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Subject: OPENPORT festival in Chicago (fwd)
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 02:47:18 -0500 (EST)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 21:51:46 -0800 From: Jennifer Karmin <jkarmin@YAHOO.COM> Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group <POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU> To: POETICS@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Subject: OPENPORT festival in Chicago OPENPORT: Realtime Performance, Sound & Language Festival February 2nd-25th http://www.openportchicago.com Brings together artists from a diverse set of contemporary practices for an international festival featuring live acts and real-time transmissions from practitioners within performance, sound, and the language arts. Links Hall 3435 N. Sheffield -- Chicago, IL http://www.linkshall.org Each weekend program: $12 ($10 students, seniors, unemployed) **Friday, February 2, 7:30pm** Jillian Pe�a (US) - The Promised Land Filled with hope, The Promised Land is a dance piece about love, desire, restlessness, and ambition. Expressions escape the body in forms such as ecstatic dancing, meditation, sex, and emotions. The dance responds to the anxiety felt somewhere between expectation and failure. Chicagoan Jillian Pe�a is a video maker, dancer, improviser, negotiator, and writer, and this performance was made while in residency at The Kitchen, NYC. www.jillianpena.com Loss Peque�o Glazier (US) - Bromeliasas Exploring new possibilities for web-based digital art, Bromeliasas is a computer-selected rendering of text and images extracted from poetry databases. Glazier's digital poetry also engages with sound, photography, and video; and includes themes of ecology, Latin American landscapes, and the delicate but tangible thread of language. Buffalo (NY) based Glazier is a poet, and Founder and Director of the Electronic Poetry Center, the world's most extensive Web-based digital poetry resource, housed at the State University of New York. www.epc.buffalo.edu/authors/glazier Brian O' Reilly (US) - Weather Mechanics Weather Mechanics connects sound to moving image. The work is constructed by analog video, where projected images bleed onto one another, intersecting and blurring their lines like layered, waterlogged paper. Currently working as an Artist in Residence at ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany, Brian O'Reilly is the creator of various works for sound, moving images, multi media assemblage/installation, and is a double bassist. **Saturday, February 3, 7:30pm** Brian O' Reilly (US) - two performances octal hatch, a collection of miniature abstract audio and video portraits of Greek composer Iannis Xenakis; and scan processor studies, developed in collaboration with Woody Vasulka, and including improvisations with experimental sound composer Robb Drinkwater. jUStin!katKO (US) - flesh fleSh is a music-video-talk performance that works with a generative principle derived from a study of songs on the first disc of Queen's Greatest Hits. The performance consists of two parts: 1) a hack of the source; 2) what Fallujah learned about White Phosphorous in November 2004; and an epilogue, The Ants, Sir, that will be underscored by a momentary sound mix of Chicago FM radio. jUStin!katKO is an intermedia writer and publisher in Oxford, OH. www.justin-katko.tk Michael Graeve (AUS) - Simple Methods Graeve works with old domestic and schoolroom record players and loudspeakers, reveling in the volatile and unpredictable nature of the equipment. Rich tones, textures, and rhythms fall together and fall apart, evidencing simple interactions between machine process and human gesture, with the limitations of the technology producing complex results. Michael Graeve is an Australian artist living in Chicago, working in painting and sound installation, performance and composition. **Sunday, February 4, 7:30pm** Jillian Pe�a (US) - The Promised Land Loss Peque�o Glazier (US) - Io Sono At Swoons Following his presentation on Friday February 2, Glazier presents a different work, which electronically converts text from a database of linguistic stems and words to generate sound and poetry. Along with English, fragments of multiple languages are interwoven to produce a unique fabric of sounds, sometimes humorous, often surprising in tone, density, and color. jUStin!katKO (US) - fleSh **Friday, February 9, 7:30pm** Galen Curwen-McAdams (US) - Diasporalities Curwen-McAdams' writings and technological interventions are driven by his theoretical explorations and research into human and computer languages, internet protocols, and network architectures. Diasporalities is a performance of the routes, traces, mappings, and gestures of bodies traversing networks. Curwen-McAdams is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, who currently lives in Portland, Oregon. www.diaspor.alities.info jonCates + jake elliot (US) - 0UR080R05 jonCates + jake elliott embark on a realtime audio video performance, where digital systems coil into themselves, creating a speculative screenplay, virtually typewritten onto the raw 16mm film footage of William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin. Chicago-based artists jonCates + jake elliott collaborate on various initiatives involving artware-radical, conceptual software engineered or hacked/modified by artists. www.systemsapproach.net; www.structuredsound.net/jake Tyne Dogger artist Caroline Bergvall (UK) - FIG REDUCTION Caroline Bergvall presents a series of textual pieces based around her recent book FIG. Incorporating video projections and her virtuoso reading technique, this is poetry of complex language and engaged thought. Bergvall is a poet, performance artist, and critic based in London, noted for her pointed as well as playful tugging at identities and prejudices as they are manifested in language. She is co-Chair of Writing, Milton Avery School of the Arts. www.carolinebergvall.net eRikm (FR) - eRikm turntables solo French sound artist eRikm is renowned for his virtuoso turntabling, which he integrates with electronic instruments and other tools. He has collaborated with many international artists, including Voice Crack, Christian Marclay, and Luc Ferrari, and explores relationships between rock music, contemporary composition, and free improvisation www.erikm.com **Saturday, February 10, 7:30pm** Tyne Dogger artist Caroline Bergvall (UK) - FIG REDUCTION Tyne Dogger artist Marisa Zanotti (UK) - Edges In her new performance Edges, Brighton/Glasgow-based Marisa Zanotti combines material from her earlier dance piece, Wipe Out, with projected images to blur the definitions of performance and film: considering the film set a performance space, and filmmaking as a performance. In addition to performance, Zanotti works in film drama, and her first short, At the end of the sentence, has been shown at many international film festivals. Mark Booth (US) - this is the sound of the milky way (projective version) Mark Booth's new audio project combines text with live and pre-recorded sound, to investigate the natural environment, the limits of electronics, and physical presence in the world. Booth's recordings include phenomena which can be recorded with a conventional microphone (water, rain, wind, speech), and phenomena which cannot (the milky way, the sun, the moon). Mark Booth works with sound, text and painting, and is based in Chicago; he curated the festival An Incomplete Map of Everything for Links Hall in 2006. **Sunday, February 11, 7:30pm** eRikm (FR) - eRikm turntables solo Tyne Dogger artist Marisa Zanotti (UK) - Edges Simon Lonergan (US) - Bench Only Lonergan's performances incorporate hand-made electronic instruments that blend processes of feedback, resonance, and recording into electro-acoustic improvisations. Influenced by the writings of Kenneth Maue and the audio work of David Tudor, Alvin Lucier, and Nic Collins, Lonergan performs here with a modified 1950s Lowry Tube Organ Bench-a seat that has been modified to become an instrument. Lonergan studied experimental music and composition at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and now lives in Davenport, Iowa. **Friday, February 16, 7:30pm** Tyne Dogger artist Donna Rutherford (UK) - Ochone Ochone Glasgow-based performance artist Donna Rutherford looks at how people overcome and move on from tragedy, or, in contrast, the effects of avoidance and repression. Ochone refers to "sorrows from before that are still with us," and this emotional work references the Kurdish Iraqi community in Glasgow. www.donnarutherford.org Tyne Dogger artist TNWK (UK) - Nurse Trash In 1999, TNWK "destroyed" 100 books; they have been working with the "remains" ever since, creating an ongoing series of thought-provoking and visually seductive performances that combine film, text, and spoken word. TNWK (things not worth keeping) is a collaboration between Kirsten Lavers (a multidisciplinary artist based in Cambridge, UK) and cris cheek (a British performance poet based in Ohio). www.tnwk.net Talan Memmott (US) - Twittering Twittering is a hypermedia performance developed from a paper-based work of the same name. The phrases of Memmott's written text, represented as images, audio, and animations, are recombined in realtime with a live reading of excerpts from the appendix of Memmott's original text. Memmott is a hypermedia writer/artist from San Francisco, now based in Monterey Bay, CA, and the Creative Director and Editor of the online hypermedia literary journal BeeHive. www.memmott.org **Saturday, February 17, 7:30pm** Dana Vinger & Robyn Okrant (US) - (nervous) system Separated by geography and time zones, theater and performance artists Vinger (Portland) and Okrant (Chicago) find commonality in the systems that overwhelm their lives. They weave a tapestry of spoken language from original and found texts that address both personal and public concerns, including the corporate ideology that shapes and fuels America's urban public education system, and a patient's struggles in a sea of red tape, chronic pain, and stifling amounts of conflicting medical advice. Goat Island (US) - Lasting, part one Goat Island Performance Group, the art students of Northside College Prep, and special musical guest Smokey Hormel, present a multi-media collaborative performance in celebration of lastness. Goat Island began in 1987, and has since toured nationally and internationally. This event inaugurates a new web project, which responds to Goat Island's recent decision to make their last performance together: www.thelastperformance.org; www.goatislandperformance.org Wilton Azevedo (BR) - Po e-Machine Azevedo presents a performance of 'sonorous expanded writing' generated in realtime from a mix of live voices and virtual instruments. Po e-Machine, a project more than ten years in the making, is a computer program designed to respond in unpredictable ways to changes in its poetic labyrinth. Azevedo was born in S�o Paulo, Brazil; an artist, graphic designer, poet and musician, he is also a Doctor of Communication and Semiotics. Tyne Dogger artist TNWK (UK) - Nurse Trash **Sunday, February 18, 7:30pm** Tyne Dogger artist Donna Rutherford (UK) - Ochone Ochone Talan Memmot (US) - Twittering Wilton Azevedo (BR) - Po e-Machine Marina Peterson (US) - Solo cello Marina Peterson presents improvised sonic explorations on the cello; sometimes acoustic, sometimes amplified. Peterson plays primarily new and improvised music, and is a member of Ensemble Noamnesia and Neme. She is Assistant Professor of Performance Studies in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts at Ohio University in Athens, OH. **Friday, February 23, 7:30pm** James Tierney (US) - an excerpt from The Local Memory Tierney reads from his book The Local Memory, a work that is best described as a "fictional essay." The reading will be accompanied by images from contemporary art, and found images and screen-captures from the internet. Portland, Oregon-based James Tierney received a MFA from Brown University where he was awarded the John Hawkes Memorial Prize in Fiction. He has published fictions, critical essays, and a play in the Golden Handcuffs Review. Tyne Dogger artist John Cayley (UK) - imposition John Cayley uses computer programming to experiment with time-based language poetics using self-devised processes of 'translation' and 'transliteration' through which texts move between languages and states of legibility. Audience members will be able to use networked laptops to track and interpret the work as part of a live, interactive presentation. Cayley is a London-based poet, translator, publisher, and book dealer. He is an Honorary Research Associate in the Department of English, University of London. www.shadoof.net/in Marie Cool & Fabio Balducci (FR) - Untitled (Prayers) 1996-2004 Based in France, Cool and Balducci have collaborated since 1995 to great international acclaim. These selections from their series of short (often two to three minute-long) performances Untitled (Prayers) 1996-2004, are performed solo by Marie Cool, who uses basic movements, objects, and materials to evoke both the personal and universal. Without character or narration, this work resists categorization as dance, theater or performance. **Saturday, February 24, 3pm** $10 Marie Cool & Fabio Balducci (FR) - Untitled (Prayers) 1996-2004 A special matinee performance by Marie Cool and Fabio Balducci. For description, see Friday, February 23. **Saturday, February 24, 7:30pm** Tyne Dogger artist John Cayley (UK) - imposition Alan Sondheim (US) - ski/nn & Interior Avatar NYC-based Sondheim's laptop performances combine live writing with video and sound projections, creating a multilayered work that engages with philosophy, psychology, language, the body, and virtuality. Sondheim's recent books include Orders of the Real (Writers Forum, 2005), and he co-moderates several pioneering email lists, including Cybermind, Cyberculture, and Wryting. www.asondheim.org Laetitia Sonami & Sue Costabile (US) - The Appearance of Silence (The Invention of Perspective) Inspired by the gardens depicted in early Italian Renaissance paintings, Sonami (live electronics) and Costabile (live video) use the context of historical and new technologies to explore the shifting perspectives between representation and abstraction, digital saturation and spatial rendering. Originally from France, Sonami is a composer, performer, and sound installation artist working in Oakland, CA. Costabile is a visual and performing artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area, whose work challenges the norms of photography, video, and technology. www.sonami.net; www.sue-c.net Tyne Dogger artist Fiona Wright (UK) - On Lying (in a blue dress/early version) A new solo performance, in which a body is moved to confess or at least commit to making it all up. Wright's performance is something like she imagines writing a blog would be if she could only bear the thought of turning up in so many other people's lives at once. Based in Newcastle, UK, Fiona Wright is known for her stylized and functional choreography, combined with a personalized vein of writing. **Sunday, February 25, 7:30pm** Alan Sondheim (US) - ski/nn & Interior Avatar Laetitia Sonami & Sue Costabile (US) - The Appearance of Silence (The Invention of Perspective) Tyne Dogger artist Fiona Wright (UK) - On Lying (in a blue dress/early version) Lit� Walkey (CAN) and Boris Hauf (AUT) - instanded i turn Broadcasting through the web from their current home base Berlin, Walkey and Hauf present a "concert of reconstructions," in response to Samuel Beckett's Film, the paintings of Michael Borremans, storytelling, and country music. Lit� Walkey is a member of Chicago-based Goat Island and in 2005, as Links Hall Artistic Associate, she curated a drop of water: Dance from Europe. Boris Hauf is the founder of efzeg, and often plays with the Chicago-based bands tvpow and Lozenge. www.lito.klingt.org; www.hauf.klingt.org **Saturday February 17, 2 - 3:30pm** Free John Cayley, Tyne Dogger artist Tyne Dogger Panel Discussion Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington First Floor Garland Room Tyne Dogger artists Donna Rutherford, TNWK (cris cheek and Kirsten Lavers), and Fiona Wright discuss their individual work, their experiences in the field of Live Art, and the current climate of Live Art/Performance in the UK/Europe. Issues of commonality and distinction between Chicago and the UK, and the challenges of creation, presentation and sustainability, will be addressed. The panel will be moderated by OPENPORT curator Mark Jeffery. **Thursday February 22 & Friday February 23** Free The Disappearance of Latitude: Live Presence and Realtime in Contemporary Practices A two-day symposium This symposium brings together theorists and practitioners from a variety of backgrounds to present lectures and participate in discussions formulated around the themes of "Live" and "Realtime," and topics that arise from this convergence of terms. As with the OPENPORT performance series, the intention of the symposium is to group speakers from fields and backgrounds that, while perhaps not normally exposed to one another, may share a common vocabulary. This symposium is presented in collaboration with The School of the Art Institute of Chicago's Performance Department. ADVANCE REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL: email mjeffe@saic.edu or write to SAIC, Performance Department, c/o Mark Jeffery, 280 S. Columbus Drive, Chicago, IL 60603. Please include name, phone number, email address, affiliation (if any), number and names of people you are reserving for. Reservation deadline: Monday, February 19. ____________________________________________________________________________________ The fish are biting. Get more visitors on your site using Yahoo! Search Marketing. http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/arp/sponsoredsearch_v2.php