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November 08, 2005

The Kitchen

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Transparent Processes + Listen up!

November 9, 8pm @ The Kitchen, NYC; Curated by Nick Hallett: This evening of live visual music, expanded cinema, and nouveau psychedelia features work in which sound and image stem from the same source. Performers include Ray Sweeten and the collaborative groups LoVid (Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus), I Love You (Seth Kirby and Ana Matronic) and the duo of Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder. Avoiding digital technology, these artists create synesthetic lightshow environments by means of antique equipment, consumer electronics, and home-made instruments in ways that make evident the relationship between process and result.

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Listen up! Lecture as Performance: Coco Fusco and Bernar Venet; November 18 (Fri) 7pm @ The Kitchen, NYC; Curated by PERFORMA. Presented as part of the PERFORMA 05 Biennial--Since the artist Filippo Tomaso Marinetti created his Futurist “serate” in 1909, in which he ‘declaimed’ the Futurist manifesto, many artists have used the lecture format as a staging device to communicate radical ideas about art and politics directly to audiences. In Listen up! Lecture as Performance, PERFORMA responds to the widespread contemporary interest in transforming the lecture form into performance.

In addition to recreating a live conceptual art performance by Bernar Venet from 1968, and presenting a new work by Coco Fusco from 2005, the evening presents documentation of art historical precedents to the use of the lecture as performance by artists including Joseph Beuys, FT Marinetti, and Kurt Schwitters.

Venet’s Neutron emission from muon capture in Ca40, which was first presented at The Judson Church Theater in New York in 1968, will be re-worked as Astrophysics with High Energy Light. Coco Fusco’s A Room of One’s Own (2005) is a remarkable window onto the process of special training sessions for women to learn interrogation techniques. Bush’s ‘War on Terror’ leads Fusco to a training camp where she and five women undergo a course in interrogation, conducted by former U.S. military officers.

Posted by jo at November 8, 2005 06:02 PM

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