Monday, December 14, 2009

[HvEXAS] EMPAC | Rensselaer Holiday Concert | Tuesday December 15, 7 PM

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The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center
(EMPAC) @ Rensselaer Polytechnic Institutue
http://www.empac.rpi.edu/

PERFORMANCE
Rensselaer Holiday Concert
Antioch Chamber Ensemble
Tuesday December 15th, 7 PM
$10 general admission
2 free tickets with Rensselaer ID

Celebrate the season at a holiday concert with a program performed by
the Antioch Chamber Ensemble that ranges from "Ceremony of Carols" by
Benjamin Britten to "Hebrew Love Songs" by Eric Whitacre (among other
festive music of the season). Rensselaer invites you to be a part of
establishing a new tradition on campus co-presented by EMPAC and
Student Life.

- More Information: http://www.empac.rpi.edu/events/2009/fall/holiday/index.html

+ ONGOING EXHIBITIONS

Last chance to see these! Don't miss out.

Mads Lynnerup: Take a Day for Yourself!
Mezzanine through December 16

The genre-crossing Danish artist mounts a whimsical yet searching
investigation of the everyday, incorporating video, posters, and
ordinary people from the Troy and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
communities.

- More Information: http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2009/fall/lynnerup/

Sophie Kahn & Lisa Parra: Body/Traces
Level 4 through December 16

Illuminating the physical presence and disappearance of the body, this
work addresses the questions: What happens to the body in motion when
it becomes a still image? And what becomes of that image when it is
returned to the moving body whence it came?

- More Information: http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2009/fall/dmc_premiere/

All Exhibitions open Monday - Saturday, noon - 6 PM
Free + Open to the Public

+ NEWS

Following the Rensselaer Holiday Concert and the installations closing
on Wednesday December 16 at 6 PM, EMPAC will go dark for a few weeks.
However, we will be right back in January to announce everything
happening during the Winter / Spring of 2010. Given that it is the
holiday season, though, it cannot hurt to give you a taste of what to
expect (mark your calendar!):

Jeremy Wade: there is no end to more
Thursday January 28 + Friday January 29
In a bold and violent juxtaposition of movement, text, animation and
video of manga (Japanese comics) drawing, choreographer Jeremy Wade
takes a playful and cynical look at Japanese kawaii (cute) culture,
exploring its ubiquitous influence on the world today.

Wayne McGregor | Random Dance: Entity
Friday February 26 + Saturday February 27
Entity, by Wayne McGregor/Random Dance, is a breathtaking performance
blending video on three screens, highly-charged dancing and a
soundscape created by Coldplay and Massive Attack collaborator, Jon
Hopkins, and award-winning composer Joby Talbot.

Dancing on the Ceiling: Art and Zero Gravity
Thursday March 18 – Saturday April 10
In this exhibition, performance, film and lecture series, contemporary
artists use a variety of strategies including parabolic flight,
helium, rigging, digital special effects and other tricks of the eye
to explore the experience of weightlessness on earth.

The OpenEnded Group: UPENDING
with music by Morton Feldman played by NYC-based FLUX Quartet
An EMPAC Commissioned Project
Friday March 26 - Sunday March 28
After two years and many many months spent in-residence at EMPAC, The
OpenEnded Group premieres their new work UPENDING. This is an evening
length work that combines breathtaking 3D computer animation with a
new gutsy EMPAC-produced recording of Morton Feldman's first string
quartet by NYC-based FLUX Quartet. We've never seen anything quite
like this - come experience for yourself.

Music of Helmut Lachenmann
SIGNAL + JACK Quartet with Brad Lubman, Conductor
Helmut Lachenmann, Soloist
Saturday March 27
Brad Lubman's SIGNAL and the intrepid JACK Quartet perform a concert
of Helmut Lachenmann's music under the guidance of the composer. Don't
miss this rare US performance of one of the most influential living
European composers - an exploded musical language of risky,
nearly-electronic instrumental sounds recombined into elaborate,
intricate works that EMPAC's Concert Hall was built to articulate.

onedotzero
Friday April 30 - Sunday May 2
The second annual onedotzero_adventures in motion festival comes back
to EMPAC with an explosive showcase of internationally curated moving
image. Featuring ground-breaking short film screenings, playful
installations, spectacular live performances, feature length films,
vj/dj events and more.

+ EMPAC on Facebook + Twitter

You've already attended an event at EMPAC. Great! Can't wait to see
you again. And you've read about EMPAC's residencies and commissioning
programs. We hope you're as excited about them as we are!

Now, you're looking for more ways to be part of the EMPAC community.
You've got it: Keep up on EMPAC events, information and conversation
by joining the EMPAC Facebook group and by following us on Twitter. On
Facebook, you'll find member-posted photos and videos, and be able to
join in the discussion of all things EMPAC. On Twitter, you'll get our
lastest last minute event info reminders, and maybe even a few
surprises! Stop by soon.

- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Troy-NY/Experimental-Media-and-Performing-Arts-Center-EMPAC/65599049452?ref=ts
- Twitter: http://twitter.com/EMPACnews

EMPAC 2009-2010 presentations, residencies and commissions are
supported by grants from the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation in
partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts' Regional Touring
Program, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Dance
Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts (with lead funding
from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; additional funding provided
by the Ford Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the
Community Connections Fund of the MetLife Foundation) and the New York
State Council for the Arts. Special thanks to the The Jaffe Fund for
Experimental Media and Performing Arts for support for artist
commissions.

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518.276.3921

Our mailing address is:
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Troy, NY 12180

Copyright © 2009 EMPAC @ Rensselaer
All rights reserved.


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