DOPEBBQ is one of the wildest, most anticipated events in New York City – and it’s because of all of you. Hundreds came out to party, network, dance to great music, and eat delicious food, and we want to THANK YOU for all of your support. We will be serving a dope mix of free food. This 4th of July weekend will be very memorable! TGP and The Cr3w have a lituation ready for you. DOPEBBQ is where you need to be July 2nd.
Jacob Daal
Estiee
Charlie Mumbles (DJ)
Poppa Perk
Soul Ipsum returns to NYC after a two year hiatus, following a busy year so far for the solo producer out of Portland, Or. with a solo release and collaborative follow up to the acclaimed Zirconia series. For this 7/7/17 special, they’ve asked local house heavy-weight Person of Interest to headline, with live sets by Yaeji and Mallory and the free wheeling selectors Sweet & Lo (Piñero & DiMaggio) to provide vibe for the evening.
Soul Ipsum told us this is the latest glimpse of their new sound…
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Nils Frahm
Nils Frahm had an early introduction to music, learning the piano throughout his childhood. It was through this that Nils began to immerse himself in the styles of classical pianists from previous generations as well as the music of contemporary composers, before forging his own musical path through composition.
Today Nils Frahm continues to work as an accomplished composer, producer and celebrated performer from his Berlin-based studio at the renowned Funkhaus. His unconventional approach to an age-old instrument, played contemplatively and intimately, and on a mesmerising scale through his vast stage shows, has won him many fans around the world. Nils has gained global notoriety for his highly developed sense of control and restraint in his work, as well as a breath-taking level of emotion and personality.
After spending much of 2017 in hibernation in preparation for a busy period ahead, Nils will commence 2018 with his first live performances since 2015, and will embark on the beginning of a long worldwide tour entitled All Melody.
A Concert to Benefit Make The Road NY
This Fourth of July, We Resist! and LPR proudly present: THE REAL FIREWORKS, with performances by M.A.K.U. Soundsystem and a new project Songs of Resistance by Marc Ribot and many special guests TBA.
This outdoor concert brings together artists who will rise together to make their own Declaration of Independence from the current White House administration’s racism, sexism, homophobia, and destruction of the environment, joining forces to celebrate diversity through music and protest.
We also invite you to participate in “MY WALL: A Collaborative Art Installation.”
We hope you will share your immigration stories by contributing personal experiences through writing and drawing, using an interactive voting booth installed in our lobby. These contributions will be included in the upcoming exhibition. “MY WALL,” an art installation coming to Knockdown Center in October 2017, produced by immigrant children and families in collaboration with Coalition for Hispanic Family Services’ Arts and Literacy Program and AED/artist Laura Paris and team.
Celebrate your Fourth of July with this benefit concert, food and drink, and the chance to share your story!
$15 advance / $18 DOS / $5 children under 15 (pay at the door)
Under 21 welcome with parent or guardian
About Make the Road
Make the Road New York (MRNY) builds the power of Latino and working class communities to achieve dignity and justice through organizing, policy innovation, transformative education, and survival services.
Our model integrates multi-issue, multi-generational organizing – on workers’ rights, tenant rights, LGBTQ justice, youth power and policing, public schools and education justice, immigration justice, and climate – with an array of wraparound services that create a space of safety and support for entire families. Our storefront community centers are decorated with murals and made visible with colorful awnings; families pour in to sign up for English-as-a-second-language classes, and stay to enroll their kids in our after-school Youth Power program. They come seeking help fighting an illegal eviction, and stay to fight for better laws protecting tenants.
ABOUT M.A.K.U. SOUNDSYSTEM:
M.A.K.U. Soundsystem, a powerhouse 8-piece band, are innovators of immigrant beat. Born out of the diverse borough of Queens, NY and and incubated in the tiny Colombian owned venue Terraza Cafe, M.A.K.U was able to build their explosive sound and unshakable grooves. Afropop Worldwide praised the “frantic terrain” the band explores. NPR raved about the “driving and gritty energy…this raw-edged, punk-tinged band explodes with the propulsive force of traditional rhythms and urban restlessness.” M.A.K.U put out The Mix (Peace & Rhythm, 2017) their 5th album in January and have already begun writing new and original music for their 6th album.
M.A.K.U’s music derives from their immigrant experience, which is an opportunity to create, to find a voice that speaks loud and proud, to connect past and future. A chance to make history. The party continues…
https://www.makusoundsystem.com/
ABOUT ANI CORDERO
Ani Cordero is a passionate Puerto Rican singer, songwriter, drummer, guitarist, and activist, living in NYC. In 2014, Ani released an album entitled Recordar (Remember), which re-imagined songs by influential Latin American songwriters of the turbulent “Nueva Cancion” era, including Victor Jara, Violeta Parra, Chavela Vargas, and Atahualpa Yupanqui. The critically-
acclaimed album received accolades from NPR’s All Things Considered, Alt-Latino, and Soundcheck, as well as, Billboard, USA Today, PRI’s The World, Brooklyn Vegan, BUST, Remezcla, and more.
ABOUT MARC RIBOT — Songs of Resistance Project:
In search of a way respond to the racist, sexist, Islamophobic, anti-LGBT, anti-immigrant and anti-Semitic attitudes and actions of Donald Trump and his administration and followers, Marc draws on the deep currents in the history of resistance music for inspiration. Featuring a collection of Civil Rights, WWII European partisan resistance songs, plus a few original tunes, Marc will be joined in this special 4th of July presentation by vocalist Fay Victor and guest musicians to create something that encourages people to engage in resistance NOW.
ABOUT WE RESIST!:
With the social momentum and widespread unrest in our country right now, it is undeniable there is a movement of musicians explicitly responding to injustice through music and art. We Resist! is pleased to spotlight and support meaningful music and inspire a progressive strong inclusive community.
ABOUT LPR PRESENTS AND (LE) POISSON ROUGE:
(Le) Poisson Rouge is a multimedia art cabaret founded by musicians on the site of the historic Village Gate. Dedicated to the fusion of popular and art cultures in music, film, theater, dance, and fine art, the venue’s mission is to revive the symbiotic relationship between art and revelry; to establish a creative asylum for both artists and audiences. LPR is a source you can trust for exposure to visionary work, people of character, and a consistently dynamic environment, at its home of 158 Bleecker Street and beyond.
Knockdown Center is pleased to present The Clock is Taking a Nap., a mural by Amie Cunat as a part of FiftyTwo Ft, a series of long-term wall-based artworks in the East Corridor.
The imagery within the mural is sourced from drawings of churches and other buildings in New York City. The work depicts building-like structures tightly packed across the wall as if they had been extracted from a dense urban neighborhood where houses, commercial buildings, and places of worship respond and form to their adjacent architecture. In some areas, the structures’ contours bend as if their frames have been pulled out, leaving behind the suggestion of a jelly-like skin sagging from its own weight. In others, the forms maintain a sense of buoyancy, appearing to float or sway against the colloidal skyline, all in service of a larger atmospheric force that pushes this imagined landscape into contorted positions.
Exhibition Events
Sunday August 6, 2017, 5:00pm
Artist Talk
Sunday, August 6, 2017, 6:00-8:00pm
Opening Reception
Amie Cunat is a Japanese-American artist raised in McHenry, IL. Her paintings and installations, characterized by biomorphic forms and comedic hues, investigate parallels between abstraction and perception. She earned a BA in Visual Art and Art History from Fordham University, a Post-Baccalaureate Degree in Painting and Drawing from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and an MFA from Cornell University. Her recent exhibitions include Curtains at This Friday or Next Friday (NY), C+C: Kat Chamberlin and Amie Cunat at SPRING/BREAK Art Show (Curated by Nicholas Cueva, NY), Hideout at The Sunroom Project Space, Wave Hill (NY), Moon Nets, Alphabet Letters at Outside (MA), Clue, Cue at Foley Gallery Window Installation (NY), and Blood and Sand at Mountain (NY). She has participated in the Studios at MASS MoCA Residency (MA), Guttenberg Arts Space and Time Artist Residency (NJ), The Artist-Teacher Residency at Cooper Union (NY), and AIRY Yamanashi (Kofu, Japan). Cunat is Adjunct Faculty of Painting and Drawing at Fordham University. She lives and works in New York, NY.
großer Lauscher (“big Eavesdropper” in German) is a spatial sound installation created by interdisciplinary artist Alyssa Miserendino. The piece was recorded in the main radar dome at the Field Station Berlin, a listening station built during the Cold War by the US National Security Agency (NSA). Exhibited in the darkness, the piece is comprised of five narrators from five different continents reciting the story of Echo from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, while the protracted echos created by the architecture allow visitors to visualize the space of the Field Station.
Exhibition Events
July 22, 2017, 6:00-9:00pm
Opening reception with artist talk
August 27, 2017, 6:00 -8:00pm
Closing reception
This project is made possible by an Ella Fountain Pratt Emerging Artists Grant from the Durham Arts Council with support from the North Carolina Arts Council, a division of the Department of Natural & Cultural Resources + a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant. This project is sponsored by Arup and Genelec.
About Arup
In order to curate an experience driven solely by sound, the unique acoustic signature of the main radar dome at the Field Station Berlin called for a playful interpretation and immersive implementation through sound design. The performance was recorded in a multichannel audio format in Berlin by Alyssa Miserendino with technical support from Arup. In close collaboration with the artist the audio was then processed, spatialized, and rendered into the final piece by Arup acoustic designers using the proprietary 3D audio technology of the Arup SoundLab®. Arup concurrently designed a spatial sound system to render the piece and provided acoustic consulting expertise for the exhibition space, optimizing the patron aural experience. http://www.arup.com
Executive producer: Ryan Biziorek, Arup
Experience design, audiovisual systems design, sound design, programming and production: Léonard Roussel, Arup
About Genelec
Genelec is a sponsor of the project großer Lauscher, providing studio monitors and mounting accessories for the installation at Knockdown Center. Genelec’s design philosophy is based on sustainable development and environmental values, using industrial design to serve their products’ acoustical performance. Genelec aims to deliver performance-driven, tonally neutral speaker and subwoofer systems for audio professionals and enthusiasts. https://www.genelec.com/
About the artist
Alyssa Miserendino is an interdisciplinary artist & educator, working in photography, sculpture, video, sound, performance & installation. She creates artwork driven by her interest in paradox & connection. Since her undergraduate fellowship award, from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, her work has since been supported by organizations such as the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation and ARUP. She completed her Masters in Fine Art at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and is currently teaching at The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.
Driven by synchronicity, Alyssa meets collaborative artists and strangers on planes, through daily routine encounters, & through the stories we share with one another. Her eye is informed by the study of architecture, traveling to France to study at Vitra’s Boisbuchet & to Santa Barbara, California to study with a residential green architect. Her childhood study of music fosters a rhythm of comfort while working with collaborative teams, during project productions. In addition, she worked as an interior designer & commercial photographer for over a decade, while pursuing an artistic career late at night. This experience and her 5th grade paper on black holes have informed her artistic practice to date.
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Knockdown Center’s exhibitions are selected through a competitive open call for proposals. Through a multi-round process, exhibition proposals are reviewed by Knockdown Center’s Curatorial Advisory Board and selected based on quality, distinctiveness, and response to Knockdown Center’s unique site and context within an ecosystem of live events.
Founded in 2015, the Knockdown Center’s Curatorial Advisory Board is currently comprised of seven sitting arts professionals with diverse but overlapping interests and fields of expertise. The Curatorial Advisory Board meets bi-annually to provide critical feedback on a wide range of proposals as well as contributing to discussions about larger programmatic goals. To learn more about proposing an exhibition or short-term project please visit our Proposals Page.
Sontag Shogun
Ari Finkel
Lea Bertucci
Causings
This month’s Sunday Service, Knockdown Center’s free monthly performance series, is hosted by Same As Sister/Briana Brown-Tipley and Hilary Brown. Titled Pairings in Horror: The Visceral & The Visual Impact, the evening will feature live and digital performance responding to a narrative within the horror genre, matching artists who will collaboratively experiment, improvise and create. Pairings include Lamy Istrefi Jr. with Leo Genovese + Mersiha Mesihovic/CIRCUITDEBRIS and Stacy Grossfield Dance Projects + Gil Sperling, and more TBA! Plus a secret text reading by Rie Yamaguchi-Borden.
Same As Sister was formed out of a proposition to see if it was possible to construct a horror dance – a choreographic vocabulary that truly evokes feelings of suspense and surprise – for the viewer to experience. Since then, the collective’s explorations within the horror/terror genre have transformed into a cross-disciplinary approach to performance-making, that in the words of Jess Barbagallo, “creates a wholly new universe on-stage that revels in a perverse celebration of the ominous.” For Pairings in Horror, Same As Sister invites teams of artists to open a door to this universe by responding to a secret text that will be disclosed to the audience only at the end of the evening. Each pair will utilize live and digital elements to emphasize the sensory pleasure that best represents their collaboration between disciplines. Set in a haunted house, the artists’ unique interpretations of the shared text will become rooms into their uncanny and unpredictable imaginations, perhaps even nightmares.
Same As Sister/Briana Brown-Tipley and Hilary Brown (S.A.S.) is a New York City based performance collective founded in 2013 by choreographers Briana Brown-Tipley and Hilary Brown. Before this joining of creative interests, the sisters, who originate from Toronto, Canada, graduated from École de danse contemporaine de Montréal (LADMMI), and have performed for a variety of artists including Peggy Baker, Candice Breitz, Doug Elkins, Philippa Kaye, Mike Kelley and Jillian Peña. Same As Sister collaborate in the fields of contemporary dance and theater, and experimental music and film/video to explore the complexity of human behavior and its inherent uncanniness. Their cross-disciplinary works have been presented at Centre d’Art Marnay Art Centre (2017 Artist Program Residents), Movement Research and Bailout Theater at Judson Memorial Church, CRAWL at 22 Boerum Place, BRIC Arts | Media House (2015 BRIClab Residents), New York Live Arts (2014-2015 Fresh Tracks Residents), Triskelion Arts, Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn Arts Exchange and Chen Dance Center. sameassister.squarespace.com
Lamy Istrefi Jr. is a New York City based Jazz drummer/percussionist, composer and conductor, originally from the Republic of Kosovo. Istrefi Jr. attended the University of Music and Dramatic Arts Graz (KUG) in Austria, before relocating to the United States. He is currently a member of Grammy award-winning saxophonist, Joe Lovano’s Classic Quartet, for which he has toured internationally to perform at such prestigious festivals and venues as the Healdsburg Jazz Festival, the PDX Jazz Festival, Blue Note Milano, Bimhuis Amsterdam and the Bergamo Jazz Festival, among others. Istrefi Jr. also collaborates with a diverse and notable group of musicians for his own artistic projects which include the Lamy Istrefi Jr. Trio and Quartet featuring NEA Jazz Master, Dave Liebman, and the Musical Minds Orchestra, a large experimental ensemble that he founded in 2010. smallslive.com/artists/1284-lamy-istrefi-jr/
Leo Genovese, originally from Venado Tuerto, Argentina, studied classical piano at the National University of Rosario before moving to Boston to attend the Berklee College of Music, where he graduated as a Professional Music Major in 2003. Genovese has performed and recorded with renowned musicians such as Hal Crook, Darren Barrett, George Garzone, Francisco Mela, Joe Lovano, Bob Gulloti, Phil Grenadier, Dave Santoro, Chris Cheek and Ben Monder. From 2005 he toured internationally and recorded with bassist and vocalist, Esperanza Spalding. His first album, Haiku II, was released in 2004, and was followed by Unlocked in 2008 and Seeds in 2013. facebook.com/leogenovesemusic/
Mersiha Mesihovic/CIRCUITDEBRIS is a space for interdisciplinarity, radical dance and community engagement which Mesihovic initiated in 2011 to formally conceptualize her collaboration with artists across disciplines. She has collaborated closely as a producer, dramaturge, performer/choreographer with artists such as Karen Bernard, Reggie Wilson, Jaamil Olawale Kosoko and James Brandon Lewis. Her work has been presented internationally, and received support from New Dance Alliance and New York Foundation for the Arts. Mesihovic currently resides in New York City, where she is actively developing her unique movement method, M-BODYMENT, and teaches at a wide range of institutions and cultural organizations in the United States and abroad including Gibney Dance Center, Peridance Capezio Center, and Wits University in Johannesburg and TUT University in Pretoria, South Africa, where she is a frequent guest lecturer. circuitdebris.org
Stacy Grossfield was born and raised in Lakeland, Florida, and has choreographed and performed in New York City since 2003. Her most recent work, hot dark matter, was presented by JACK in March of 2016. Her previous works include Fur & Tulle and Red, Pink, Black – the latter for which she received a Manhattan Community Arts Fund grant in 2013. She has shown work at Brooklyn Arts Exchange, BRIC Studio, Center for Performance Research, CATCH, Dance Theater Workshop, Food for Thought at Danspace Project, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Roulette and through AUNTS at various venues including Arts@Renaissance, NADA Art Fair and the New Museum. Grossfield is a choreographer for hire and has recently choreographed the one-man-show, Quiet, Comfort, a Hoi Polloi production at JACK, as well as the Okkervil River music video “Judey On A Street”. She was a 2008-2009 Fresh Tracks Artist-in-Residence at Dance Theater Workshop. She has served on dance panels in NYC and taught a feedback class at Brooklyn Studios for Dance called Show & Listen. She holds a BFA in Dance Performance from SUNY Purchase. stacygrossfield.com
Gil Sperling is a multimedia artist, performance maker and video designer. He has created short films and video installations, video design for the stage and multimedia performances. Sperling is a graduate of the School of Visual Theater in Jerusalem, and holds a BA in Psychology and Philosophy. He spent a year as a fellow at the Cologne Academy of Art (KHM). As a multimedia performance creator his works include Shulamis or the Well and the Pussycat at the Target Margin Yiddish Lab, New York (2012), Sotto Voce, a multimedia musical theater project presented in Berlin (2011) and Ruhe Sanfte, a musical-visual performance presented at the Israeli Opera (2005). Noted video design work includes City of Glass at the New Ohio Theater (2016), Trade Practices at HERE Arts Center (2014), Uriel Acosta at The Chocolate Factory (2014) and Don Giovanni at the Cologne Opera (2010). His video installation work has been presented at the SVA Gallery in New York, Hellerau Arts Center in Dresden, Germany, Kampo Museum in Kyoto, Japan and Ein-Harod Museum in Israel. Sperling was a Nominee for an NY Innovative Theater Award (2016) for Video Design in City of Glass, a Planet Connections Award Winner (2012) for Outstanding Use of Projections and Multimedia in Trafficked and Winner of the Operare 11 Prize for New Musical Theater Productions (2011) for Sotto Voce. gilsperling.com
Rie Yamaguchi Borden born in Ehime, Japan, has been a part of New York City’s vibrant Jazz and free-spirited music scene since 1999. Regardless of the medium she is working in, she has the desire to express most honestly and soulfully all that life has to offer. Yamaguchi-Borden is currently a member of the Musical Minds Orchestra led by Lamy Istrefi Jr., where she collaborates with a variety of artists who are simultaneously engaged in opening their personal and global awareness to delve into something much deeper creatively. She continues to cook up schemes as a Jazz vocalist and drummer in NYC.
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About Sunday Service
Sunday Service is a curated series of short-form live performances across mediums. Taking place the first Sunday of each month in the Ready Room, a guest curator is invited to organize a salon style evening of in-progress works, performances, and presentations, anchored by a framing principle such as a question, proposition, theme, or formal structure. Sunday Service encourages works in progress and interdisciplinary endeavors showcased in a lo-fi environment to foster experimentation and critical discourse amongst peers.
Brooklyn alternative hip-hop artist billy woods celebrates the release of his new ablum, Known Unknowns.
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Known Unknowns is billy woods’ new album, a follow-up to 2013’s Blockhead collaboration Dour Candy. Blockhead is still behind the boards here but there are also a couple beats from his longtime collaborator Aesop Rock. But the center of the whirlwind is still woods, who re-emerges from a two-year hiatus after releasing the avant-garde Today, I Wrote Nothing in early 2015. Known Unknowns finds the artist on more melodic ground, but still his esoteric, acerbic self, spinning verses equal parts joy and terror, wry wit and blind rage. There are guest appearances from ELUCID (Armand Hammer), as well as Aesop Rock, Homeboy Sandman, Googie, singer Barrie McLain and DJ Mo Niklz. Since Dour Candy, Blockhead has worked with Aesop, Sandman and MarQ Spekt but Known Unknowns shows that he and woods have developed their own unique chemistry. – Backwoodz Studio
billy woods
ELUCID
Denmark Vessey
Quelle Chris
Googie
Career Crooks (Zilla Rocca and Small Pro)
Hosted by PremRock
