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” ; ) ” is a quotational device to suggest a come-on: a lack of concrete connection, lack of emotion, a whimsical or sarcastic gesture.
Adult Contemporary is a telephone platform for aural work by emerging visual and performance artists, composers and musicians. Previously, the non-site of the hotline offered a debased experience for an art audience to enjoy a singular work of art anywhere.
Artists:
Cross (Lily Benson + Leslie Allison) is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary performance duo. Infused with a studied approach to the classical via the female musicians of the 1990s, witchcraft, and hip-hop dancing, their performance practice incorporates costumes, video, textiles, choreography, and interactive hijinks. Their film collaboration with writer Mark Von Schlegell and painter Frances Scholz, Episodes of Starlite, has screened at the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, in the Cosima von Bonin retrospective “Cut! Cut! Cut!,” as well as at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Musé d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland; VIDEONALE Festival for Contemporary Video Art, Bonn, Germany; Jack Chiles Gallery, New York City; Chisenhale Gallery, London; and State Academy of the Arts, Tbilisi, Georgia. Their forthcoming album, It’s Curtains, is due to be released this summer.
Ryan Krause is a composer and vocal performer based in Brooklyn. His work incorporates strange, fragile sounds, often strenuous or difficult to produce, with a focus on illness, literature, deserts and anxiety. He earned a Master’s Degree from the New England Conservatory of Music, and was composer-in-residence with the Boston-based new music ensemble nonce. For the past year, he has been Program Director of 109 Gallery in Brooklyn. He currently has duo projects with David Grollman (Lipchitz) and Lucia Stavros (Harp Therapy).
Philippe Landry is a self-taught composer, multi-instrumentalist, sound, visual and performance artist based in New Orleans, LA. He has participated in group exhibitions in New Orleans, Cleveland, OH, and Montreal, Quebec and is a contributing writer for Pelican Bomb. Philippe holds a Bachelors in Anthropology from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and has completed graduate-level research on right-wing political culture in early-20th century France, including presenting a paper on culture and nationalism at the 2010 Western Society for French History annual conference.
Jaeeun Lee was born and raised in Seoul, South Korea, and has participated in various exhibitions locally and internationally. She received an MFA in combined media from Hunter College, NY and a BFA in sculpture from Ewha Woman’s University, Seoul, Korea, and was a resident at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2011. Jaeeun’s work has been featured in NY Arts Magazine, Hyperallergic, Artnet and Bomb Magazine among others.
Karl Scholz is an inventor, musician, and founder of Bolasol, Inc., an independent publisher of musical and visual software. Bolasol’s sampling step sequencer Werkbench is popular amongst electronic musicians worldwide. Karl has performed regularly at Rubulad, Warper, The House of Yes, and the Figment festival as a core member of the acts ATTN:, Sex Robot, and The Ragdoll Engine. Karl’s signal processing work has been shown at St Mark’s Church, Facade Facade, AUNTS, and Dixon Place.
Media
Schedule
from June 29, 2013 to August 04, 2013
Opening Reception on 2013-06-29 from 19:00 to 22:00