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Wednesday, October
18
Admission: Free
Showtimes: 6pm til 10pm
reservations are not necessary
Babel-On
video-audio installation/performance
piece
for 4 projections and 6 audio channels
a collaborative work by Katherine Liberovskaya
and Phill Niblock
- Sync-sound video: Katherine Liberovskaya
- Sound piece: Phill Niblock
Babel-On is a sound-based
audio-video work-in-progress exploring the melodic and rhythmical
dimensions of human spoken language, of different languages of
different peoples and nationalities. This sound and four large-scale
projection digital video piece with sync sound focuses on languages
as musical instruments of communication and concentrates on the
sound of human verbal expression rather than on its meaning. With
its moving images of extremely close-up faces of a multitude of
people of numerous nationalities and races speaking in their respective
languages about these very languages, and its language-based sound
piece, it composes a polyphonic chorus of voices and idioms in
continuous interplay, correspondence and/or conflict, suggesting
various relationships between diverse geo-political regions, cultural
traditions and civilizations. Babel-On creates a very physical,
living audio-video flow of variations of associations and dissociations,
of different tensions, between image and sound, speech and music,
words and significations, intention and chance, a constant flux
of unstable, slipping, shifting meanings and perceptions.
Since it was created in 2003, the piece has been presented at
a wide range of events and venues around the world among which:
ISEA 2004 (MUU GAllery), Helsinki, VIPER, Basel, Gallery Ssamzie,
Seoul, Bunkier Sztuki National Gallery, Krakow, M'ARS Gallery,
Moscow, NCCA, Moscow, Balazs Bela Studio, Budapest, Laptopia,
Tel-Aviv, Soil, Regina, Pleasure Dome, Toronto, VideoMedeja, Novi
Sad, PostsovkhoZ6, Estonia, Fondacion Valenzuela y Klenner, Bogota,
Institute for Transacoustic Research (Iftaf), Vienna...
Katherine Liberovskaya has been working predominantly
in experimental video since the late eighties. Over the years,
she has produced many
single-channel videos, video installation works and video performances
which have been presented at a wide variety of artistic venues
and events around the world. As of recent years her work - in
single-channel and installation video as well as performance -
mainly revolves around collaborations with new music composers/sound
artists, notably Phill Niblock, Al Margolis/If, Bwana and David
Watson. Since 2003 she began exploring live video mixing, using
MAX/MSP and Jitter, in improvisation with live new music/sound
and has since performed in diverse contexts in North America and
Europe with a number of music/sound artists among which: Margarida
Garcia, Barry Weisblat, o.blaat, Vortex (Satoshi Takeishi + Shoko
Nagai), Mary Halvorson, Anthony Coleman, Tiziana Bertoncini, Thomas
Lehn, Urkuma, Angélica Castelló, Micheal Delia,
Antonio Della Marina, Giuseppe Ielasi, Renato Rinaldi, Hitoshi
Kojo, murmer, Maks Shentelevs, jgrzinich, Monique Buzzarté,
Kristin Norderval, Jim Bell, TV Pow, Boris Hauf, Richard Geret,
Gil Sanson, Gill Arno, Ben Owen, André Gonçalves,
Alessandro Bosetti, Audrey Chen, Matt Pass...
Phill Niblock is an intermedia artist using
music, film, photography, video and computers. He makes thick,
loud drones of music, filled with microtones of instrumental timbres
which generate many other tones in the performance space. Simultaneously,
he presents films / videos which look at the movement of people
working, or computer driven black and white abstract images floating
through time. He was born in Indiana in 1933. Since the mid-60's
he has been making music and intermedia performances which have
been shown at numerous venues around the world. Since 1985, he
has been the director of the Experimental
Intermedia Foundation in New York where he has been
an artist/member since 1968. He is the producer of Music and Intermedia
presentations at EI since 1973 (about 1000 performances) and the
curator of EI's XI Records label. In 1993 was formed an Experimental
Intermedia organization in Gent, Belgium - EI v.z.w. Gent - to
support the artist-in-residence house and installations there.
Phill Niblock's music is available on the XI, Moikai, Mode and
Touch labels. A DVD of films and music is available on the Extreme
label.
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