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Apr 10

SOUNDC O R R I D O R S

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SOUNDCORRIDORS is a series of sound events exploring non-traditional interactions between sound and space. Set in architecturally and acoustically unique spaces, the series invites sound artists and composers to generate new work to activate the peculiarities of each performance environment. At the heart of SOUNDCORRIDORS is a multi-channel sound system, meticulously placed to turn the entirety of the 25,000 sq ft Knockdown Center into a singular instrument. A day long event, the audience was invited to wander freely, choosing their own sonic and spatial narrative.

 

FEATURING:
Ashcan Orchestra
Leila Bordreuil
Sabisha Freidberg
Richard Garet
Alfredo Marin
Miya Masaoka
Doron Sadja
Tristan Shepherd

Organized by Doron Sadja and Tristan Shepherd

Apr 10

Knockdown Flea

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Featuring a rotating cast of out of town vendors, guest chefs and live entertainment, coupled with the occasional site specific artist project, the market provided a unique and constantly evolving backdrop for conversation and non-objective hang time.

Apr 10

Initial Contractions

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Presented by:
VISITATION
REANIMATION LIBRARY
KNOCKDOWN CENTER

INITIAL CONTRACTIONS takes its name from page 72 of a braille manual for the sighted, a manual you will likely never see but which you might see thru more easily. 25 artists, composers, poets, performers, architects, activists, curators & cooks cross purposes for a 1-day exhibition.

Each participant has been visited & granted spectral vision by way of the propulsive page in question, which will remain in question even as it poses others, its elaborate configurations projecting one space into another, like an ellipsis inside an ellipsis in an ellipsis, how each miracle manifestation proposes the next while problematizing the last.

Participants included:
MITCHELL AKIYAMA
SONEL BRESLAV / BLONDE ART BOOKS
REBECCA DAVIS w/ Lydia Chrisman + Donna Costello
MARK de WILDE
MARLEY FREEMAN
MARK GEFFRIAUD
LUKAS GERONIMAS
MADHU KAZA
CARL KOEPCKE + JACK COCHRAN
THOMAS LOVE
ORGANISM for POETIC RESEARCH
JONATHAN vanDYKE
SIEBREN VERSTEEG

Apr 10

D.O.M.E.

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From Globular Cluster presented an otherworldly installation and performance featuring 2 monumental inflatable dome sculptures with interactive video projection, optics and sound.  Ambient musicians provided an immersive sound environment of tones and textures.

Performances by:

Javier Lopez Williams, Sarah Reynolds, Snykhunt, Jake Adams, Robert L. Pepper, Yuko Pepe and Kurt Freye

This event was made possible in part by a grant from the Queens Council on the Arts.

Apr 10

LOXM

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Knockdown hosted the inaugural Ladies of Experimental Music… a festival  of noise, Dada hijinks and vampire robots, oh my!

Performances by:
Metalux
Fat Worm of Error
Vinka Varna
Snaykhunt + RAFT
Trabajo
Maria Chavez
Jeanann Dara + David First
DJ Maria Minerva

Apr 10

Memory Palace

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Memory Palace was a site-specific aural exhibition created in response to the unique architectural experience of Knockdown Center. Artists primarily working in the medium of sound were asked to step inside a physical space that feels distant from the daily pace of our urban reality; in this altered environment, they were asked to engage as they see fit with the site’s grand structural design, as well as the history contained within its walls.

The artists of Memory Palace used sound as a tool to stretch one’s perception of space and abandon our basic reliance on vision as our primary source for understanding experience. They explored the significance of the site’s unique architectural experience via a wide variety of techniques ranging from the narrative to the historical to the abstract. In a building radiating with history, the exhibition explored the former factory as simultaneously a manufacturing site, ghost town, unique aural environment and sonic playground.

Artists:

Maria Chavez
Kyle Farrell (with Eliza McKelway and Amity Jones)
Daniel Neumann
Michael Rosen
TRICOT (Merche Blasco and Thessia Machado)
Nick Yulman
Curated by Kate Watson

 

 

Apr 10

Bloomsday

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Bloomsday is an annual celebration of James Joyce’s Ulysses that takes place on June 16. The novel takes place over the course of a single day, June 16, 1904, with 18 episodes that correspond to Homer’s Odyssey. Each of the 18 chapters of the book were transformed into installations of art objects, structures, sounds, videos, performance, food, and more. Celebrating Joyce’s “enraptured paean to the world of the physical senses,” our Bloomsday was an ambulatory experience that mirrored Joyce’s prose in all its juicy, uncompromising, vulnerable, fragmented, and synesthetic confusion.

Participants include:

Abraham Adams, Sonel Breslav (Blonde Art Books), Victoria Campbell, Ashton Cooper, Simon Critchley, Anthony Cudahy, Moze Halperin, Kelsey Harrison, Bethany Ides, Victoria Keddie and Scott Kiernan (E.S.P. TV) Jillian McManemin, Marrek Milde and Kristyna Milde, Papercut Press (Maggie Craig + Amela Parcic), Paul Pino (PAULAPART), Paul Pinto, Nicole Reber, Sorry Archive, Michael Swellander, Zefrey Throwell, H. Weaver, Chloe Wyma, Alex Zandi

Reading table organized by Blonde Art Books with contributions from Ugly Duckling Presse, Molasses Books, Mellow Pages Library and more.

All are welcome. Email vanessa@knockdown.center for more info.

Apr 10

Assemble X

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Organized by Pat Noeker

The 10th installment of the ongoing sound and performance series ASSEMBLE found itself at the Knockdown Center on May 11, 2013 when 16 superb performers randomly positioned throughout Knockdown simultaneously played long sustained notes of A and E. The list of performers is as follows:

Alexandra Drewchin JR., Bonnie Baxter, James Corrigan, Jeanann Dara, David First, Kate Henderson, Laura Ortman, Michael Durek, Camilla Ha, Daniel Schlett, Sto Len, Ted McGrath, Jason Poranski, Sadaf H., Adam Holquist, and Charles Shriner.

Live visuals will be performed throughout by Matthew Caron, Peter Shapiro, Eric Drasin, Reid Bingham, Sofy Yuditskaya and Matt Romain of of Fast Food Music Video.

The first set started at 8:30 and the second at 10. In between Ash Can Orchestra performed with The Amazing Amy, a contortionist.

Apr 10

REHEARSAL

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REHEARSAL was a works-in-progress showing of various types of performance works. At every REHEARSAL an artist or group presented with the opportunity to hear feedback from others. Loosely following the Liz Lerman Critical Response structure, moderator Sophia Cleary provided a structured space for feedback open to the audience. By creating a consistent artist-centered space for works-in-progress showings, REHEARSAL aimed to provide rich and respectful feedback to performing artists in all stages of work.

Work was presented by:
Samuel Jojo Ashford, November 15, 2012
Max Price, October 25, 2012
Kirsten Schnittker, October 11, 2012

 

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