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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

June 14 – July 29, 2011

Featuring 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.

Curated by Claudia Calirman

OPENING RECEPTION:

Tuesday, June 14, 2011 6-8 PM

DATES: June 15 – July 29, 2011

HOURS: Tuesday – Saturday 12-6 PM

Location One is proud to present Sounds Good, featuring 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. The show opens on June 14 and will be on view until July 29.

Australian artist John Aslanidis’s monumental painting Sonic Network no.10 comprises four canvases that translate the vibrations of sound into a visual display. At first, the composition of colorful squares seems optically chaotic. This apparent chaos, however, is the result of a meticulously orchestrated, laborious process that recalls the madness of order. From far away his canvases look as if they are randomly composed, but as the viewer approaches it becomes clear that they are actually highly organized abstract geometric grids, with chance elements interspersed to interrupt the rigidity of his web.

Katy Dove’s work responds to the rhythm and movement from the collaborative sound track developed through group improvised music sessions. The human and textural qualities of the sound is echoed through repetitive mark making, the slowly drying action of the ink, and the geometric shapes that come from the hand’s movement. The resulting works—both on fabric and through the moving image–suggest a psychological state inherent in these processes. Based in Glasgow, Scotland, Dove is known for her animations that juxtapose bodily motions with abstract shapes, mixing the organic and the geometric.

Hong Kong–based artist Phoebe Hui took inspiration from a harmonograph—a musical instrument made of two pendulums suspended through holes in a table—for her interactive audiovisual installation Granular Graph II: The Tank and the Pendulum. In this work, Hui invites the viewer to become a living pendulum, swinging on the instrument’s ropes and giving rise to a mix of vibrational patterns and sounds. Hui’s experimentations with music and kinetics also led her to create Vexation – for K, an electronic musical instrument that plays the composition “Vexation” by French composer Erik Satie. The audience can play the instrument by rotating a compass, thus creating a variety of tones through the contact of different shades of pencil marks on the soundboard.

British theatre director Sophie Hunter’s installation Lucretia is based on a fragment 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. Hunter extracts various elements of the opera, such as the orchestra, the narrative, and the opera house itself, and deconstructs and examines them devoid of their original context. She then reassembles these elements to record an altogether new score—a densely collaged soundtrack made of both music and noise—drawing a parallel between the act of weaving and the recording or encoding of information and memory.

Colombian artist Miler Lagos reflects on the relationship between the natural and the artificial worlds. His five-minute video Attraction shows a heart-shaped red balloon plunging into the water. The impact of the fall is dramatically amplified, creating the effect of an exaggerated explosion. To create his sculpture Cimiento, Lagos began with a stack of seven thousand sheets of paper, each printed with an image of a woodcut by the Japanese artist Ottawa Hiroshige, and painstakingly carved it into the shape of a log. In Tree Rings Dating, four hundred identical pages from The New York Times come together in a mesmerizing three-dimensional collage—a spherical form with a transversal cut simulating the rings of a tree. The sculpture alludes both to the recording of the passage of time and to daily events, since it is made out of newspapers.

John O’Connell, a multimedia artist from Dublin, Ireland, is represented in the exhibition by a series of drawings evoking an intimate and dreamy environment. Built from a myriad of interrelated elements borrowed from his make-believe universe, the drawings straddle the line between real and fictional, process-based and result-oriented. To create these fantastical compositions, O’Connell begins with hand-constructed miniature set models that reproduce the imaginary landscapes of the artist’s poetic, whimsical, and lyrical universe.

Spanish artist Gonzalo Puch’s wall curtain juxtaposes disparate elements in unexpected and often funny tableaux, suggesting intricate narratives out of random elements. Plants, flowers, and pieces of food inhabit his curtain with photographs, sketches, and drawings, creating an open environment populated by the artist’s imagination. It is a world where chaos is not a threat, but a generative force inviting viewers to think outside of their comfort zone. Though Puch is interested in a variety of issues, including science, music, biology, and environmental studies, his art draws primarily on nature for both themes and materials.

Zane Saunders’s series of ceramic-fired clay wall sculptures are inspired by organic forms. His designs utilize a variety of waving shapes that recur in natural landscapes. Saunders was born in Cairns, North Queensland, Australia, where he still works today. He explores issues related to spirituality and the environment, often juxtaposing elements from nature and contemporary life. Through his use of raw and organic materials, he conveys a sense of the beauty and wonder lurking in the world all around us.

ABOUT LOCATION ONE

Based in the Soho arts district of New York, Location One is an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to fostering new forms of creative expression and cultural exchange through exhibitions, residencies, performances, public lectures and workshops. Traditionally focused on technological experimentation and new media, Location One’s residencies and programs have favored social and political discourse and dialogue, and acted as a catalyst for collaborations. With a unique environment providing individualized training, support, and guidance to each artist, as well as exposure for their creations and collaborations, Location One continues to nurture the spirit of experimentation that it considers the cornerstone of its mission.

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.

Sponsors:

The Abernathy MacGregor Group
The a-i-r laboratory, Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle (Poland)
The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon (Ireland)
The Asian Cultural Council
The Australia Council for the Arts
Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
The Brown Foundation
Buhl Foundation
Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation
Creative Scotland
The Danish Arts Agency
The Edwards Foundation Arts Fund
FRAME (Finnish Fund for Art Exchange)
The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Portugal)
The Hasselblad Foundation (Sweden)
HAVAS Advertising
William Talbott Hillman Foundation
The Irish American Cultural Institute
Lakefield Family Foundation
Materials For the Arts
The Leo Model Foundation
Fundacion Neme and N-ce Arte (Colombia)
New York City Department of Cultural Affairs
New York State Council on the Arts
OneArtWorld.com
The Polish Cultural Institute in New York
Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Mloda Polska program
The Robert Sterling Clark Foundation
The Trust for Mutual Understanding

Supporters:

Marina Abramovic
Laurie Anderson
Diane Ackerman
Ann Barlow
Rhonda Barnat
Antonio Bechara
Carol Becker
Sidhant Bhagchandani
Sandro Bosi
Monika Bravo
Andrew Brimmer
Estrellita Brodsky
Melva Bucksbaum
Henry Buhl
Ginevra Caltagirone
Paolo Canevari
Raphael Castoriano
Michael and Noni Connor
Sophie Crichton-Stuart
Jane DeBevoise
Fairfax Dorn
Christian Duvernois
Sally Fisher
Joe Friedman
Thierry Gillier
Marla Goldwasser
Pamela Grace
Victoria Greenwood
Eleanor Heartney
Bob Holman
Lisa Holman
Karen Holmberg
Jeanette Ingberman
Dr. Michael Jacobs
Joan Jonas
Marta Jovanovic Bosi
Kenneth Ka-Kei Tang
Laya Khadjavi
Roya Khadjavi Heidani
Terence Koh
Edward and Phyllis Kwalwasser
Caroline Lang
Raymond Learsy
James Lindon
Barbara London
Philip Long
Susan and Glenn Lowry
James T. MacGregor
Patricia Marshall
Elzbieta Matynia
DeCourcy E. McIntosh
Allen Model
Alex Montague
Raj Moorjani
Wangechi Mutu
Linda Nochlin
Catherine Orentreich
Hiram Ortiz
Norman Pearlstine
Alina Pedroso
Nadejda Petkova
Hal Philipps
Joyce Pomeroy Schwartz
Richard Prince
Elsa and Marvin Ross-Greifinger
Andrew Russeth
Helene Safdie
Vito Schnabel
Carolee Schneemann
Adam Sheffer
Roger and Freddi Sherman
Clay Shirky
Laura Skoler
Manon Slome
Melissa Soros
Anne-Cecile Speyer
Sue Stoffel
Betsy Sussler
Mickalene Thomas
Rachel Vancelette
Gordon VeneKlasen
Victoria Vesna
Marcia Vetrocq
Jane Wesman
Ari Wiseman
Jordan Wolfson
Rob Wynne

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/

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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

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.

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

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

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

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)

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March 18 – April 23, 2005

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

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

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

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

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

May 28 – June 30, 2004

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On Thursday, May 27, Location One presents its third annual artist-in-residence group exhibition. Eight works ranging from video, to sculpture, to robotic structures, to interactive installations were developed by emerging international artists during their stay. Featured in the main gallery, the show will be open to the public through Wednesday, June 30th, 2004 and will be streamed live on www.location1.org

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mark Themann (Germany/Australia)
Go Into This Space presents an evocative single screen DVD work, a silent film that consists of phasing texts, interrupted by flashing color fields, and utilizing structures of invocation and evocation.Location One is a not-for-profit organization devoted to the convergence between visual, performing and digital arts in a time of rapidly changing technology.
Location One’s Residency Program is a central part of its activities. It encourages collaboration by inviting artists from all over the world and different media to experiment with advanced technological tools and delivery systems, and to develop new work.

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

May 22, 2003-June 28, 2003

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

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

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

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

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

Central Air Condition (Use and Care)

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

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

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

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

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