POETRY TO THE INFINITIVE POWER(S)
Join us for an evening in celebration of ISSUE Project Room featuring dozens of literature’s finest poets followed by a bacchanalian celebration and performance by These Are Powers.
Proceeds will benefit ISSUE Project Room’s move to 110 Livingston.
At 7pm — The Way of the Word
Poetry Extravaganza curated by Bob Holman, Suzanne Fiol, and Kenneth Goldsmith
featuring the amazing poets:
Bob Holman
Ken Goldmith
Jonas Mekas
Anne Waldman
Judith Malina
Abiodoun Oyewole (of the Last Poets)
Hettie Jones
Jeff Wright
Esther K. Smith
Georgia Luna Faust
Michael Carter
Kathy Engel
Kimiko Hahn
Beau Sia
Holly Anderson
Max Blagg
Frank Lima
Betsey Andrews
Mike Topp
Steve Dalachinsky
Yuko Otumo
and the FLARF POETS:
Gary Sullivan
Sharon Mesmer
Drew Gardner
Katie Degentesh
Jordan Davis
Brandon Downing
Nada Gordon
At 9:00pm — These Are Powers Dance Party
Live performance by These Are Powers with debut screening of their new music video for “Candyman”, featuring the new single off of their forthcoming release with RVNG Intl. Filmed at ISSUE’s future home, the Beaux-Arts 110 Livingston, “Candyman” is a surrealist dinner party where every course served consists entirely of sugar and the guests overindulge in an alternately comedic and nightmarish story. Conceptualized by These Are Powers and director Joseph Krings, the video was produced by a team assembled by Knowmore resulting in a bizarre, fun and colorful video that makes a perfect companion piece to an already infectious song.
TAP’s live performance will feature live AV projections by SECRET PROJECT ROBOT and will be followed by DJ sets by Ryan Sawyer, and Matthew Radune and Jeremy Campbell. Opening the event, immediately after the way of the word, is the duo Lone Wolf and Cub (drummer Ryan Sawyer and trapeze artist Suzanne Rogalsky).
About the TAP Dance Party artists:
These Are Powers
These Are Powers take the familiar and channel it back from the future primitive. We are a language all our own. It is club beats played live, found sounds, pulses, blips, collage, oscillations, electronic watercolor, decay, regeneration and every vibration in between. Whatever it sounds like is not what you think. Look twice. These Are Powers hail from the dual ports of Brooklyn, NY and Chicago, IL.
We are Anna Barie (sings, electronics), Pat Noecker (prepared bass, sings), and Bill Salas (electroacoustic drums, sings). We create movement in freedom, infinity in possibility.
Secret Project Robot
http://www.secretprojectrobot.org/
Secret Project Robot: Art Experiment is a not for profit dedicated to the documentation and proliferation of contemporary art and current cultural trends in music, performance, dance, the party and social theory.
Lone Wolf and Cub
http://www.myspace.com/ryanlonewolfsawyer
Listen to Bob Holman perform his Spoken Word Poem “Walking Brooklyn Bridge” for the Urbana 10th Anniversary party at the Bowery Poetry Club, NYC Oct 2007
parasitic fantasy band
The Parasitic Fantasy Band:
Live ephemeral expanded cinema and ecstatic 16mm/8mm film and sound performances
All the way from New Zealand, deep down in the South Pacific Ocean.
www.parasiticfantasyband.org.nz
Between multiple film projectors, bending mirrors, light fracturing objects, organic materials, gongs, electronics, field recordings, resonating strings and space’s emerges an ecstatic engagement of the senses. An activation of the space around you and the inhabitants sharing that space with you with light and sound, that and the possibility of stepping into a new ephemeral territory of existence and explorative perception, exotically alien yet fundamentally familiar.
The Parasitic Fantasy Band have performed their modified multi-screen 16mm works, structuralist light refractions, phasing optical illusions, ecstatic colour tapestries, pseudo-anthropologic mystic fictional direct film story telling, kinetic alchemical rhythms, hypnotic flicker dreams, trapeze interventions with narratives blueprinted from the life cycles of migrating sea birds…. At venues as diverse as cinema houses to scummy city service alleyways, art galleries and museums to outside in the Outback desert of Australia.
They have recently produced a short experimental 35mm film (Blue Tide, Black Water) that has successfully toured multiple film festivals in the states having received a couple of awards.
But its without a doubt their live performances and dynamic live screens that are were its at for the Parasitic Fantast Band where they try to open up the possibilities of cinema as an active, energetic and truly experiential platform for engaging with people, minds and imaginations with live instrumentation, activations and interventions, droning resonating strings on projectors, textural electronics, computational story telling and forest field recordings hand collected from the Amazon jungles of South America.
“like cannibalism sanctioned by the highest authority”
They have also exhibited installations in galleries and have had various singular film works screened around the world in film festivals, galleries and film programs.
Also active organisers and curators of contemporary and some historic experimental film activity in Auckland they curate the New Zealand International Film Festival’s only experimental film and live cinema program “FPS” and a grass roots independent experimental film and performance festival The Cinema Ascension Festival. Having close ties to the New Zealand Film Archives, The Screen Innovation Production Fund, Creative New Zealand, the Starving Artists Fund, and plenty of other independent experimental film and music people, artists and communities throughout New Zealand, Australia and parts of the US and Europe such as San Francisco, Boston, New York, LA, Chicago, France, Italy, Spain, London, Berlin and Tokyo.
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Andrea Williams
Andrea Williams, a Brooklyn based sound and installation artist, utilizes site-specific elements and perceptual cues to reveal connections between people and their immediate environment. Her live performances involve the manipulation of found objects, processed instruments, and field recordings that are inspired by the act of listening, sense memory, alternative energy and incredible flying dreams. Andrea’s work has been presented at the Whitney Museum, The National Arts Club, Ear to the Earth Festival, Fountain Miami Art Fair, and at the MamoriArtLab in the Amazon rainforest. Sound works can be found on releases by Enterruption, free103point9′s Audio Dispatch series, and Vibrofiles. With the electro-acoustic improv group, the Glass Bees, she has performed at venues such as Diapason Gallery, Barbes, and Monkeytown. As a founding member of the New York Society for Acoustic Ecology, she performs, lectures, and co-curates NYSAE’s Giant Ear))) radio show on
free103point9. Additionally, Andrea leads meditative soundwalks around NYC and beyond.
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