Please note: you must reserve your spot on-line! See below for details.
Experience Economies proudly announces Experience Economies #3: Evil Twin, featuring CHARACTER ANALYSIS #3 by David Levine.
David Levine lives and works in New York and Berlin, where he is the director of the Studio Program at the European College of Liberal Arts. Examining the conditions of spectacle and spectatorship across a range of media, his work has been seen at MoMA, Documenta XII, and the Watermill Center. His new durational performance HABIT will open at Mass MoCA Thurs, Feb 24 – Sun, Feb 27.
CHARACTER ANALYSIS #3 continues Levine’s exploration of acting technique as a mode of psychology, a kind of empiricism, and a science of empathy. What happens when a living, breathing, human being is approached as a character?
Experience Economies #3: Evil Twin
Monday, February 21, 8pm
At Spectacle, Boston
17 Edinboro Street #3 in Chinatown, Boston, near the Chinatown, Boylston, and Downtown Crossing T stations
A light dinner will be served
Voluntary donation of $5 suggested
Please note that this event is limited to 30 participants. Tickets will be available for reservation on a first-to-respond, first-served basis beginning Tuesday, February 15, at noon, at Brown Paper Tickets <http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/157787> (this link is not live until the sale begins).
Experience Economies is a nomadic social event series where cultural producers are audiences to each other’s spectacles. Not a lecture and not a party, the events incorporate performance, presentation, discussion, scheming, drinks and food. Experience Economies welcomes experimentation, works-in-progress, audiences that want their spectacles to mess with them and presenters who need a space to make that mess. Experience Economies is produced in Boston and Cambridge by Gavin Kroeber and Rebecca Uchill.
Special thanks to Spectacle and Brad Kelly for their contributions to this event.
Video Data Bank of Chicago has assembled a 75-minute video program composed of work by internationally recognized artists who have donated their work to raise money for Dara Greenwald, an artist and activist who is currently battling cancer. Please find detailed information on Dara below.
Thursday 27 January 2011
8pm @ Spectacle
17 Edinboro Street #3, Chinatown, Boston
http://spectacle.nu
$5-15 suggested donation
All proceeds will go directly to Dara and her partner Josh.
This program will be screened in cities across the country in the first part of 2011. For further information, please contact Caitlin Berrigan, email hidden; JavaScript is required.
Ben Coonley, One Trick Pony. Image courtesy Video Data Bank.
PROGRAM:
Pink Bloque
Dancing in the Street (excerpts) (Domestic Violence Awareness Month Rally October 2003)
Ben Coonley
One Trick Pony, 2002
Tara Matiek
Operation Invert, 2003
Caspar Stracke & Gabriela Monroy
Kuleshov Sukiyaki, 2004
Melinda Stone & Igor Vamos
Suggested Photo Spots, 1997
Jim Finn
Sharambaba, 1999
Jem Cohen
Little Flags, 2000
Paul Chan
Untitled Video on Lynne Stewart and Her Conviction, The Law and Poetry, 2006
Dara Greenwald with Ona Mirkinson
The Package, 2010
DARA GREENWALD:
Dara Greenwald is a 39-year old artist, activist, and curator living in Brooklyn who believes that art and other forms of expression can be a means toward a more equitable society. Through this work, she has met and befriended hundreds of people working in the creative and activist communities over the years, and is an important touchstone for many of them.
Dara’s recent projects include “Spectres of Liberty,” an ongoing public art project about the history of the movement to abolish slavery in the United States (www.spectresofliberty.com) and a curatorial project, “Signs of Change,” which displayed historic posters and video that related a history of social movements as experienced through visual culture and is now a book on AK Press.
Dara’s large community has coalesced around her and her partner, Josh, to help them get through this very difficult time. We are providing care for her including cooking, cleaning, laundry, and company. We are raising money so that she can pay her daily living expenses, medical expenses not covered by her insurance, and so that Josh can take some time off of work to be her full-time caretaker. The enthusiasm and dedication of her community is a testament to her generous spirit, her sense of humor, and how important she is to us as a friend, organizer, and fellow-artist.
Donate online at http://healdarag.org/donate-2/
January 22nd, 8pm
Gang Clan Mafia creates improvised, live sound. It is a sound collage, landscape, journey and conversation. Video, installation, and performance actions are used as a visual Transportation Pod.
Gang Clan Mafia is:
Vela (turntable,samplers, knobs, transmissions, video.)
mrdirky (found sound, constructed sound, mic, effects, video)
Wednesday, December 15
8:00pm – 11:30pm
Memorize the Sky is a collaboration between reedist Matt Bauder, bassist Zach Wallace and percussionist Aaron Siegel. The three met and began playing music together in Ann Arbor, Michigan during the late 1990’s. Since then, they have performed together, touring around the United States and Europe, crafting their own brand of acoustic improvised music.
Their new album, “Creeks,” was recorded in Brooklyn, NY during the winter of 2008, and documents the trio continuing to explore their unique blend of textural improvisation and drone-based song forms. This time, the ensemble extends their instrumentation to include electronic manipulation of sounds as well as a farther range of the woodwind and percussion families. These experimentations led to a recording colored by dense percussion textures and ghostly flute ruminations; splintering bells and melodic echo chambers.
MTS is informed by the diverse musical experiences of its members, including performances and recordings with rock bands His Name is Alive, Neil Michael Hagerty, Tara Jane O’Neil, Saturday Looks Good to Me, and Low, and avant garde luminaries Anthony Braxton, Jim O’Rourke, Tony Conrad and Alvin Lucier. MTS has also collaborated with the best of the Chicago, New York, and Boston improvised music communities including Fred Lonberg-Holm, Greg Davis, Josh Abrams, Ken Vandermark, Jim Baker, Jeb Bishop, Rob Mazurek, Greg Kelly, Sean Meehan, Phil Minton Jason Roebke and Scott Rosenberg. As a long-lived, deeply collaborative endeavor, MTS holds a special place among Bauder, Wallace and Siegel’s many musical projects.
For more information, please visit memorizethesky.com
Spectactle
Saturday, October 30th 2010
END OF AN EMPIRE PRESENTS:
BENOIT PIOULARD (Kranky / Type / Ghostly International / Moodgadget || Portland, Oregon)
Benoit Pioulard is Thomas Meluch, from Portland, Oregon.
Kranky released his first proper full length, the breathtaking “Precis” in 2006. This has been followed by “Temper”, his second full length for Kranky and a number of 7″ releases on labels like Type. He is touring in support of “Lasted”, his latest full length on Kranky.
As Benoit Pioulard, Meluch creates hazy, atmospheric and somewhat lo-fi folk recordings. .. Meluch’s voice is not washed out by ambience and is usually the central focus of his recordings. Meluch’s marriage of intricate pop music writing, ambience and a particular sonic aesthetic make him a unique artist.
The Wire -”A remarkably effortless cohabitation between bedroom electronics and wistful songwriting…Pioulard has a knack for
embedding subcutaneous melodies well below the minor-key guitar strum.”
Pitchfork – “Temper is an artistically consistent, tonally temperate record…woven
[from] strands of instrument and machine, pop and art, beauty and noise.”
http://www.myspace.com/pioulard
http://pioulard.com/
ANIMAL HOSPITAL
Animal Hospital is Kevin Micka’s one-man musical recording/performance entity.
During performances, Micka buries himself in a pile of electronics-shelves of effects, mixing consoles, amps and delay units-while patiently constructing a layered nest of loops consisting of live drum beats, guitar chords, scrapes, chucks, chimes, and melodies resulting in anything from more conventional songs to meticulously crafted ambient movements on to full on improvisation.
http://animalhospitalmusic.com/
http://www.myspace.com/animalhospital
October 31 (aka HALLOWEEN) 2010
End of an Empire and Whitehaus Family Record Present:
FABULOUS DIAMONDS (Siltbreeze, Chapter Music)
…PIGEONS (Soft Abuse, Olde English Spelling Bee)
MANY MANSIONS (Whitehaus Family Record)
INVISIBLE CIRCLE (Moon Dollar)
All Ages :: Suggested donations $8 for the bands
Doors at 7pm, show at 8pm
“Adorably known to friends and family in Australia as Jarrod and Nisa, THE FABULOUS DIAMONDS’ beguiling truck is a mesmerizing mix of synth, dub, and percussion, woven around honey-ache vocal stylings recalling (in spirit) past Aussie noisemakers Scattered Order or Makers Of The Dead Travel Fast, as well as those of Augustus Pablo, Young Marble Giants, and Suicide.”
“Pigeons is the psychedelic pop project of married couple Wednesday Knudsen and Clark Griffin. They met in Seattle and, while living there, were part of The Sea Donkeys — a shambling anti-folk collective of freaks which released an LP on the Sun City Girls Abduction label in 2005. Pigeons formed later that same year when Wednesday and Clark relocated to New York. After releasing a string of micro-run cassettes and lathe-cut vinyls that explored noise and free jazz modes they turned their energies towards writing structured songs.”
