LMAKseries

LMAKseries: Monday, June 20th, 2011

Thu, 19 May 2011 16:29:00 -0400

LMAKseries: Screening event
Monday, June 20th - 7:30 pm
Location: 139 Eldridge Street at Delancey, NYC
Suggested donation: $7

LMAKprojects is pleased to announce the last LMAKseries of the season. The series furthers LMAKproject’s aim to integrate experimental media and methods of time based art practice into the gallery’s mission and its vision of the contemporary landscape. For this one, LMAKseries will present 8mm / 16mm film, sometimes transferred to DVD, which focuses on different approaches to media and narrative.

Featuring: Ephraim Asili, David Baker, Bradley Eros, Lorenzo Gattorna, Marie Losier, F.P. Boué, Jenny Perlin, and Fern Silva.

Program:

Jenny Perlin: Inaudible, 2min / Notes, 3.20min / Storage, 5min
F.P. Boué: U.N.Y, 4:50min
Bradly Eros: Crystal Apparition, 9:00min
David Baker: Blacks on Blondes, 8:02min

Intermission: 15:00min

Marie Losier: Cet Air La, 3:00min
Lorenzo Gattorna: Land of Lost Content, 8:00min
Ephraim Asili: Forged Ways, 15:00min
Fern Silva: In the Absence of Light, Darkness Prevails, 13:00min

Doors will open at 7:30pm and visitors will be welcomed with some refreshments. The show will start at 8PM sharp and the program will consist of two parts with a 15’ intermission. Q&A with the filmmakers will follow immediately after the screening is over and it will be moderated by Louky Keijsers Koning and Richard Garet.

NOTE: seating is limited and it will be available on a first come first served basis.

LMAKseries is curated by Louky Keijsers Koning, Richard Garet and in consultation with Berlin based artist Andy Graydon.

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Bio-Film
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Jenny Perlin is an artist who lives in Brooklyn, NY. Her practice in 16mm film, video and drawing incorporates innovative stylistic techniques in an effort to work with and against documentary traditions.

Inaudible, Notes, and Storage are part of the Perlin Papers series, a cycle of eight short films (2011):

The Perlin Papers is a series of eight films that treat issues of domestic espionage during the Cold War period in 1950s U.S. The Perlin Papers itself is a real archive of 250,000 pages located at Columbia University Law School. The archive contains many of the FBI documents related to the case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, U.S. citizens who were tried and executed in 1953 for allegedly spying for the Soviet Union. For two decades after the execution, the FBI tracked hundreds of people tangentially connected to the case. The Perlin Papers films focus on overlooked and seemingly unimportant documents as a way of unpacking history and connecting it to the present.

Inaudible
2 min
16mm
2006-10

Inaudible is a text-based animated film that makes visible all the words that the FBI could not hear or imagined were being spoken in another film from the series entitled Transcript. Most of the discussion, which is inaudible, is dutifully transcribed, as the word comes up again and again on screen.

Notes
3.20 min
16mm
2006

Harry Gold, codename “GOOSE,” was convicted in 1951 for passing secrets of the atom bomb from physicist and spy Klaus Fuchs to Soviet agents. The animations in this film are copies of Gold’s absentminded drawings, scribbled over drafts of his resume and cover letter to the Atlantic Refining Company, Personnel Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1948.

Storage
5 min
16mm
2008

A large bright yellow building announcing itself as STORAGE: PRIVATE ROOMS: BROTHERS STORAGE dominates the frame and inspires speculation.
Music: Piano Sonata by Aaron Copland (Movement II, Vivace), performed by Raymond Clarke.
Special thanks to Adam Marks.

All films courtesy the artist, Annet Gelink Gallery Amsterdam and Galerie M+R Fricke Berlin.

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F.P. Boué was born in Marburg, Germany and studied linguistics, the history of art, architecture and film in London and Paris. He lives and works in New York and has been showing three-dimensional works involving architecture, landscape and urban situations since 1981. His work has been exhibited at Galleria Luigi Deambrogi, Milan; Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, Galerie Corinne Hummel, Basel; Centro Galileo, Madrid; Markus Winter, Berlin; and Participant, Inc. New York. He began showing films in 1999. His films have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Kunstmuseum, Bern; Shedhalle Zürich; Künstlerhaus, Stuttgart; Anthology Film Archives, New York; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; New Museum, New York; and Tate Modern, London.

U.N.Y.
4:50 min
8 mm film
2010-2011

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Bradley Eros is an artist working in myriad media: experimental film & video, collage, photography, performance, sound, text, expanded cinema & installation. Also a maverick curator, designer, researcher & investigator. Concepts include: ephemeral cinema, mediamystics, subterranean science, erotic psyche, cinema povera, poetic accidents and musique plastique. Exhibited at 2004 Whitney Biennial & The American Century, MoMA, PS1,The New York, London & Rotterdam Film Festivals, Performa09, Exit Art, The Kitchen, Millennium, Ocularis, Light Industry, Issue Project Room, Microscope Gallery, Participant Inc, Cabinet, ABC No Rio, White Box, The New York Underground Film Festival, Migrating Forms, Warhol Museum, Pacific Film Archives, SF Cinematheque, No.w.here in London, Lightcone in Paris, Arsenal in Berlin, Image Forum in Tokyo; Collaborated with the Alchemical Theater, the band Circle X, kinoSonik expanded cinema group, Voom HD Lab, and currently Optipus (film group); Worked for many years with the New York Filmmakers’ Cooperative, Anthology Film Archives, & co-directed the Roberta Beck Mercurial Cinema.

Crystal Apparition
9 min
Hybrid 16mm film & video / dual projection
2011

Description: This specific version, ABCD (Apparition Becoming Crystallized Decay) for LMAK, is an experiment exploring two types of accidental film decay, multiplied by two methods of transfer or reproduction. The first is caused by heat, that is, celluloid melting in the projector gate while continuing to advance, transferred from 35mm film to VHS then to DVD. The second is caused by moisture, that is, water-soaked color emulsion, optically step-printed from super-8 to 16mm film. These analog-to-analog & analog-to-digital translations are made from appropriated materials that magnify & transform chance operations. They will be projected (on video & film) separately and in layered combination, in a process both revealing & obscuring their unique textures & properties. The sound is a self-made digital recording of various analog/mechanical film projectors that are damaged or failing, somehow mirroring aspects of the visual decay or destruction captured & revitalized.

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David Baker is a painter, writer and filmmaker. He has exhibited his paintings at the Tony Shafrazi, Annina Nosei, Tibor de Nagy, John Good and Postmasters galleries in NYC as well as in Tampa, FL and at the S.L. Simpson Gallery in Toronto. A catalog of a show entitled “Avatars of the Tortoise” was published by the University of South Florida with an essay by Jerry Saltz. Baker’s paintings have been written about in Artforum, Arts Magazine and the New York Times. Baker has written articles for Detour Magazine on Jack Smith and Willem De Kooning’s late paintings. Baker’s films and videos have been shown in two “Personal Cinema” programs at the Millennium Film Workshop in New York City (2008, 2010). He has also shown his work in Lorenzo Gattorna and Peter Buntaine’s curatorial project “The Experiment” at Maysles Cinema in Harlem . Baker showed “Ten Tha” in the 2009 Migrating Forms Film Festival as part of “Void For Film”, a seven hour screening of imageless cinema. On Jan. 3, 2010, Baker’s film “A Secret Location On Seventh Avenue” was part of Brian McCarthy’s program “The Lure Of Space,Part 1″. at Union Docs. Baker participated in Bradley Eros’s E.P.I.C. (Extreme Private Intimate Cinema) program during the 2010 Migrating Forms Festival. Three of his digital films were shown at the 2010 Milwaukee Underground Film Festival: “The Subterraneans”, “Ab Ovo”, and “Sotto Voce”. In November of 2010 he was part of a program called “New Forms In Moving Picture Art” at Microscope Gallery in Bushwick, Brooklyn NY along with Ken Jacobs, Richard Garet, Nisi Jacobs and Michael Schumacher. From Feb.13-27, 2011 Baker was included in a group exhibition entitled “What Tornado” also at Microscope Gallery. In April of 2011 Baker’s digital film “What Was Was”,a collaboration with composer Florian Wittenburg was shown at Theater Kikker in Utrecht,Netherlands and as part of the Clang Collective’s presentation at the Arnhems Muziek Platform also in the Netherlands.”What Was Was”was included in “Near and Dear:An Album Of Experimental Film and Video” at Union Docs on May 7. Also in May Baker participated in the 2011 Milwaukee Underground Film Festival with “The Optic Melon” and “What Was Was”.

Blacks on Blondes
8:02 min
8mm rephotographed on MiniDV
2010

Far gone tomatoes in a fantastical calligraphic gravy. Outrageous rude arias inhabiting some distant poetic plane in a semi-whisper of stolen asynchronous sound. Smoke and mirrors giving substance to the ethereal.”Time perceived in the length of a song, the persistence of a scent, the flash of a lightbulb.”

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Marie Losier was born in France in 1972, and now lives in New York City where she is a filmmaker and curator. She has made a number of film portraits on avant-garde directors, musicians and composers such as Mike and George Kuchar, Guy Maddin, Richard Foreman, Tony Conrad and Genesis P-Orridge. Whimsical, poetic, dreamlike and unconventional, her films explore the life and work of these artists. Her films and videos have screened at museums, galleries, biennials and festivals around the world. Her newest project and first feature film is a portrait of pioneering musician-artist Genesis Breyer P-Orridge of Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV and his partner Lady Jaye, which had selections featured at an event at The Centre George Pompidou. She has also been exhibited at New York’s Museum of Modern Art-MOMA, The Whitney Biennial, PS1, La Cinematheque Francaise, La Fondation Cartier, The Bozar Museum, The Tate Modern. She has also screened at many festivals and venues including the Berlinale, Rotterdam, Tribeca Film Festival, Lincoln Center, The Basel art Fair, The Copenhagen Film Festival, and the Harvard Film Archive. She has served on the jury at the Era New Horizons International Film Festival in Poland and the Buenos Aires Festival of International Cinema- BAFICI- where she was the subject of a full retrospective. She had her first Solo Show- OUTTAKES at Luxe Gallery NYC) in 2008, on outtakes from the feature film on Genesis P-Orridge. Recently she has been showing her video work, Papal Brokendance in a group show in France at Le Lieu Unique in Nantes-Popism V- an installation on musicals in contemporary video work, curated by Frank Lamy, head of the Mac Val Museum in Paris (November 2009 to January 2010). Since 2000 she has served as the film curator at FIAF/The French Institute Alliance Francaise in New York City, where she presents a weekly film series. She has hosted many notable directors and artists, including Raoul Coutard, William Klein, Claire Denis, Chantal Akerman, Jane Birkin, Jeanne Moreau, Jackie Raynal and Anouk Aimée. She has also programmed experimental films at the Robert Beck Memorial Cinema and Ocularis for many years and continues to program at venues across the United States and Internationally. She has also performed in films by George Kuchar, Mike Kuchar, and Jackie Raynal, and in plays by Juliana Francis and Tony Torn. She currently serves on the board of directors at the Film-makers’ Coop and The Flux Factory.

Cet Air La
3 min
16mm transferred to DVD
2010

Cet Air la is a famous french song from 1963, sung live by NY singer April March in acapela with Julien Gasc. The couple is singing while flying over a superimposed 16mm projection of a stop motion animation of a series of clouds, birds, bubbles, smoke machines and glitters…the song has the texture of a dream. Part of Residency Unlimited Project

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Lorenzo Gattorna is an experimental documentary filmmaker and curator residing in New York City. He received a BFA from Tisch School of the Arts at NYU in 2006. For the past three years, he has programmed screenings for Maysles Cinema of Harlem and UnionDocs of Brooklyn. Past program credits include Missing Allen/The Grandfather Trilogy, New York(er) Shorts and The Playing Field. Since 2009 he has co-curated a quarterly series, The Experiment, at Maysles Cinema that screens films and videos exploring the borderland between the ‘experimental’ and ‘documentary’ genres of cinema. Recently he participated in the Migrating Forms’ E.P.I.C. artist dialogue series and presented his work at NYU’s Experimental Film Workshop as a visiting artist. He has received grants from Warner Brothers and The Malcolm Ross Memorial Foundation. His 16mm films have screened in exhibitions associated with CCNY, Maysles Cinema, UnionDocs and Millennium Film Workshop. These films, produced within the last five years, have realized personal sentiments through rhythmic interpretations of natural landscape and body language. Lorenzo Gattorna continues the promotion of alternative approaches to cinema through personal productions and public exhibitions.

Land of Lost Content…Scenes of Second Chances
8 min
16mm to digital video
2009

Captured during a short stay in San Francisco. Sways in settling down inspired the fluctuations in exposure. High grounds and coastal shores were confronted and met with fight or flight responses. I visited these locales several times hoping to resolve my own problems with permanence and pressure. I could only record further misunderstanding and bewilderment with my original intent. The film is broken down into episodes influenced by the incessant viewing of serial television programs during the time of production. The musical interludes are performed by The Microphones and served well as a crutch to many ailments during this process.

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Ephraim Asili Born in 1979, and raised in Roslyn, Pennsylvania, Ephraim Asili is a Philadelphia based filmmaker and multimedia artist. Inspired by his day-to-day wandering around places that he works or lives, Asili creates films, collage, and assemblages, which situate themselves as a series of meditations on everyday experience and media culture. Deeply driven to create the extraordinary out of the ordinary, Asili uses a wide variety of materials and approaches to achieve his desired objectives. Some works consist of little more than a combination of wood and shoe polish, others require the use of 16 mm film, actors, and trips halfway around the world. Regardless of the medium, Asili appropriates prevailing societal iconography in order to present his personal vision, a vision mediated through careful examinations of identity, geography, and architecture. The resulting works are perhaps best described as an amalgam of Pop, African American, and “moving image” culture combined with a strong sense of rhythmic improvisation and compositional awareness.

Forged Ways
15 min
16 mm film transfered to video
2010

Forged Ways combines elements of documentary, narrative, and experimental form to create an experience that brings the viewer in as an active participant as opposed to a passive witness. Photographed on location in Harlem, New York, and various locations throughout Ethiopia the film oscillates between the first person account of a film maker, the third person experience of a man navigating the streets of Harlem, and day to day life in the cities and villages of Ethiopia. By subduing any definitive story-line or “message” the film functions as an audio visual meditation on the constructs surrounding African American cultural identity while simultaneously examining some of the more subtle implications involved in maintaining an identity that spans hundreds of years, and thousands of miles.

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Since 2005, Fern Silva has been an active filmmaker whose personal journeys and impulsery disposition give rise to his visionary process. He has created a body of film, video, and projection work that conveys a congruent existence through the aesthetics of reflections and detriments within controlled microcosms. His work has been screened and performed at various festivals, galleries, museums and cinematheques including International Film Festival Rotterdam, New York Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival Anthology Film Archive, San Francisco Cinematheque, European Media Art Festival, World Film Festival of Bangkok, Biennale Bandits-Mages, Roulette Gallery, White Box Gallery, and MOMA P.S.1. Although Brooklyn based, Fern Silva is from central Connecticut, he received a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and an MFA from Bard College.

In the Absence of Light, Darkness Prevails
13mins
16mm 1:33, optical mono sound, color/b&w transfer to DVD
2010

“O mother of waters! Great is your power, your strength, and your light…Let your greatness be the greatest wealth you dispense to me… surrounded by sweet melodies springing from your own self…” –prayer to Iemanjá

Subtle, spectacular cinema in which cosmopolitan filmmaker Fern Silva creates a convincing, eclectic hotpot from various images. The fruits of life desiccate in front of our very eyes in a civilization out of step with the rhythm of the cosmos. –International Film Festival Rotterdam

Fern Silva’s In the Absence of Light, Darkness Prevails (2010) suggests a future already arrived, merging the destruction with the creation of life as seen in the tiny turtles crawling their way to the sea, or heard in the crackling of a Geiger counter as a masked man sprays plants with pesticides. Though only 13 minutes, the film’s span is enormous. As revelers in Salvador, Bahia, parade through the streets, a gnat-sized Mercury passes across the surface of the sun, and men slowly make their way up the giant steps of an ancient temple; the film resides in a well of deep time, civilizational history swallowed by the life of the planet. –Genevieve Yue

Standing wave in stellar structure. Agitations ring the singing sun. Life bearing goddess of moonlight and sea. Iemanjá. Low frequency, deep voice, slow rhythm. Storm hatches down horizon. The pulsing crowd occurs. –Corrine Fitzpatrick

LMAKseries: May 10th, 2011

Wed, 04 May 2011 10:05:00 -0400

LMAKseries presents;

Alex Carpenter, Byron Westbrook and Philip White

Tuesday, May 10th - 7:30 pm
Location: 139 Eldridge Street, Between Delancey and Broome
Suggestion donation of $7.

We are pleased to present the performances by Alex Carpenter, Byron Westbrook and Philip White on Tuesday, May 10, 2011as part of the LMAKseries, which aim’s to integrate film, video, sound art, and media performance into LMAKprojects’ mission and its vision of the contemporary landscape,

Artist Alex Carpenter presents kinetic forms coaxed from his live video delay system - a new invention which employs chains of cameras and projectors to assist in the creation of living light-cell organisms, while contributing live audio activity in a symbiotic interchange.

Philip White’s i/o 4 is a work for no-input mixing board and several homemade control and processing circuits. Part of the larger i/o series, i/o 4 is specifically concerned with perception of time in relation to sound.

Lastly, Byron Westbrook will present Corridors, a format for multi-channel audio and video performance which utilizes speakers placed throughout the audience to explore the dynamics of a room.

Alex Carpenter is an Australian artist and researcher living in New York City. He has performed extensively as a soloist playing guitar, keyboard and electric zither through a multi-amp and delay network he calls the Live Audio Delay System, and has also independently produced and coordinated a number of large-scale ensemble performance and multi-media events under the moniker Music of Transparent Means.

Music of Transparent Means was Alex’s chief project in Australia from 2002 to 2007, initially providing a platform for his meticulously-tuned wineglass inventions, then later incorporating instruments such as prepared guitars, woodwind, strings, percussion and brass, and featuring as many as 21 performers at a single time.

Alex’s most recent performance activity has centered on his own Live Video Delay System, an extension of the audio system, which employs multiple cameras and extreme color isolation to facilitate a unique looping and layering of live laser drawings. The system was first tested at MELA Foundation in 2009, and continues to be shown on screen and in performance internationally.

Alex has performed alongside artists such as Francisco Lopez (Madrid), Will Guthrie (Melbourne), Kyle Bobby Dunn and Richard Lainhart (NYC), and has produced several CD and DVD releases on his own label,Vanished Records.
http://transparentmeans.net/

Byron Westbrook is an artist working with the dynamic quality of physical space using multi-channel sound, images, and objects. His audio/video performances under the name CORRIDORS involve the distribution of processed instrumental and environmental recordings through a multi-channel environment. His installation-based work explores unique and participatory listening formats utilizing common tecnology.

He has presented at venues such as Tonic, Roulette, The Stone, Diapason Gallery, Issue Project Room, Experimental Intermedia, Exit Art Gallery, (NYC), Les Voûtes (FR), Wien Konzerthaus (Austria), O’ (Milano), Cave12 (Geneva), NonEvent (Boston), Sonic Circuits Festival (DC), Institute of Intermedia (CZ). He has shared performance bills with Tony Conrad, Phill Niblock, Jandek, Oren Ambarchi, Lawrence English, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Greg Davis, Maria Chavez, Alessandro Bosetti, Jason Kahn, Jon Mueller, Tetuzi Akiyama, among many others. Westbrook has also collaborated with Paris-based composer and former Kitchen curator Rhys Chatham in the drone metal group Essentialist (Table of the Elements), as well as performed in the ensembles of Phill Niblock, Rhys Chatham, Glenn Branca, Duane Pitre, David Watson and Jonathan Kane. He has worked as technical coordinator of Phill Niblock’s Experimental Intermedia Foundation since 2004. In 2007, he was the recipient of the Jerome Foundation Emerging Artists Commission through Roulette Intermedium. In 2008 he was an artist in residence at Hotel Pupik at Sclhoss Schrattenberg. In 2010 he was an artist in residence at Diapason Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. A CD of CORRIDORS was released in 2010 on Sedimental Records. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and is completing MFA studies in sound at Bard College.
www.byronwestbrook.com

Philip White’s performances center on a non-linear feedback system, which consists of a mixer and several homemade circuits. In addition to his work with analog and digital electronics, White has written extensively for chamber ensembles and created a large body of intermedia pieces that explore meaning in information transmission.

Current projects include thenumber46 (with Suzanne Thorpe), with chuck johnson with philip white and collaborations with Ted Hearne, Taylor Levine and Phil Stearns. Recent performances/exhibitions include Diapason (NYC), ISSUE Project Room (NYC), The Stone (NYC), Sonic Circuits (DC), Redux New Media Festival (Charleston, SC), Galerie Neurotitan (Berlin), Princeton University, Bent Festival 2010, NYCEMF 2010, Floating Points Festival 2010 and a featured spot on free103.9.org. He has performed with Toshimaru Nakamura, Gene Coleman, Kenta Nagai, ADACHI Tomomi, MV Carbon, Michael Schumacher and Nisi Jacobs. He has received grants form Meet The Composer and Electronic Music Foundation

Documentation: March 29th, 2011

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 20:50:00 -0400

Below are some photographic selections from the fifth installment of the 2010-2011 LMAKseries season, which occurred on March 29th, 2011. The evening hosted audio/visual work by duo Aldredo Marin and Doron Sadja (Alfi and Waldi), a solo performance by Jeremy D. Slater and ended with a distorted violin and lap guitar collaboration between Samara Lubelski and Marcia Bassett. A special thanks to everyone that made it out for this special night.

(Above: Alfi and Waldi)

(Above: Jeremy D. Slater)

(Above: Samara Lubelski and Marcia Bassett)

All Images © Bryan Krueger, 2011

LMAKseries: March 29th, 2011

Sun, 20 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0400

LMAKseries presents;

Jeremy D. Slater

Alfredo Marin + Doron Sadja (ALFI AND WALDI)

Samara Lubelski and Marcia Bassett

Tuesday, March 29 at 7.30 pm
Location: 139 Eldridge Street, Between Delancey and Broome

Suggestion donation of $7.-

Jeremy D. Slater
ALFI & WALDI
Samara Lubelski & Marcia Bassett

LMAKprojects is pleased to announce our upcoming LMAKseries performance event on Tuesday, March 29th at 7.30 pm.

LMAKseries is the latest development in the gallery’s continued commitment to time-based works and performance practices. This upcoming event will focus on exploring the ongoing inter-relationships between digital media, film, and music, whose practices may incorporate improvisation, computer processing, live interaction, narrative, sculptural and spatial aspects in ways that open our conception of both art practice and reception.

Each individual set, however, will be focused on the specificity and singularity of each artist’s work and approach.

Jeremy D. Slater is a sound artist essentially, but also works with video and sound in performance and installation settings. His sound work consists of field recordings as a base to create processed drones with tabletop guitar, objects, ambient noise, and environmental sound. Performances include live performed video that is ambient and reactive. Video work also includes single and multiple channel videos for screening and installations with sound and ephemeral sculpture. Jeremy was one of the 1999 recipients of the Computer Art Fellowship from New York Foundation of the Arts (NYFA) and has attended artist residencies a The Experimental Television in Owego, New York and Seoul Art Space in Guemcheon, Seoul, South Korea.

http://www.jeremyslater.net

Alfredo Marin and Doron sonic sodomites ALFI & WALDI return with an evening of electro-acoustic perversions your mom wouldn’t want you to hear and your grandma definitely wouldn’t want you to see. ALFI & WALDI is the duo of composers Alfredo Marin and Doron Sadja whose love story began while completing their masters at Bard College. Disgusting, beautiful, unbearable - lose control, lose your mind - let ALFI & WALDI in.

Samara Lubelski and Marcia Bassett use elements of free improvisation and noise in their work, while maintaining the delicate experimental sensibilities characteristic of Minimalism, Psychedelia and Folk. Lubelski is best known as a solo artist with five full-lengthreleases, but she has also been involved in various art-music provocations, Hall of Fame, Tower Recordings, as a member of Thurston Moore’s band, and in her associations with the long-standing German collective Metabolismus. Zaïmph is Bassett’s solo project. Through small-run releases on numerous labels (including her own, Heavy Blossom), Zaïmph has carved out a unique take on decaying feedback, assaultive fuzz, echoey ambience, and abstract expression. Over the last fifteen-years, Marcia has performed in assorted and acclaimed experimental music projects including Un, GHQ, Hototogisu, Double Leopards and Zaika.

http://www.zaimph.org

http://www.samaralubelski.com

http://www.myspace.com/samaralubelski ,

LMAKseries is curated by Richard Garet and Louky Keijsers Koning in consultation with Berlin-based artist Andy Graydon.

Documentation: February 14th, 2011

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 15:22:00 -0500

Below are some photographic selections from the fourth installment of the 2010-2011 LMAKseries season, which occurred on February 14th, 2011. The evening hosted audio work by Blake Carrington and an A/V collaboration between Nick Hallett & Brock Monroe. A special thanks to everyone that made it out for this special night.

All images © Bryan Krueger, 2011

LMAKseries: February 14th, 2011

Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:43:00 -0500

LMAKseries PRESENTS:

Blake Carrington
Nick Hallett & Brock Monroe

Monday, February 14 at 7.30 pm
Location: 139 Eldridge Street, Between Delancey and Broome

Suggestion donation of $7.-

Blake Carrington, Is Space, 6-channel sound piece

Nick Hallett & Brock Monroe

In LMAKprojects’ aim to integrate film, video, sound art, and media performance into the gallery’s mission and its vision of the contemporary landscape, LMAKseries is pleased to present the performances by Blake Carrington and Nick Hallett & Brock Monroe on Monday, February 14, 2011.

Blake Carrington created a piece, Is Space particularly for the space. He will place six speakers throughout and under the architecture of the gallery, complicating the spatial experience for long and narrow venue. Smoothed-out loops of field recordings are converted to staccato beats by custom sequencers, resulting in polyrhythms that move around the space, falling in and out of sync with each other. Henri Lefebvre’s quote “people don’t act in space, peoples’ actions define space” influenced the piece conceptually. In a similar fashion, this piece intends to create a negotiation between the physical space of performance and a perceived sonic topography.

Nick Hallett & Brock Monroe present a work-in-development in celebration of Valentine’s Day,Threeway: for Xenia, a LectureOpera on the subject of composer and percussionist Xenia Kashevaroff, married to John Cage from 1935 to 1945, but also lover of and nude model for photographer Edward Weston, and muse to comparative mythologist, Joseph Campbell. Fabled for her erotic nature (Cage described her “most delightfully unmoral, pagan”), Kashevaroff casts an interesting light onto the legacy of John Cage and his noted collaboration in life and art with Merce Cunningham, with whom she and Cage shared a threeway sexual encounter that would, in effect, transform the landscape of experimental music. Playing with strategies its creators call “skinematic,” the piece integrates aleatoric procedures, graphic notation, and an homage to the analog electronic soundtracks of classic softcore pulp sex films, all on equal footing.

Blake Carrington (b. 1980) operates within the spheres of the sound, visual and media arts. His work in all of these forms is informed largely by cultural geography, landscape and architecture. The areas between these formalized spatial practices and the experiential qualities of sound and visual art practice are the main focus of his work. He received a NYSCA grant in support of his debut CD release concert to be held at the Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral on March 3. In the Spring Carrington will be artist-in-residence at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Swing Space on Governors Island, and currently Carrington is writing a piece for the Princeton Laptop Orchestra.

In addition to his work in sound and video, he also creates hi-res digital prints from custom Max/MSP/Jitter patches. His print series Loci_, exploring the questionable translation of field recordings to abstract landscape imagery,is in The Drawing Center’s Viewing Program in New York. Blake was born in Indiana and currently lives and works in Brooklyn

Nick Hallett is a NYC-based composer, vocalist, and cultural producer. His first opera, a collaboration with video artist Shana Moulton, was performed at the Kitchen and the New Museum. His music has also been performed at Joe’s Pub, ISSUE Project Room,The Kitchen, Le Poisson Rouge, and The Stone. Nick held the first RE:NEW RE:PLAY artist residency at the New Museum in May 2009 and his work was included in the Performa 07 and Performa 09 biennials. After organizing a performance for the Joshua Light Show at the Kitchen in 2007, Hallett became its music curator, and will soon compose original music for the project. With Zach Layton, he co-directs the celebrated Darmstadt new music series at ISSUE Project Room. As a vocalist, he has performed the works of Anthony Braxton, Susie Ibarra, and Meredith Monk, among others. From 2000 to 2003, he led the band Plantains, a new wave-cabaret act incorporating electronic music and video, collaborating with Ray Sweeten and Seth Kirby, a recent retrospective of which was released in 2010 on I, Absentee.

Brock Monroe is a live cinema artist and designer. In collaboration with the Joshua Light Show and Mighty Robot A/V Squad, Brock has created visuals at Abrons Arts Center, The Kitchen, PS1, Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Netmage festival (Bologna), Aurora Picture Show’s Media Archeology festival (Houston), Monkey Town, ISSUE Project Room, and Secret Project Robot. His last collaboration with Nick Hallett occurred in May 2009 at the New Museum as part of the RE:NEW RE:PLAY series.

LMAKseries is curated by Richard Garet and Louky Keijsers Koning in consultation with Berlin-based artist Andy Graydon

List of Upcoming LMAKseries Events Starting From January 3rd, 2011

Tue, 01 Feb 2011 11:48:00 -0500

Monday, February 14, 2011

Blake Carrington
Nick Hallett & Brock Monroe

The event will be held at the Lower East Side LMAKprojects space. More information on the event can be found on the forthcoming press release.

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Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Jeremy D. Slater
Alfredo Marin and Doron Sadja
Samara Lubelski and Marcia Bassett

JEREMY D. SLATER is a sound artist essentially, but also works with video and sound in performance and installation settings. His sound work consists of field recordings as a base to create processed drones with tabletop guitar, objects, ambient noise, and environmental sound. Performances include live performed video that is ambient and reactive. Video work also includes single and multiple channel videos for screening and installations with sound and ephemeral sculpture. Jeremy was one of the 1999 recipients of the Computer Art Fellowship from New York Foundation of the Arts (NYFA) and has attended artist residencies a The Experimental Television in Owego, New York and Seoul Art Space in Guemcheon, Seoul, South Korea. http://www.jeremyslater.net

Alfredo Marin and Doron Sadja
Sonic sodomites ALFI & WALDI return with an evening of electro-acoustic perversions your mom wouldn’t want you to hear and your grandma definitely wouldn’t want you to see. ALFI & WALDI is the duo of composers Alfredo Marin and Doron Sadja whose love story began while completing their masters at Bard College. Disgusting, beautiful, unbearable – lose control, lose your mind – let ALFI & WALDI in.

SAMARA LUBELSKI AND MARCIA BASSETT use elements of free improvisation and noise in their work, while maintaining the delicate experimental sensibilities characteristic of Minimalism, Psychedelia and Folk. Lubelski is best known as a solo artist with five full-lengthreleases, but she has also been involved in various art-music provocations, Hall of Fame, Tower Recordings, as a member of Thurston Moore’s band, and in her associations with the long-standing German collective Metabolismus. Zaïmph is Bassett’s solo project. Through small-run releases on numerous labels (including her own, Heavy Blossom), Zaïmph has carved out a unique take on decaying feedback, assaultive fuzz, echoey ambience, and abstract expression. Over the last fifteen-years, Marcia has performed in assorted and acclaimed experimental music projects including Un, GHQ, Hototogisu, Double Leopards and Zaika.

http://www.zaimph.org
http://www.myspace.com/samaralubelski
http://www.samaralubelski.com

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Monday, May 9, 2011
Artists TBC

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Monday, June 20, 2011
Artists TBC

Documentation: January 3rd, 2011

Sun, 30 Jan 2011 19:12:00 -0500

Below are some photographic selections from the third installment of the 2010-2011 LMAKseries season, which occurred on January 3rd, 2011. The evening hosted A/V work by Adam Kendall, DRAW, and Fyxzis. A special thanks to Derek Kalisher for documenting the evening.

All Images © Derek Kalisher, 2011

* edited by Bryan Krueger

LMAKprojects at PULSE Miami

Sun, 28 Nov 2010 21:32:00 -0500

LMAKprojects will be participating in PULSE Miami this year at booth I-204. PULSE is held from the 2nd through the 5th of December. We will feature a solo booth by Carlos Rigau. We hope to see you there!

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Documentation: November 8th, 2010

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 14:01:00 -0500

Below are some photographic selections from the second installment of the 2010-2011 LMAKseries season which took place on November 8th, 2010 at Marien Spore and featured Marina Rosenfeld, Christof Kurzmann, and Lucky Dragons.

We would like to kindly thank everyone for joining us on November 8th at Marian Spore in Brooklyn...

Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:48:56 -0500

We would like to kindly thank everyone for joining us on November 8th at Marian Spore in Brooklyn for the second installment of this season’s LMAKseries.

The night began with Lucky Dragons. This group is, at the root, a combination Luke Fischbeck and Sarah Rara. They branch out to various collaborators who claim the name Lucky Dragons - for this particular evening, they had a wooden drum box player echoing the airy and harmonious sounds made by their laptops and ghost-like vocals. Their performance didn’t stop there, however. The extending nature of the group includes the audience, who were encouraged to take part in the progression of the piece.

There was a moment in the middle of performance when the sounds of Lucky Dragons transferred delicately into that being built up by Marina Rosenfeld and Christof Kurzmann. It was a nice exchange of hands which caused the audience to create a wave-like rotation to face the side where the exchange ended up. Marina and Christof used a combination of photograph turntables, laptops, and vocals to create visceral sounds that reverberated out of the speakers, through the cement, up your legs - only to rattle within your chest just long enough for the next jolt of sound to run through you in much the same way.

The total performance rounded out with Lucky Dragons chiming in once more. This time around they persisted in unison with Marina and Christof to softly land into the quiet vocal rumblings of the audience.

We would like to thank everyone involved that helped make the evening possible - it was a truly special night.

There will be various forms of documentation posted here shortly.

LMAKseries - November 8th, 2010

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 21:08:34 -0400

Marina Rosenfeld / Christof Kurzmann / Lucky Dragons

November 8th, 7:30 PM
$7 (Suggested donation)

Venue: Marian Spore, 55 33rd Street 4th fl, Brooklyn
marianspore.com

On November 8, LMAKseries (LMAKprojects) and Marian Spore will present a unique musical performance in partnership with Issue Project Room.

The event will take place at Marian Spore, a 16,000 square foot industrial space in Industry City, Brooklyn. This cavernous volume will be temporarily inhabited by three internationally-renowned musicians – Marina Rosenfeld, Christof Kurzmann and Lucky Dragons – who share a focus on temporary or site-specific instrumentation and the social function of music.

A new iteration of Rosenfeld’s Public Address series will serve as the sound system for the performance. Previously presented at the Park Avenue Armory and the Liverpool Biennial, this body of work consists of a complex of large horns that project sound into large spaces, exploring the possibilities of PA systems as musical instruments in their own right.

Marina Rosenfeld is an artist and composer based in New York. Her works, ranging from large-scale sound installations and performances to live turntablism, have been widely commissioned by institutions and festivals including Whitney Biennials 2002 and 2008, Performa Biennial 2009, the Stedelijk Museum, Tate Modern, The Kitchen, Creative Time, the Holland Festival, and numerous others in Europe, Canada and the US. Rosenfeld is a faculty member of Bard College and has been co-chair of its MFA program in Music/Sound since 2007.

Christof Kurzmann was born in Vienna, Austria and presently lives in Buenos Aires. Working between electropop, improvisation and “new music”, Kurzmann is a sometimes soloist although he prefers working collaboratively. He also owns the small independent label “charhizma”, which serves as a platform for presenting musicians from around the world in various live settings. Past bands include schnee, the magic i.d., el infierno musical, qmince, hammerriver. ckurzmann.blogspot.com/

“Lucky dragons” means any recorded or performed or installed or packaged or shared or suggested or imagined pieces made by Luke Fischbeck, Sarah Rara, and/or any sometimes collaborators who claim the name. Lucky Dragons are about the birthing of new and temporary creatures—equal-power situations in which audience members cooperate amongst themselves, building up fragile networks held together by such light things as skin contact, unfamiliar language, temporary logic, the spirit of celebration, and things that work but you don’t know why.

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LMAKseries (LMAKprojects) is an extension of the L.E.S. gallery’s aim to integrate time-based and performance art into its vision of the contemporary landscape. Events presented under its auspices include installation-performances, music and sound art compositions, film and video screenings, and hybrid events that challenge traditional modes of exhibition. The series is curated by Louky Keijsers and Richard Garet in consultation with Berlin-based artist Andy Graydon. www.lmakprojects.com

Marian Spore is an art space in Industry City, Brooklyn that is formatted like a collection. Periodically, new works are added to a steadily-expanding exhibition. The space draws its name from the wife of Industry City’s founder, an artist and mystic of sorts who painted fantastic and terrible visions of the future. www.marianspore.com

Video of the complete first LMAKseries performance on October...

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 18:07:00 -0400

Video of the complete first LMAKseries performance on October 18th 2010 at LMAKprojects in NY, NY

Untitled (plate tectonics)
Performance-installation by Andy Graydon
Featuring performances by Nathan Carter, Nils Karsten, Joyce Kim, Mostra (Gabriela Monroy and Caspar Stracke), and Tmm Mulligan

LMAKseries - Screening and Performance Event: Monday, October 18 @ 7.30 pm

Wed, 13 Oct 2010 09:10:00 -0400

For immediate release

Contact: Louky Keijsers Koning
212 255 9707, louky@lmakprojects.com

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Untitled (plate tectonics)
Performance-installation by Andy Graydon
Featuring performances by Nathan Carter, Nils Karsten, Joyce Kim, Mostra (Gabriela Monroy and Caspar Stracke), and Tmm Mulligan

Untitled (plate tectonics) performance installation by Andy Graydon, 2010

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LMAKprojects is pleased to present a new season of LMAKseries: Andy Graydon’s Untitled (plate tectonics), featuring performances by Nathan Carter, Nils Karsten, Joyce Kim, Mostra (Gabriela Monroy and Capar Stracke), Tmm Mulligan.

LMAKseries furthers LMAKproject’s aim to integrate film, video, sound art, and media performance into the gallery’s mission and its vision of the contemporary landscape. One particular interest of the series is in exploring the ongoing inter-relationships between digital media, film, and music, whose practices may incorporate improvisation, computer processing, live interaction, narrative, sculptural and spatial aspects in ways that open our conception of both art practice and reception

This evening is a performance version of Graydon’s dubplate sound installation Untitled (plate tectonics). The twelve records of the original installation are released into the hands of six guest artists who take turns manipulating the aural environment of the gallery, building on the others’ contributions, and “dubbing” the space of exhibition using the sounds of other exhibition spaces.

With Untitled (plate tectonics), Andy Graydon explores the physical dimensions of location in contrast to its perception. After obtaining the ambient sounds of eleven “natural” art locations in New York – museums, fairs, galleries – Graydon cut the recordings onto unique acetate phonograph records, dubplates, that allow visitors to reshape the present gallery space with sound. Environment is used as a material. Replaying the sounds of these New York institutions as they intermix with the ambient sounds of LMAKprojects, space is at once extended and collapsed. Dubplates, for the music industry, are used in mastering studios before the final master. They are meant for temporary use, they deteriorate over time. The sounds recorded on their surface begin to dissolve after about fifty plays.

Special thanks to the artists who created additional recordings for the installation: Andrea Williams, Ben Owen, Richard Garet, sawako, and Pe Lang.

Nathan Carter was born in Dallas, TX. Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He received an MA from Yale University School of Art and his work has been shown at venues such as Esther Schipper, Berlin, Germany; Casey Kaplan, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada and Taxter & Spengemann in New York.

Nils Karsten received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts in 1999, participated in the Skowhegan program in 2002, and received his MFA from Vermont College in 2003. His work has been shown in galleries and museums throughout the US, and internationally; including Contrasts Gallery in Shanghai, China, Earl McGrath in Los Angeles, Marvelli Gallery and the Museum of Art & Design in New York, and the Pera Museum in Istanbul, Turkey. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Joyce Kim lives and works in New York. She received an M.A. from New York University and has had exhibitions at Artists’ Space, New York; The Center for Contemporary Non-Objective Art, Brussels, Belgium; Peres Project, Los Angeles; and Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York. She is a recipient of The Pollock Krasner Foundation grant and The John Anson Kitteredge Fund award.

MOSTRA (Gabriela Monroy and Caspar Stracke) is a collaborative team based in New York and Berlin. Mostra juxtaposes and remixes video images, re-appropriated from cinema, news feeds and about everything in-between. Their work has been shown in the US, Mexico, Brazil, Europe and Korea.

Tmm Mulligan is an artist based in Brooklyn, NY. He has exhibited and performed in such spaces as Deitch Projects, White Box, Participant, Inc., Issue Project Room and Glasslands in NYC; at the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore; and the Center for Contemporary Art Ujadowski Castle in Warsaw, Poland. He currently hosts x>triangulation>x, a weekly web radio event that hosts a rotating forum of musicians and sound artists and in the process map out a contemporary soundscape.

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LMAKseries is curated by Richard Garet and Louky Keijsers Koning in consultation with Andy Graydon.

LMAKprojects
139 Eldridge Street, b/w Delancey and Broome
212 255 9707
www.lmakprojects.com