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2023.03.10 Friday 19:30
Sunview Luncheonette
Organized by: Marcia Bassett
Madai! (Gill Arno & lele dai)
Sean Meehan & Barry Weisblat
Stephen Conover
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2023.03.04 Saturday 17:00-19:00
Hunter MFA Open Studio
The Lost Map
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2022.12.21 Wednesday 23:59
The Mushroom Archive at The Light Industry
361 Stagg Street, Suite 407, Brooklyn
Presented by Bradley Eros
http://www.lightindustry.org/http://www.lightindustry.org/mushroom
A hypogeal influence on New York City culture for decades, artist Bradley Eros has explored and transformed cinema through a range of approaches—as a filmmaker and creator of works in collage, photography, poetry, sound, and installation, but also as a curator (he was co-proprietor of the now-legendary Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, one of Light Industry’s major inspirations).
For Eros, cinema might be contracted down to the subtle glimmerings of a cut-crystal drinking glass thrown against a bare wall, or expanded into living matrices of images projected by multifarious forms of technology; art can be as ephemeral as melting abstract ice-sculptures, or fragile installations made from lowly balls of crumpled-up magazine pages. Some of his most memorable creations have been nothing more than coined notions, put into circulation through poetic manifestos and instantiated (or not) as screenings, performances, and, most importantly, collaborations with others. These concepts over the years have included: mediamystics, ephemeral cinema, erotic psyche, Vampÿrates, eau de cinema, Ocula, subterranean science, cinema povera, poetic accidents, fragmentstein, musique plastique, Narcolepsy Cinema, metaBody, The Owl of Minerva, Artaud-Butoh, Velvet Hermetic System, Oysters of the Id, Imageless Film, and Black Hole Cinema.
For this special solstice event at Light Industry, Eros has assembled participants from two of his ongoing collective endeavors: Optipus, an ever-shifting group of projection-performers, and The Mushroom Archive, an informal network of 16mm and 8mm film print collectors. Members of the Mushroom Archive will bring prints to the Optipus participants at Light Industry during the day on December 21, and together create and rehearse a one-time performance that will take place at midnight—sharp.
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OPTIPUS: THE MUSHROOM ARCHIVE / A MULTI-FORMAT, MULTI-PROJECTION PERFORMANCE
WITH THESE MEMBERS OF OPTIPUS (& VARIOUS FILM PRINT COLLECTORS OF THE LOOSE COALITION OF THE MUSHROOM ARCHIVE)
MycOpti {myco~cinema / micro~cinema / mycelium film / mushroom archive / Optipus}
BRADLEY EROS, LARY 7, SCOTT KIERNAN, RICHARD SYLVARNES, RACHAEL GUMA, GABRIEL GUMA, MASAMI TOMIHISA, LELE DAI, AVA WITONSKY, LINH VU, BENJI SANTOS, LILY SAROSI, JEANNE LIOTTA.
OPTIPUS: THE MUSHROOM ARCHIVE is a collaborative expanded cinema composition featuring live music, poetry, and performance. We aspire to weave together a spectrum of elements of the mycelium underground and its visual fruiting bodies, represented here by the film medium & its offshoots. Our images & themes including death, decay, regeneration, remembrance, transformation, and the biomorphic ecology of the body and mind. In this, we hope to evoke the connective and regenerative potential of mycelium.
We use (or misuse?) film projectors {35mm, 16mm, Super 8mm, R8} + slide projectors (35mm & magic lantern), overhead projectors, and video projection & cameras (hand-held, live recording & re-mixing), plus shadow play, liquid light, transparencies, gels, external lenses, loops, hand-processed & hand-painted celluloid, objects, foley, mirrors, mylar, contact mics, mobiles, synths, strings, percussion, samples, transistor radios, music boxes, toys, appliances, & mutable and myriad screen surfaces . . .
- BE
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Tickets - Pay what you can ($10 suggested donation), available at door.
Please note: seating is limited. First-come, first-served. Box office opens at 11:30pm. No entry after start of performance.
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2022.12.17 Saturday 19:00-22:00
Group show - Desire Path: Hunt the Sun @ cc (Secret Location)
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2022.12.02 Friday 19:30
Optipus- The Mushroom Archive @ Mono No Aware MONO XVI FESTIVAL OF CINEMA ARTS
http://mononoawarefilm.com/mono-no-aware-xvi_program
OPTIPUS: THE MUSHROOM ARCHIVE / 16MM MULTI-PROJECTION PERFORMANCE WITH LIVE SOUND & POETRY BRADLEY EROS (BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES) LARY 7 (MANHATTAN, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES) SCOTT KIERNAN (BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES) RICHARD SYLVARNES (QUEENS, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES) RACHAEL GUMA (QUEENS, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES) GABRIEL GUMA (QUEENS, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES) MASAMI TOMIHISA (QUEENS, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES) LELE DAI (BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES) AVA WITONSKY (BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES) LINH VU (MANHATTAN, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES) BENJI SANTOS (BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES) LILY SAROSI (BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES)
THE MUSHROOM ARCHIVE is a collaborative expanded cinema composition featuring live music, poetry, and performance. We aspire to weave together a spectrum of elements of the mycelium underground and its visual fruiting bodies, including death, decay, regeneration, remembrance, transformation, and the biomorphic ecology of the body and mind. In this, we hope to evoke the connective and regenerative potential of mycelium.
Optipus is a nomadic group of chameleon artists, cine-scientists in search of a laboratory, shape-shifting according to site-specific requirements. The group embraces the ephemeral cinema of unfixed forms and open composition. It is a magnetic field, derived from the psychic urge to build, via collective energy and desire, that also contains its opposite, the destructive impulse, seen in its wild sway towards the dangers of pure experimentation, obsolete media, and an attraction to aesthetic decay, technological destruction and failure. Optipus’s members emerge in myriad collaborations, producing works and events, soundtracks and invented instruments, video edits and film loops, and expanded cinema and immersive installations. Optipus has been seen at various venues including The Kitchen, Anthology Film Archives, The KnockDownCenter, The Parrish Museum, Participant Inc., New York University, MANA Contemporary, Microscope Gallery, Bobby Redd Project Space (The Church), Millennium Film Workshop and others.
We use (or misuse?) film projectors {35mm, 16mm, Super 8mm, R8} + slide projectors (35mm & magic lantern), Overhead projectors, and video projection & cameras (hand-held, live recording & re-mixing), plus shadow play, liquid light, transparencies, gels, external lenses, loops, hand-processed & hand-painted celluloid, objects, foley, mirrors, mylar, contact mics, mobiles, synths, strings, percussion, samples, transistor radios, music boxes, toys, appliances, & mutable and myriad screen surfaces . . .
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2022.11.03 Wednesday 19:00-20:00
HMIA (Hunter Moving Image Alliance) presents Peggy Ahwesh
Moderated by Emiko Inoue and lele dai
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2022.10.30 Sunday 13:00-18:00
Pavilion People @ Columbus Park, Chinatown
“Laundry souvenir” by Lullady, Jin Mateo Kim, Minah Park, and Stonie Clark.
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2022.08.18 Thursday 20:00
Electropixel festival @ The Shift
https://www.411kent.org/shift
Electropixel festival proposes an evening of new music and experimental live cinema with Shift, in which curators Katherine Liberovskaya and Julien Ottavi asked different artist couples to propose a performance on the subject "Irrational Collective."
*Phill Niblock and Katherine Liberovskaya (live cinema and microtonal music)
*Hans Tammen and Dafna Naphtali (electronic music and voice)
*Jenny Pickett and Julien Ottavi (electronic music and live cinema)
*Gill Arno and lele dai (field recordings and live visuals and electronics)
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2022.08.17 20:00
Overflow Undertow @ The Shift
https://www.411kent.org/shift
Overflow Undertow series 1/1 : A variety show organized by lele dai
* KeiKo Uenishi
http://soundleak.org
Keiko Uenishi is a sound art-i-vist, socio/environ composer, and a core member of SHARE.nyc since 2001.
Uenishi is known for her works formed through experiments in restructuring and analyzing one's relationship
through aural memory/perceptions in sociological, cultural, and/or psychological contexts. She has been working
on a research project towards a doctoral degree at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. Her project, entitled
Partitions: Dividers, Connectors, Gray-zones, Neighbours in Aural Space, is an exploration of a “para-sphere”
where auditory stimuli sneak over other perceptions, while de-stabilizing relationships, memories, space
recognitions, and time.
* Sam Newsome: Soprano Saxophone and preparations
http://somenewmusic.com/
Sam Newsome is soprano saxophonist, improvisor and acoustic-sound conceptualist. His music explores expanding the sonic parameters of his instrument. Newsome calls his music sound-centered improvisation. His musical and sonic gamut includes tube extensions and hoses attached to his instrument, balloons, noise makers, hanging chimes, and many ignored sounds heard in everyday life.
* Lucie Vítková
https://www.vitkovalucie.com/
Lucie Vítková is composer, improviser and performer (accordion, hichiriki, harmonica, voice and tap dance) from the Czech Republic, living in New York, 2017 Herb Alpert Awards in Arts nominee in the category of Music. Their compositions focus on sonification (compositions based on abstract models derived from physical objects), while in their improvisation practice they explore characteristics of discrete spaces through the interaction between sound and movement. In the recent work, they are interested in the musical legacy of Morse Code and the social-political aspects of music and art in relation to everyday life.
* Many many girls: A decentralized collective of improvisers
* Bungey Colle & Banigold: A puppet-riddled, pastoral slog through the factory farms of one's own inner jealousy ft. performance artist and musician Bungey Colle (Dog, Climax Landers) & members of trash puppet group Banigold.
* Light Projections (solid, liquid, gas) by Bradley Eros, Genevieve HK
& Benji Santos
https://clockfaceorange.wixsite.com/lightshow
* Sound Installation by Jin Mateo Kim, Shauna Steinbach and Kimin Kim
( This one will be a small installation at the front room, will add more info later)
Jin Mateo Kim is an installation artist from South Korea and Singapore, now based in New York City. Drawing from their background as a traditional printmaker, their works explore fundamental intimacy of physical touch to traces that mark the contacts of intimacy.
Shauna Steinbach is a New York-based artist and current MFA student at Hunter College. Her work originates in the overlapping space of knowing and unknowing. Utilizing sculpture, sound and installation, Steinbach investigates and exposes invented constructs, often incorporating and subverting materials from the everyday. Working in the breach between two- and three-dimensional objects, her willfully ambiguous forms question and reframe systems of value.
Kimin Kim is a South Korean-born artist who mainly works with lens-based media. Kim utilizes mundane objects to explore the idea of personal existence in a social context by often putting himself physically in the center of the works. Kim is deeply interested in how the society that we live in has been built and functioned over the years based on the sum of individual human experiences. He earned B.F.A in Photography and Film from Virginia Commonwealth University and now a candidate for M.F.A in fine arts at Hunter CUNY.
* * Interactive musical accessories by Deadhouse
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2022.07.22 Friday 17:00-21.00
Center For Psychic Technology presents (ENTER) ac+ion @ The 3 Circles, Prospect Park
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2022.06.28 Tuesday 18:30 -
Subway Intervention - Delancey/ Essex F stop
$2.75 cover?!
Tamio Shiraishi (not present) , Aliya Ultan, Kevin Murray, lullady, Timothy Rusterholz aka Shi Heng Bi (not present), Bradley Eros, & Jamie Sweet.
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2022.06.10 Friday 21:00
The Tony Tuplips Show presents: The HA! That Never Happened!
Do you love your wife, do you miss Straw Pipes?
Have you heard that Straw Pipes is back?
Yes, to confirm the rumor, the post pandemic post Bushwick (*once undergroundly famous) almost punky always janky "Straw Pipes" is doing a very rare come back show this Friday June 10th at Rubulad with a bunch of friends, including Poncili Creación (from Puerto Rico), who make big puppets and will also have performances open at MOMA PS1 in August coming up... Stonie has been living in Puerto Rico learning Spanish and practicing hip dancing...I have been buried in books and theories becoming bitter and dry... Misha is back from Hawaii looking even hotter and Lulu is switching from drum to bass turning into a virtuoso.... yes a lot has happened to us in these two years....Tomorrow's SP will also have special guests (as usual) - Kate Mohanty and Cal Fish!
This show is organized by Tony Tulips (also from Puerto Rico), the lineup is insane:
Gabrielle LedetPoncili CreaciònDeadguyBen WassermanTony TulipsLorien
Rubulad address:389 Melrose Ave *9pm till late *
poster by Popa! *
Hold your tears
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2022.02.01 Tuesday 19:00
IRL gallery
80 Franklin St, Brooklyn, NY 11222
Invocation VIII Fred Lonberg-Holm/Lucie Vikková/(目)
Invocation is a series curated by Drew Wesely and Eli Wallace featuring durational musical performances paired with installation art works created specifically for each iteration. Musicians and artists work in close coordination to create an immersive environment in which all present become equal participants to the space in which they are enveloped.
here is a link of previous ones:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_oafpCBT5eHnEOG6blzntg/videos
I will not be performing alone (apologize for the poster still under the name lullady), but with two of my favorite collaborators, Jin Kim and the impossibleless Bradley Eros~ our new non-band no-name will be (目).
Fred Lonberg-Holm
Lucie Vikková
(目) ( Jin Kim, Bradley Eros, and me)
Here is some spoiler of what we are going to do:
*terraform
*metabolism
*all nothing are not equal.
* all silences are not the same.
"Silence . . . travels faster backwards." [1]
"The expression that there is nothing to express ~ with the obligation to express it." {2}
"I have nothing to say & I am saying it."(3)
"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent." <4>
[1] message on the underworld car radio from Jean Cocteau's film ORPHEUS
{2} Samuel Beckett
(3) John Cage
<4> Wittgenstein
To get ticket in advance:
https://ra.co/events/1494548
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