IN_TENTION: Emerging Contemporary Performance Art Practices
by admin on October 19th, 2006
Steven Lam
IN_TENTION :: October 25-November 4, 2006 :: Tyler Gallery, Elkins Park, PA :: OPENING Thursday, October 26 2006, 7-9 pm.
This exhibition explores emerging contemporary performance art practices, and is curated by the student group Produce. The project will include work by five artists from across the country. A two-week exhibition will present ongoing performances by David Howe (GA) and Steven Lam (NY), and there will be three one-night performances by artists Quentin Davis (PA), Benjamin Kinsley (OH) and Nelson Loskamp (NY). In addition, a panel discussion will be led by philosopher, critic and artist Tom Zummer, and a workshop for students will be offered by Benjamin Kinsley from the Poke Orchestra.
Steven Lam’s project (in the Main gallery) will consist of an alternating suite of videos and a pirate radio transmission. Pulling from cybernetics/systems theory, apparatus theory, post-modern dance, and historical video art, the project is dialectical in nature; it re-uses discarded clips from an earlier library splicing them with new footage.
For the past few years, Lam has been interested in video as a medium that recodes, archives, and transmits. A new suite of videos will be introduced periodically within the duration of the exhibition. A perpetually evolving archive, the exhibition, ironic and deadpan, will be an experiment for me to toy with distributional media. Additionally, Lam will transmit an audio project on a local AM radio band of me reading the entirety of Friedrich Kittlers “Gramophone, Film, Typewriter.” This will be broadcasted and accessible 24 hours a day during the exhibition. The AM band will be announced shortly.
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realroom peripheral architecture
by GeoSocial on April 28th, 2006
an experimental architectural project for the Nestlé World Headquarters in Vevey (Switzerland), which proposes to insert a series of “spatial entities” in the existing building. the RealRoom(s) are informed by atomic clocks, luminosity, heat, pressure & humidity sensors, & are distributed in a regular framework representing the entire world globe (one RealRoom per time zone, on 0°, +/-30°, +/-60° and +/-90° latitude).
their architectural parameters vary in real time according to climatic, luminous, sound & visual data, retreived from various information sources from all over the globe. they directly recreate in an artificial but perceptible way, a global “terrestrial spatiality” according to the worldwide scale of Nestlé.
see also perpetual tropical sunshine.
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experimental geography
by GeoSocial on April 17th, 2006
how to interpret the world around us
The work of Trevor Paglen is tactical media, speculative non-fiction - an “experimental geography” - as he calls it, accompanied, of course by “experimental lectures”. The online component of his work has a travel-logue quality, with interventions and alien inspired expeditions validated by documented, journalistic interviews. Paglen is a cross-disciplinary practitioner and tactitioner in writing, installation, photography, lectures, performances, interventions, and exhibitions. He appropriates technologies and practices and originates the necessary techniques. One such, “limit-telephotography”, was developed for The Secret Bases project to examine the non-space of secret bases and their supposed non-existence.
In projects like Carceral Landscape the Prison Infiltration and Surveillance Suit was performance attire developed to enable covert videography for the project. Documentation is shown from these visits. Pagen co-opts the stealth technlogies to spy back on the spies and uncover the covert, which he weaves together in speculative, but plausible narratives to help us interpret the world around us.