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Conversations With Culture

“Contemporary Performance and the Multiverse”

December 9th at 7pm
Location: Sony Wonder Technology Lab, 550 Madison Avenue (at 56th Street)
Free with RSVP

On December 9th, PS122 will host the second discussion in its new Conversations with Culture series, “Contemporary Performance and the Multiverse.” The conversation uses as its launching pad PS122 artists Lisa D’Amour and Katie Pearl’s work Terrible Things, a new collaborative work exploring the multiverse though personal narrative, particle physics, and a shifting “set” of 600 marshmallows that stand in for particles, potential energy, and the sub-atomic realm. Panelists will discuss the role and ramifications of contemporary performance as a mode of articulating scientific theory and expressing our human experience of the laws and mysteries of the physical universe. These events are free and open to the public and endeavor to reinsert performance into the cultural, economic, and environmental debates coursing through contemporary society, from which it has recently largely been excluded.

Participants Include:

David Z. Albert, Frederick E. Woodbridge Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, Author of Quantum Mechanics and Experience and Time and Chance
Lisa D’Amour and Katie Pearl – co-creators of Terrible Things, which premieres at PS122 on December 4th.
Brian Schwartz, Director of the Science & The Arts program at the CUNY Graduate Center and 2009 winner of the Andrew W. Gemant Award, given annually by the American Institute of Physics to recognize significant contributions to the cultural, artistic, or humanistic dimension of physics.
DJ Spooky, creator of Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica playing at BAM
Dec 2 -5. https://djspooky.com/
Richard Easther, Professor of Physics at Yale University

“Contemporary Performance and God”

October 20th we are hosting our first Conversation with Culture @ 7pm – 11th Street bar (11th Street b/w Avenue A & B).

Participants include:

JAY WEGMAN, Director of the Abrons Art Center and and former Canon for Liturgy and the Arts at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine
MORGAN THORSON, choreographer: HEAVEN premiering at Performance Space 122 on October 25th
JOHN MERZ, Diocese of New York Episcopal Chaplain to NYU
MICHAEL DE DORA JR., Executive Director, Center for Inquiry-New York City

Rabih Mroue’s Gift To New York

Mroue

A surprise reading for New York by Jim Fletcher (Saturday) and Okwui Okpokwasili (Sunday), followed by a selection of Mroué’s video works.

“Mr. Mroué belongs to a tight-knit generation of artists, writers and filmmakers that has put Beirut back on the cultural map since the end of the civil war in 1990…With a string of formally inventive, astringent performance pieces to their credit, they are to Beirut what the Wooster Group is to New York: a blend of avant-garde innovation, conceptual complexity and political urgency, all grounded in earthy humor.” – Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, The New York Times

Rabih Mroué is an actor, director, and playwright. Continuously searching for new and contemporary relations among all the different elements and languages of the theatre art forms, Mroue questions the definitions of theatre and the relationship between space and form of the performance and, consequently, questions how the performer relates with the audience. His works deal with issues that have been swept under the table in the current political climate of Lebanon and he draws much-needed attention to the broader political and economic contexts by means of a semi-documentary theatre.

Co-organized by Defne Ayas of Performa, as part of Performa09, third visual art performance biennial.

Performa 09 (November 1 – 22, 2009) is the third edition of the internationally acclaimed biennial of new visual art performance presented by Performa, a non-profit multidisciplinary arts organization dedicated to exploring the critical role of live performance in the history of twentieth century art and to encouraging new directions in performance for the twenty-first century.
www.performa-arts.org

Nov 7, 8 2009

Help PS122 Go Green by viewing your Rabih Mroué program online!

Symphony n.1

For Performa 2009, the Italian collective Alterazioni Video and Ragnar Kjartansson (currently representing Iceland at the Venice Biennale with “The End”, a non-stop performance which began on June 5th) will present “Symphony n.1”, a live and multimedia piece based on joy, infinite profound joy. With the structure of a symphony it is a set of actions repeated in loops mixed chaos, synchronicity and digital found material on one hand, and the theatricality and endurance aspect of performance on the other.

In 2007, Alterazioni Video held a solo show at the Chelsea Art Museum, New York and participated in “Think with the Senses – Feel with the Mind”, at the 2007 Venice Biennial, curated by Robert Storr. In 2008, they took part to the European Biennial of Contemporary Arts Manifesta 7. They are represented in Italy by Prometeo Gallery.

Curated by Barbara Casavecchia and Caroline Corbetta. Co-presented by Performa and Performance Space 122. Produced by Performa. Supported by Luhring Augustine, New York and Prometeo Gallery, Milan.

Mon, November 2, 2009
8:00 pm
Free
On

Terrible Things

“Next time D’Amour and Pearl bring their enchanting work to town be sure to take it in.” – John Del Signore, The Gothamist

“The collaborative team of playwright Lisa D’Amour and director Katie Pearl make beguiling, innovative theatre pieces.” – American Theater Magazine

Science Tuesday meets Oklahoma angst as Lisa D’Amour and Katie Pearl flip PS122 into a low-rent IMAX and get up close and in between molecules, quarks and memories. Have you ever wondered if all those lives you’ve imagined yourself living are actually happening in a parallel world(s)? Terrible Things takes audiences on a T-R-I-P inside the many lives of Katie Pearl and her action-figure literary mom. Expect an in-your-body out-of-body experience shaped by Katie Pearl, three killer dancers: Emily Johnson, Morgan Thorson, and Karen Sherman, two Brazilian Jiu Jitsu wrestlers, and 1000 marshmallows. Featuring the choreography of Emily Johnson.

With funding from The Moore Family Fund for the Arts of the Minneapolis Foundation and made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
Photo by Shelly Reese

“Contemporary Performance and the Multiverse”

December 9th at 7pm
Location: Sony Wonder Technology Lab, 550 Madison Avenue (at 56th Street)
Free with RSVP

Participants Include:

David Z. Albert, Frederick E. Woodbridge Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, Author of Quantum Mechanics and Experience and Time and Chance
Lisa D’Amour and Katie Pearl– co-creators of Terrible Things, which premieres at PS122 on December 4th.
Brian Schwartz, Director of the Science & The Arts program at the CUNY Graduate Center and 2009 winner of the Andrew W. Gemant Award, given annually by the American Institute of Physics to recognize significant contributions to the cultural, artistic, or humanistic dimension of physics.
DJ Spooky, creator of Terra Nova: playing at BAM
Dec 2 -5. https://djspooky.com/
Richard Easther, Professor of Physics at Yale University

WORLD PREMIERE
Fri, December 4 – Sun, December 20, 2009
Thu – Sat 8pm, Sun 6pm
Late shows: Sat, Dec 12/Fri, Dec 18/Sat, Dec 19 10 pm
Additional shows Mon, Dec 14 + Wed, Dec 16 8pm
No show Thu, Dec 17

$20, $15 (students/seniors)

Also presented as part of COIL 2010

Fri, January 8, 2010 6:30pm
Sat, January 9, 2010 9:30pm
Sun, January 10, 2010 7pm
Tue, January, 2010 12 4:30pm

For more info visit the all new pearldamour.com or visit their blog.

Help PS122 Go Green by viewing your Terrible Things Program online!

ZEE

Zee

ZEE is a rigorous mindscape; a hallucinatory architecture of light; a dream machine.

An enclosed space is filled with a dense, odorless fog that completely obscures the walls, floor and ceiling. Individuals freely roam this environment, while flickering light filters through the haze, inducing hallucinations and sensory distortions within each viewer. A droning soundscape intensifies this full-immersion experience, shifting dynamically according to changes in the color, frequency and intensity of the light.

Exhilarating and meditative, Hentschläger’s pulsing, stroboscopic and mind-altering ZEE pushes the boundaries of human perception and creates an intensely riveting audiovisual journey.

“Hentschläger’s piece delivered literally on the hackneyed promise that art will refashion one’s way of seeing the world.” – Kenneth Baker, Art Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, November 2008

ZEE was originally commissioned by OK-Center Linz, and Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh in 2008.

Kurt Hentschläger is Managed and Represented by Richard Castelli / Epidemic

Supported by: BMUKK -Austrian Ministry for Education, Art & Culture and MEDA(TM) – vision beyond

Production Assistance: Shane Mecklenburger / Technical Assistance Touring: Alexander Boehmler, Ian Brill

Important information: Anybody with the following conditions should not attend ZEE: photosensitive epilepsy; asthma, breathing and heart problems; abnormal blood pressure; migraine & headaches; all kinds of eye & ear diseases; claustrophobia or anxiety. Pregnant women are also advised to refrain from attending. Please note: The artificial fog being used is proven, even in extreme intensities, not to be of any health risk; the stroboscopes used in the show are standard theatrical units.

Kurt Hentschläger

A constant innovator and one of the most influential figures in the field of contemporary art and technology, Hentschläger merges conceptual art, sound, video, performance,and technologyin his large-scale installations. Since launching his career in 1983, his work has been commissioned worldwide, including: NoiseGate 2000 for Creative Time’s Art in the Anchorage as part of the Austrian duo Granular-Synthesis, representing Austria at the 2001 Venice Biennale, and his most recent installations ZEE, RANGE and KARMA/X are currently touring. www.kurthentschlager.com

About FuturePerfect

ZEE is the inaugural event of FuturePerfect, a new initiative that researches and presents hybrid performance practices, media forms, and artistic ideas that continue to emerge as computer technologies and electronic networks mature and become inseparable from contemporary culture. In particular focus is the future of live performance and related visual culture. FuturePerfect 2011, a performance festival and exhibition, is slated for New York City during Spring 2011. Wayne Ashley is FuturePerfect’s founding artistic director, the former Director of Arts in Multimedia at Brooklyn Academy of Music, BAM. Contact: Wayne Ashley at waynewayneashley.net. More info: www.futureperfectfestival.org

New York Premiere

October 28 – November 15, 2009

3LD Art & Technology Center, 80 Greenwich Street, near Rector St., Lower Manhattan

Time: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 5-9pm; Saturday, Sunday 2pm-9pm

Project begins on the hour and the half hour; approximately 20 minutes.

Kurt Hentschläger’s ZEE is now previewing BY INVITATION ONLY for individual visits by the press, curators, and professionals in the art and performance community. Due to limited capacity, entrance is by confirmed RSVP only -please contact rsvp@futureperfectfestival.org and include your phone number.

Panel Discussion: Performance, Installation and Immersion–Free

Presented by FuturePerfect and CPR–Center for Performance Research

Venue: CPR–Center for Performance Research

361 Manhattan Avenue, Unit 1, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Sunday, October 25, 2009

1:30pm – 3:30pm

In conjunction with the opening of ZEE, FuturePerfect, CPR–Center for Performance Research, 3LD Art & Technology Center, and PS122 invite you a panel on Performance, Installation, and Immersion. Panelists include: Kevin Cunningham (Director, 3-Legged Dog Media and Theater Group), Kurt Hentschläger (Artist, Austria/US), Kora Van den Bulcke and Thomas Soetens (Workspace Unlimited, Artist Collective Belgium/Canada), Allen Feldman (Associate Professor, Anthropology, NYU). Discussants include: Vallejo Gantner (PS122), Morgan von Prelle Pecelli (PS122), Wayne Ashley (FuturePerfect), Jonah Bokaer (CPR–Center for Performance Research), Dr. Frank Hentschker (Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, CUNY), and others to be announced. https://www.cprnyc.org