| |
|
OPENPORT:
Realtime Performance, Sound, & Language
www.openportchicago.com
Week Four: February 22-25
Each program: $12 ($10 students, seniors, unemployed)
Monday - Wednesday February 19-21
Exhibition: TNWK (UK) - Sheet of Paper
Thursday February 22
The Disappearance of Latitude:
Live Presence and Realtime in Contemporary Practices
A two-day symposium
Exhibition: TNWK (UK)
- Sheet of Paper *
Friday February 23
James Tierney (US) - an excerpt from The Local Memory (fiction)
John Cayley (UK) - imposition
*
Marie Cool & Fabio Balducci
(FR) - Untitled (Prayers) 1996-2004
The Disappearance of Latitude:
Live Presence and Realtime in Contemporary Practices
A two-day symposium
Exhibition: TNWK (UK) -
Sheet of Paper * Saturday
February 24
Marie Cool & Fabio Balducci (FR) - Untitled (Prayers) 1996-2004
John Cayley - imposition *
Alan Sondheim (US) - ski/nn
& Interior Avatar
Laetitia Sonami & Sue
Costabile (US) - The Appearance of Silence (The Invention of Perspective)
Fiona Wright (UK) -
On Lying (in a blue dress/early version) *
Exhibition: TNWK (UK) - Sheet
of Paper *
Sunday February 25
Alan Sondheim (US) - ski/nn & Interior Avatar
Laetitia Sonami &
Sue Costabile (US) - The Appearance of Silence (The Invention of
Perspective)
Fiona Wright (UK) - On
Lying (in a blue dress/early version) *
Litó Walkey (CAN)
and Boris Hauf (AUT) - instanded i turn
Exhibition: TNWK (UK) -
Sheet of Paper *
* Tyne Dogger artist
James Tierney (US) - an excerpt from The Local Memory
(fiction)
Friday,
February 23, 7:30pm
Tierney reads from his book The Local Memory, a work of fiction that
is best described as a "fictional essay." The reading will
be accompanied by images from contemporary art, as well as found images
and screen-captures from the internet.
James Tierney grew up in Louisiana, and has lived in many places in
the U.S. and abroad. In 2000, he was granted a MFA from Brown University,
where he was awarded the John Hawkes Memorial Prize in Fiction. He
has recently published fictions, critical essays, and a play in the
Golden Handcuffs Review. He wrote the catalog essay on Wilhelm Sasnal
for the Stedelijk Museum's 2006 Vincent Prize exhibition, and another
essay previewing the Chinati Foundation's 2006 Open House weekend
in Marfa, Texas. He has worked as a journalist and as an encoder for
artificially intelligent agents, and is based in Portland, Oregon.
Tyne
Dogger artist
John Cayley (UK) - imposition
Friday, February 23, 7:30pm
Saturday, February 24, 7:30pm
John Cayley uses computer programming
to experiment with time-based language poetics using self-devised
processes of ‘translation’ and ‘transliteration’
through which texts move between languages and states of legibility.
Audience members will be able to use networked laptops to track
and interpret the work as part of a live, interactive presentation.
imposition was developed in collaboration with Giles Perring (sound)
and Douglas Cape (digital photography).
John Cayley is a London-based poet, translator, publisher, and book
dealer. His last printed book of poems, adaptations, and translations
was Ink Bamboo (London: Agenda & Belew, 1996). Cayley was the
winner of the Electronic Literature Organization's Award for Poetry
2001. He is an Honorary Research Associate in the Department of
English, Royal Holloway College, University of London, and has taught
and directed research at the University of California San Diego
and Brown University, among other institutions. His most recent
work explores ambient poetics in programmable media, with parallel
theoretical interventions concerning the role of code in writing
and the temporal properties of textuality. www.shadoof.net/in
Marie Cool
& Fabio Balducci (FR) - Untitled (Prayers) 1996-2004
Friday, February 23, 7:30pm
Saturday, February 24, 2:00 pm
$10
Based in France, Marie Cool and Fabio Balducci have collaborated
since 1995 to great international acclaim. These selections from
their series of short (often two to three minute-long) performances
Untitled (Prayers) 1996-2004, are performed solo by Marie Cool,
who uses basic movements, objects, and materials to evoke both the
personal and universal. Without character or narration, this work
resists categorization as dance, theater, or performance.
Untitled (Prayers) 1996-2004 was commissioned by New Moves International
(Glasgow, Scotland), and co-produced by Marc Pérennès
and the South London Gallery and Belluard Bollwerk International
(Switzerland). Funded by Arts Council England with generous support
from the Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation.
Marie Cool and Fabio Balducci have been collaborating since 1995,
including a residency at Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Centre
d'Art Contemporain, Bignan in 1997, and two commissions: National
Review of Live Art, and New Territories, Glasgow.
Italian born Fabio Balducci attended the Academy of Music, Ancona,
Italy and School of Fine Art, Urbino, Italy. He studied with Ipotesi
Cinema at Film School with Ermanno Olmi, Bassano del Grappa, Italy.
From 1993-96 he was Assistant of the artist Pierpaolo Calzolari.
Since 1997 he has been Assistant to the artist Sophie Calle.
French born Marie Cool has danced with the choreographers Karine
Saporta, Sidonie Rochon, Paul Les Oiseaux, Nasser Martin-Gousset,
and Ami Garmon, among others. She was a dancer in the following
films: Prospero's book (Peter Greenaway 1990), La dernière
clef (Miriam Hooghe 1991), and Le Lieu du Combat (Pierre Coulibeuf
1996).
“The actions/images of Marie Cool and Fabio Balducci do not
narrate anything; they speak the truth. They hold themselves at
a remove from any sort of narration and oppose the temptation of
narrative with the stubborn presence of what it would be tempting
to link to autism and tautology. Which is why, to start, a description
may suffice by way of criticism. It suffices to say that Marie Cool
stands off to one side, coats her hands in pomade, picks up a handful
of salt, that she goes to the centre of the space, placing herself
in between two A4-size pieces of paper, stretches her arms out to
form a cross, palms facing the floor, and lets the salt fall on
the paper. That’s the action. But the description has to go
on: the salt – made invisible by the distance – makes
a sound like that of falling rain when it hits the sheets of paper.
That’s the image.” Laurent Goumarre
“The lightness and simplicity of their
pieces belies the forces that drive them and the high seriousness
of their ambitions… they are set to win a status among the
most important artists of the first half of the 21st century.”
– Contemporary magazine
In addition to their performance on Friday, February
23, Marie Cool and Fabio Balducci present an extended selection
from their series Untitled (Prayers) 1996-2004.
Alan
Sondheim (US) - ski/nn & Interior Avatar
Saturday, February 24, 7:30pm
Sunday, February 25, 7:30pm
NYC-based Sondheim presents two performances which reflect his cross-disciplinary
interests, which encompass writing, technology, theory, and reproductive
media. Sondheim’s laptop performances combine live writing
with video and sound projections, creating a multilayered work that
engages with philosophy, psychology, language, the body, and virtuality.
Alan Sondheim's books include the anthology Being on Line: Net Subjecti-
vity (Lusitania, 1996), Disorders of the Real (Station Hill, 1988),
.echo (alt-X digital arts, 2001), Vel (Blazevox 2004-5), Sophia
(Writers Forum, 2004), Orders of the Real (Writers Forum, 2005),
and The Wayward (Salt, 2004) as well as numerous other chapbooks,
ebooks, and articles. Sondheim co-moderates several pioneering email
lists, including Cybermind, Cyberculture, and Wryting. Since January
1994, he has been working on an "Internet Text," a continuous
meditation on philosophy, psychology, language, body, and virtuality.
He has held residencies at Nottingham-Trent University, England,
West Virginia University, and Grand Central Art Center in Santa
Ana. In 2001, Sondheim assembled a special issue of the American
Book Review on Codework, which was seminal in its genre. He is currently
working with the Swiss dancer/choreographer Foofwa d'Imobilite on
new work premiering across Europe. In 2006, he had a major exhibition
at Track 16 Gallery in Los Angeles. www.asondheim.org
Laetitia
Sonami & Sue Costabile (US) - The Appearance of Silence (The
Invention of Perspective)
Saturday, February 24, 7:30pm
Sunday, February 25, 7:30pm
Inspired by the gardens depicted in early Italian Renaissance paintings,
Sonami (live electronics) and Costabile (live video) use the context
of historical and new technologies to explore the shifting perspectives
between representation and abstraction, digital saturation and spatial
rendering. Laetitia and Sue have performed The Appearance of Silence
and their live film I.C.You in festivals in the United States, Canada,
and Europe.
Oringally from France, Laetitia Sonami is
an electronic composer, performer and sound installation artist
working in Oakland, CA. Her performance work combines text, music,
and found sound, in compositions which have been described as "performance
novels." Her interactive installations focus on embedding every
day objects with kinetic and sonic personalities. Best known for
her lady's glove, an evening black lycra glove studded with a myriad
of sensors, she is performing worldwide and is based in Oakland,
CA. www.sonami.net
Sue Costabile is a visual and performing artist based in the San
Francisco Bay Area. Her works challenge the norms of photography,
video, and technology by combining them all into an organic and
improvisational live performance setting. Employing a variety of
digital tools to create an experimental animation "instrument,"
she synthesizes cinema from photographs, drawings, watercolors,
hand-made papers, fabrics, and miniature interactive lighting effects.
Dark, moody, textural, abstract — her live films speak a similar
language as Stan Brakhage or the Lumodynamism of Nicolas Schöffer.
Performances in the USA, Europe, Japan, South America, and Canada
have found her collaborating with musicians such as Morton Subotnick,
Luc Ferrari, Laetitia Sonami, Antye Greie (AGF), and Joshua Kit
Clayton. www.sue-c.net
Tyne
Dogger artist
Fiona Wright (UK) - On Lying (in a blue dress/early version)
Saturday, February 24, 7:30pm
Sunday, February 25, 7:30pm
A new solo performance, live and direct, with a desire to tell it
like it is. A body is moved to confess or at least commit to making
it all up. We only have one body but how many ways does it tell
its story? In a life story that won’t hold together, it takes
its best parts from other people’s biographies and might have
nothing to do with “finding oneself” after all. Wright’s
one-woman performance is something like she imagines writing a blog
would be if she could only bear the thought of turning up in so
many other people’s lives at once.
Fiona Wright, based in Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK, is best known for
her many solo performances over sixteen years of a highly individual
practice. Stylized and functional choreography combines with a personalized
vein of writing. Her recent work has included salt drawing (Serralves,
Oporto 2004; Navigate/Baltic, 2005; Gresol Art, Girona 2006), a
five-minute performance for one person at a time, opening up questions
of intimacy and embodiment for audience viewing. Her duet collaboration
this two with Caroline Bowditch as girl jonah was presented at Dance
Umbrella Festival, London in October 2006. Wright is supported by
Arts Council of England.
Litó
Walkey (CAN) and Boris Hauf (AUT) - instanded i turn
Broadcasting through the web from Berlin, Walkey and Hauf present
a “concert of reconstructions”, in response to Samuel
Beckett’s Film, the paintings of Michael Borremans, storytelling,
and country music.
CREDITS: Music: original recording by Jeb Bishop & Boris Hauf,
arranged by Boris Hauf. Texas Cooking by Guy Clark. Story by Gamble
Rogers from the film Heartworn Highways (dir. James Szalapski).
Canadian born, Berlin-based Litó Walkey studied at the School
for New Dance Development in Amsterdam, and has worked with Paz
Rojo, Vera Mantero, and Sabina Holzer, among others. In 2002 she
joined the Chicago-based performance company Goat Island with whom
she continues to create and perform works. In 2005, as Artistic
Associate at Links Hall, she curated the month-long festival a drop
of water: Dance from Europe. She has toured her solo wings raised
to a second power in Europe and America. Litó recently premiered
The Missing Dance No.7, a trio with Boris Hauf and Katja Dreyer,
and a new collaboration with inside-pianist Andrea Neumann. lito.klingt.org
Boris Hauf, of London, UK is the founder of efzeg, co-founder of
Berlin-based the understated brown and often plays with the Chicago-based
bands tvpow and Lozenge. He has more than 20 releases on CD, DVD,
Vinyl, VHS and has played concerts and tours as a solo artist and
ensemble member throughout Europe, North Africa, Latin America,
and the USA. International festivals, radio & TV stations, film
directors, ensembles, soloists, performers, and theaters have commissioned
compositions from Hauf, who studied saxophone, flute, philosophy,
cello, music, and media technology in Austria, the UK, and France,
and has received international grants and prizes. He has held lectures
at the Art Institute of Chicago and at schools in Vienna. http://hauf.klingt.org/
|
|
|
