EVENTS

THURSDAY, December 4, 2008

“Performance at Noon”
Zuzanna Janin, Fortune Teller
Nomadic

4–7pm:
ROM (Matt Crum and Roberto Lange)
live scoring of David Ellis’
OKAY Motion Painting
Brendan Fowler/BARR
Dynasty Handbag
NADA Stage

Zuzanna Janin was born in 1967 and lives and works in Warsaw, Poland. Jannin is an interdiscipli-nary artist working with sculpture, installation, video, photography, and performance. The central theme of her work is the exploration of space, memory and time. Recent works invite reflection on the arbitrariness of social roles, their fluid boundaries, and the place of individual freedom within the workings of state and society. Her performances often involve audience parti-cipation. She was a finalist for the Adi Prize for Art 2003.
ROM with David Ellis: Roberto Carlos Lange and Matt Crum of the group ROM will be scoring David Ellis’ OKAY Motion Painting and other Ellis videos using sounds gathered and composed during the making of the OKAY piece. The sounds were derived from David banging on buckets of paint filled water to rumblings from his feet on the canvas. Roberto took these recordings a manipu-lated them into the poly-rhythms and atonal pieces that warp and change with its visual counterpart. Matt Crum creates a bed of percussion and rhythms that balance the recorded electronic manipulations into an acoustic sandwich. Ellis videos are courtesy of Roebling Hall, NY and Country Club, Cincinnati.

Brendan Fowler/BARR: BARR, Brendan Fowler’s ongoing music/performance/object+ephemera project, sits somewhere on the far side of the “art about rock” cannon, pondering the “rock about art” banner it often flies over head. But “rock” as a description is nearly too neat, surely too succinct for something that is more of a deconstruction than anything: songs directly address their own shortcomings; a picture of the process by which they were created becomes much of the end result. BARR has existed as full band, but is more commonly demonstrated as Fowler alone, as has been the case in galleries—Rivington Arms, David Kordansky, Jack Hanley—and clubs alike on tours with Animal Collective, Xiu Xiu, Marnie Stern, and Tracy+The Plastics.

Dynasty Handbag is the one woman-portable-video-musical-performance meltdown of Jibz Cameron. Performing with a backing track of voices in her head, video montage, smeared make-up and disaster exercise wear, Dynasty Handbag gives us a physical representation of her own psychic waste. She has performed at: The Kitchen, Dance Theater Workshop, The New Museum of Contemporary Art and has been heralded as “hilarious and tone perfect” by the New York Times. She received the 2008 Franklin Furnace Fund Grant for the Performing Arts and is an alumi of the Dance Theater Work Shop Artist in Residency Program.