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Sunday, January
17
Admission: $5, $10 minimum
Showtimes: 7pm
reservations
are recommended
This night: A transient and
mercurial tapestry woven from disparate yet harmonious fibers.
A pair of films by the NYC based painter Nitin Mukul, who painted
on ice, filmed it melt, and edited the gloriously shifting colors
and textures into a hypnotic gestalt. these films will be accompanied
by live music from Nitin and Gregory Reynolds. A performance
by Dogr, who spins tales of mythic urban life over a pillow of
electro acoustic sound and inventive film. An interpretation
of Chis Peck's poetic score 'finger' by an odd group of electric
and acoustic musicians who are also joined by a video artist
of the sobriquet Naval Cassidy. A film and live music from Leyna
Marika Papach and Jerry Smith, some of which is about dreaming
and flying. Finally, a dance by Mariko Endo, who has been known
to rearrange and restructure the particles of a room simply by
moving in it. A night for the books. A night to send Monkeytown
off to wherever it may go.
Nitin Mukul is a visual artist living and working in New Delhi
and New York City. He was included in the landmark exhibition
of South Asian art 'Edge of Desire/Fatal Love' at the Queens
Museum of Art in NYC in 2005. His work has been reviewed in
The New York Times, Asian Art News and Art India magazine.
He has worked as an assistant for the late American minimalist
artist Sol Lewitt and was a former Creative Director at the
Indocenter of Art & Culture in NYC. He has had recent shows
with Nature Morte Gallery in Delhi and The Guild (Mumbai/New
York). His work was included in Art Basel Miami 2009, Hong
Kong Art Fair 2009, Scope Art Basel 2009 and is currently on
view at Aicon Gallery in NYC.
http://www.aicongallery.com/
http://www.nitinmukul.com/
Dogr (David Michael DiGrgorio) is a
musician currently based in New York. He has a background in
16-mm filmmaking, informed by US structuralists from the 1970's.
This, combined with influences from baroque, gospel, pop, Korean
and American folk, and electro-acoustic music, inspire him to
create tectonic space through layering voice and performing melismatic
storytelling.
http://www.dogr.org/
http://www.myspace.com/dognap
Chris Peck says this about 'finger':
Finger is a structured improvisation in three parts; a meditation
on possible relationships between language and music; a set of
descriptions, commands, indications, suggestions, associations,
and containers. To finger is to touch, to touch on, to point,
to point to, to point out, to predict, to remember, to listen,
to reflect, to sound.
http://intermittentmusic.com/
Leyna Marika Papach is a composer/video/theater
artist from Japan/US. Aside from her own activities, she often
collaborates with people in dance and theater. She has written
and directed a few of her own musical theater pieces and has
played with several bands on the violin (Geraldine Fibbers/Jim
Thirwell/Matteah Baim). Her work has been performed in Western/Eastern
Europe, West Africa and Japan.
Jerry Smith is a painter and intermedia
artist living in Oakland, CA. He has been creating intermedia
work since 2002, mostly performance-based work for dance. His
recent work has mostly been in the San Francisco bay area. As
well, his recent work has been included in the "Extravagant
Bodies" contemporary art festival in Croatia and Slovenia,
and in a performance arts festival sponsored by the Kennedy Center
in Washington, D.C.
Mariko
Endo is currently an Artist in Residence
at CRS. She has toured Japan and the United States as a principal
dancer in Dairakudakan Butoh Company from 2001 to 2004. She studied
psychoanalysis and bodywork in addition to her foundation in
Butoh dance with Master Akira Kasai at his private dance institute
in Tokyo. Since moving to NYC in the summer of 2007, Mariko has
been involved in a variety of projects. She presented an evening
length solo "Parade," and two solo works "A
mirror" and "A dance and music as sculpture of consciousness"
at CRS Butoh performance series in 2008. Mariko's recent work
has been strongly influenced by her study of A Course in Miracles
with Yasuko Kasaki at CRS. She thinks of a human body as having
a soul and a spirit, as well as physical attributes and this
influences her approach to dance as a sculpture of consciousness.
She is currently developing a Butoh class focused on the experience
and harnessing of energy of Life (yogic prana), Voice (Ephesus
in Eurythmy), and Consciousness to produce energy for dance.
http://www.crsny.org/drupal/profiles/mariko-endo
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