Performance | Three Pieces: Platform for Art and Sound

An evening presentation of three new pieces of sound, image, text or movement from local and visiting artists. Featuring:

Amanda Curreri and Erik Scollon - Color&Color is an artist-curated publication guided by the duality of two thematic colors per issue. "Color&Color was conceived as a mobile venue in which to present new work of artists we respect and with whom we want to work. We hope that with each issue the publication can connect artists with new audiences and expanded dialogue." Not wanting to rely solely on traditional venues like galleries and museums, Color&Color presents artwork via the serial print medium. This opens up access to new spatial-temporal configurations for the work. The publication is available both in printed and digital format.

o.blaat (Keiko Uenishi)'s "Sound Event" - In "Sound Event," the first word, "Sound" swings roughly between two of its many uses in "an experiment through the course of an event": 1: (as noun,) the sensation produced by stimulation of the organs of hearing by vibrations transmitted through the air or other medium. 2: (as adjective,) following in a systematic pattern without any apparent defect in logic—as in sound reasoning. Based in Brooklyn, New York, sound artivist, social composer, and a core member of SHARE, o.blaat (Keiko Uenishi) is known for her works formed through experiments in restructuring and analyzing one's relationship with sounds in sociological, cultural, and/or psychological environments.

Sal Randolph's "Language Drawings" - The artist will read from a series of new language "drawings" - texts made with a manual typewriter on long rolls of paper. As a kind of spontaneous "drawing practice" the words on these scrolls are free to follow one another according to an evolving set of principles including sound, shape, semantics, syntax, repetition, punning, play and association. Conceptual structures appear and disappear. Narrative and rhetorical argument are avoided and fragmented. These are intended to be texts without result, the residue of a practice that takes place unobserved: daily, meditative, noninstrumental. Read out loud they become an experiment in ambient language, a field of senses and sounds that slip in and out of consciousness, alternately instigating and interrupting trains of thought. Sal Randolph lives in New York and makes art involving internet-mediated gift economies, social architectures and one-on-one interactions. She is the founder of Opsound, an open sound exchange of copyleft music. Other projects include The Free Biennial and Free Manifesta which brought together several hundred artists in open shows of free art in the public spaces of New York and Frankfurt am Main, Germany, as well as Free Words in which 3000 copies of a free book have been infiltrated into bookstores and libraries worldwide by a network of volunteers. Her newest work involves text, algorithms, instructions, and publishing.