THURSDAY MARCH 15 / EXHIBITION /Updating the contemporary art aesthetic is a struggle for every emerging artist. How do you modernize the artistic pallet in the age of post, post everything. The real ground breakers understand this challenge and are making waves in updating and reinventing our cultural ideal of what is “art”. PULSE is [...]
SATURDAY MARCH 3 / SUNDAY MARCH 4 / PERFORMANCE / Le Petit Cirque [The Small Circus] is a complex sound object object made of wood, plastic, strings, springs and fragility. A mere breath can set it vibrating. Twelve small microphones draw resources from its interior. Le Petit Cirque is a circus. Its handling is perilous, [...]
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 18 / 7.30PM / MOVIE by Richard Garet and Asher Thal-Nir. The imagery of Melting Ground consists of an uninterrupted single handheld take, while flying in a helicopter over Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau, Alaska in August 2005. Garet submitted the footage to rigorous processes of digital manipulation, altering the takes natural condition, light, [...]
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 17 / 7.30PM / MUSIC / PERFORMANCE / The German term Werktreue refers to the concept of historical authenticity in performance, the notion of fidelity to an ideal form of the artwork found, for example, in the musical score. While extensive discussions of historical authenticity appeared in the 1980s in American and English [...]
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 9 / 8PM / PERFORMANCE The Invisible Dog will host the REHEARSAL series, a works-in-progress showing of various types of performance— this week the choreographer and dancer Tara Willis will be showing a short piece, followed by a discussion in which the audience is asked to articulate their responses. The series curator Sophia [...]
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 11 / 8PM CATCH is a multi-faceted, multi-disciplinary, rough and ready performance series-event put on every two months or so, usually in Brooklyn, NY. Curated and hosted by Jeff Larson and Andrew Dinwiddie and brilliantly administered by Caleb Hammons. Animals, Michelle Boulé, Megan Byrne, The Debate Society, Daniel Fish, The Sasparilla Sisters, Brian [...]
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 2 / 6.30PM / MUSIC Fortnight Journal presents three Fortnight contributors in collaboration. Centered around the viol consort of Edition II contributor, Elizabeth Weinfield, the night will comprise of several Renaissance pieces, poetry, and song. Sonnambula will be joined by poet Adam Fitzgerald (Boston Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books and The [...]
SATURDAY FEBRUAY 4 / NOON TO 8PM / THEATER ‘American Realism’ is a one-day extreme endurance piece for eight actors, about contemporary labor, spoken through the voices of depression-era California migrant workers. Disassembling notions of realism and investigating the possibilities of reenactment without authenticity, this piece exposes the ennui of laborers, from dot-com start-up entrepreneurs to immigrant maintenance workers. The text [...]
JANUARY 21-22 Brooklyn’s third annual Inventgenuity Festival is presented by Beam Camp, a New Hampshire summer camp for the applied arts, technology and collaboration. The weekend Festival will be loaded with a tremendous range of activities led by Beam’s staff of artists, engineers and big thinkers. This year’s festival serves as a launch event for [...]
THURSDAY JANUARY 26 / 7.30PM / CINEMA – The Temptations of Dr. Antonio is easily one of the most entertaining offerings from his storied career. Fellini is at his most absurd and creative best here, utilizing wonderfully effective B-movie style effects that completely work since the film is very tongue-in-cheek Boccaccio ’70 is a 1962 [...]
