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Exit Art // 475 Tenth Avenue @ 36th Street // NYC
$5 - $20 Pay-As-You-Wish
Tickets at the door / $15 advanced tickets below / CASH BAR
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Music Performances: LEMONADE - CLASS ACTRESS - BRAHMS
Video: SIMONE LEIGH , ALEKSANDRA MIR, CHARLES STANKIEVECH
Art Performances: SHANA MOULTON, BRINA THURSTON
A NEW BREED is inspired by the Waterpod, a floating, sculptural structure/habitat/community space that traveled around the boroughs of New York in Summer 2009.
Exit Art and Waterpod are excited to introduce a night of multimedia performance from a generation of young artists and innovators. Join us for this party to benefit Exit Art’s SEA (Social Environmental Aesthetics) program and Waterpod.
A New Breed reimagines social space and revises the notion of the Happening in 2010. It presents a group of artists working in video, music, and performance who are interested in community, sustainability and new visions for the post industrial landscape.
Conceived by Papo Colo, SEA is a unique endeavor that presents a diverse multimedia exhibition program and permanent archive of artworks that address social and environmental concerns. SEA assembles artists, activists, scientists and scholars to address environmental issues through presentations of visual art, performances, panels and lecture series. SEA’s central mission is to provide a vehicle through which the public can be made aware of socially- and environmentally- engaged work, and to provide a forum for collaboration between artists, scientists, activists, scholars and the public. SEA functions as an initiative where individuals can join together in dialogue about issues that affect our daily lives.
Organized by Ian Daniel and Mary Mattingly in cooperation with Exit Art.
Special thanks to Adam Schneider http://madaes.com for photographing the event!
EXIT ART 475 Tenth Avenue NYC 212-966-7745 www.exitart.org
Music performances by:
Lemonade :
This poplar brooklyn trio are reinventing electro-dance-rock through their big beats and entrancing shows. Lemonade replicate "that first sensation of losing yourself in a peak-hour, strobe-lit reverie where the communal act of dancing teeters between liberation and disorientation," says Pitchfork.com, "imagineMetal Box-era John Lydon bellowing out Sigur Rós' Hopelandic lyric sheet-- but layers it with Arabic-accented melodies, machine-gunned synths and a pounding 4/4 beat."http://www.myspace.com/bananasandecstasy
Class Actress :
Elizabeth Harper, deemed "Brooklyn's very own Madonna" by NY Press, with her new electro-pop trio Class Actress, is using older 80's syth influences to break new ground in music and peformance. Pitchfork.com describes them as "freely appropriating the sullen synthetics of New Order, the Human League, and Depeche Mode [while offering] a playful, breathy coo that hearkens back to hipster queens like Blondie's Debbie Harry and Saint Etienne's Sarah Cracknell."http://www.myspace.com/elizabethharper
Brahms:
Newly formed in Brooklyn, Brahms is already making big waves with their electro-pop beats and creative performance style. They are quickly taking over the local music scene, as Deli Magazine notes, with a line-up of great shows with well known bands including Telepathe, Boy Crisis, Body Language, Javelin and Lemonade. http://www.myspace.com/brahmsisaband
Performances by:
Shana Moulton will perform her piece "Nature Mediation." Moulton is a video artist listed by Paddy Johnson in Art Fag City and L Magazine's "Art: Best of 2009," who uses video and performance to "create oblique narratives combining unsettling humor with a low-tech, Pop sensibility. Moulton's work frequently involves a character that navigates the enigmatic and magical properties of her home decor while interacting with consumer products toying with an issues about commercialization, subcultures of self-help and low-brow spiritualism." Moulton has performed pieces at Performa '09, the Bellwether Gallery, Art in General, Socrates Sculpture Park, Smack Mellon, and has an upcoming performance at the Kitchen.
Brina Thurston is a multimedia artist who works with video, sculpture and photography and social practice. "Seeking out the humor, sexuality and absurdity in the everyday while maintaining a critical view of our contemporary social systems, many of these pieces are steeped in institutional critique and become reactions/interventions to the artists immediate surroundings." Thurston has exhibited at Rivington Arms, Dean Projects, Gavin Brown @ Passerby, Location One, and was part of the 2009 Frieze Fair Projects.
Video by:
Aleksandra Mir's art focuses on "faith in possibility, and those coincidences that make an expanding world a little smaller. Her work is about social systems,demography,ephemera,distribution, and tourist economies. Mir advocates new ideas of community by forming strong collaborative relationships and encouraging public interaction with her art." She has had numerous solo exhibitions at museums including the Institute of Contemporary Art in London and the PS1 Contemporary Art Center in New York. This will be the first public screening in New York of her video "Gravity."
Simone Leigh will present her video, “Uhura (Back and Forth), 2008. Leigh’s work has been exhibited nationally, including solo shows at Rush Arts Gallery Project Space and Momenta Art gallery and in group exhibitions at Exit Art, The Kitchen, The Fine Art Work Center, Rotunda Gallery and more. Leigh uses the "anthropological term skeuomorph as a reoccurring concept in her work, describing a derivative object that retains some sort of physical or metaphorical elements of the original, a substitute used to ease a sense of loss."
Charles Stankievech,an artist, writer, educator and curator was an "artist in residence" on the Waterpod. He will screen his film "Ghost Rockets" from his series of rocket launch spectacles occurring at sites around the world tracing the history of ballistics. Adapting the form of a rock’n roll world tour, each site is paired with a pop song, which often becomes the performance’s title and inspires a choreographed spectacle involving amplified sound on location, smoke grenades, lighting effects, and the rocket launch. "Ghost Rocks" will be exhibited at an upcoming exhibit at Palais de Tokyo in Paris
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