OCTOBER 22, 2009, 7PM
Amanda Curreri & Erik Scollon, o.blaat (Keiko Uenishi),
Sal Randolph
Amanda Curreri and Erik Scollon
Presenting Color&Color #0
Color&Color is an artist-curated publication guided by the duality of two thematic colors per issue. The premier issue, Color&Color #0, features Orange & Blue with work by the following artists: Deric Carner, Amanda Curreri, Renee Gertler, Jason Hanasik, Sam Lopes, Celia Manley, Jeremy Chase Sanders, Erik Scollon, Skye Thorstenson, and Christine Wong Yap.
Color&Color was conceived as a mobile venue in which to present new work of artists we respect and with whom we want to work. We hope that with each issue the publication can connect artists with new audiences and expanded dialogue. Not wanting to rely solely on traditional venues like galleries and museums, Color&Color presents artwork via the serial print medium. This opens up access to new spatial-temporal configurations for the work. The publication is available both in printed and digital format. Proceeds from sales go directly to future issues of Color&Color. Color&Color is co-curated and co-produced by Amanda Curreri and Erik Scollon.
www.colorandcolor.blogspot.com
www.amandacurreri.com
www.erikscollon.net
o.blaat (Keiko Uenishi)
Sound Event
In Sound Event, the first word, "Sound" swings roughly between two of its many uses in "an experiment through the course of an event":
1: (as noun,) the sensation produced by stimulation of the organs of hearing by vibrations transmitted through the air or other medium.
2: (as adjective,) following in a systematic pattern without any apparent defect in logic—as in sound reasoning.
It is also an attempt to observe the certain swing/shift between a thing "signified" and "signifying" and perhaps the process of accumulation of desire.
o.blaat (Keiko Uenishi), 2009
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Based in Brooklyn, New York, sound artivist, social composer, and a core member of SHARE (http://share.dj), o.blaat (Keiko Uenishi) is known for her works formed through experiments in restructuring and analyzing one's relationship with sounds in sociological, cultural, and/or psychological environments.
Her installations include: "Aboard: Fillip2" for "six sites for sound" exhibitions in London, UK (2005), "J'ai un secret merveilleux: Midas" for City Sonic Festival 2006, Mons, Belgium. To explore in the field
of aural perceptions, o.blaat created "Car décalé (légèrement)", a series of feedback performance work.
Most recently, o.blaat installed 'SOUNDLEAK: TheROOM' at Medien Kultur Haus, Wels, Austria, as a part of "What You Really Need" series curated by MKH, funded by Linz 2009 Kulturhauptstadt Europas.
'TheROOM' is a simulation of neighbours. On appearance, it is a physical structure, yet, it is precisely aiming at the "overlaps" of aural space constantly forming around the structure. More in German text here.
Uenishi also has an on-going open project "Broadway Dreams" (collaborative 'blink media documentation' on local businesses and sidewalks, utilizing web 2.0), featured in Conflux Festival 2008, NYC, and a participatory composition "Border Game" for Paivascapes festival at a border of Spain and Portugal in autumn 2010.
o.blaat performed and/or presented works in various locations worldwide including: Whitney Museum of Art, NYC; P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Museum, DIA:Beacon, Cornell University, NY; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA; MIT, Boston, MA; MUTEK festival, Montreal, Canada; ClubTransmediale, Berlin, Germany; Ultrahang festival, Budapest, Hungary; Netmage festival and Interferenze Festival in Italy; City Sonic festival in Belgium; Medien Kultur Haus in Wels, Vienna Konzerthaus and Alte-Schmiede in Vienna, Austria; Skolska28 Gallery, Institut Intermedii, and National Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic; ICA London, Tate Britain and Fortescue Avenue Gallery in UK.
o.blaat has collaborated with numerous artists including: Toshio Kajiwara, Ikue Mori, Kaffe Matthews, Marina Rosenfeld, Miguel Frasconi, Ricardo Arias, Klaus Filip, Noid, Takehisa Kosugi, Steinbrüchel, DJ Olive, Eyvind Kang, Sachiko M, Tetsuji Akiyama, Aki Onda, Adriana Sã, John Klima, Anthony Coleman, 242.pilots, Nobukazu Takemura, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, among others.
http://myspace.com/oblaat
http://soundleak.org
http://facebook.com/oblaaat
Sal Randolph
Language Drawings
The artist will read from a series of new language "drawings" - texts made with a manual typewriter on long rolls of paper. As a kind of spontaneous "drawing practice" the words on these scrolls are free to follow one another according to an evolving set of principles including sound, shape, semantics, syntax, repetition, punning, play and association. ÝConceptual structures appear and disappear. Narrative and rhetorical argument are avoided and fragmented. These are intended to be texts without result, the residue of a practice that takes place unobserved: daily, meditative, noninstrumental. Read out loud they become an experiment in ambient language, a field of senses and sounds that slip in and out of consciousness, alternately instigating and interrupting trains of thought.
Sal Randolph lives in New York and makes art involving
internet-mediated gift economies, social architectures and one-on-one
interactions. She is the founder of Opsound, an open sound exchange of
copyleft music (opsound.org). Other projects include The Free Biennial
(freebiennial.org) and Free Manifesta (freemanifesta.org) which
brought together several hundred artists in open shows of free art in
the public spaces of New York and Frankfurt am Main, Germany, as well
as Free Words (freewords.org) in which 3000 copies of a free book have
been infiltrated into bookstores and libraries worldwide by a network
of volunteers. Her newest work involves text, algorithms,
instructions, and publishing. Ý
http://salrandolph.com