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Jul 05

P2P (Mami)

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Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing is an architectural form of data sharing where personal computers no longer require a dominant central server to receive crucial resources. Rather, they rely on each other in a network of equally privileged systems.

In the world of double dutch, jumpers and turners form a similar internal network of communication, resulting in new forms of empathy and a hyperawareness of each others’ movements and well-being.

P2P, a collaboration between sound artist Dyani Douze, new media artist Salome Asega, and world champion Floyd Little Double Dutch Team, explores the matrilineal structure of the double dutch tradition in America.

Presented as part of MAMI

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Jun 20

Long Term Exposure: Transaction closing peformance

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Pat Noecker will set up 10 amps in a circle and execute his tonal sound work called “Long Term Exposure” for the closing of Transaction, an exhibition of 23 suspended personal artifacts organized by Elijah Wheat Showroom. A floor rug and pillow will be positioned in front of each amp in order to provide listeners with an immersive experience where they will be bathed in sustained sine waves over a period of 30 minutes. Long Term Exposure was designed using tone-generating apps with the aim to positively alter the physical body through protracted sound.  The piece grew from Noecker’s experiments playing tone-generating apps, most recently for Hopes And Fears Magazine and at Trans-Pecos.

BIO
RAFT is the sound and music exploration of Pat Noecker. He has been exploring composition through IOS apps and the potentiality of crowd-sourced collage since 2012. Noecker’s projects have received critical acclaim from Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Wire, Spin, and numerous other publications and he has performed for MoMA, the Whitney, PS1, the Kennedy Center, the Getty Museum, London ICA, and the San Francisco Fillmore, among many other cultural and underground venues.
Jun 17

Sundays Cycle Club

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A bicycle tour of local galleries ending up at Knockdown for conversation and drink specials! Meet at the Parlour Gallery, 791 Bushwick Avenue (at Dekalb) at 2:30pm! Follow our trip on instagram @sundayscycleclub.

 

Here is a map of our route!

The Parlour / 791 Bushwick Ave
Outlet / 253 Wilson Ave
99¢ plus / 238 Wilson Ave
Hood Gallery / 1397 Myrtle Avenue
Orgy Park / 237 Jefferson St
Signal / 260 Johnson Ave
Present Co. / 254 Johnson Ave
Safe Gallery / 1004 Metropolitan Ave
Interstate Projects / 66 Knickerbocker Ave
TSA / 1329 Willoughby Ave, #2A
Transmitter / 1329 Willoughby Ave, #2A
Underdonk / 1329 Willoughby Ave, #211
Knockdown Center / 52-19 Flushing Ave

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Jun 10

Sculpture Workshop with Anna Mikhailovskaia

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Anna Mikhailovskaia hosts a sculpture-making workshop in which participants will create a table-top plaster sculpture. Using found materials, each participant will assemble an armature fixed upon a base. The resulting abstract shape will then be covered in plaster. As a final touch, texture will be created with explorative surface treatments.

Anna will demonstrate a process evident in many of her own sculptures, including some on view in the concurrent exhibition at Knockdown Center. Anna’s work lies somewhere between vernacular buildings, religious objects and architectural fragments. Her carefully crafted, bold, efficient sculptures explore perceptions of scale, weight and surface.

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Anna Mikhailovskaia & John Schacht through Sunday, June 19, 2016.

 


RSVP for the wait list to staciemaya@gmail.com or 773.771.2377

**You will get messy, so please wear appropriate clothing.
*** This is an adult art workshop – not for children.
Jun 07

Ready Room Grand Opening

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Join us following the Transaction reception for a celebration of Knockdown’s new bar! Party til 2am!

With DJ set by Scott Kiernan (E.S.P. TV)
Happy hour prices all night long!!
$1 off all drafts
$5 Queens Lager 16oz cans
cocktail special!
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Jun 02

You Are Here (Trouble Maze) Music Festival

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Knockdown Center presents the infamous You Are Here (Trouble Maze) Music Festival: a series of live concerts inside a giant string maze.  2016’s incarnation will bring a new design, and a much larger maze than previous installations. Co-presented by Trans-Pecos. Trouble is Sam Hillmer, Laura Paris, and Lawrence Mesich. They are devoted to creating extreme environments that have no exterior, public art both condoned and illegal, and other kinds of visual/sound art.

Tickets are $10 in advance / $15 at the door

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ABOUT THE SHOWS:

6/30 show: New York City’s street scenes of skate rap and industrial art-punk meets Abdu Ali’s Balitmore queer afro-futurist noise. Venus X of GHE20G0TH1K mixes international, urban, and Internet-inspired tracks into a distinctly ghetto goth sound.

7/1 show: Intergenerational bill of noise/no wave practitioners converge for an evening of difficult listening.  Arto Lindsay in town from Brazil. Not to be missed!

7/2 daytime show: Pre-apocalyptic grime and drone music meets the DJs from House of Feelings’ obscure disco, house, and techno– plus the occasional dance pop.

7/2 nighttime show: Tryna Function presents an evening of crystallised grime, hip-hop, and ambient sounds. Suicideyear brings Southern trap influences to his deep house tracks, while serpentwithfeet promises a uniquely performative pagan gospel act.

7/3 daytime show: Hip-hop is pushed to the limit by these artists mixing electronic trap with synth, dancehall with queer club music, and soulful house with fuzzy sonic sounds.

7/3 nighttime show: A medley of electronic and techno artists deliver fuzzy synth, delicate nature-inspired sounds, and elegant electroacoustic music.

7/4 show: A high-energy evening with Mister Wallace boldly spitting clever rhymes over solid, bass-thumping beats, and electronic artists bringing raw club music. Dance collective Waffle Crew’s fast footwork is straight from New York City’s streets and subways.

 

May 06

Ende Tymes VI

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Opening night of the Festival of Noise and Experimental Liberation will include sound installation works and performances on an arena-sized PA.  The installations will remain in place through the weekend.

Additional performances will take place at Silent Barn, June 3-5. Weekend pass tickets available for $60.

Co-presented by ISSUE Project Room:
Founded in 2003, ISSUE Project Room is a pioneering nonprofit performance center, presenting projects by interdisciplinary artists that expand the boundaries of artistic practice and stimulate critical dialogue in the broader community. ISSUE serves as a leading cultural incubator, facilitating the commission and premiere of innovative new works.

 Additional info: halfnormal.com/endetymes
Mar 16

Authority Figure

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Authority Figure is a social psychology experiment that uses choreography, sound and installation to elicit emotional response from the audience. Monica Mirabile and Kinlaw have brought together 6 choreographers, 7 installation artists, original sound compositions by various musicians as well as a cast of 150+ performers to create a performance that motivates the audience to consider relationships to authority, obedience and each other. We are asking ourselves and the audience to be conscious of relationships to police brutality, big data, and surveillance as it mingles with the complexity of our psychology in regard to power dynamics.

During each two-­hour show, groups of 20 were directed into the space every 20 minutes. Each individual faced different durational and emotional challenges corresponding to the entry time and driven by intentional choreography. The performance began with ticket sales. In order to secure admission at all, the audience must first take the “Personality of Endurance Quiz” to determine which entry bracket will be most appropriate for their experience.

About Monica Mirabile and Kinlaw:
Mirabile and Kinlaw are two artists working in the congruous mediums of performance, dance, and sound. Having built upon this practice during the last 10 years inclusive of large scale production as individuals, they have decided to work on a larger project in collaboration.

Mirabile’s Interdisciplinary Sculpture degree at MICA lead her to producing large scale choreography installations sometimes leading up to 70 performers. Since graduating in 2011, she has produced many choreographic productions in a collaborative project known as Fluct as well as solo. Mirabile’s provocative performances have been seen in over 60 venues and have been recognized by numerous Museums including The Baltimore Museum of Art and The Queens Museum. Her work has been reviewed by Fader, Purple Magazine, Fact mag, Vice’s Creators Connect, among others. Mirabile is owner of Otion Front Studio (a dance/performance studio in Bushwick) as well as on the board as performance liaison at Stream Gallery in Bushwick.

Kinlaw’s extensive research in both operatic and choral arrangements pummeled towards directing choirs, composing her own experimental librettos as well as contemporary sound art, often accompanied by movement or moving choirs. This sound to movement medium expanded into high production video art, self produced recordings, and extensive touring throughout the US and Europe. Kinlaw has performed self­produced interdisciplinary music and choreography throughout the United States and Europe including the MoMA, MoMA PS1, Villa Medici (Rome), and Skylight One Hanson.

For further information about the project visit: authorityfigure.org

Mar 13

Deaf Club

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Wall, Future Punx and King Pussy Face play a punk show with ASL performers, inspired by a scene from Alison O’Daniel’s film. The scene is a re-enactment (with some fictionalization) of the final punk show hosted by artist Bruce Conner that took place at The Deaf Club in San Francisco in 1979. The Deaf Club was a deaf social club that hosted west coast punk shows for roughly 9 months. The manager of the punk band The Offs approached them, they agreed, and a legendary, though very underground, convergence of two disparate social groups occurred. It is fondly recounted that the union dissipated when the neighbors complained about the noise. The re-enactment was filmed in NYC at PS1’s printshop with more than 60 participants from the larger NYC Deaf community and a whole slew of enthusiastic NYC punks.

Mar 08

Song and Cyclone

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An evening of performances by Morton Subotnick and Joan La Barbara, presented by Harvestworks and Knockdown Center.

CYCLONE (1977)
7pm

Joan La Barbara’s CYCLONE is a quadraphonic sound performance/installation of the newly restored multichannel work  scored for multiple voices, percussion and Arp 2600 synthesizer sounds, for “semi-live” performance on multiple speakers with the original light panning device custom designed by Ralph Jones. The work was last performed in 1977 at PS1 in NYC (Queens) and was an award-winning sound sculpture installation/performance work (independent artist submission) at ISCM World Music Days (Weltmusiktage) in Bonn, Germany. Both installation/performances were done with analog audio tape (mixed to mono) and moved in the space using light-panning device and penlight.

This installation will be on view before and after the performances.

SONG (2016)
8pm

Commissioned by Harvestworks, Morton Subotnick will present Song, an evening-length, site-specific composition for the Knockdown Center. The work features live electronics by the composer diffused in the space by 3D speaker arrays created by acoustic engineer Paul Geluso and performed by Ne(x)tworks, a collaborative ensemble of seven musicians.

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