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Oct 25

Armada Fania

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A DJ night and record digging pop-up from Fania, the NYC label founded in 1964 that launched some of the biggest Latin stars of Salsa and Afro-Carribean sounds, the likes of Celia Cruz, Larry Harlow, Bobby Valentín, and Héctor Lavoe. Armada Fania is a special event presented in partnership with the Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival. The musical lineup spans a variety of musical styles championed by Fania, including headliner Kenny Dope, the world renowned DJ/producer and Brooklyn native whose career spans over 30 years and founded the influential Masters at Work (with Louie Vega); acclaimed LA DJ/producer Jose Marquez known for his infectious global dance rhythms; Uproot Andy, one half of the popular NYC tropical bass DJ team Que Bajo; the eclectic Puerto Rican pan-pop sister DJ act Nina Sky (aka Nicole and Natalie Albino); and the leading latin boogaloo expert DJ Turmix, who helped reinvigorate the latin boogaloo scene in NYC since arriving from Barcelona in 2008. First-generation Puerto Rican artist Carlos Rolón/Dzine, who is internationally recognized for his elaborately crafted paintings, sculptures and site-specific installations, will exhibit a special piece at the pop-up celebrating Fania’s illustrious history. A special retail pop-up market will be filled with Fania’s famed vinyl catalogue.

For more info visit: www.armadafania.com

ABOUT FANIA:

Fania is the most transcendental label in the history of Latin music.  Home to a roster of iconic music stars, these artists offered a cornucopia of styles that surpassed the boundaries of traditional Latin music and set the path for the genres of Latin big band, Afro-Cuban jazz, boogaloo, salsa and Latin R&B.  By bringing together the eclectic vision of Dominican bandleader Johnny Pacheco with the business savvy of Lawyer Jerry Masucci, Fania created a unique sound: the apex of tropical music, combined with the swing of big band jazz and the gritty vibe of American R&B. The label provided an artistic heaven for a young generation of musicians who were inspired to experiment with new musical formats.   It also gave birth to a musical group, the legendary Fania All Stars that changed the history of Latin Music.  www.fania.com.

 

Oct 22

Stan VanDerBeek & Joan Brigham: Steam Screens

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From: Stan VanDerBeek & Joan Brigham, “Steam Screens”, 1979 (photo: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1979) – Image courtesy of the Stan VanDerBeek Estate

“Steam Screens” made its first appearance in the Sculpture Garden of the Whitney Museum in December 1979 as the fourth work in a series of collaborations between Stan VanDerBeek and Joan Brigham. In this live multiple projection work curtains of steam rise from a system of metal pipes, reconfigured today by Brigham for the current environment, as “screens” onto which a selection of VanDerBeek’s 16mm films are projected. Audience members are not only viewers, but active participants, displacing steam and intercepting light to become projection surfaces themselves.

“In the steam the film reaches the ultimate point of dematerialization. The audience is able, physically, to enter the image and the cloud and become wrapped in a wholly new experience.” – Joan Brigham, 1979

About “Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905-2016”
This fall, the Whitney Museum of American Art presents Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016, a landmark exhibition that focuses on the ways in which technology has created new forms of immersive experience using the moving image. Artists have dismantled and reassembled the conventions of cinema—screen, projection, darkness—to create new readings of space, optical form, and time. The exhibition will fill the Museum’s 18,000-square-foot Neil Bluhm Family Galleries on the fifth floor, as well as the adjacent Kaufman Gallery, and will include a substantial film program in the Susan and John Hess Family Theater, and a series of expanded cinema events organized by Microscope Gallery in Bushwick, Brooklyn, in collaboration with the Whitney. Organized by Chrissie Iles, the Whitney’s Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator.

Lead Underwriting Support Provided by the Robert D. Bielecki Foundation.
 Generous Support provided by J.J. Kasper, Paul Jost, and Natasha Reatig.

This presentation is made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council of the Arts’ Electronic Media & Film Presentation Funds grant program, administered by The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes.

Microscope Gallery Event Series is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC).

Additional Support provided by Knockdown Center and Negativland.

Sponsored by Colorlab and The Bodega. Official Media Partner: The Brooklyn Rail.

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