MIX: New Performance at MAD
$15 ($12 members)
Advanced tickets on sale September 24, 2008. Please call 212. 299. 7790 for reservations.
A ground breaking series dedicated to emerging artists who share a commitment to interdisciplinary, time-based artistic practice. Mixing images, performance, sound, and text, each artist creates new multi-media conversations in order to explore issues ranging from the legacy of Puritan ethics, to contemporary youth culture, to the continuing relevance of all things "folk".
MIX is curated by Steffani Jemison, with Jessica Sucher.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
7:30 – 9:00 PM
Martha Colburn: Myth Labs
Martha Colburn uses cut-and-paste animation techniques to create collage films that are both fantastical and stubbornly rooted in the material. Her recent films use hand-manipulated gels and "special effects" on found footage and original animations. In addition to Myth Labs, the artist will present short films spanning her entire career, each accompanied by a rotating ensemble of seven musicians and foley artists. Martha will also be performing an improvised expanded cinema work incorporating 16mm film, slides and sound. Finally, the evening includes the world premiere of her latest work, Triumph of the Wild, accompanied by renowned pianist Thollem McDonas.
Thursday, November 20, 2008
7:30 – 9:00 PM
Sam Amidon: Home Alone Inside My Head - With Special Guests Bruce Greene & Loy McWhirter
Fiddler, feature film actor, rock star, romantic. Sam Amidon’s diverse creative output defies conventional categorization, and reflects his commitment to exploring the complicated relationship between the values associated with “folk” and its continued allure in this age of alienation. In the first New York City presentation that combines music from his critically-acclaimed 2008 album, “All Is Well” and his visual practice, Sam will present “songs & tunes, videos & comics, self-inflicted field recordings & interviews with other people, real folk music & pretend liturgical dance.” He will be joined by special guests Bruce Greene and Loy McWhirter. You can check out Bruce's website at http://brucegreene.net.
Thursday, December 18, 2008
7:30 – 9:00 PM
Xaviera Simmons: Oscillation: (For a minute there, I lost myself)
A collaboration with Jibade-Khalil Huffman
In her first work designed for theater, visual artist Xaviera Simmons combines audience interactivity, experimental electronic sound, photography, video, movement and text work. This world premiere event is a part of the artists' continued exploration into landscape, history, performance and play. Much of the inspiration for this work comes from Jibade-Khalil Huffman's newly published collection of poems, 19 Names For Our Band (Fence Books, 2008), a look into youth culture and rock 'n roll.
Steffani Jemison, Curator
Steffani Jemison is an artist and curator who lives in Chicago and works in Chicago and New York. For two years, she served as Associate Director of Programs at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, where she managed the Swing Space program and curated music and multimedia performances. From 2003-2006, she founded and coordinated the Amnesty International Firefly Project, an artist collective that presented workshops, conferences, exhibitions, and performances in collaboration with Exit Art, the Chelsea Art Museum, Theaters Against War, Tonic, and other organizations. She is a 2008 resident at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture. Her work was recently presented at the Institute of Contemporary Art (London) and this fall, she will participate in the UCLA Wight Biennial.