please respond to this email to: pniblock@compuserve.com EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA
The Forty-Eighth Anniversary of EI performances at 224 Centre Street, the Fifty-Third Anniversary of the Founding of Experimental Intermedia, the Fifty-Third Anniversary of the 224 Centre Street loft, and, not least, The Thirty-First Annual Festival with no fancy name, Part Two (or B) Phill Niblock, curator March 2022
Fridman Gallery and EI in collaboration concerts
At 169 Bowery, live in person and streamed on Vimeo, 7pm EDT, www.fridmangallery.com and experimentalintermedia.org
Forbes Graham (New York) Tuesday 15
Forbes Graham is a composer, musician, sound artist, and visual artist whose work explores themes of simultaneity, perceptibility, transformation and collage, he performs on trumpet and laptop computer
www.forbesgrahammusic.com
Nicola Hein and Viola Yip (Berlin, New York, Hong Kong) Wednesday 16
Transsonic (Hein and Yip) is an experimental transmedial duo that creates immersive site-specific performances and installations bridging the vibrations of light and sound, trained as musicians, both look into the ontology of sound and how musical experience can be transformed beyond its common material—sound, for their artistic research project Transsonic, they explore light as an expanded musical material, they research and create performances, improvising between lights and sounds as equally important but dialectical musical materials, for this concert, the duo is creating a new piece for lights and electronics that incorporate our bodies as part of the circuit
https://nicolahein.com/%C2%A0%C2%A0%C2%A0%C2%A0%C2%A0%C2%A0%C2%A0 https://www.violayip.com/
Liz Phillips (New York) Thursday 17
“Sea Gestures: Sound Swim”
She will live process with Heidi Howard’s gestures as she paints, Liz picks up sounds from fish in motion and shell textures Lizphillips.net http://lizphillips.net/w/?page_id=3%C2%A0%C2%A0%C2%A0%C2%A0%C2%A0%C2%A0%C2%A... https://heidihoward.net/
Virtual events at EI - www.experimentalintermedia.org, 9pm EDT
Kit Fitzgerald (New York) A Video Event Monday 21
Video is my instrument and my orchestra; my images are literal, poetic, performative, expressive, the work is grounded in the tactile, my approach is along the lines of wabi-sabi, influenced by European painting and by my experience with Asian approaches - from early collaborations with Nam June Paik, residencies in Korea and Tokyo, and yoga; I like to create beauty in a chaotic world; beauty is truth, but sometimes the truth is painful www.kitfitzgerald.com
Davidson Gigliotti (New York and Venice) A Video Event Tuesday 22
In the late 70s, better cameras and better cassette decks were making the move to television for single channel video art a real possibility, I was taping a lot of performance art in those days, I had a good studio, decent equipment, and some idea of how to go about it and my friend Jean Dupuy was at the heart of a distinctive style of New York performance art; the artists he championed, Joe Lewis, Tim Maul, Michael Smith, Julia Heyward, to name just a few, performed regularly in the Grommet shows staged in his Broadway loft, it was Jean’s wish that some of these performances should be recorded, it was my idea to try to put them on TV
Jen Morris (Montreal, Lausanne) Wednesday 23
Sometime Lausanne-based Montrealer sound artist collaborates with west-coast analog media maker Alex MacKenzie for an apartment-sized sleight of hand, all curtains and mirrors, an uncanny amalgam of susurrus sonic somnambulism born of bespoke instruments combined with phosphenic photochemical fabulations on Super 8 and 16mm, featuring Morris’ homemade invention - the “Pivophone”, an instrument built of pine cones
squirrelgirl.com/releases/sic alexmackenzie.ca
Warren Burt (Australia) Thursday 24
Nine Pieces from 2020 (57 minutes) - Nine video and electronic sound pieces made with VCV Rack as real-time performances; all nine pieces use chaos mathematics in some form or another www.warrenburt.com
Ulrich Krieger and Carl Stone (LA, LA and Japan) Friday 25
Ulrich Krieger (winds) and Carl Stone (computer) triangulate with EI from California and Tokyo, as they lob the musical data back and forth over the uncharted depths of the information highways, recursively and relentlessly processing each other
https://www.rlsto.net/Nooz/%C2%A0%C2%A0%C2%A0%C2%A0%C2%A0%C2%A0 http://www.ulrich-krieger.com
SCREEN COMPOSITIONS 18 - curated by Katherine Liberovskaya Monday 28
A Video Event The 18th edition of Screen Compositions (3rd virtual), invariably brings you a collection of inspiring and inspired intersections of moving image with sonic art; a program of screen works representing dynamic two-way collaborations between video/film artists and sound/music artists specifically intended for single-channel projection with no live or performance component; featuring collaborations by: Gill Arno / Austin Larkin ; Yorgos Bougiouk / George Moraitis ; Charles-André Coderre / Thomas Bonvalet ; Matija Debeljuh / Tamara Obrovac ; Janene Higgins / Elliott Sharp ; Katherine Liberovskaya / Marcia Bassett ; Elise Passavant / Zahra Mani ; Alex Pelly / Byron Westbrook ; Els Van Riel / Rhodri Davies ; Beth Warshafsky / Portal iii
Peggy Ahwesh (Brooklyn) A Video Event Tuesday 29
She will share both recent video and early film works and a video made during the isolation of the pandemic lockdown https://microscopegallery.com/peggy-ahwesh-exhibitions/
Our programs are supported by the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the Phaedrus Foundation, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature
224 Centre Street at Grand, Third Floor, N Y 10013 212 431 5127, 431 6430
www.experimentalintermedia.org and www.XIrecords.org