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Nov 04

Days the World Went Mad

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A free 16mm screening brought to you by 3TON Cinema

A 1965 British documentary on natural disasters, projected on glorious 16MM!  “Compiled of film gathered from all over the world, including unique footage of an Alaskan earthquake taken by a sailor who was filming people on a jetty only a few seconds before the disaster occurred. The camera ran on during the first onslaught of the earthquake.” (TRT 51 mins.) …To be accompanied by archive shorts, cartoons, and other ephemera from the California-based 3TON archive.

3TON Cinema is a roving DIY microcinema with a collection of roughly 1,000 ephemeral films from the 20th century, all on 16MM. Founded in Oakland in 2009 by Laskfar Vortok and Montgomery Cantsin, 3TON has exhibited in a variety of venues across the United States. This screening concludes their cross-country fall tour.

 

Nov 03

Pollinis

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Evelyn C. Lewis presents Pollinis in J McDonald’s A Way From Home trailer. Thinking of honeybees as art makers and artists as beekeepers, she exhibits “one woman’s collaboration with her Brooklyn bees.”

Nov 03

Around Flat

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A new exhibition curated by William Staples brings together visual art works in two and three dimensions to reflect on how those two formal approaches engage the viewer. The properties that define each medium and the demands they make are distinct, whether flat or in the round. In the case of painting or other two-dimensional work, the beholder stands in front of the surface, encountering the composition vis à vis their position before a solid vertical plane. By contrast, three-dimensional art works occupy the same space as the viewer, who must circle the object to consider its various angles and surfaces. Ultimately, both formats are unified by their visual generosity toward a thoughtful viewer.

Oct 28

Tragedy and Healing In Nantucky

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Comdy Central Pretends and BHQFU (The Bruce High Quality Foundation University) present:
an evening of experimental comedy inspired by Bloch

Tragedy and Healing in Nantucky

Nantucky is a small, quiet town. It’s the kind of place where everybody greets their neighbors, and no one locks their doors. But, it was recently discovered that Nantucky is home to the worst, most deranged and truly evil criminal in history. While the residents of Nantucky will never forget the hundreds of lives that were taken and destroyed by this monster, the town is ready to move forward from this tragedy. It’s time to let the healing begin.

Oct 23

Contemporary Temporary Sound Sessions

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Lectures: Presentations: Workshops: Experiments: Studies: Concerts: Exchanges: 

Under the guidance of Daniel Neumann, CT-SWaM founder and accomplished sound engineer, this 3 day workshop is catered to sound artists, noise producers, composers of electronic and electro-acoustic music, as well as experimental musicians and sound designers, interested in deepening their practice and exploring spatialization as a creative element.

The workshop will give a historical overview on the subject with some technical background and explored aesthetics and techniques for spatialization. One objective is to practice listening as a phenomenological activity: the listener immersed in inner spaces / distance and continuity / sound as intersubjective space.

For more information on attending the workshop click here.

The workshop itself is now closed to the public but participants and guest performers will present work at Knockdown Center on the following days:

Sat, Nov 14
4p-6p: performances by participants
6p-8p: Pedro Lopes (Berlin), lecture and performance

Sun, Nov 15
2p-6p: performances by participants

Tue, Nov 17, $7 suggested donation

Kamron Saniee
Michael Hammond
Gus Callahan
Matthew Gantt
&
Gabe Raines

7pm Gabe Raines will present “Sun Castle – Room of a Thousand Doors – Door Two”. His sound project describes various spaces inside an imaginary castle. The spaces can be together into a functional audio map of the cavernous circular room.

8:30pm Jenn Grossman: multi-channel pieces

9pm Woody Sullender’s “Variations on Furniture Music” is a series of multi-channel electronic music performances utilizing arrangements of modular cardboard forms outfitted with audio transducers. His work encompass a variety of media including music, sculpture, performance, theater, installation, architecture, origami, and even sonic weaponry. Among other activities, he is founding co-editor (will Bill Dietz) of the sonic arts publication Ear | Wave | Event (earwaveevent.org).

All performances are open to the public.

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Oct 21

Kids’ Halloween party

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Free and open to the public! Come in costume.
Photo portrait booth!

Trick or Treating!!

Fun sensory games:

TOUCH: guts, brain, eyeballs, and more!
HEAR: Play our spooky Theremin!
TASTE: Bob for an apple, and have it candied… in blood!
SEE: Hand-print spider craft project

3:30-4:30pm Free shuttle to Mt. Olivet Cemetary gates: the starting point of the Maspeth Lions Club Halloween Ragamuffin Parade
Exhibitions also on view 2-6pm:
Maybe I’m Amazed
Things with Claws

 

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Oct 19

Things with Claws

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Things with claws don’t just scratch us but get deep inside of us.  They cling to our bodies and we walk around simultaneously burdened and accompanied by them, never alone, always with this thing attached to us. J McDonald presents some of these things as Part II of the A Way From Home project.

 

 

Oct 09

Herman Kolgen and Nicolas Bernier

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As part of Quebec Digital, New York (October 22 – 25), Elektra and FuturePerfect co-present two audiovisual masters from Montreal — Herman Kolgen and Nicolas Bernier. Kolgen performs his acclaimed Dust, an audiovisual masterpiece inspired by Man Ray’s photograph “Elevage de Poussiere.” Concerned with giving form to what the eye cannot capture, Kolgen creates a spectacular world from mere dust particles, revealing their fibrous networks, deep structures and hypnotic complexities. At the threshold between the invisible and the visible, Dust becomes intoxicating and the video surface a veritable accumulation of x-rays. Simultaneously emotional and conceptual, audiences will never see or hear dust again in the same way.

Nicolas Bernier’s Frequencies (synthetic variations) is a part of an ongoing process that draws upon basic generative systems. Performed in real-time, this is Bernier’s first laptop performance, a dialogue between sound, light and material. Frequencies consists of pre-written sequences of synthetic sounds with light synchronized within small acrylic structures; a digital work visually translated into physical elements. With incredible precision and minimal means, Bernier creates a mesmerizing work where audiences can either hear the light or see the sound.

 Click here for more info.

Oct 05

Bloch Party

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BLOCH PARTY with Packet Biweekly
and a giant Swiss log
at Onderdonk House
18-20 Flushing Ave, Queens, NY 11385
October 17, open house beginning 1pm,
performances and magazine launch 4-6pm

What does a 100-year old Swiss log on a journey around the world have to do with New York City’s oldest Dutch farmhouse? Come find out on Saturday, October 17! Onderdonk House hosts Bloch for an afternoon of family-friendly activities, with tours of the historic 18th century house. An afternoon of refreshments, readings, and musical performance marks the launch of Packet Biweekly’s special log edition. A campfire on the house grounds at sunset will close the evening.

Oct 01

Tamar Ettun: Mauve Bird with Yellow Teeth Red Feathers Green Feet and a Rose Belly, PART BLUE

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Mauve Bird with Yellow Teeth Red Feathers Green Feet and a Rose Belly, PART BLUE is a performance and immersive psychological landscape by Tamar Ettun and her performance group The Moving Company. Using dance, sound, vast colors, and everyday object assemblages, Ettun seeks to locate a bodily impulse for empathy. This marks the first part of a performance tetralogy, each associated with colors and seasons (Blue/Winter, Red/Spring, Yellow/Summer, Orange/Fall). A new installment will premiere each year until the completion of the project in 2018.

PART BLUE starts as a still formal sculpture, in which the movers are bound to one another as an apparatus made of humans and objects. The elements lean against one another, so the connections among objects and humans are necessary but tenuous; if anyone were to let go, the machine would collapse on itself entirely. The performers begin to mirror each other’s movements, eventually leaving their places in the system. Each one develops her own unique set of repetitive movements emanating from her object. This piece confronts our own mechanized psychological defenses with accumulated gestures. Through contradiction and complement in stillness and movement, viewers are invited to enter the moving installation, while the various scenes and the performers/movers mirror each other in search of primal empathy.

This performance follows Tamar Ettun’s solo exhibition at Fridman Gallery in NYC, featuring sculptural and video portions of this project.

The Moving Company performers: Maia Karo, Laura Bernstein , Sabrina Shapiro , Rebecca Pristoop , Tina Wang , Mor Mendel, Tamar Ettun. Costume design by Ella Dagan

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