Performance, Not Otherwise Specified
Saturday October 20, 6:45 – 8:15 pm
Space on White
81 White Street, between Broadway and Lafayette
Space 4, lower level
(212) 227 – 8600
$5.00 Suggested Donation
Inspired by the idea that what is difficult to categorize or define can be
both a source of anxiety as well as expansive possibility, Performance,
Not Otherwise Specified presents recent works by six artists whose
practices actively engage the body, experiment with space, confront
comfort and pose questions to the audience. Venturing in and out of
different forms of performance, the evening will explore the ways diverse
genres can be brought together to create new juxtapositions and
connections.
Artists: Michele Beck & Jorge Calvo, Ana Carvalho, Pamela Heron, Yuki
Kawahisa, Randall Moore, Edith Raw
Michele Beck and Jorge Calvo
Beck and Calvo’s work de-constructs the human psyche to some of its most
primitive components and presents broken down forms of language, archaic
sounds, emotional experiences, thoughts and psychological processes. The
single channel videos, installations and performances function much like
poems, choosing the minimum of materials in order to articulate internal
spaces where the unconscious has free rein, and primitive trauma is worked
through, re-created and mastered.
Beck and Calvo will be performing their new work “Window”.
http://www.michelebeck.net
Ana Carvalho
With a focus on visual communication, Carvalho extends her interests
across disciplines and areas of knowledge, feeding a strong curiosity
about everything. Central subjects to her work are identity (collective
and individual), memory and uses of technology. Art projects evidence
process as art and are practical reflections on fictional biography,
social utopias, ways of knowing and women's achievements. Outcomes take
form of texts (books), photographs, installations and live audiovisual
performances. Blogging is used as reflective tool on processes and
results. Carvalho is a PhD candidate on Communication and Digital
Platforms at Faculdade de Letras, Universidade do Porto, in Portugal.
http://cargocollective.com/visual-agency/Visual-Agency
Yuki Kawahisa
Pamela Heron
Pamela discovered Butoh in the late 90's and began performing with
Vangeline Theater as a principle dancer in 2006. She has studied
extensively and performed with Vangeline and Butoh masters Diego Piñon,
Katsura Kan, Eiko and Koma, The Tamanos, and Tetsuro Fukuhara. Her solo
works have been performed on screen in 'Birth' by filmmaker Christian
Huguenot and around NYC at theaters as Dixon Place & Theater For The New
City.
On October 20th, Pamela’s piece will be an exploration on the history of
spirit, from many lifetimes of human and non human~ earth bound and
universal existence.
Yuki Kawahisa, a native of Japan, is an actor/writer/performance
artist/contemporary dancer. Based in New York, Kawahisa has been
performing internationally (Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Indonesia and
Australia) her own works and others. She has worked with internationally
acclaimed theater directors Robert Wilson and Richard Foreman, as well as
with dancers, media artists, vocal artists, poets and musicians.
Kawahisa will be performing (magic words), a solo improvisation with the
text ”Magic Words” translated from Inuit by Edward Field.
More info at http://www.yukikawahisa.com
Randall Moore
From age five to seventeen, Randall received a solid training in classical
piano. Adolescent angst inspired some off-page improvisations; these
expressed an increasing tension with a repressed, religious family. After
dropping out of college, Randall traveled for two years by bicycle through
the states - he then resumed playing with a more focused energy. While
gigging professionally, he kept working on a form that would channel a
primal and percussive music, a personal voice, deeply felt but elusive.
Years of experimental practice led to the sound he now performs; the loop
was the key to fusing disparate elements into a continuous waveform. In
2001 he received a Meet The Composer Grant for a performance of this work;
from 2002-2006 he played at the Knitting Factory several times a year.
Randall will be performing, Primalocity:twentynine
Edith Raw
Edith Raw is an artist, performer, interruptive spectacle maker, arts
educator and poet. Originally from Chicago, she has lived in Brooklyn, NY
since 2005. Her work has been viewed in such festivals and venues in New
York City as Art In Odd Places, The New Museum, Here Theater, CAVE Arts
Space, The Bowery Poetry Club and Lincoln Center. Tonight's performance
also features collaborator, Gregory Smith. Newspaper bag masks and art
object were made by Chicago artist, Caroline Anderson.
Edith will be performing "Profile", based on oppressive practices of
profiling and Stop & Frisk.
JEREMY D. SLATER is a multi-disciplinary artist working in the areas of sound, video, computer art, performance, and installation. Born in Reading, England and a graduate of both SUNY College at Buffalo and School of Visual Arts with an MFA in Computer Art. Performances include sound and live performed video that is ambient and sometimes interactive/reactive Video work also includes single and multiple channel videos for screening and installations with sound and ephemeral sculpture. He is currently curator of a sound and video performances at Front Room Gallery. He has curated numerous performance events and gallery shows in New York including A Sound Show at Front Room Gallery, sound/video performances series kere.u and FLOW, Sun Khronos at Millennium Film Workshop, and Video as an Instrument. at The Tank and Supreme Trading Gallery. Jeremy Slater was one of the 1999 recipients of the Computer Art Fellowship from New York Foundation of the Arts (NYFA) and has attended the Experimental Television Residency, was guest musician at Watermill Center with Cave/Leimay, and was artist in residence at Seoul Art Space_Geumcheon in Seoul, South Korea. He has exhibited and performed nationally and internationally. www.jeremyslater.net
JEREMY D. SLATER is a multi-disciplinary artist working in the areas of sound, video, computer art, performance, and installation. Born in Reading, England and a graduate of both SUNY College at Buffalo and School of Visual Arts with an MFA in Computer Art. Performances include sound and live performed video that is ambient and sometimes interactive/reactive Video work also includes single and multiple channel videos for screening and installations with sound and ephemeral sculpture. He is currently curator of a sound and video performances at Front Room Gallery. He has curated numerous performance events and gallery shows in New York including A Sound Show at Front Room Gallery, sound/video performances series kere.u and FLOW, Sun Khronos at Millennium Film Workshop, and Video as an Instrument. at The Tank and Supreme Trading Gallery. Jeremy Slater was one of the 1999 recipients of the Computer Art Fellowship from New York Foundation of the Arts (NYFA) and has attended the Experimental Television Residency, was guest musician at Watermill Center with Cave/Leimay, and was artist in residence at Seoul Art Space_Geumcheon in Seoul, South Korea. He has exhibited and performed nationally and internationally. www.jeremyslater.net
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