satirical section of German magazine Der Spiegel. She has been involved in projects in Second Life and “Chat Theatre”.
http://spiegel.de/spam
http://www.berkenheger.de/index_english.html

Hidenori Watanave (Tokyo) is Associate Professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University, and is researching 3Di (Second Life) and 3DGIS (Google Earth). He is interested in collaborative work in the realms of Architecture and Environmental Design in tele-existence and the metaverse.
http://mapping.jp/archi/cat18/
http://mapping.jp/index_en.html

Andy Deck (NYC) is an artist specializing in Internet media. His work addresses the politics and aesthetics of collaboration, interactivity, software, and independent media. Deck combines code, text, sound, and image, demonstrating new patterns of participation and control that distinguish online presence and representation from previous artistic practices.
http://andydeck.com
http://artcontext.org

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 works in this virtual residency demonstrate ways in which presence and participation can be abstract and conceptual. From different points of view, they represent how Internet media and tele-presence have expanded the scope of the 2008 U.S. presidential election to global proportions.” – Andy Deck

OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, September 10, 2008 6–8PM
(open to the public)

EXHIBITION DATES: September 10–November 15, 2008
HOURS: Tuesday-Saturday 12–6PM

About Location One:
Location One (http://location1.org) is a not-for-profit art center devoted to fostering new forms of creative expression and cultural exchange, and expanding the capabilities of our artists. We invite artists from different countries, working in a variety of mediums, to experiment with diverse means of expression/technology and engage with audiences through exhibitions and public programs.

Ms. Ma is one of Hong Kong’s most active mixed media artists whose works have been included in the Hong Kong Art Biennial exhibition and collected by the Hong Kong Heritage Museum.  She is also an educator, teaching in the degree program at the Hong Kong Arts Center and in the Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity, a newly established high school for talented students pursuing careers in the arts.

Ms. Ma’s own academic training was originally in information science, and she received a Bachelor’s degree from the City University of Hong Kong in 1996.  After working for four years, she began to study painting at the Hong Kong Art School, which offers a joint degree with the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, and she earned a B.F.A. degree in 2001.  She was then awarded a scholarship by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council to study for one year at the University of Leeds in the U.K., where she obtained a Master’s degree in feminist theory and practice in visual art in 2002.  Returning to Hong Kong, she became the manager of 1A Space, an important venue for presenting exhibitions by contemporary artists from Hong Kong and China.

Prior to Location One, Ivy Ma participated  in residency program at Headlands Center for the Arts and will be in New York this fall 2008.

http://www.ivyma.net/

Ivy’s residency at Location One is supported by the YageoTech-Art Fellowship through the Asian Cultural Council.

Andrea Galvani was born in Verona in 1973. He lives and works in Milan and has distinguished himself in the last few years as an artist who pushes the boundaries of the photographic medium. He is fascinated by science and it’s models of representation. As well as in the multiplicity of languages, signs, and in their relationship in history; in tables and graphics as synthesis of philosophical, political, and economic concepts. Andrea has a predilection for the photographic medium but avails often to other mediums, most of all video, drawing and wall painting. He’s considered one of the Italy’s most promising young artists.

He has participated in numerous important exhibitions in Italy and abroad, such as Babylon, BAC! Barcelona International Contemporary Art Festival, (CCCB), ES, 2007; Andrea Galvani 2003-2006, curated by Andrea Bruciati, GC.AC Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea di Monfalcone, Gorizia, IT; Decostruzione di una montagna e la morte di un’immagine curated by Marinella Paderni, Artopia, Milano, IT 2006. Since 2006, he’s been a professor of Photographic Language and History of Contemporary Photography at the Accademia Carrara di Belle Arti di Bergamo.

http://www.andreagalvani.com/

http://lnx.artericambi.org/ 

http://www.artsblog.it/post/1853/andrea-galvani-vincitore-di-location-one-20082009

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

Nicolas Grospierre was born in 1975 and raised in France, and has been living in Poland since 1999. He studied Political Science and Sociology in Paris and London before turning to photography. His work as a photographer has been focused on the one hand on documentary projects, and on the other hand on more conceptual works. His documentary projects have often been exploring the collective memories of, and the hopes linked to modernist architecture, now that the utopias linked to them have faded away. On the other hand, his conceptual photographic works tend to emphasize mind games, while at the same time displaying attractive, sensual images or even installation.

Recent exhibitions include : 2007 Mausoleum (with Olga Mokrzycka), Raster Gallery, Warsaw ; 2008 Hydroklinika, Artist’s House, Jerusalem. His works will be shown in the Polish Pavilion during the 2008 Architecture Biennale in Venice.

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

Biennale Architecture  11th International Architecture Exhibition  Venice, 13th September 2008
Golden Lion for Best National Participation

to Poland (Pavilion at Giardini)

Hotel Polonia. The Afterlife of Buildings

Nicolas Grospierre, Kobas Laksa

Commissioner: Agnieszka  Morawińska. Curators: Grzegorz Piątek, Jarosław Trybuś

Assistant Commissioner: Zofia Machnicka

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

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

http://www.undotw.org/

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

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

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

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

Recorded during the Jean Shin Artist Talk on Wednesday, July 16, 2008 7:00 pm

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Wednesday, July 16, 2008
7:00 pm

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rudy Shepherd’s latest work explores the nature of evil through the mediums of painting and sculpture.  This exploration involves investigations into the lives of criminals and victims of crime.  He explores the complexity of these stories and the grey areas between innocence and guilt in a series of paintings and drawings of both the criminals and the victims, making no visual distinctions between the two.  By presenting the people first and the stories second a space is created for humanity to be reinstilled into the lives of people who have been reduced to mere headlines by the popular press.

Going along with these portraits is a series of sculptures called the Black Rock Negative Energy Absorbers.  They are a group of sculptures meant to remove negative energy from people allowing them to respond to life with the more positive aspects of their personality.  It is on one hand a response to living in New York City for the last seven years and witnessing the madness that take place on the subway system, and an approach to political art that hopes to push the dialogue started in the late 80’s/early 90’s forward into 2008 by looking at the problems of society in a more comprehensive way, incorporating the rhetoric of new age mythology, and ancient religions.

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 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.

rudyshepherd.blogspot.com
mixedgreens.com
onedayover.blogspot.com

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

Heta Kuchka, (born -74) is a Finnish-American visual artist based in Helsinki, Finland.
Kuchka graduated from the Time and Space department in the Fine Arts Academy in Helsinki in 2001. Her media is large scale color photography, video and installation. Kuchka was the  Finnish Young Artist of the Year 2006. The purpose is to present young creative talent and to bring focus on contemporary Finnish art. Her solo show “Yours Truly” at the Helsinki City Art Museum and at the Tampere Art Museum was well received by the press and had 9 500 visitors. 2005-2008 Kuchka was a Committee of Acquisitions member at Kiasma, the Finnish Contemporary Art Museum where she had the possibility to influence the viewpoint of their future art collection. Kuchka’s work until now has dealt with identity and communication, often emphasizing feminine viewpoints. Her subject matter combines autobiography, reality documentation and fiction about media, society and every day life. The emotional reaction of the viewer is often enhanced through contradiction and irony. Coincidence is essential to her working processes. Her latest exhibition “In Memory Of…” discussed death and focused on lonely people’s position in a western welfare state which is praised for it’s social services.

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

Born in 1978, Chen, Ching-Yao lives and work in Taipei where he earned his M.F.A from the Taipei National University of the Arts in 2006. As an artist, his interest lies in detecting shifts in global contemporary culture by creating composite photographic and collage imagery  that refer to Japanese history but are also imbued with the contemporary “Dojinshi” culture prank playing spirit of the modern generation. In his “Blossoming in the Backyard” photographic series begun in 2003, Chen Ching-Yao takes elements from Japanese soap operas and ancient costume dramas in which he plays the role of an imaginary cross-dressing geek in his “Backyard Flower Garden. In the more recent series “One Minute Ukiyoe Painting”, the artist reproduces the distorted features of Kabuki actors traditionally painted by famous Japanese by wearing a stocking over his face.

Chen Ching Yao’s work has been exhibited in various commercial and institutional venues in Hong Kong, Taiwan, China and Korea.

Ching Yao’s residency at Location One is supported by the YageoTech-Art Fellowship through the Asian Cultural Council.

To view more of Chen’s work, see his Flickr PhotoStream

Nina Canell was born 1979 in Växjö, Sweden, and currently lives and works in Dublin, Ireland. Her work seeks ways to address sculpture as a restless form with fleeting properties. Relating spatial and structural concerns to that elusive fabric which constitutes the melancholic nature of being, the work facilitates a place in which matter and non-matter hold hands through carefully balanced sculptural happenings.

Recent exhibitions include Manifesta 7 – The European Biennial of Contemporary Art (Trentino), Nought to Sixty, Institute of Contemporary Art (London), The 7th Gwangju Biennale (Gwangju), Come Together, The Douglas Hyde Gallery (Dublin), What Remains at Spazio Lambretto (Milan), Beyond the Country at Lewis Glucksman Gallery (Cork) and Moon. Mist. Drum at Model Arts & Niland Gallery (Sligo). Upcoming projects include Neuer Galerie am Landesmuseum Johanneum (Graz) and solo exhibitions at Galerie Barbara Wien (Berlin) and Neuer Aachener Kunstverein (Aachen).

http://www.canellwatkins.org/

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

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

A video screening of Hapless, Helpless and Hopeless, by Rob Kennedy and Peter Dowling, 2008, (34 mins), with film screenings of Secondary Currents (1983, 17 mins) and The Gift (1994, 6 mins), by Peter Rose plus spoken texts, sounds and other paraphernalia

A screening/talk/reading presented by Rob Kennedy and Peter Rose concerning the absurdities, problems and possibilities of language, as affected by image, text, time, sense and nonsense.

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

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

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

www.peterrosepicture.org

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

In the second work, Untitled (study for banji cunt), Newsome brings choreography for the first time into his expressive repertoire. For this piece the artist invited one of New York’s top vogue dancers, Shayne Oliver, to his studio and recorded his demonstration. From the footage he created a choreographed piece in post-production by connecting different dance sequences. Shayne Oliver was then asked to practice and reinterpret this dance, and to perform it before a camera. The resulting video (8 minute loop) will be shown in Location One’s Project Space, along with ten photographs of specific dance moves from the initial recording session.

“The language of the body has a vocabulary all its own,” says Newsome, whose residency at Location One is sponsored by the Rockefeller Brothers Foundation. “Gestural language is often viewed as a cultural signifier, and I am interested in how it is formed, how it evolves as well as how it is appropriated across regional and class boundaries. I think of dance as a means of communication that can reflect a world bigger then the one I live in, one that can reflect many different people, cultures and times.”

In conjunction with the exhibition there will be a live performance of Shade Compositions,
Tuesday June 24th at 7 PM in Location One’s Performance Space (20 Greene Street).

Four black females will perform a choreographed action piece, derived from dismissive gestures often characterized as “ghetto.” The artist will utilize a hacked Nintendo Wii game controller to create a music and video composition in real-time, recording, looping, composing and editing both audio and video simultaneously to the action of the performers.

Thanks to OAK for generously lending clothing for the performance.

Born in New Orleans, Newsome received a B.A. in Art History from Tulane University before studying at Film Video Arts in New York. He has been awarded several residencies including one at Entreprise Culturelle in Paris. Most recently his work has been shown at K.U.E.L., Berlin; Glassbox Gallery, Paris; Rush Arts Gallery, NYC; Fondation Cartier, Paris; The Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans.

www.rashaadnewsome.com

June 19 – July 26 2008
OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday June 19th, 6 – 8pm (open to the public)

Location One presents And we move, an installation by New York based artist Jean Shin, which was developed during her residency at Location One. The opening will be held on Thursday June 19th from 6 to 8 pm and the exhibition will remain open to the public through Saturday July 26th, 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. The result is the creation of a multimedia installation. The title And we move refers to the phrase iterated by the conductor as he begins to work with the musicians and evokes the dynamic relationship between them. It also refers to the way in which music moves its listeners.

In the video, the conductor’s back is isolated into a cropped view of his jacket as he leads the orchestra to play the lyrical score of Ma Vlast (My Country), a piece by Czech composer Bedrich Smetana, and Ibert’s Flute Concerto. The single viewpoint creates a mysterious, suggestive abstraction of something alive, pulsing, moving. As the conductor engages with each second of every orchestral part, the image of his moving jacket speaks to his essential relationship as an individual to the group of musicians and ultimately his role in both interpreting and realizing each collaborative performance.

The artist has chosen to include the structural columns of the gallery in her installation, which she equates to the structural system of a musical score, with measures and repetitive lines. Found magnetic audio tape is wrapped around and extended between the columns in a fluid and expressive manner, evoking the act of drawing, and creating a line of sound within the architectural space. The audio tape also refers to the materiality of music and its making; metaphorically it refers to the socio-economic interrelationships that lead to the production of music.

Further exploration of the themes is provided by a series of five large-scale inkjet prints on fabric. The prints are stills from the video which capture the conductor’s body in action and become moments of music frozen in time: music and movement distilled. On the bottom portion of each print, the score of Smetana’s composition is printed continuously in a long horizontal band extending through all five images while the audio levels of the video are translated into a line of embroidery that runs between the still and the score, visually suturing the distinct elements together. The artist’s intention is to create a pause in the movement of a conductor’s action and contrast it with the musical language of the compositional score as well as the sampling of the audio track that is a record of the actual performance.

The use of clothing as representation of the body is integral to Jean Shin’s practice. In this new project, the artist is also thinking about the expressiveness of fabric throughout history (such as the Baroque and Hellenistic periods) and how it became almost more important than the figure, because it revealed the imprint of the figure, something greater than a simple depiction of the body.

Jean Shin’s residency at Location One is supported by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
Thanks to Solo Impression Inc. for producing the digital prints for this exhibition, to Richard Lanier, Joseph W. Polisi, George Stelluto and the Julliard School of Music for their invaluable help.

We are pleased to present new work by Daniel Andersson (Finland) and by Tseng Yu-chin (Taiwan), participants of the International Residency Program this year.

Location One Virtual Residency Project

Mission Accomplished, September 10, 2008
The Virtual Residency Project’s first exhibition will open on September 10, with 3 collaborative works by Susanne Berkenheger, Andy Deck, and Hidenori Watanave. What started as an odd experiment in artist residencies results in our first Virtual Residency Project exhibition. more >>

Thank you to all the applicants, we had a wonderful range of submissions and have selected the three Virtual “Residents” for 2008. They will collaborate on a project to be shown at Location One in November 2008. Viewers will be able to watch the progress of this collaboration on a special blog: Virtual Residency Blog

2008 Virtual Residents

Susanne Berkenheger (Berlin)
Author and journalist, writer for “SPAM”, the satirical section of German magazine Der Spiegel. http://spiegel.de/spam. Susanne Berkenheger has been involved in projects in Second Life and “Chat Theatre”.
www.berkenheger.de/index_english.html
www.movement-for-account-corpses.de
www.thebubblebath.de
www.worldwatchers.de

Hidenori Watanave (Tokyo)
Hidenori Watanave is Associate professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University, and is researching 3Di (ex:Second Life) and 3DGIS (ex:Google Earth). He is interested in collaborative work in the realms of Architecture and Environmental design in tele-existence and the metaverse.
http://mapping.jp/archi/cat18/
http://mapping.jp/index_en.html

Andy Deck (NYC)
Andy Deck is an artist specializing in Internet media. His work addresses the politics and aesthetics of collaboration, interactivity, software, and independent media. Deck combines code, text, sound, and image, demonstrating new patterns of participation and control that distinguish online presence and representation from previous artistic practices.
http://andydeck.com
http://artcontext.net/

Call for Participation
Submissions Deadline: May 15, 2008
Dates of Residency: June 1-November 4, 2008

Invitation
Location One presents its first ever “Virtual Residency Project” in the form of a call to artists and other creative individuals with the express purpose of fostering collaboration and creativity across geographical expanses and areas of expertise around the topic of the 2008 US Presidential Election. The goal of this residency is to find 3 participants who are not necessarily physically proximate but who are willing to collaborate with other artists, engineers, scientists, writers, musicians, poets, and activists to develop a project using such non-F2F (face to face) interfaces such as webcams, email, chat, video, blogs, Second Life, MIDI, skype, walkie-talkie, snail mail, radio or POTS (plain old telephone service), tin cans on string, or any other means of collaboration to develop a project that will be presented at Location One in the fall of 2008, in advance of the US Presidential election.

Though we will consider international residents, the theme of this inaugural residency is the 2008 Presidential Election and the buildup around this pivotal political event. The theme can be interpreted as broadly or as literally as the participants would like, the project will be developed collaboratively by the 3 individuals chosen for this residency project.

Location One will provide an area on its website where the project can develop publically through blogging, video, audio or other means.

Acceptable forms of Submission:
Please send CV, url or any materials to virtualresidency@location1.org by midnight May 15, 2008. Please include a few lines describing why you are interested in a collaborative virtual residency.

What kind of work should it be?
The project will be developed wholly by the participants. Location One can provide curatorial and technical assistance, but the final work will be created “offsite” or online. Online performance, remote music jam, streaming video, blogs, flash animations, radio transmissions, podcasts, Second Life theatre, iChat panel discussions, remote-controlled MIDI robot kittens acting out the debates are all examples of acceptable forms that the project may take. We are leaving the parameters intentionally broad in the hopes that it will elicit deeply creative responses to this topic.

We are pleased to present new work by Luis Nobre (Portugal) and by Eric Siu (Hong Kong), who have participated in Location One’s International Residency Program this year.

Eric Siu
Optical Handlers – eeyee, 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. On May 11th the artist walked with the goggles from Location One to Union Square via Broadway by foot and subway, doing various mundane activities such as stopping into shops and having coffee. He was accompanied by a friend who was responsible for his safety and introduced him to people who want to interact with him.

The exhibition consists of a video of the street performance, a video of Eric’s vision through the goggles (namely four POV’s), a full goggle set up for use by one visitor at a time, and four little screens that allow the rest of the public to view what that person is experiencing. On display are also the Alien “eeyee” suit that Eric was wearing, as well as the Master suit worn by the friend. Both suits are meant to allow the public to “see through” him.

The artist will be available to demonstrate the workings of eeyee from 4 to 6pm when the exhibition is open.

Eric received a diploma in digital media studies at IVE in 2001 followed by a B.A. at the School of Creative Media of the City University of Hong Kong in 2005. In 2005, he made his first trip abroad when he received an honorable mention at the Media Art Biennial in Poland for his eight-minute work Sliding Whites, becoming the first Hong Kong artist to win recognition at this prestigious event.

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

Online: www.ericsiuart.com

Luis Nobre
Hold It! 2008

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. For the first time the artist also incorporates video into his work, with footage taken on the Williamsburg bridge, in Greenpoint, and in his native Portugal.

The coming together of all these elements whose scale, medium and density are so disparate, creates a vibration, a tension of line and meaning that feed the artist’s ongoing exploration of nature, survival and the “implications of the empty space” between the originally observed subject and its displayed rendition.
Luis Nobre graduated in 2001 from the Escola Superior de Arte e Design, Caldas da Rainha, Lisbon. Exhibitions include the 5th International Biennial of Sculpture and Drawing, Caldas da Rainha; Sub.864-873, Museu Malhoa, Caldas da Rainha; Between Heaven and Hell, Museum of Natural History, Lisbon; Year of the Dog, Ale and Porter Arts, Bradford, UK; Ohhh Naturel! Madame Lillies, London.

Online: www.luisnobre.net

Luis Nobre’s residency at Location One is supported by dgArtes, Ministerio da Cultura, Lisbon, Fundação Ilidio Pinho, & Instituto Camões

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

Dear Friends,

Spring is here at last, Location One’s 10th Anniverary is coming up fast, and all those exciting names on the cover of this letter are part of an astonishing program of events that we invite you to come and be part of.

Australian video pioneer Tracey Moffatt is challenging us right now with her Social Edit, a suit of three films currently in our main gallery, in which she uses snippets of early and contemporary Hollywood movies to reflect on notions of nation, race and class…Coming in May is Aoife Collins‘ first solo show in the US: works of sculpture, sound, collage and video that reflect on ideas of Artaud, Baudelaire, and Rimbaud…And artist Nina Sobell will install her own studio in our project space, there to converse with visitors about her work and to improvise via the web with those who bring their own instruments.

Choreographer and dancer Glen Rumsey reprises his ignoredin my heaven…, possibly our most popular commissioned work ever, on April 4th and 5th, with many of the original dancers returning. In 2005 all performances were standing-room-only, so book early. Then on May 2nd come to see and hear the dean of the scene, poet Bob Holman, performing tracks from his new CD The Awesome Whatever with musician-collaborator Vito Ricci, and New Randy (that’s poet Holly Anderson and musician Lisa B. Burns) telling stories, singing songs with “melodies that soar and scorch and torch”.

Come Fall, we’ll be offering new work from Laurie Anderson, artist, musician, storyteller, generous creative spirit, and this year’s Location One senior artist in residence…and a solo show from Jean Shin, who during her residency this year, conceived a new metaphor using music to speak about the presence and absense of the body as well as a means of mapping out imaginary communities…We’re delighted to announce that next year’s senior artist in residence will be the legendary video, visual and performance artist Joan Jonas.

In September we also begin our by-invitation international fellowships for mid-career artists who want time and resources to reflect and eplore and create work they might never make if working commercially or within the bounds of their daily lives. Our first fellows will be two Britons: the sculptor Conrad Shawcross, whose insights into the harmonics of the universe fascinate us and “reveal the possibility that the certainties of science may be fiction and not fact”, and director-dramaturg-performance artist Sophie Hunter, who creates a theatre of moving images, absurd humor and vivid tableaux.

Check our web site for additional events as they’re scheduled. Meanwhile, we hope some of these wonderful talents will bring you back to Greene Street very soon.

With my very best wishes,

Claire Montgomery
Executive Director

April 24-June 14, 2008
Thursday April 24th, opening 6 -8 pm
open through Saturday June 14th

Aoife Collins (pron Ee-fa) will be showing a number of sculptural and two dimensional works for her exhibition at Location One, exploring synthetic experience and mimesis, transference and its relationship to text and historical figures and influence upon cultural legacy.

Aoife’s interdisciplinary practice is shaped by recurrent themes of permutation, multiplicity, cultural paraphernalia and mass identification. Works are made out of existing materials, substances and structures that are transferred into new forms of narration. In her attempt to open up the realm of possibility, the artist pays close attention to the ability of objects to role-play and the extent of their mutability.

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In 2002. Aoife earned a B.A. from National College of Art & Design, Dublin followed in 2004 by an M.A., Chelsea College of Art and Design, London. In 2006 she completed a residency at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Recent exhibitions include: The Devil in miss Jones, Meals & SUVs, London (2006); Eva, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick (2005) curated by Dan Cameron.

http://www.iaci-usa.org/locationone.html

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

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Artist-in-Studio As Spectacle: Internal Message Search: A Performative Installation

April 18-April 30, 2008
artist reception: Thursday, April 24, 6 – 8 pm

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.

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. Groundbreaking projects include ParkBench and VirtuAlice, and the ongoing Interactive Encephalographic Brainwave Drawings.

Nina’s work has been shown throughout the US, Europe, and Japan. An award-winning printmaker and figurative sculptor, an avid improvisational guitarist and keyboardist, she can be seen sculpting Emily in the ParkBench Performance Archives and heard playing music there as well.

LIVESTREAM & ARTIST PAGE

related works:
http://www.cat.nyu.edu/parkbench
http://www.cat.nyu.edu/parkbench/portfolio/5/frame.html

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

http://ninasobell.com

Invitation
Location One presents its first ever “Virtual Residency Project” in the form of a call to artists and other creative individuals with the express purpose of fostering collaboration and creativity across geographical expanses and areas of expertise around the topic of the 2008 US Presidential Election. The goal of this residency is to find 3 participants who are not necessarily physically proximate but who are willing to collaborate with other artists, engineers, scientists, writers, musicians, poets, and activists to develop a project using such non-F2F (face to face) interfaces such as webcams, email, chat, video, blogs, Second Life, MIDI, skype, walkie-talkie, snail mail, radio or POTS (plain old telephone service), tin cans on string, or any other means of collaboration to develop a project that will be presented at Location One in the fall of 2008, in advance of the US Presidential election.

Though we will consider international residents, the theme of this inaugural residency is the 2008 Presidential Election and the buildup around this pivotal political event. The theme can be interpreted as broadly or as literally as the participants would like, the project will be developed collaboratively by the 3 individuals chosen for this residency project.

Location One will provide an area on its website where the project can develop publically through blogging, video, audio or other means.

Acceptable forms of Submission:
Please send CV, url or any materials to virtualresidency@location1.org by midnight May 15, 2008. Please include a few lines describing why you are interested in a collaborative virtual residency.

What kind of work should it be?
The project will be developed wholly by the participants. Location One can provide curatorial and technical assistance, but the final work will be created “offsite” or online. Online performance, remote music jam, streaming video, blogs, flash animations, radio transmissions, podcasts, Second Life theatre, iChat panel discussions, remote-controlled MIDI robot kittens acting out the debates are all examples of acceptable forms that the project may take. We are leaving the parameters intentionally broad in the hopes that it will elicit deeply creative responses to this topic.

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

《Submerging blue》　2003　digital photography

Name：Wu Dar-Kuen
Participating project： Taipei – Tokyo Exchange Residency Program
Period：January 4th, 2008 – March 31st, 2008
Genre：Visual Art
Country (activity based)： Taiwan
For further information of the project, click here.

http://newspapertree.com/culture/2221-my-life-at-the-border-arts-residency

Luis Nobre graduated in 2001 from the Escola Superior de Arte e Design, Caldas da Rainha, Lisbon. Exhibitions include the 5th International Biennial of Sculpture and Drawing, Caldas da Rainha; Sub.864-873, Museu Malhoa, Caldas da Rainha; Between Heaven and Hell, Museum of Natural History, Lisbon; Year of the Dog, Ale and Porter Arts, Bradford, UK; Ohhh Naturel! Madame Lillies, London.

At Location One , Luis Nobre’s residency is supported by dgArtes,Ministerio da Cultura, Lisbon www.dgartes.pt, Fundação Ilidio Pinho, & Instituto Camões

Online: http://www.luisnobre.net/

http://www.spikeisland.org.uk/programme.html?section=view&event_id=70

Events & Exhibitions

Eric Siu & Luis Nobre
May 21, 2008

The filmaker Robert Adanto will be present at the screening. His documentary The Rising Tide [link] “investigates China’s meteoric march toward the future through the work of some of its most talented emerging artists, whose work reflects the country’s rising influence as an economic, political and cultural force in the global arena.” The film includes an interview with Xu Tan.

You are cordially invited to join Chinese artist Xu Tan and Nathalie Anglès, Director of Location One’s International Residency Program, for a special screening of the video Concert Hall of Zhen Daoxing  which premieres next week at the contemporary arts festival, ArtSheffield08, and for a viewing of Xu Tan’s installation Keywords  in our main gallery. more information

The screening will be followed by a discussion with the artist. This is also your last chance to see Xu Tan’s installation

In his video Concert Hall of Zheng Daoxing, Xu Tan presents the documentation of a concert performance of Mr Zheng Daoxing, of Yangjiang County, China, which he organized. Accompanying himself on a self-built electric guitar, Mr Zheng sings songs about his life, mixing his own tunes with revolutionary songs and traditional Chinese motifs. The story of his life is a convoluted tale about work: he has been a farmer, soldier, and truck driver. During the Chinese economic reforms of the 1980s, he established his own transportation company which went bankrupt during the 1997 economic crisis, whereupon he became a singer, touring the country at the age of 60. It has often been observed that under the ‘flexible’ and precarious working conditions imposed by current forms of turbo-capitalism, professional careers have become disjointed.

Since the life-long employment that used to provide the connecting thread in people’s biography is no longer the norm, the stories of their lives come to sound like an arbitrary collage of fragments.

The story of Mr Zheng’s life on the one hand seems to be precisely such a fragmented biography. On the other hand, however, it is through his very particular performance that he strings the fragments together again in his songs. Taking matters into his own hands, Mr Zheng creates a revolutionary form of new folklore, merging the tunes of the past with the improvised songs of the present into a hybrid form that, even and especially in its most bizarre moments, seems perfectly suited for telling the story of contemporary working biographies. In presenting Mr Zheng as an example, Xu Tan seems to suggest that it is from his songwriting that we could learn how to, now and in the future, tell the story of our lives.

Rob Kennedy lives and works in Glasgow. His work shifts between sculpture, video and live video manipulation. Rob studied BA (hons) Fine Art at Brighton Polytechnic from 1987-1990.

Recent exhibitions include: Video Installation, Threshold Space, Perth, UK curated by Iliyana Nedkova December 2007. Live in Montreal’ installation & video, Studio Cormier, Montreal 2007. Sapphire Season’ Waygood Gallery, Newcastle, UK 2007. Something is wrong here…’ Solo show, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, UK 2007

Rob Kennedy’s residency at Location One is supported by The Scottish Arts Council

more info here..

Events & Exhibitions

Rob Kennedy: I Relish Your Balderdash
June 25th 2008

ALSO:

DIGIMAG July/August 2008

ROB KENNEDY:
HAPLESS, HELPLESS AND HOPELESS
Txt: Monica Ponzini / Img: Courtesy Rob Kennedy / Eng: Ornella Pesenti

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

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

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

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

click here for artist statement…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Moira Ricci – 2008

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

Hung Nguyen Manh – 2007

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Lida Abdul – What We Saw Upon Awakening

October 4 – November 17, 2007
Opening Reception: Thursday October 4, 6-8 pm

** December 3rd, 2007 ** An Evening with Lida Abdul at MOMA (click for more information)

PRESS COVERAGE: ArtSlant interview / Time Out New York /

Location One presents the first New York exhibition by Afghan artist Lida Abdul. The exhibition, curated by Pieranna Cavalchini, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, features a film installation entitled “What We Saw Upon Awakening” [2006, 6:50, 16mm film transferred to DVD] .

Lida Abdul’s 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. To acknowledge a ruin in a war torn country, even to pick up a single stone, is to breathe life back into a culture that has been put on hold. The men and women in her films acknowledge their fate, striving to re-awaken by acts of sheer resilience and by compulsive repetitive gestures. Abdul’s films evoke survival and a path to recovery.

In What We Saw Upon Awakening the artist has created a surreal vision of the de-construction of a ruin. Remarkable for its compositional beauty and restraint, this film is a meditation on the aftermath of war, exposing the tangled after shocks of destruction, acceptance and renewal. In six minutes of classically framed and beautifully conceived cinematic shots, we watch as a group of men pull in a united effort on long white ropes, straining under this Herculean task. Slowly we grow aware that the ropes are tied to the stone walls of an actual house destroyed by a recent bombing in Kabul, which the men are striving to pull down. At first their efforts seem puny and ineffectual against impossible odds; their actions become a metaphor of all survivors’ attempt to deal with the devastation of war. Later the film ends with a burial ritual, symbolizing closure and a moment of communal healing when the ruins are finally put to rest so that life can begin anew.

This exhibition has been made possible with the generous support of the Board of Directors of Location One.

An Artist/Curator Talk will be held at Location One on Tuesday October 9th, at 7 pm
free to the public, no reservations needed

Lida Abdul bio

Born in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1973, Lida Abdul resides there now. She lived in Germany and India as a refugee when she was forced to leave Afghanistan after the former-Soviet invasion. Her work fuses the tropes of Western formalism with the numerous aesthetic traditions –Islamic, Buddhist, Hindu, pagan and nomadic– that collectively influenced Afghan art and culture. She has produced work in many media including video, film, photography, installation and live performance.

Her most recent work has been featured at the Venice Biennale 2005, São Paulo Biennial 2006, Gwanju Biennial 2006, Moscow Biennial 2007, Sharjah Biennial 2007, Istanbul Modern, Kunsthalle Vienna, Museum of Modern Art Arnhem, Netherlands and Miami Central, ICA, ZKM, Capc Bordeaux, CAC Centre d’Art Contemporain de Bretigny, and Frac Lorraine Metz, France. She has also exhibited in festivals in Mexico, Spain, Germany, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan. For the past few years, Abdul has been working in different parts of Afghanistan on projects exploring the relationship between architecture, identity and memory. In the upcoming year she will take part in the Gotenborg Biennial 2007 and solo show at (MANN) National Archeological Museum of Naples. Also in 2007 Ms. Abdul has been awarded the Prince Claus Fund and residency at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston. website >>

Duron Jackson: “Five Men”
Rashaad Newsome: “Shade Compositions”

Friday, September 28, 2007.
Performances begin at 7pm:
Rashaad Newsome followed by
Duron Jackson (15 – 20 mins each)

Location: 111 Front St Gallery Buildings, 2nd fl., # 216.
Installation on view: Saturday, 29th, 12 – 8pm and Sunday, 30th, 12 – 8pm

For the 11th Art Under the Bridge Festival, presented by Dumbo Arts Center, curator Felicity Hogan brings together two emerging New York artists, Duron Jackson and Rashaad Newsome, who are connected through their exploration of issues concerning the role of black identity within popular culture and current society. Using performance, installation, video and digital technology in their artistic practice, both artists harness the language of gesture, choreographing and directing male and female performers, to produce original, dynamic and innovative artworks.

Rashaad Newsome’s “Shade Compositions” is an ongoing performance series that, depending on the nature of the space, uses a variable number of black females who perform choreographed dismissive actions that are often characterized as “ghetto” in order to create an orchestra of rhythmic compositions. Using an instrument created with Max MSP technology, a crescendo of aggravated music is built up by the artist editing the beats created live by the girls, thus making each a one-of-a-kind performance.

Duron Jackson presents “Five Men,” a performance that examines the ongoing obsession and distortion of the black (non-European) body throughout contemporary culture. This work is an effort to visually distill (extract) the complexity of what it is to be alien within a western social paradigm while narrating a way of being. Life- sized impressions are taken directly from the male figure, yielding trace or evidence of a unique mark or symbol, which in turn places the unadorned male body in discourse with the social body.

Duron Jackson is a Brooklyn based multi – disciplinary artist whose recent solo exhibition “Revere/Riviled,” curated by Isolde Brielmaier, was held at the Rotunda Gallery in Brooklyn, 2007. Recent group shows include “I Died For Beauty,” curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud, Newman Popiashvili, New York, 2007 and “Scarecrow,” curated by David Hunt, Postmasters Gallery, New York, 2006.

Originally from New Orleans, Rashaad Newsome lives and works in New York. “Shade Compositions” will be performed in 2008 as part of his residency at Location One and he will also be performing at The Kitchen in spring 2008. Later this year a video of the project is being made as part of the BCAT/Rotunda Gallery’s multimedia residency. Solo exhibitions include “Shade Compositions” at Glass Gallery in Paris, France and K.U.E.L., in Berlin, Germany, 2006. Newsome is currently sponsored by Harvestworks, NY.

Duron Jackson: “Five Men”
Rashaad Newsome: “Shade Compositions”

Friday, September 28, 2007.
Performances begin at 7pm:
Rashaad Newsome followed by
Duron Jackson (15 – 20 mins each)

Location: 111 Front St Gallery Buildings, 2nd fl., # 216.
Installation on view: Saturday, 29th, 12 – 8pm and Sunday, 30th, 12 – 8pm

For the 11th Art Under the Bridge Festival, presented by Dumbo Arts Center, curator Felicity Hogan brings together two emerging New York artists, Duron Jackson and Rashaad Newsome, who are connected through their exploration of issues concerning the role of black identity within popular culture and current society. Using performance, installation, video and digital technology in their artistic practice, both artists harness the language of gesture, choreographing and directing male and female performers, to produce original, dynamic and innovative artworks.

Rashaad Newsome’s “Shade Compositions” is an ongoing performance series that, depending on the nature of the space, uses a variable number of black females who perform choreographed dismissive actions that are often characterized as “ghetto” in order to create an orchestra of rhythmic compositions. Using an instrument created with Max MSP technology, a crescendo of aggravated music is built up by the artist editing the beats created live by the girls, thus making each a one-of-a-kind performance.

Duron Jackson presents “Five Men,” a performance that examines the ongoing obsession and distortion of the black (non-European) body throughout contemporary culture. This work is an effort to visually distill (extract) the complexity of what it is to be alien within a western social paradigm while narrating a way of being. Life- sized impressions are taken directly from the male figure, yielding trace or evidence of a unique mark or symbol, which in turn places the unadorned male body in discourse with the social body.

Duron Jackson is a Brooklyn based multi – disciplinary artist whose recent solo exhibition “Revere/Riviled,” curated by Isolde Brielmaier, was held at the Rotunda Gallery in Brooklyn, 2007. Recent group shows include “I Died For Beauty,” curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud, Newman Popiashvili, New York, 2007 and “Scarecrow,” curated by David Hunt, Postmasters Gallery, New York, 2006.

Originally from New Orleans, Rashaad Newsome lives and works in New York. “Shade Compositions” will be performed in 2008 as part of his residency at Location One and he will also be performing at The Kitchen in spring 2008. Later this year a video of the project is being made as part of the BCAT/Rotunda Gallery’s multimedia residency. Solo exhibitions include “Shade Compositions” at Glass Gallery in Paris, France and K.U.E.L., in Berlin, Germany, 2006. Newsome is currently sponsored by Harvestworks, NY.

Duron Jackson: “Five Men”
Rashaad Newsome: “Shade Compositions”

Friday, September 28, 2007.
Performances begin at 7pm:
Rashaad Newsome followed by
Duron Jackson (15 – 20 mins each)

Location: 111 Front St Gallery Buildings, 2nd fl., # 216.
Installation on view: Saturday, 29th, 12 – 8pm and Sunday, 30th, 12 – 8pm

For the 11th Art Under the Bridge Festival, presented by Dumbo Arts Center, curator Felicity Hogan brings together two emerging New York artists, Duron Jackson and Rashaad Newsome, who are connected through their exploration of issues concerning the role of black identity within popular culture and current society. Using performance, installation, video and digital technology in their artistic practice, both artists harness the language of gesture, choreographing and directing male and female performers, to produce original, dynamic and innovative artworks.

Rashaad Newsome’s “Shade Compositions” is an ongoing performance series that, depending on the nature of the space, uses a variable number of black females who perform choreographed dismissive actions that are often characterized as “ghetto” in order to create an orchestra of rhythmic compositions. Using an instrument created with Max MSP technology, a crescendo of aggravated music is built up by the artist editing the beats created live by the girls, thus making each a one-of-a-kind performance.

Duron Jackson presents “Five Men,” a performance that examines the ongoing obsession and distortion of the black (non-European) body throughout contemporary culture. This work is an effort to visually distill (extract) the complexity of what it is to be alien within a western social paradigm while narrating a way of being. Life- sized impressions are taken directly from the male figure, yielding trace or evidence of a unique mark or symbol, which in turn places the unadorned male body in discourse with the social body.

Duron Jackson is a Brooklyn based multi – disciplinary artist whose recent solo exhibition “Revere/Riviled,” curated by Isolde Brielmaier, was held at the Rotunda Gallery in Brooklyn, 2007. Recent group shows include “I Died For Beauty,” curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud, Newman Popiashvili, New York, 2007 and “Scarecrow,” curated by David Hunt, Postmasters Gallery, New York, 2006.

Originally from New Orleans, Rashaad Newsome lives and works in New York. “Shade Compositions” will be performed in 2008 as part of his residency at Location One and he will also be performing at The Kitchen in spring 2008. Later this year a video of the project is being made as part of the BCAT/Rotunda Gallery’s multimedia residency. Solo exhibitions include “Shade Compositions” at Glass Gallery in Paris, France and K.U.E.L., in Berlin, Germany, 2006. Newsome is currently sponsored by Harvestworks, NY.

Mr. Tseng creates pieces in film and video, as well as in fiction and poetry. His work explores feelings of isolation and of being invisible in an unknown world and has been included in numerous festivals throughout Taiwan and Asia, winning several important awards. In 2007 he was selected to represent Taiwan in Documenta 12 in Kassel, Germany. He has also created stage designs for several theater companies, and his design for the Taitung Theater Group’s production of Our Snake received Taiwan’s prestigious Golden Harvest Award.

Mr. Tseng graduated from Shih Chien University in Taipei in 2003, with a major in communication design, and from the Graduate School of Technical Art at Taipei National University of the Arts in 2006.

online: http://www.wretch.cc/blog/oxyspot

Yu-Chin Tseng’s residency at Location One is supported by the YageoTech-Art Fellowship through the Asian Cultural Council.

Events & Exhibitions

Daniel Andersson & Tseng Yu-chin
June 4 , 2008

Nina Sobell: Internal Message Search
A Performative Installation
April 18-April 30, 2008

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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. Groundbreaking projects include ParkBench and VirtuAlice, and the ongoing Interactive Encephalographic Brainwave Drawings.

Nina’s work has been shown throughout the US, Europe, and Japan. An award-winning printmaker and figurative sculptor, an avid improvisational guitarist and keyboardist, she can be seen sculpting Emily in the ParkBench Performance Archives and heard playing music there as well.

http://ninasobell.com

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

Eric Siu has been described as one of Hong Kong’s most accomplished new media artists. His interactive media projects demonstrate his thorough knowledge of the technical aspects of digital media, as well as his ability to deconstruct digital images in ways that are both enlightening and amusing. In addition to the pursuit of an artistic practice, Mr. Siu is currently a teaching associate at the Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (IVE) in the department of printing and digital media.

Eric received a diploma in digital media studies at IVE in 2001 followed by a B.A. at the School of Creative Media of the City University of Hong Kong in 2005. In 2005, he made his first trip abroad when he received an honorable mention at the Media Art Biennale in Poland for his eight-minute work Sliding Whites, becoming the first Hong Kong artist to win recognition at this prestigious event.

Online: http://www.ericsiuart.com/

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

Events & Exhibitions

Eric Siu & Luis Nobre
May 21, 2008

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

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

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

Events & Exhibitions

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

Organizational schemes, networks, interconnection and principles of scale and composition are determinant in Mafalda’s work. Expanded drawings on murals or ground works cull their information from computer interface, books and archives to create a simplified imagery that reflects “a moment/place in a mental or social structure of relations.” The artist also considers that they offer a comment on the specific context for which the work was produced.

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

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

Events & Exhibitions:

Hermelinde Hergenhahn & Mafalda Santos
January 30th -February 9th 2008

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

Moira graduated from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan in 2004 after attending Photography School at C.F.P.R., Milan. Recent exhibitions include: 2007 – Galleria d’Arte Contemporanea, Monfalcone, Italy; Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome; Palazzo Re Enzo, Bologna.

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

Events & Exhibitions

Hung Nguyen Manh & Moira Ricci
in Location One’s Project Space
9th -19th January 2008

Rashaad’s videos, performances, sculptures, and photographs interrogate notions of cultural/ social signifiers as well as how they are formed. They also analyze the complexity of the desire for power and acceptance that is formative for those who are placed in a subaltern position. As Rashaad says “I feel that a large part of the process of identification, for one placed in this position, is folded into everyday life. I use things I see in everyday life in order to decipher this complex psychic structure”. Born in New Orleans, Rashaad received a B.A. in Art History at Tulane University before studying Film at Film Video Arts, New York. Recent awards include: 2007 – BCAT/Rotunda Gallery Joint Multimedia Residency, NYC; 2006 Franklin Furnace grant for Performance Art, NYC; 2005/2006 – l’Entreprise Culturelle Artist in Residence, Paris. Recent exhibitions include: K.U.E.L., Berlin; Glassbox Gallery, Paris; Rush Arts Gallery, NYC; Fondation Cartier, Paris; The Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans.

www.rashaadnewsome.com

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

Events & Exhibitions

Rashaad Newsome: Compositions
June 19 – July 26 2008

Hung Nguyen Manh is an artist, a self-taught composer and an active participant in the “alternative” art scene in Hanoi. As an artist whose practice is driven by interdisciplinarity, his work investigates current symbology as opposed to a Vietnamese/Oriental aesthetic that reaches into the past for visual vocabulary. Recently Mr. Nguyen collaborated on a piece where he built a life-size bamboo jet, wrapping it in paper, and then burning it as an offering.

Hung Nguyen Manh received a B.F.A. degree from the Hanoi University of Fine Arts in 2002 and that same year was invited to present a solo exhibition of his paintings at the Goethe Institute in Hanoi. He has traveled to performance art festivals in Japan and Taiwan, and received a grant from the Ford Foundation in 2005 to participate in a Los Angeles exhibition of contemporary art from Vietnam. In 2006 a grant from the Dong Son Today Foundation provided support for Mr. Nguyen to participate in a one-month residency program at Art Omi, Ghent, NY.

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

http://hung6776.multiply.com
http://hung6776.blogspot.com
http://www.myspace.com/nguyenmanhhung
Drop the Rice, 2007

Events & Exhibitions

Hung Nguyen Manh & Moira Ricci
9th -19th January 2008

Hung Nguyen Manh – special sound performance
January 11th, 2008, 20 Greene street, 7pm

Aoife’s interdisciplinary practice is shaped by recurrent themes of permutation, multiplicity, cultural paraphernalia and mass identification. Works are made out of existing materials, substances and structures that are transferred into new forms of narration. In her attempt to open up the realm of possibility, the artist pays close attention to the ability of objects to role-play and the extent of their mutability.

In 2002. Aoife earned a B.A. from National College of Art & Design, Dublin followed in 2004 by an M.A., Chelsea College of Art and Design, London. In 2006 she completed a residency at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Recent exhibitions include: The Devil in miss Jones, Meals & SUVs, London (2006); Eva, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick (2005) curated by Dan Cameron.

Online: http://www.iaci-usa.org/locationone.html

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

Events & Exhibitions

Aoife Collins: Wet Eye
April 24-June 14, 2008

Kuba graduated from the Multimedia Communication Faculty, Academy of Fine Arts, Poznan. Recent exhibitions include : 2007, Polish Painting of the 21st Century, Zacheta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw; 2006, At the Very Centre of Attention. Part 3, Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw; and a project in the Wuyishan Mountains, China.


Spaceships, Explorers, Samplers And Other Explorative Devices, 2006 / 2007
pills, antibiotic globules, pins, plexiglas, various materials

http://www.kubabakowski.net

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

Events & Exhibitions

Katia Kameli & Kuba Bakowski
in Location One’s Project Space
December 13-22, 2007

Daniel Andersson lives and works in Stockholm and London. He studied fine art and received his MFA from Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm. He has previously exhibited in Sweden, Finland and the U.K. and was the 2006 recipient of the Hasselblad Victor Fellowship. Recent exhibitions include a solo show at The Research Gallery, LCC, London (2007) and group shows at Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg (2007) and La Viande Gallery, London (2007).

www.danielandersson.info

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

Events & Exhibitions

Daniel Andersson & Tseng Yu-chin
June 4 , 2008

Hermelinde’s drawing practice, which extends into the public space, has been refered to as “taking a line for a walk, but …a walk on the wild side – a persistent, jerky, scatological line whose erratic (and erotic) wanderings describe a world both comic and melancholic, quirky and unsettling…”. Displaced and off-center figures populate hundreds of small drawings. In her writings, films and installation work Hermelinde defines her approach as one of “critical nearness.”

Currently based in Amsterdam, Hermelinde studied at the Städelschule, Frankfurt and earned a postgraduate degree at the Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht. She has shown extensively in Europe. Recent exhibitions include: 2007, AnyoneAnywhereAnytime, Nidwaldner Museum, Stans, Switzerland and – Loyal Rooftops, 2007

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

Events & Exhibitions

Hermelinde Hergenhahn & Mafalda Santos
January 30th -February 9th 2008

Katia is a Franco-Algerian artist and filmmaker whose practice is marked by the exploration of multiplicity and the in-between. In her video, photography and sculpture work, the artist investigates intercultural spaces, intersecting identities and their construction. As she herself says: “Fluxes of people are automatically creating hybridisations, indeed new spaces, thoughts and situations.”

Katia received her post graduate degree in 2003 from Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Marseille after graduating from the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Bourges in 2000. Her film Bledi in Progress has been featured in numerous festivals: 2007 – Cinema Lux, Caen; Kinokho, Paris; 2006 – Festival de Clermont Ferrand; Bienal Internacional de Arte de Sevilla, et.al.) Recent exhibitions include: 2007, Bienal de Jafre, Spain; 2006, Glassbox Paris; The Photographer’s Gallery, London; Rush Arts Gallery, New York.

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

Events & Exhibitions

Katia Kameli & Kuba Bakowski
in Location One’s Project Space
December 13-22, 2007

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.

Location One’s performance program features complex multi-disciplinary productions, often based on ideas that emerge during residencies and are commissioned for further development and presentation.

Abramović Studio

In September 2009 Marina Abramović inaugurated the Abramović Studio at Location One. The studio, curated by Jovana Stokić, introduced artists from Location One to other artists working in the field of performance and performance art. To see some of the events, including interviews with guest artists, check out the Abramović Studio Page >>

Some recent performance events at Location One include:

Hiraku Suzuki: Live Drawing Performance

December 8, 2011
with live music by Raz Mesinai

 

November 18, 2011
with Beatriz Helguera, piano
And Katherine Ademenko, Lisa Gross, Ryan Hill, Brian
Linden, Melanie Lockert, Laura Lona, Richard Saudek
and Corey Tasmania.

Sophie Hunter: Lucretia

June 14-16, 2011
Installation/performance based on the Benjamin Britten opera

Past commissioned performance events have included:

Janez Jansa: Name Readymade

May 7, 2009
Janez Jansa at Location One will take you through a series of artistic, political, administrative and media actions performed by himself together with Janez Jansa and Janez Jansa with a particular focus on their latest personal exhibition entitled NAME Readymade.

Brina Thurston:  Open Call

May 1, 2009

Open Call is a project organized by Brina Thurston, currently in residency at Location One, NYC. All submissions will be due by April 20, 2009 and will be presented and juried by a select group of artists, curators and critics in front of a live audience at Location One May 1, 2009.

Nayland Blake:  Misbehavior III

February 7, 2009

The final Misbehavior, promises to be a grand finale, full of surprises. Be prepared to see interpretations of Blake’s work by artists such as Zeena Parkins, Carolee Schneemann, and Lynn Tillman.

Nayland Blake:  Gorge and Misbehavior II

January 9, 2009

The second night in a series of performances responding and reacting to BEHAVIOR, the current exhibition by Nayland Blake. At 6pm Blake will reenact his notorious performance, “Gorge,” a one-hour event in which the artist will sit shirtless in front of a table full of food from which the audience is encouraged to feed him.

Nayland Blake:  Misbehavior I

December 17, 2008
During the course of the exhibition, Blake will also curate two more evenings of performances, January 9 and February 7. Each night he will invite five artists, musicians, and authors to react to his work.

Rob Kennedy:  I Relish Your Balderdash.

June 25, 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.

Bob Holman w/ Vito Rici: 2×2: New Randy

May 2, 2008
2×2 brings together two poet/musician duos in a night of New Poetry, Old School style New Randy is poet Holly Anderson and musician Lisa B. Burns. Bob Holman, proprietor of the Bowery Poetry Club, collaborates with musician Vito Ricci.

Glen Rumsey Dance Project: ignored in my heaven… reprise

March 25, 2008
Glen Rumsey Dance Project returned to Location One with this reprise of “ignored in my heaven…” a suite of surreal and magical dances inspired by dream and travel journals.

Philippa Kaye Company with The AirBand: Ritual for a Non-Repeating Universe

April 6, 2007
A one-time expansive event mixing the analog — cray-pas and contemporary dance, with the digital — sensored sound and light.

Various Artists: Open Stitch

September 7 – October 1, 2005
15 artists spend 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 removes the gallery from the appointed function of “showing” and moves it to the world of artistic production, raising questions about the circumstances, both physical and mental, of the creative process.

Glen Rumsey Dance Project: ignored…in my heaven

September 15-25, 2005
A dance suite that was developed in our studios over the course of 6 months by the choreographer and dancers and costume designers, and was performed to sold-out crowds.

Benoit Maubrey and Audio Ballerinas

January 24, 2003
Ballerinas wearing audio-acoustical tutus performing two pieces, PEEPERS (8 minutes), with photo-resistor sensors and group choreography with spotlights on tripods, and YAMAHA LADIES (15 minutes), with exposed Yamaha keyboards and mercury sensors.

Click here for a full list of our past performances

Music:

Location One is pleased that our long-term association and sometime-artistic collaboration with Roulette has solidified into a formal affiliation. Roulette’s new permanent home is in our 20 Greene Street space. The calendar of music events is dense with the most innovative composers and performers and can be viewed at Roulette.

PLUS, Current Location One members have the privilege of attending Roulette concerts FREE! Please make reservations with Roulette at 212-219-8242.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

The Location One International Residency Program’s unique structure allows emerging and mid-career artists to interact and converse with more established artists who are at the top of their career. This sort of discourse is at the heart of Location One’s philosophy of experimentation and collaboration.

Unlike most other residency programs there is no direct application process; artists are selected by our partner foundations and arts organizations who directly sponsor artists from their home countries. When logistically and financially possible, American artists are invited to participate and are proposed by Location One’s curatorial team.
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Senior Artist-in-Residence

Each year one artist at the top of their career is invited to spend time in our studios and with the other artists-in-residence. Location One’s curatorial and technology staff works with the “Senior Artist” to define a project that they might not consider within the normal confines of their practice and when possible, this project is offered to the public through exhibition or performance.

International Fellowship  

The International Committee has been formed to support an exclusive invitation-only artist fellowship program to bring the best and brightest artists in the world to New York.

The committee selects outstanding mid-career or established artists who might benefit from a fellowship in the art capital of New York. Artists selected for this fellowship program will be given the same benefits as participants in Location One’s well-established International Residency Program, however the fellowship will be designed specifically for each artist’s benefit, and with the committee’s insight, artists will be given the possibility for exhibitions and publications of their work.  This fellowship will offer them a chance for reflection, experimentation and creation of work they might never make if working commercially or within the bounds of their daily lives.

International Residency Program

Location One’s artist-in-residency program seeks artists who wish to experiment with new forms of artistic expression, including those involving new technologies, to create new work reflecting their experimentation. Artists spend 5 or 10 months in residence. Candidates may work with painting, sculpture, installation, video, photography, sound, or new media. Candidates must be working artists with at least three years of practice and some exhibition history. Students are not eligible.

Artists from abroad are selected through a double panel review process: A home-country sponsoring institution proposes a short list of candidates, from which Location One chooses one artist-in-residence. American artists are proposed by curators, by critics and by our own staff.

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The Asian Cultural Council (US)
The Trust for Mutual Understanding (US)
The Milton and Sally Avery Foundation (US)
City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs, NYSCA,(US)
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (US)
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Bergen Kommune (Norway)
CulturesFrance (France)
Ville de Paris (France)
The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon (Ireland)
Arts Victoria (Australia)
Associazione Artegiovane, Milan
Center for Dansk Billedkunst (DCA Foundation)
Comune di Milano
Délégation générale du Québec à New York
J.F. Costopoulos Foundation
Cultural Services of the French Embassy (US)
Det Danske Kultur Institut, Denmark
Denmark Statens Kunstfond (Denmark, NEA)
Étant donnés, The French-American Fund for Contemporary Art
The FondiAnima (Italy)
The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture (Fonds BKVB)
FRAME (Finnish Fund for Art Exchange)
La Fundació Marcelino Botín (Spain)
The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Portugal)
The Danish Arts Agency
INJUVE (Ministerio de Trabajo y Asuntos Sociales) (Spain)
The Kosciuszko Foundation
Luso-American Development Foundation
James McBey Fellowship, administered by Aberdeen City Council (Scotland)
The Korean Culture and Arts Foundation
The Mondriaan Foundation
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Turkey
Ministry of Culture, Poland – Program Operacyjny “Promocja Polskiej Kultury Za Granica”
a-i-r Laboratory at the Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle
The New Media Arts Board-Australia Council(The Netherlands)
The Polish Cultural Institute
Schloss Balmoral, Stiftung Rheinland Pfalz für Kultur (Germany)
Staatskanzlei Nordrhein-Westfalen
The Consulate General of Germany, New York
The Yageo Corporation, (Taiwan)
Agency for Cultural Affiars (BUNKA-CHO), (Japan)
Instituto das Artes-IA, (Portugal)
Fundação Elídio Pinho, (Portugal)
Direcçâo-Geral Das Artes (Portugal)
Communauté Française de Belgique, (Belgium)
The Daeyu Cultural Foundation, (Korea)

click here for Location One main sponsor list

The Asian Cultural Council (US)
The Trust for Mutual Understanding (US)
The Milton and Sally Avery Foundation (US)
City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs, NYSCA,(US)
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (US)
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Bergen Kommune (Norway)
CulturesFrance (France)
Ville de Paris (France)
The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon (Ireland)
Arts Victoria (Australia)
Associazione Artegiovane, Milan
Center for Dansk Billedkunst (DCA Foundation)
Comune di Milano
Délégation générale du Québec à New York
J.F. Costopoulos Foundation
Cultural Services of the French Embassy (US)
Det Danske Kultur Institut, Denmark
Denmark Statens Kunstfond (Denmark, NEA)
Étant donnés, The French-American Fund for Contemporary Art
The FondiAnima (Italy)
The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture (Fonds BKVB)
FRAME (Finnish Fund for Art Exchange)
La Fundació Marcelino Botín (Spain)
The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Portugal)
The Danish Arts Agency
INJUVE (Ministerio de Trabajo y Asuntos Sociales) (Spain)
The Kosciuszko Foundation
Luso-American Development Foundation
James McBey Fellowship, administered by Aberdeen City Council (Scotland)
The Korean Culture and Arts Foundation
The Mondriaan Foundation
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Turkey
Ministry of Culture, Poland – Program Operacyjny “Promocja Polskiej Kultury Za Granica”
a-i-r Laboratory at the Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle
The New Media Arts Board-Australia Council(The Netherlands)
The Polish Cultural Institute
Schloss Balmoral, Stiftung Rheinland Pfalz für Kultur (Germany)
Staatskanzlei Nordrhein-Westfalen
The Consulate General of Germany, New York
The Yageo Corporation, (Taiwan)
Agency for Cultural Affiars (BUNKA-CHO), (Japan)
Instituto das Artes-IA, (Portugal)
Fundação Elídio Pinho, (Portugal)
Direcçâo-Geral Das Artes (Portugal)
Communauté Française de Belgique, (Belgium)
The Daeyu Cultural Foundation, (Korea)

click here for Location One main sponsor list

SELECTED PAST EXHIBITIONS:

Main Gallery Exhibitions>>

Rudy Shepherd: Portraits

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

Nicolas Grospierre & Kaeko Mizukoshi: Safe and Hymn.

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

Rob Kennedy: I Relish Your Balderdash

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

Rashaad Newsome: Compositions

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

Daniel Andersson & Tseng Yu-chin: IRP Exhibition 2008

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

Eric Siu & Luis Nobre

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

Nina Sobell: Internal Message Search – A Performative Installation

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

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

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

Hung Nguyen Manh: Special Sound Performance

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

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

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

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

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

Nine International Artists Exhibit

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

Jeanette Doyle: StarLine Tours

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

IRP Exhibition, Winter 2007

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

Leesa & Nicole Abahuni: In the Sky

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

International Residency Program 2005-2006 – Group Show II

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

Andrew Duggan: ECHO

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

International Residency Program 2005-2006 – Group Show I

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

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

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

Martin Beauregard: Somnambulic

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

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

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

Martin Beauregard & Marlena Kudlicka: IRP Exhibition Spring 2005 II

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

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

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

Cécile Paris: 3 videos and 3 songs

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

Mark Themann: PASSED for EXPORT: an installation.

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

IRP Exhibition 2004

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

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

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

Vesna Pavlovic: Casual Friday

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

Miguel Soares: Red Alert

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Xu Tan: Qing Hua Porcelain (Blue & White)

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

Francois Bucher: White Balance

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

Atsushi Nishijima: Subtractive Creation/Visible Sound

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

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

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

Katya Sander and François Bucher: RECORDERS

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

SELECTED PAST EXHIBITIONS:

Main Gallery Exhibitions>>

Rudy Shepherd: Portraits

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

Nicolas Grospierre & Kaeko Mizukoshi: Safe and Hymn.

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

Rob Kennedy: I Relish Your Balderdash

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

Rashaad Newsome: Compositions

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

Daniel Andersson & Tseng Yu-chin: IRP Exhibition 2008

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

Eric Siu & Luis Nobre

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

Nina Sobell: Internal Message Search – A Performative Installation

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

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

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

Hung Nguyen Manh: Special Sound Performance

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

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

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

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

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

Nine International Artists Exhibit

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

Jeanette Doyle: StarLine Tours

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

IRP Exhibition, Winter 2007

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

Leesa & Nicole Abahuni: In the Sky

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

International Residency Program 2005-2006 – Group Show II

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

Andrew Duggan: ECHO

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

International Residency Program 2005-2006 – Group Show I

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

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

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

Martin Beauregard: Somnambulic

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

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

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

Martin Beauregard & Marlena Kudlicka: IRP Exhibition Spring 2005 II

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

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

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

Cécile Paris: 3 videos and 3 songs

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

Mark Themann: PASSED for EXPORT: an installation.

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

IRP Exhibition 2004

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

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

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

Vesna Pavlovic: Casual Friday

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

Miguel Soares: Red Alert

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Xu Tan: Qing Hua Porcelain (Blue & White)

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

Francois Bucher: White Balance

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

Atsushi Nishijima: Subtractive Creation/Visible Sound

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

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

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

Katya Sander and François Bucher: RECORDERS

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

ARTISTS

2010-2011

John Aslanidis (Australia)
Katy Dove (Scotland)
Phoebe Hui (Hong Kong)
Karolina Kowalska (Poland)
John O’Connell (Ireland)
Miler Lagos (Colombia)
Gonzalo Puch (Spain)
Lovisa Ringborg (Sweden)
Zina Saro-Wiwa (Nigeria/UK)
Zane Saunders (Australia)
Yasuko Toyoshima (Japan)
Joana Villaverde (Portugal)
Danh Vo (Denmark)
Sophie Hunter (UK)
Lyota Yagi (Japan)

2009-2010

Carolee Schneemann (Senior Artist-in-Residence)
Adel Abidin (Finland)
Alexandra Mota de Aguiar (Portugal)
Richard Bell (Fellow, Australia)
Wojtek Doroszuk (Poland)
Mattias Ericsson (Sweden)
Lyra Abueg Garcellano (Philippines)
Jesse Jones (Ireland)
Kwan Sheung Chi (Hong Kong)
Lucy Skaer (Fellow, Scotland)
Clare Stephenson (Scotland)
Zhou Tao (China)

2008-2009

Joan Jonas (Senior Artist-in-Residence, USA)
Nina Canell (Ireland)
Chen Ching-Yao (Taiwan)
Andrea Galvani (Italy)
André Gonçalves (Portugal)
Nicolas Grospierre (Poland)
Heta Kuchka (Finland)
Ivy Ma (Hong Kong)
Sophie Macpherson (Scotland)
Jane Philbrick (Fellow, USA)
Kaeko Mizukoshi (Japan)
Conrad Shawcross (Fellow, UK)
Rudy Shepherd (USA)
Brina Thurston (USA)

2007-2008

Laurie Anderson (Senior Artist-in-Residence)
Rob Kennedy (Scotland)
Yu-Chin Tseng (Taiwan)
Nina Sobell (U.S.A.)
Eric Siu (Hong Kong)
Jean Shin (U.S.A./Korea)
Mafalda Santos (Portugal)
Moira Ricci (Italy)
Rashaad Newsome (U.S.A.)
Hung Nguyen Manh (Vietnam)
Aoife Collins (Ireland)
Kuba Bakowski (Poland)
Daniel Andersson (Finland)
Hermelinde Hergenhahn (Germany)
Katia Kameli (France)
Luis Nobre (Portugal)

2006-2007

Martha Rosler (Senior Artist-in-Residence, USA)
Natalie Bewernitz / Marek Goldowski (Germany)
Jeanette Doyle (Ireland)
Cliff Evans (U.S.A.)
Krist Gruijthuijsen (Netherlands)
Teresa Henriques (Portugal)
Ruey-Hsiaan Hsu (Taiwan)
Agnieszka Kalinowska (Poland)
Nina Katchadourian (U.S.A.)
Rie Kawakami (Japan)
Alessandro Nassiri (Italy)
Miguel Palma (Portugal)
Bundith Phunsombatlert (Thailand)
Jani Ruscica (Finland)
So Youn Jeong (Korea)
Kaori Tazoe (Japan)
Eric Van Hove (Belgium)
Virginie Yassef (France)

2005-2006

Leesa and Nicole Abahuni (U.S.A)
Simo Alitalo (Finland)
Paololuca Barbieri (Italy)
Nayda Collazo-Llorens (United States)
Andrew Duggan (Ireland)
Isabelle Ferreira (France)
Geka Heinke (Germany)
Yuki Okumura (Japan)
Yoon-Young Park (Korea)
Mayumi Nakazaki (The Netherlands)
Trine Nedreaas (Norway)
Lydia Venieri (Greece)
Mariana Viegas (Portugal)
Wang Ya-Hui (Taiwan)

2004-2005

Martin Beauregard (Canada)
Yumiko Furukawa (Japan)
Kenny Hunter (Scotland)
Everett Kane (United States)
Marlena Kudlicka (Poland)
Cecile Paris (France)
Santeri Tuori (Finland)
Mariana Viegas (Portugal)
Wu Dar kuen (Taiwan)

2003-2004

Alexandra Do Carmo (Portugal)
Köken Ergun (Turkey)
Hsiao Sheng Chien (Taiwan)
Vincent Lamouroux (France)
Federico Muelas (Spain)
Vesna Pavlovic (Serbia)
Kurt Ralske (USA)
Miguel Soares (Portugal)
Koki Tanaka (Japan)
Mark Themann (Germany/Australia)

2002-2003

Daniel Blaufuks (Portugal)
Saoirse Higgins (Ireland)
Isabelle Jenniches (The Netherlands)
Dominik Lejman (Poland)
Jiun-ting Lin (Taiwan)
Javier Viver (Spain)

2001-2002

François Bucher (Colombia)
Marta Deskur (Poland)
Atsushi Nishijima (Japan)
Ksenija Turcic (Croatia)
Xu Tan (China)

Residency Artists News

(through Jan 2009) — former residents’ activities.

Senior Artist in Residence:

Carolee Schneemann

Transformed the definition of art, especially discourse on the body, sexuality, and gender. The history of her work is characterized by research into archaic visual traditions, pleasure wrested from suppressive taboos, the body of the artist in dynamic relationship with the social body. Painting, photography, performance art and installation works shown at Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art; Whitney Museum of American Art; Museum of Modern Art, NYC; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and most recently in a retrospective at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York entitled “Up To And Including Her Limits”. Film and video retrospectives Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Museum of Modern Art, NY; National Film Theatre, London; Whitney Museum, NY; San Francisco Cinematheque; Anthology Film Archives, NYC. She has taught at many institutions including New York University, California Institute of the Arts, Bard College, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Recipient of a 1999 Art Pace International Artist Residency, San Antonio, Texas; Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (1997, 1998); 1993 Guggenheim Fellowship; Gottlieb Foundation Grant; National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME. Lifetime Achievement Award, College Art Association.

International Fellows:

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

Richard Bell

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

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

International Residents

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

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


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

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


Alexandra Mota de Aguiar
Alexandra Aguiar was born in Funchal, Madeira (Portugal) in 1977. In 1996 she moved to Oporto city to attend theatre classes at Balleteatro Professional School. Two years later she travelled to New York where she remained for approximately one year, experiencing her first encounter with art. Shortly thereafter, she went to Lisbon to study sculpture at the Center for the Arts and Visual Communication (AR.CO), completing her degree in 2004. Since then, she has held solo exhibitions at several venues in Portugal, and has participated in international group exhibitions, most notably Anteciparte (2005, Parque Eduardo VII, Lisbon) and Drawing Attention (2008, Invaliden Gallery, Berlin). She currently lives and works in Berlin.

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



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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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


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

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

2012-2013 Artists in Residence:

André Feliciano (Brazil)
Nuno Henrique (Portugal)
Marta Jovanović (Serbia)
Everett Kane (US)
Marie Lund (Denmark)
Raz Mesinai (US)

The Location One International Residency Program’s unique structure allows emerging and mid-career artists to interact and converse with more established artists who are at the top of their career. This sort of discourse is at the heart of Location One’s philosophy of experimentation and collaboration. Artists are usually selected by our partner foundations and arts organizations who directly sponsor artists from their home countries. When logistically and financially possible, American artists are invited to participate and are proposed by Location One’s curatorial team.
Past residents >>

Location One Artist-in-Residence Program Application Guidelines

Unlike most other residency programs Location One does not customarily offer a direct application process. Most participants in our Artist-In-Residence Program are selected by international cultural organizations who have partnered with Location One and provide funding for an artist from their respective countries. In an effort to accommodate artists who are interested in our residency program, but who are not associated with our current sponsoring organizations, we offer an alternative method to apply to our residency program. While we can’t guarantee a personal response to each submission, we will make every effort to review all submitted materials thoroughly and respond to potential candidates as quickly as possible.

Who is eligible?

Candidates for residencies must be working artists with at least three years of practice and some exhibition history. Students are not eligible.

Artists of any nationality, including American, are invited to apply. We currently do not have a financial sponsor for U.S. residents but we are always trying to secure this critical funding.  We are grateful to The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Rockefeller Bros. Foundation for their past support of our program.

How do I apply?

There is no application form or deadline. Location One’s operating year runs from September 1st to June 30th. A full-year residency comprises that ten-month period. Shorter residencies are five months in duration and begin on either September 1st or February 1st. Please submit the following materials electronically to residency@location1.org. Please do not send any material by post.

• Letter of intent, describing reasons for wanting to participate in Location One’s Residency Program (Project proposals are not necessary)
• Current CV and exhibition history
• Artist Statement
• Two letters of recommendation from an art professional (curator, critic, university instructor, artist or other arts professional)
• Documentation of relevant work. Most standard formats for images, video and sound files are acceptable. You may also include links to website, online works, and youtube links.

Who will review the work?

Location One convenes a curatorial panel to make final selections of candidates for the program. Panels base their decision on a) artistic merit, b) potential for artistic growth, and c) appropriateness of artistic work for the residency program. Due to the high volume of inquiries we receive, we are not able to respond personally to each submission. If, upon review, we think an applicant would be a good match for our residency program, we will contact him or her and discuss possibilities for funding. No phone calls, please.

Location One Staff

Claire Montgomery :: President and Executive Director

Drazen Pantic :: Co-Director/Internet

Hank Stahler :: Director of Exhibition Planning

Heather Wagner :: Artistic Director and Director of Online Projects

Tom Fordham :: Director of Finance

Steve Cukierski :: Deputy Director

Claudia Calirman :: Art Historian and Senior Curator

L. S. Teeling :: Gallery Manager

International Committee

(List in formation)

Sophie Crichton-Stuart Director, Mount Stuart Artist Residency Program, Scotland

Eric C. Shiner Milton Fine Curator of the Andy Warhol Museum

Pieranna Cavalchini Curator Contemporary Art, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Claire Montgomery Executive Director, Location One

Aileen Corkery UK-based Curator, lecturer, advisor, producer

Marika Wachtmeister Founder and Director of The Wanas Foundation, Sweden

Yana Peel Co-Director of Outset Contemporary Art Fund, London

Marcia Vetrocq Editor-in-Chief, Art in America

Special Advisors

Victoria Greenwood

Social and Political Commentary

Clay Shirky

Creative + Technological Advisor

Everett Kane

Education Advisor

What is Location One?

Art. Music, Performance. Talk. Technology.
We are a not-for-profit art center devoted to convergence between visual, performing and digital arts in a time of rapidly changing technology. We serve as a catalyst. Our goals are new ideas, new work, new forms of expression, new capabilities in our artists and new awareness in all those we reach.

How much does it cost?


 Most of our events are FREE.

What are your programs?

Exhibition, Music, Performance, Discussion – all generated by a 3-tier international residency program composed each year of a Senior Artist, International Fellows and an emerging artist program.

Who qualifies as a “Senior Artist”?

An artist at the top of his or her game who is greatly admired. This position is an honor for Location One and it’s community and our staff works with our senior artist to help create some new work that they might not have created in the normal course of their busy careers. In 2006 – 2007 we had the honor of having Martha Rosler; in 2007 – 2008 we have been working with Laurie Anderson; in 2008 -2009 we will welcome Joan Jonas.

Who are the International Fellows?

This program is by-invitation only. Established artists are selected and sponsored by our International Committee. They are offered fellowships of up to 10 months and encouraged to create new work that they might not otherwise have undertaken without the assistance of our gifted staff. Most of our major exhibitions will be created by these artists.

What is the emerging artists’ Residency Program?

Ten to twenty artists per year from around the world come to spend five or ten months in our studios, experimenting and creating new work. more info >>

How do I apply to the International Residency Program?

There is no application because artists are proposed by curators, critics and our own staff. We do this because we do not have enough staff to review all of the artists’ portfolios we would receive if we had an open call.

Who qualifies for the emerging artists’ program and how are they chosen?

Candidates must be working artists with at least three years of practice and some exhibition history. Students are not eligible. Artists from abroad are selected through a double panel review process: A home-country sponsoring institution proposes a short list of candidates, from which Location One chooses one artist-in-residence. American artists are proposed by curators, critics, and by our own staff.

What is the Exhibition Program?


Our central contribution to the artistic community and the public-at-large. All work shown in our exhibitions will be created at Location One or in collaboration with our curators. Each season, we have five exhibitions, usually drawn from our group of International Fellows – often including work one by our senior artist-in-residence. Throughout the year work by emerging artists is presented in the Project Room or Performance Space. more info >>

How do I propose an exhibition?


All work in our exhibitions has been created at Location One, by our residents, or in conjunction with our curators. Unsolicited proposals are not accepted.

What is the Music/Performance program?


We believe in interdisciplinary work. At Location One, you will find the collaboration of musicians, visual artists and technologists. We call this convergence and often host innovative new performances. We also host Roulette in our performance space, so almost any night of the week, some of the most innovative musicians will be playing at 20 Greene.

What is the Discussion Series?

Symposia, panels, lectures or workshops by artists, performers, critics, technology experts and thinkers from different fields that explore questions of central importance to contemporary society and art, including politics, religion, ethics, the environment and the role and interaction of information and technology. more info >>

How can I help support Location One?

Become a member, donate through Paypal, or volunteer your time as an intern.

What benefits are there to being a member?

Invitations to members-only artists’ presentations; discounts and reserved seating to all performances and events (e.g. Roulette concerts); a subscription to our calendar of programs, exhibitions and events; and a listing on our website. At higher levels, membership includes special gifts, catalogs, DVDs, invitations to private receptions, dinners and events, and the opportunity to hold a private event in our gallery.

How can I become a member?

Go to our membership page or come to one of our events and sign up.

Can I rent the space for my party/event?


The space at 20 Greene is sometimes available for rental. Please e-mail info@20greene.com.

How is Location One funded?


Location One is funded by grants from the government and foundations, and donations from our Board of Trustees and individuals like you. List of our supporters >>

What is the history of Location One?

We were founded in 1997 by Claire Montgomery. In 2000, we moved into our permanent location at 26 Greene St, and launched our visual arts, music and dance programs the next year. In 2001, our International Residency Program followed and in 2002-03, we initiated our discussion and workshop program. Since then we have been growing all of our programs and upgrading our space to allow us to present the most current technologies.

Where are you located?


26 Greene Street, between Grand and Canal Streets, in Soho, New York City, The Big Apple, Gotham, the City that Never Sleeps, Baghdad on the Hudson, here’s a map >>

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

Location One presents the first of two exhibitions showcasing new work developed during their residencies by eight artists participating in the 2006-2007 International Residency Program. Featured works, some of which are exhibited as work-in-progress, represent a diverse range of artistic approaches:

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

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

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

Teresa Henriques (Portugal) – Drawing in Space

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

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

Agnieszka Kalinowska (Poland) – Doormen

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

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

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

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

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

Rie Kawakami (Japan) – Untitled

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kaori Tazoe (Japan)

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

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

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

Virginie Yassef (France) – Les Eparpillés / The Scattered

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

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

The nature of an interview is to pose a series of questions to clarify, elaborate and provide a verbal description of a certain issue. In this case ‘the certain issue’ is one which has risen out of Andrew Duggan’s encounters with some of the New York art world he has met.

Andrew interviewed a number of persons with whom he has conversations with during his 10 month residency.

These interviews were conducted via e mail. Transcripts were made into a script and were handed to and read by auditioning actors. The recording is presented alongside images of ‘interview props’. The artist and the interviewer have been removed from ‘The Artist Interview.

Special thanks to Claire Montgomery, Diego Fasciati, Drazen Pantic, Dan Cameron, Pieranna Cavalchini, Sebastien Delot, Heather Wagner, Nick Normal, Barry Dunne and Sebastien Sanz de Santamaria.
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THE SCRIPT

Interviewer – Some artists, when they spend time in different places ‘relocate’ their practice. That is the ‘local’ changes, but not the practice. What do yo think happens when if artist ‘dislocates’ themselves in the new local thus working with the language of that local?

Interviewee #1 – I first mention the much-remarked-upon emergence of a kind of “international art” that seems to prevail these days – a kind of homogenous, global perspective, whereby everyone is trying very hard NOT to be local and end by making blurry references to the same ideas (be they the French theorists or American irony and contingency crowd). Artists develop a method and re-employ that method in whatever locale they arrive- not so interesting.

Interviewee #2 – I think, nowadays that all artists are ‘international’. We all communicate, because of technology, internationally. But maybe a new situation is called for, and maybe what is needed is to look at how an artist is ‘interlocal’, in that the local is what becomes important.

Interviewer – So how do you think the the phrase “all politics are local”, applies to artists’ practice with this idea of all artists being international but not all being ‘interlocal’?

Interviewee #2 – More general question about politics and globalization is what is “local” now? Any single political issue (however local it is) bounces back to the global discussion, one way or another. And is the re-appropriated by different political groups, for different political purposes. And law of unexpected consequences works every time …

So, yes all artist are international, some are “interlocal” but all issues are global either way. And the less prominent political signifier in their work, the more it might be suitable for reinterpretation and (inverse) contexulization. One consequence of what is that we see now lots of very politically transparent work, using art as a political megaphon. I’m trying not to put value judgment here, but I kind of like art political agit-prop. Except that it is so often unclear what are the political premises and values brought to the table. If any.

Interviewee #1 – Most interesting to me is an artist who takes some part of his/her perspective on the world and, looking very carefully at the particular locale, examines the new locale with new eyes. So, perhaps relocation is simply geographic; dislocation takes you out of both time and space. It is a real letting go, and is truly unnerving, but a brave and important thing to do.

Interviewer – I’d like to move on and discuss the perception of the word �America� and ‘the United States of America’ within this context of the building of the wall along the southern border of the United Stated with plans for surveillance web cams.

The United States of America builds a defensive structure along it’s border, posts a military presence and employs new surveillance technology to maintain that border.

What do you think the legacy of such a structure and action will be on the psychology of America?

Interviewee #2 – The current hysteria over the US/Mexican border plays to the very worst aspects of our national xenophobia, while revealing how little of the discourse over ‘security’ has anything to do with making our borders secure. No terrorist has ever been shown to have entered our country through the US/Mexico border, which is quite amazine if you consider how many undocumented workers, contraband narcotics, etc do slip through every single day. It is also worth pointing out that virtually all of the border territory under discussion was sovereign Mexican territory little more than a hundred years ago. My strong belief is that the Bush administration’s fear-mongering is almost entirely motivated by the desire to generate enough dread and anxiety in the citizenry that we will submit to their increasingly dictatorial aims. Having said that, I also think there is good reason to hope that the congressional elections this fall will put the brakes on the some of their most extremist policies, and that by the end of 08 they will have so disgraced themselves on every other front that voters will be ready to throw the whole crowd out (and lock a few up for good measure).

So, to answer your question: I believe it is vital that our next president, Al Gore, begin dismantling the border wall immediately after taking office, recall the National Guard, and diarm the Minutemen. The security apparatus, which is probably inseparable from our national objectives in technology and information, would remain.

Interviewee #1 – It is incredible the Berlin Wall came down in 89 and here we are building new ones. When I use the “we” I am thinking transnationally. Our surveilling exploits have not improved our ability to see or to think critically…and then there is the very frightening issue of WHO surveils those doing the surveillance.

Interviewer – …and perception of ‘America’?”

Interviewee #2 – Unfortunately, our national self-image as ‘America’ and us as ‘Americans’ will most likely never be addressed along the way, and we will probably find soon enough that many of our neighbors no longer wish to have that word associated with their own identities anyway. So, despite my own personal discomfort about using the word ‘America’ to describe the USA, when its proper reference belongs to the two continents of North America and South America, getting people in this country to examine that imperialist habit more closely is probably a lost cause.

Interviewee #1 – Back to your question…..Will “to America” become synonymous with “to surveil”. I most sincerely hope not. The positive thing about an action (no matter how blind and stupid) is that sooner or later it brings a reaction. Nothing stays still no wall can stop the flow.

Interviewer – President Bush during a recent speech to the Press at the Rose garden after his surprise visit to Iraq said that the war in Iraq was not THE war on Terror but part of the THEATRE. How do you think this ‘theatre’ is perceived

Interviewee #2 – It seems that politics is a series of “coup de théâtre!” and he needs some as he is in a weaker political position. It is interesting to make this connection with terror though the civil war is not taking place on the american soil and cannot have the same impact as the french terreur. It feels that terror will grow as more and more american will die and public opinion might shake things. Despite growing tensions, scandals nothing has been done and it is amaizing to watch this puppet show going on.

On the other hand the use of the term can be understood as part of Hollywood vocabulary. As America has had actors in strategic position, the star wars was an interesting choice.The axis of evil is an other good title for a science fiction movie. Though the device of “Theatre” appears as a way to introduce a necessary distance with the real. Actors on stage are only performing though here people are dying, anger is growing and shall linger for decades.The cycle of violence is not nearly at an end. The future between western/ arab diplomatic relation has been damaged severely. And here we can also blame Europe for not finding a way to be an altrenative voice in that concert of discontent and to sink into mediocrity. I wander when the political consciousness awakening in Europe is going to take place.

Interviewer – AND how does it relate to the ‘theatre’ of the gallery?

Interviewee #2 – Interestingly enough the use of the word to refer to military operation with President Bush as the cast director. Actors have enterred politics and we have watched already the star wars and amaizing declaration in CA recently. Theatre is away to bring illusion to distort and recreate reality, it is also a way of mastering things since you can control them. It is a way to put things in a space and time frame that you control but in an art gallery you might play with the illusion of the White cube in order to create that spce of wonder and make people feel they enter a sacred space. In real life the theatre can not be that illusion, it is way too unresponsible to act as if there were no difference, politics is about playing with events and issues in such a way that you may bring emphasis or silence them. Here it would not be so much of a white cube theatre but maybe a new concept a red cube theatre.

Interviewer – So could the red cube be a shift from say the corporate clean white cube to one which art engages with politics in a gallery context?

Interviewee #2 – it would be very interesting, as politics can be bloody and the gallery is the prefect stage ou theatre…Red tape strategies.

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

It featured the fragrant and marvellous:

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