[HvEXAS] EMPAC | Nicole Beutler | 03/30 + 04/01, 7 + 9 PM

 

Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. 2: Dialogue with Lucinda (left); 1: Songs (right) - photos by Anja Beutler PERFORMANCE Nicole Beutler / nb Thursday + Friday, March 31 + April 1, 7 + 9 PM $15/10/5 for a single performance Double feature tickets available for $20/15/10 Discover the dance and theater work of Amsterdam-based Nicole Beutler in two U.S. premieres. In one night, see two different shows! 2: Dialogue with Lucinda 7 PM Fascinated by the radical and deceptively simple minimalism of American choreographer Lucinda Childs' early work, Nicole Beutler has remade two of her silent dance pieces, Radial Courses (1976) and Interior Drama (1977), setting the latter to specially composed music. The underlying choreographic scores used by the dancers are fiendishly complex. Radial Courses is based on three movement sequences in a constantly shifting, circulatory composition. In Interior Drama, five dancers conform to an apparently perfect system, moving in repetitive and hallucinatory patterns. Beutler's reinterpretations focus on the individual dancer's roles and actions within the group patterns, revealing parallel realities and the ritualistic qualities of both dances. 1: Songs 9 PM A rock song-cycle solo performance that crosses rough terrain. Performer Sanja Mitrovic channels the final words of tragic female protagonists from the history of theater—allowing their timeless cries of suffering to enter her body and distinctly contemporary voice. As she shouts, speaks, and sings, she violently shifts between characters, at times fragile, raw, calculating, or emotional. 1: Songs asks us to reconsider the words of these classic literary figures in the here and now. Who is speaking? Where does the character end and the performer begin? Dinner, beer, and wine is available for purchase at Evelyn's Café from 6–9 PM. The café is open for drinks and snacks after 9 PM. » More Information SOON TALK + DINNER  Martin Kemp: Splashing Around in Art and Science from the Renaissance to Now Observer Effects: Conversations in Art & Science  Wednesday, April 6, 6 PM  FREE Martin Kemp, Leonardo da Vinci scholar and professor emeritus at Oxford University, will discuss deep structures that permeate the arts and sciences from the Renaissance to the present day. A limited number of complimentary light dinners will be served at 6 PM to enjoy as part of the talk. Beer, wine, and refreshments will also be available as part of our paid cafe service. » More Information SCREENING Cinematic Chimera: The Red Shoes Thursday, April 7, 7:30 PM $5 Based on a fairy tale about a young girl caught in an endless dance by a pair of magical shoes, the groundbreaking classic film follows a ballerina's struggle with dueling allegiances to love and career. » More Information ON VIEW EXHIBITION Christian Graupner: MindBox Thursday, March 3 – Saturday, April 2 Video Gallery Last week! Don't miss your chance to catch this installation. Using a modified one-armed bandit slot machine, the viewer plays this dance video sculpture like an instrument, controlling and remixing the grooves of its beatboxing man. » More Information EXHIBITION Graham Parker: The Confidence Man Monday, March 21 – Saturday, April 30 Mezzanine Parker's new film and audio work, made while in residence at EMPAC, explores manifestations of deception including hacked ATM machines, rogue WIFI networks, monologues drawn from spam emails, and a tribute to the 1973 film The Sting. » More Information + Both exhibitions are free and open to the public Monday through Saturday, noon to 6 PM. NEWS The DANCE MOViES Commission 2011-2012 proposal submission deadline is coming up fast! April 18 will be here before you know it, so submit your proposal on the DMC website soon. Join us again this week for another Eat Local Thursdays at EMPAC! Enjoy locally-sourced lunch from 11 AM to 2 PM in Evelyn's Café, and wander up to check out the ongoing exhibitions. The day's menu will be available Thursday morning via EMPAC's Twitter feed: @EMPACnews. NEWS TALK Harry Cobb: The Skyscraper as Citizen Tues. 04/05, 6 PM FREE Presented by Architecture Rensselaer PERFORMANCE PolyChoral Concert Wed. 04/06, 7 PM Concert Hall FREE Presented by the Rensselaer Arts Department Follow EMPAC on FACEBOOK + TWITTER! EMPAC 2010-2011 presentations, residencies, and commissions are supported by grants from 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 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Community Connections Fund of the MetLife Foundation, and the Boeing Company Charitable Trust), and the New York State Council for the Arts. Special thanks to the Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and Performing Arts for support of artist commissions. EMPAC Box Office: 518.276.3921 Plan your visit to EMPAC! Get directions, maps, parking info, and a visitors guide. Our mailing address is: EMPAC Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 110 8th Street Troy, NY 12180 Add us to your address book Copyright © 2011 EMPAC All rights reserved.

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[HvEXAS] Graham Parker | Part I: Deface the currency

 

Diogenes of Sinope (2011), Reprogrammed ATM machine

Graham Parker: The Confidence Man Part I of IV How to use an ATM When you see the Welcome screen insert and remove your card When prompted, input your PIN and press ENTER Press the button that corresponds to the service you require and follow the onscreen instructions Think about where your feet are The machine will attempt to connect and confirm your transaction Remove all cash and receipts from your transaction Confirm that you require no further services Deface the Currency After his expulsion from the provincial city of Sinope for defacing coins, a young Diogenes visited the Oracle at Delphi and asked what he should do to achieve renown. To his surprise the Oracle told him to "deface the currency". Diogenes the Cynic then made this his life's work - disturbing unquestioned methods of exchange and consistently pointing out things as they were, rather than as they should be. -- Graham Parker has long been interested in spectrality — the concealing of one set of operations behind the appearance of another. Most of the work in The Confidence Man is united by an interest in presenting objects that have the look or texture of something recognizable (a newspaper, a neon sign, an ATM, a documentary…) but which at second glance have crucial elements missing or distorted, so that our "confidence" in them is undermined. Visit Graham onsite March 21 – April 8, 2011 For the first three weeks of the exhibition, Parker will be working in the space from 12 – 6 PM Monday – Thursday, using the exhibition as a studio and making ongoing alterations to the installation. Parker will be available for conversations with the public on a drop-in basis if he is not otherwise engaged. To book or confirm a tour or conversation with the artist, please contact the EMPAC box office at 518.276.3921.

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[HvEXAS] EMPAC | Graham Parker: The Confidence Man

 

Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Graham Parker, The Confidence Man (2011) EXHIBITION Graham Parker: The Confidence Man Monday, March 21 – Saturday, April 30 Monday – Saturday, noon to 6 PM FREE For the first three weeks of the exhibition, Graham Parker will be working in the space for a few hours each day. He will be available for conversations with the public on a drop-in basis. Please join us this Thursday, March 24 from 11 AM to 2 PM for the first of EMPAC's informal art lunches! Come check out the two exhibitions, have a chat with Graham Parker, and then head to Evelyn's Café for lunch or a snack. The day's menu will be available that morning via EMPAC's Twitter feed: @EMPACnews. To book or confirm a tour or conversation with the artist, please contact the EMPAC box office @ 518.276.3921. New York-based artist Graham Parker's new film and audio work, made while in residence at EMPAC in spring 2010, is shown alongside a series of alterations to the building's environment that range from the theatrical to the virtually invisible. Parker has long been interested in spectrality—the concealing of one set of operations behind the appearance of another. His 2009 book Fair Use (Notes from Spam) explored spam emails as the latest manifestation of a longstanding mode of deception that has accompanied nearly all new developments in human transport and communication networks. The Confidence Man features work that has grown out of that research. » More Information 2: Dialogue with Lucinda (left); 1: Songs (right) - photos by Anja Beutler PERFORMANCE Nicole Beutler: 2: Dialogue with Lucinda + 1: Songs Thursday + Friday, March 31 + April 1, 7 + 9 PM $15/10/5 per performance Discounted general admission double feature tickets are available until Thursday, March 30 at 6 PM! The US premiere of two new works by Amsterdam-based choreographer and director Nicole Beutler - a double feature with dinner. 7 PM - 2: Dialogue with Lucinda - Fascinated by the radical and deceptively simple minimalism of American choreographer Lucinda Childs' early work, Nicole Beutler has remade two of her silent dance pieces. 9 PM - 1: Songs - An emotionally raw and seductive solo performance in the style of a rock song-cycle, which recasts the final words of tragic heroines (and anti-heroines) from theater history in the here and now. » More Information TALK + DINNER  Martin Kemp: Splashing Around in Art and Science from the Renaissance to Now Observer Effects: Conversations in Art & Science  Wednesday, April 6, 6 PM  FREE Martin Kemp, Leonardo da Vinci scholar and professor emeritus at Oxford University, will discuss deep structures that permeate the arts and sciences from the Renaissance to the present day. For all Observer Effects talks, dinner will be for sale in Evelyn's Café at 6 PM to enjoy as part of the event. Beer, wine, and refreshments will also be available as part of our cafe service. » More Information ON VIEW EXHIBITION Christian Graupner: MindBox Thursday, March 3 – Saturday, April 2 Using a modified one-armed bandit slot machine, the viewer plays this dance video sculpture like an instrument, controlling and remixing the grooves of its beatboxing man. Free and open to the public Monday through Saturday, noon to 6 PM. » More Information   NEWS TALK Peter Bohlin: Soft Modernism + The Nature of Circumstance Wed. 03/23, 6 PM FREE Presented by Architecture Rensselaer PERFORMANCE Upright Citizens Brigade with Rensselaer's Sheer Idiocy Fri. 03/25, 8 PM two free tickets with Rensselaer ID / $10 general admission Presented by UPAC Comedy + Sheer Idiocy (a Student Life Signature event) Follow EMPAC on FACEBOOK + TWITTER! EMPAC 2010-2011 presentations, residencies, and commissions are supported by grants from 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 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Community Connections Fund of the MetLife Foundation, and the Boeing Company Charitable Trust), and the New York State Council for the Arts. Special thanks to the Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and Performing Arts for support of artist commissions. EMPAC Box Office: 518.276.3921 Plan your visit to EMPAC! Get directions, maps, parking info, and a visitors guide. Our mailing address is: EMPAC Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 110 8th Street Troy, NY 12180 Add us to your address book Copyright © 2011 EMPAC All rights reserved.

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[HvEXAS] Lounge at Daisy Baker's w/Matt Brownell & Daniel Gutiérrez This Saturday

 

This Daisy's we're bringing up Brooklyn native's Matt Brownell & Daniel Gutiérrez. http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=186840238022311  Daniel Gutiérrez has been a DJ and record digger since he moved to NYC 8 years ago. As a young buck he studied piano and guitar before moving to NYC to study literature and electronic music. A chance meeting with Matt Brownell led to their joint radio show "The Get Slow Show" where both the cosmic and the funky are explored in equal measure.Daniel Gutiérrez now interns for the esteemed Environ Records label and experiments with synthesizers in his home studio in Bushwick, Brooklyn. You can listen to some of Daniel Gutiérrez selections here. The first is a downtempo 30 minute mix with 60s, 70s, and 80s stuff:  http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2645091/achilles%20mix.mp3 The second is the most recent Get Slow radio show that he did with Matt. It's over 2 hours long:http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2645091/The%20Get%20Slow%20Show-021011.mp3 Or for your instant aural pleasure you can listen to Matt at: http://soundcloud.com/djdj-matt-brownell/matt-brownell-sunday-gravy-guest-mix Joining them will be your residents for the night Lazer & Blazer; Lazer and Blazer are a team forged in the bowels of good music. They (Adam Littleboy & George Washburn respectively) have been friends for almost 15 years but only began djing together as Lazer and Blazer about three years ago. Separately they had been djing bedrooms and clubs for a few years prior. They quickly found that they made a good team, and the sound that they sought to bring to the area was a unique one. Locally, it seemed as though people started to agree and they began to get booked at various communions and bar mitzvahs. This ended up being such a good time that in 2009 they decided it was time to start throwing regular events in the Capital District. That's when they teamed up with Properly Chilled and together, began putting on nights as a DJ collective called Select Rhythms, keeping rugs cut ever since at places like Quintessence and Daisy Baker's. Their sound can simply be described as eclectic, and depending on the mood of the crowd it will vary, but always be prepared for lots of the boogie. In December 2010 Properly Chilled rode off on a unicorn to be seen from and heard from again, and now Lazer and Blazer are free to begin their lifelong dream of starting a freestyle polka company. This just in Castle Crasher' (Nicholas Steele & Kevin VanSlyke) will be helping us set the mood with a fine opening set. They did a great job the last time around so you know how this will go down. You can share with your friends here!! Help spread the word so we can keep our Troy dance nights alive. This Saturday March 19th There is a $5 dollar cover after 10pm, free before. Ages 18+

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