Multi-Media | Performance Space New York

Anger at the Movies

David Levine (NY, Berlin)
ANGER AT THE MOVIES (World Premiere)

“Enraging, engaging.. Levine a savvy rascal who makes theater pieces that bleed into Conceptual art”
– Time Out

A follow up to Levine’s acclaimed Venice Saved: A Seminar, this seminar masquerading as theatre masquerading as film screening asks the audience, “Why is it so frustrating to see your profession represented on film?” You provide a YouTube clip, we provide the spectacle.

Collaborators for ANGER AT THE MOVIES:

Rob Cohen, Lawyer (Partner at Kirkland & Ellis, LLP)

Cate Schappert, Photographer

Gideon Lewis-Kraus, Writer

Jo Walker, Architectural Designer

Kyoung H. Park, Playwright
Christianna Nelson, Actor

Created in part at the Arts Collaboration Lab, a partnership between Columbia University School of the Arts and Performance Space 122 in July 2011.

Presented as part of the
7th Annual COIL Festival
Mabou Mines

January 10 – 12, 2012

For this show, please provide a clip to the creative team for the
night of the performance.

You can either:
1) bring a physical DVD with chapter/timecode noted to the night of
the performance
2) find a clip online and copy/paste the url into an email, sent to
angeratthemovies@ps122.org by 12pm the day of performance. If you
can’t find a clip, we suggest looking on youtube, movieclips.com, or
vimeo

3) Upload a digital version of a clip to your favorite cloud storage
site (i.e. dropbox or yousendit). Copy and paste the url and send to
angeratthemovies@ps122.org

4) Bring a clip with you on a flash drive.

If you can’t find a clip that (mis)represents your profession, you’re
welcome to bring clips depicting, inaccurately, a hobby, location,
activity or state of mind you’re familiar with.

If you can only find clips that depict your profession extraordinarily
well, feel free to bring that.

Hello Hi There

Annie Dorsen
Hello Hi There

Language is meaningless, thought is pointless, and we’re all gonna die. Hello, hi there!

New York director Annie Dorsen takes the famous television debate between the philosopher Michel Foucault and linguist and activist Noam Chomsky from the Seventies as inspiration and material for a dialogue between two specially developed chatbots: every evening, these computer programs designed to mimic human conversations perform a new – as it were, improvised – live text.

Hello Hi There is a performance without people – a literal expression of post-humanism, and simultaneously an examination of what it means to be human. The piece goes inside the question of human nature and intelligence, both the organic and the artificial.

Obie award-winning director and writer Annie Dorsen works in a variety of fields, including theatre, film, dance and, as of 2010, digital performance. Most recently, Hello Hi There premiered at the streirischer herbst festival, Graz, and will tour to Oslo, Bergen and Berlin before arriving in New York in January 2011. She is the co-creator of the 2008 Broadway musical Passing Strange, which she also directed. Spike Lee has since made a film of her production of the piece, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009, subsequently screened at South by Southwest Film Festival and The Tribeca Film Festival, and was released theatrically by IFC in 2010 before being broadcast on PBS’ Great Performances. Also in 2010, she collaborated with choreographer Anne Juren on Magical (ImPulsTanz Festival) and with Ms. Juren and DD Dorviller on Piece Sans Paroles (brut Vienna and Rencontres Choreographiques Internationales Seine-St-Denis, Paris). In 2009 she created two music-theatre pieces, Ask Your Mama, a setting of Langston Hughes’ 1962 poem, composed by Laura Karpman and sung by Jessye Norman and The Roots (Carnegie Hall) and ETHEL’s Truckstop, seen at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival. Her pop-political performance project Democracy in America was presented at Performance Space 122 (PS 122) in spring 2008. Her short film, I Miss, originally the centerpiece of Democracy in America, has screened at American Film Institute Festival (AFI Fest), SXSW Film Festival, The New York Film Festival’s “Views From the Avant-Garde” and the Nantucket Film Festival. Her work has been seen at numerous venues in the US, including the Public Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Soho Rep, Marfa Theatre (TX), NYStage and Film, Sundance Theatre Lab, Stanford University, Clubbed Thumb and Women’s Project. In addition to numerous awards for Passing Strange, Ms. Dorsen has received several fellowships, notably the Sir John Gielgud Fellowship from the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers. She has taught at New York University, Fordham University, and Playwright’s Horizons, and is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama.

Co-produced by steirischer herbst festival, Black Box Teater, BIT Teatergarasjen, Hebbel am Ufer and Performance Space 122. Additional touring support provided by Bundesministerium fur Unterricht, Kunst and Kultur (bmukk). Additional production support and residency provided by the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer (EMPAC).

PRESENTED AS PART OF COIL 2011
US PREMIERE | UPSTAIRS at PS122

Jan 6-21, 2011
Thu, Jan 6 7:30PM / Sun, Jan 9 5PM / Mon, Jan 10 5PM / Tue, Jan 11 10PM / Thu, Jan 13 7:30PM / Fri, Jan 14 10PM
Extended: Wed, Jan 19 & Fri, Jan 21 7:30PM
Thu, Jan 20 & Sat, Jan 22 10PM.

Single Tickets:
$20, $15 (students/seniors)

Help PS122 Go Green by viewing your Hello Hi There program online!

Gin and It

“What beauty there is in Mr. Farrington’s work.” – Claudia La Rocco, The New York Times

“The interplay between the live and film actors is an elegant kind of dance” “a marvelous technical feat” “VISUALLY ARRESTING, AESTHETICALLY COMPLEX” – Jason Zinoman, The New York Times

CRITICS’ PICK – Backstage

For his next work Reid Farrington’s principle source Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Rope.’ Again Farrington collaborates with film historians and archivists to bring a classic film to the stage with his own boundary-pushing melding of projected imagery and live drama.

The original movie’s director attempted to transfer the compressed drama of a one-set play into a suspenseful film through the illusion of being shot in one uninterrupted film take. Farrington explores the making of this technical tour-de-force. His video theater work will mirror the technical feats of this daring film experiment.

Creative Director: Reid Farrington
Performers: Karl Allen, Keith Foster, Christopher Loar, Tim McDonough
Lead Editor: Paulina Jurzec
Set: Art Domantay
Costumers: Erin Elizabeth Murphy
Lights: Christopher Heilman
Sound: Connor Kalista
Stage Manager: Julia Funk
Dramaturgy: Peter C. von Salis
Script Supervisor: Sara Jeanne Asselin
Fight Choreography: Carrie Brewer
Research Assistant: Sarah Doyle
Best Boy Editor: Thomas Gonzalez
Editors: Celina Alarado, Jeanne Angel, Patrick Grizzard, Xue Hou, Connor Kalista, Alex Kowal, Zak Loyd, Chris Martinez, Luisa Morales, Vanessa Riegel, Matthew Swenson, Masha Vlasova, Hannah Wasileski

Also see: The Making of Gin and “It” video.

https://www.reidfarrington.com/

Gin & “It” is co-produced by the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University, Performance Space 122 and 3LD Art & Technology Center. It was developed through the creative residency programs at 3LD Art & Technology Center, Eyebeam Art and Technology Center, and Wexner Center for the Arts. Reid Farrington is the recepient of the 2010 Wexner Center Residency Award. He is also 2009 fellow in Digital/ Arts from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Gin & “It” has also received generous support from New York State Council on the Arts, The Greenwall Foundation, and the Experimental Television Center, and a Commission Grant from the Jerome Foundation.
Research made possible by Sandra Joy Lee, Director of Warner Bros. Archives at The University of Southern California.

Co-presented as part of COIL 2010 with Under The Radar in association with 3LD Art & Technology Center

OFFICIAL NY PREMIERE

Saturday, April 24 – Sunday, May 9, 2010
Wed – Sat at 8PM, Sun at 6PM
Saturday Late Shows at 10:30PM: May 1 + 8
Thursday Night Social: April 29
Talkback with the artists: Wed, May 5

$20, $15 (students/seniors)
60 minutes

Help PS122 Go Green by viewing your Gin & “It” Program online!

Whew! Age

assisted living

“Funny and humorous” – Wired
“Anything but stupid.” – The New York Times

While no audience participation is required, Marisa Olson will invoke the familiar persona of the self-help “guru” in encouraging viewers to think about the role of mindfulness and positive thinking in their interactions with the environment. Her message is ultimately to stop freaking and start chilling out. Expect kitsch and giggles as much as tranquility and a reawakening of your bodily senses.

Marisa Olson is an admitted internet junky and a serious bookworm. This performance is both a product and a trace of her research into fluke epistemologies, the vernacular of digital visual culture, and the intersecting histories of science and superstition, new ageism and DIY/homebrew computing culture.

If you’ll allow her to mix metaphors about body heat, global warming, and other things “hot,” she’ll reward you with a sundry selection of funny videos, chakra realigning musical jams, and the words to make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

Marisa Olson’s work combines performance, video, drawing & installation to address the cultural history of technology, the politics of participation in pop culture & the aesthetics of failure.

WORLD PREMIERE
SOLO PERFORMANCE, VIDEO

February 12 – 14, 2010
Fri at 7:30PM, Sat at 7:30 + 10pm, Sun at 5:30PM
50 minutes
$20, $15 (students/seniors)

Help PS122 Go Green by viewing your WHEW! AGE Program online!

“One of the most innovative and essential artists to emerge from American experimental theater in the past decade.” – Ben Brantley, The New York Times

“Richard Maxwell is a master of surprise.” – Jason Zinoman Time Out New York

“What is novel — and perhaps provocative — is the notion that theater can take place without the direct participation of live people. Artists have been incorporating video and taped performance into theatrical works for many years, in many different ways, but there is usually some live component. Here the only one is the audience. “Ads” resembles a video installation in a modern-art museum more than a traditional stage piece, but it suggests in its quiet way that you can create humane, affecting works of theater without the literal presence of human beings.”
– Charles Isherwood, The New York Times

Ads marks a new departure in the work of celebrated downtown auteur Richard Maxwell. In collaboration with photographer/cinematographer Michael Schmelling and Bozkurt Karasu (The Wooster Group), Maxwell asks whether theatre is possible without a human presence. Can verisimilitude be enhanced by technology? How can we address these questions in a live performance?

Whether in the realm of theater, music, or video, New York City Players (founded 1999) rigorously strip away the habitual identities that may encumber a work, thereby allowing pursuit of the power of language, of story, of image, and of what happens when people gather in a room. Individualism is celebrated by collaborating with performers and designers from all backgrounds and levels of experience.

The Cast of ADS includes:
Ramin Bahrani, Lakpa Bhutia, Jerimee Bloemeke, Sophia Chai, Janet Coleman, Keith Connolly, Ginger Corker, Richard Dundy, Bob Feldman, Rosie Goldensohn, Anita Hollander, Rosalie Ann Kaplan, Lou Kuhlmann, Michelle A. Lee, Walid Mohanna, Philip Moore, Farooq Muhammad, Christian Nunez*, Nicole, Louis Puopolo, Mark Russell, Katherine Ryan, Rafael Sanchez, Monica de la Torre, Ariana Smart Truman, Kate Valk

Check out NYC Players’s video: Ads Explained

Under The Radar Festival 2010 is a program of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, and is held in conjunction with APAP Conference NYC 2010. Major funding is provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Ford Foundation. The Festival is produced by Mark Russell and The Public Theater. www.undertheradarfestival.com

World Premiere
Jan 20 – Feb 16
60 Minutes

Presented by Performance Space 122 as part of COIL 2010

In association with Under the Radar

Help PS122 Go Green by viewing your ADS Program online!