Links Hall: Performance

jUStin!katKO (US) - fleSh photo by Camille PB

Jillian Peña (US) - The Promised Land
Friday, February 2, 7:30pm
Sunday, February 4, 7:30pm

Filled with hope, The Promised Land is a dance piece about love, desire, restlessness, and ambition. Expressions escape the body in forms such as ecstatic dancing, meditation, sex, and emotions. The dance responds to the anxiety felt somewhere between expectation and failure. This performance was created while in residence at The Kitchen's Dance and Process program (NYC).

Chicagoan Jillian Peña, a video maker, dancer, improviser, negotiator, and writer, has performed at NYC venues The Kitchen, Dixon Place, Chez Bushwick, The Chocolate Factory, and Aunts; and Chicago venues Reeling, Version 06, and Around the Coyote. She has performed in works by Ann Liv Young, Eleanor Bauer, Beth Gill, John Jasperse, Miguel Gutierrez, Tere O'Connor, and Josh Mannis. She is a Jack Kent Cooke Graduate Scholar 2003-2010; MFA Graduate Scholar, School of the Art Institute of Chicago 2006; and Bessie Schoenberg Scholar, American Dance Festival 2002-2004. Peña is founder of The Sincerity Society and a member of the band Slow Dance. www.jillianpena.com

Loss Pequeño Glazier (US) - Bromeliasas
Friday, February 2, 7:30pm

Bromeliasas is computer-selected rendering of text and images extracted from poetry databases. Rooted in an experimental literary sensibility, Glazier’s digital poetry also engages with sound, photography, and video to explore new possibilities for time-mediated and web-based digital art. These collections of poems center on themes of ecology, Latin American landscapes, time, presence, and the unifying, delicate, but tangible thread of language—including Spanish as it manifests in the Americas.

Buffalo (NY) based Loss Pequeño Glazier is a poet, professor of Media Study, and Founder and Director of the Electronic Poetry Center, the world's most extensive Web-based digital poetry resource, housed in the Department of Media Study, State University of New York in Buffalo. He is the author of the digitally informed poetry collection /Anatman, Pumpkin Seed, Algorithm/ (Salt Publishing, 2003), several other books of poetry, and the award-winning /Digital Poetics: The Making of E-Poetries/ (Univ. of Alabama Press, 2002). Recent performances of Baila, his digital poem for dancers, have occurred in London and Buffalo. He is the author of acclaimed digital works such as Io Sono At Swoons, White-Faced Bromeliads on 20 Hectares, Mouseover, Viz Études, and his work-in-progress, Territorio Libre. He is organizer and director of E-Poetry: An International Digital Poetry Festival, the first and one of the most celebrated digital poetry series in the field. His work has been shown at various museums and galleries, including the Kulturforum, Berlin, the Royal Festival Hall, London, and the Guggenheim New York, and he has lectured and performed throughout the U.S. and in London, Paris, Berlin, Norway, Spain, Mexico, Cuba, Canada, and other countries. www.epc.buffalo.edu/authors/glazier

Brian O’ Reilly (US) - Weather Mechanics
Friday, February 2, 7:30pm

Weather Mechanics connects sound to moving image; the work is constructed by analog video signals generated with a Phil Morton Sandin Image Processor. In this piece, projected images bleed onto one another, intersecting and blurring their lines like layered, waterlogged paper.

Currently working as an Artist in Residence at ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany, Brian O'Reilly is the creator of various works for sound, moving images, multi media assemblage/installation, and is a double bassist, focusing on the integration of electronics and extended playing techniques. He attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago on a merit scholarship for sculpture, where he completed a BFA in 1997. In 1998, he moved to Paris, France to study the composition techniques of the Greek composer and architect Iannis Xenakis, during which time he worked extensively with Xenakis' electronic music system utilizing the graphic sonic synthesis UPIC. He later became the studio's Musical Assistant, working with Luc Ferrari on his audio and video installation Cycle Des Souvenir, and Eliane Radigue on her electroacoustic work L'Ile Re-sonante. He completed his graduate degree in Media Arts and Technology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Recent projects include Point Line Cloud with Curtis Roads, the ZKM commissioned spectral viola with Garth Knox, the Difficulty of Being for double bass and electronics with Zbigniew Karkowski, reconditioning a Phil Morton Sandin Image Processor with Steina and Woody Vasulka, and the solo DVD arboreal inde, utilizing the untapped potentials of the DVD specification.

Brian O’ Reilly (US) - Octal Hatch and scan Processor Studies (two performances)
Saturday, February 3, 7:30pm

Octal Hatch, a collection of miniature abstract audio and video portraits of Greek composer Iannis Xenakis; Scan Processor Studies, developed in collaboration with Woody Vasulka, and including improvisations with experimental sound composer Robb Drinkwater. See Friday, February 2 for bio.

jUStin!katKO (US) - fleSh
Saturday, February 3, 7:30pm
Sunday, February 4, 7:30pm

fleSh is a music-video-talk performance that works with a generative principle derived from a study of songs on the first disc of Queen's Greatest Hits. The performance consists of two parts: 1) a hack of the source; 2) what Fallujah learned about White Phosphorous in November 2004; and an epilogue, The Ants, Sir, that will be underscored by a momentary sound mix of Chicago FM radio.

jUStin!katKO is an intermedia writer and publisher in Oxford, OH. He has collaborated on videos and text with Keith Tuma and collaborates with Camille PB under the collective alias Coupons-Coupons. He co-operates Meshworks: the Miami University Archive of Writing in Performance, co-edits On Company Time with Keston Sutherland, and edits the poetry journal Plantarchy. www.muohio.edu/meshworks; www.oncompanytime.biz; www.couponscoupons.blogspot.com; www.plantarchy.us;www.justin-katko.tk

Michael Graeve (AUS) - Simple Methods
Saturday, February 3, 7:30pm

Graeve works with old domestic and schoolroom record players and loudspeakers, reveling in the volatile and unpredictable nature of the equipment. Rich tones, textures, and rhythms fall together and fall apart, evidencing simple interactions between machine process and human gesture, with the limitations of the technology producing complex results.

Michael Graeve is an Australian artist living in Chicago. He works in easel painting, painting and sound installation, and sound performance and composition. He has exhibited, performed, and published extensively. Recent residencies and awards include Tonspur Residency Vienna (2007), School of the Art Institute of Chicago Trustee Scholarship (2005-07), Samstag International Traveling Scholarship (2005), International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP), and Residency New York (2005). He has been involved in artist-run galleries as founding committee member of Grey Area Art Space Inc (1996-1999), and Program Manager at West Space Inc (2002-2004). Graeve is currently completing a MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Previous degrees include MA Media Arts (2004), BA Media Arts (1999), and BA Fine Art (1995). He has held 15 solo exhibitions at venues in Australia and Chicago. Group exhibitions include Sonambiente Berlin 2006 and Your Sky (Gigantic Art Space New York), 2004 Australian Culture Now (National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne), and Primavera (Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney).

Loss Pequeño Glazier (US) - Io Sono At Swoons
Sunday, February 4, 7:30pm

Following his presentation on Friday February 2, Glazier presents a different work, which electronically converts text from a database of linguistic stems and words to generate sound and poetry. Along with English, fragments of multiple languages are interwoven to produce a unique fabric of sounds, sometimes humorous, often surprising in tone, density, and color.