06 / Gallery Events

An exhibition celebrating uncertainty, transition, and variety. The show will feature multi-media work by artists who hail from around the country and beyond.

NYCAMS is pleased to announce the culminating work of seven student writers who have slaved and slogged, striving over the semester to spawn these writings, selections of which will be read on Friday, May 4, at 4 p.m.

The performance is a junction of dance, visual art, sound, and space design.  Using gravity as the starting point, If You Insist spawns from a curiosity of reconciling ourselves to the ever-present forces that exist in our environment.

This exhibition highlights the work of NYCAMS Post-Baccalaureate fellows Francisco Donoso and Joshua Rayner. The exhibition, Reflexives, exhibits the culmination of an eight-month residency involving intensive studio practice, critiques, and theory development for the fellows. Through works on paper, painting, and mixed media sculpture, these artworks, and their makers, offer real reflection on the human experience.

Reverse Silence, a live collaborative performance in conjunction with the Chelsea Music Festival, features work by French photographer and videographer Karine Laval, jazz composer and trombonist James Hall, experimental composer and cellist Meaghan Burke, woodwind player Aaron Kruziki, and live transmission artist Morgan O’Hara.

A nod to the centennial of composer and musician John Cage’s writings on Silence, the performance will debut the silent film installation, “Reverse,” by Karine Laval. The event itself becomes a reversal of Cageian silence. Laval’s film installation, absent of acoustic sound, serves as the instigation for the collaborative moment, as in turn Hall, Burke, and Kruziki separately create live compositions of sound in response to viewing the silent images. O’Hara, whose acclaimed drawings serve as “a record, performed in real time, of the vital movement of living beings,” will compose a live transmission drawing of the musicians’ interactions with Laval’s work.

Channeling John Cage’s revolutionary use of radios as instruments, sound artist Tamara Yadao will construct an improvised score for this unique evening celebrating Cage. This performance installation will take place at New York Center for Arts and Media Studies as part of the closing reception of the exhibition “What I Know,” curated by Norte Maar’s Director, Jason Andrew. This evening of Cage Transmitted comes with a special thanks to Jessen Jurado.

The New York Center for Art & Media Studies presents a reading of selected poems by Aaron Belz, author of Lovely, Raspberry (Persea, 2010), The Bird Hoverer (BlazeVOX, 2007), and Plausible Worlds (Observable, 2005).Aaron Belz’s poetry has been published in journals coast to coast, from Fence and Boston Review to Eleven Eleven and Zócalo Public Square, and he has given live readings in numerous venues ranging from snooty bookstores and literary salons to improv workshops and comedy festivals. He is currently a resident of Hillsborough, North Carolina. Learn more about this author at http://belz.net/.

Cage Transmitted: Evening 2 Part 2 features Composers Inside Electronics (CIE), a group of composer/performers dedicated to the composition and live performance of electronic music, in an engaging evening of electro-acoustic music by John Driscoll and Doug Van Nort.

The performance will include John Driscoll’s new “Speaking in Tongues” –  a duo work for a group of unusual instruments that use sound above our hearing to translate small physical movements into audible sounds.  Driscoll and Van Nort will also perform a collaborative improvisation using resonant objects to transform sounds and custom software that allows the performers to share and alter each others signals.

“In our day and time it has become difficult to assume anything,” Mr. Andrew explains, “All the verities involved in religion, authority, tradition, style have been thrown into question or completely ignored. All we have is our creative wits. This exhibition marks a unique moment whereby over 40 artists can assert themselves as aggressively as they do for/against, with/without audience, independent of standards and footnotes. The exhibition is an annex of my curatorial mind, important all to myself. Greatness is implied. And the art herein forms a path along which it would be possible to keep culture ‘moving.’”

Images:

Brooke Moyse, "Kaleid," oil on canvas, 80 x 72 inches / courtesy of the artist
Jack Tworkov, "Q3-72#5," acrylic on canvas, 72 x 72 inches / courtesy of the Estate of Jack Tworkov and Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York