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From: Phill Niblock <pniblock@compuserve.com><br>
To: experimental-intermedia <experimental-intermedia@mailman.thing.net><br>
Sent: Fri, Nov 20, 2015 9:54 am<br>
Subject: [Experimental-intermedia] Phill Niblock in the Czech Republic<br>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helv;mso-bidi-font-family:
Verdana">Here is notice of a special thing, a re-visit to a retrospective which
originated in Lausanne</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helv;mso-bidi-font-family:
Verdana">Switzerland in 2013, with a press release</span></div>
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Verdana"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helv;mso-bidi-font-family:
Verdana">Phill</span></div>
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Verdana"> </span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helv;mso-bidi-font-family:
Verdana">Brno CZ - Phill Niblock retrospective November 24 2015 - January
24 2016, Brno House of Arts Museum, or, </span><span style="font-family:Helv;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Dum Panu z Kunstatu, Galerie G99, </span><span style="font-family:Helv;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica;letter-spacing:-.1pt;
mso-font-kerning:.5pt">Dominikánská 9, </span><span style="font-family:Helv;
mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana"> produced and </span><span style="font-family:Helv;
mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">curated by Jozef
Cseres and Mathieu Copeland </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helv;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica"><a href="http://www.dumumeni.cz/en/vystava/exhibition_programme_of_the_brno_house_of_arts_september_december_2015 " target="_blank">http://www.dumumeni.cz/en/vystava/exhibition_programme_of_the_brno_house_of_arts_september_december_2015 </a>; -- </span><span style="font-family:Helv;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Works from 1961 until the present</span><span style="font-family:Helv;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helv;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">with a </span><span style="font-family:Helv;mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial">concert on November 23 in the Planetarium <a target="_blank" href="http://virtualni.hvezdarna.cz/"><span style="color:windowtext"></span></a><a href="http://virtualni.hvezdarna.cz/" target="_blank">http://virtualni.hvezdarna.cz/</a></span> <span style="font-family:
Helv;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman \(Arabic\)""><a target="_blank" href="http://www.hisvoice.cz/cz/articles/detail/2775"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:
16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:windowtext"></span></a><a href="http://www.hisvoice.cz/cz/articles/detail/2775" target="_blank">http://www.hisvoice.cz/cz/articles/detail/2775</a></span> (in Czech language, but with some
pictures)<span style="font-family:Helv;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helv;mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helv;
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helv;
mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">Nov 27 - rAdioCUSTICA PremEdition - Czech Radio <a href="mailto:ladislav.zelezny@rozhlas.cz">ladislav.zelezny@rozhlas.cz</a> A radio premier of a new guitar piece by Phill
Niblock, for David First, titled "First Out"; </span><span style="font-family:Helv;mso-bidi-font-family:Verdana">broadcast on the 27th and
also available online</span><span style="font-family:Helv;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica"></span></div>
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none;text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:19.0pt;font-family:
Helv;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:13.3pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:19.0pt;font-family:
Helv;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">And a few other things until the end of the
year:</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helv;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Dec 5 - </span><span style="font-family:
Helv;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Rio de Janeiro, Brasil - </span><span style="font-family:Helv;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">T</span><span style="font-family:Helv;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">he NovasFrequencias Festival
- Dec 1 to 8, Phill Niblock and Thomas Ankersmit on Dec 5 <a target="_blank" href="http://novasfrequencias.com/"><span style="color:windowtext">novasfrequencias.com</span></a> </span></div>
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Arial"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helv;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Phill Niblock at Roulette for Six Hours of Music and
Film on December 21, from 5pm to 11pm - the Winter Solstice (</span><span style="font-family:Helv;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">Roulette Intermedium,
Inc, 509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11217, <a href="http://www.roulette.org" target="_blank">www.roulette.org</a>)</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helv;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">December 27, 9pm - Phill Niblock DVD presentation,
a new DVD on the VonArchives label (Italy): T H I R, a film from 1971/72, of
materials from nature, and alternate musics, with notes by Abigail Nelson and
Juan Carlos Kase; Carlos Casas, the producer, will be present</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helv;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">At Experimental Intermedia, 224 Centre Street, NY
NY</span></div>
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none;text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:19.0pt;font-family:
Helv;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> </span></div>
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none;text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:19.0pt;font-family:
Helv;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:13.3pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:19.0pt;font-family:
Helv;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">A bit of press:</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:13.3pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:19.0pt;font-family:
Helv;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">"Workin’ for a title"</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Helv;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:13.3pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:19.0pt;font-family:
Helv;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Phill Niblock – a Retrospective</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Helv;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:13.3pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:19.0pt;font-family:
Helv;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Dům pánů z Kunštátu, Brno - CZ</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Helv;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:13.3pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:19.0pt;font-family:
Helv;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">25 11 2015 - 24 01 2016</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:13.3pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:19.0pt;font-family:
Helv;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Curated by Mathieu Copeland and Jozef Cseres</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Helv;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:13.3pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:19.0pt;font-family:
Helv;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">For over 50 years, Phill Niblock has produced
a multidisciplinary oeuvre through “Intermedia art”. Combining minimalist
music, conceptual art, structuralist cinema, systematic or political art,
Niblock strives to transform our perception and experience of time.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Helv;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:13.3pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:19.0pt;font-family:
Helv;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Admittedly one of the greatest experimental
composers of our time, Phill Niblock initiates his career as a photographer.
Born in 1933 in Anderson - Indiana, a jazz aficionado, he settles in New York
in 1958. Niblock starts photography in 1960 and for four years specialises in
portraits of jazz musicians such as Charles Mingus, Billy Strayhorn and Duke
Ellington, whom he follows frequently to recording sessions and concerts. In
the mid-60s, he shifts from photography to film, and encouraged by Elaine
Summers, choreographer and founder of the “Experimental Intermedia”, he starts
realising films for dancers and choreographers at the Judson Church Theater, including
Yvonne Rainer, Meredith Monk or Lucinda Childs. From 1968 on, Phill Niblock
focuses on music and composes his first pieces, which – according to the artist
– must be listened to at loud volume in order to explore their overtones. He
pursues his film projects independently, including his monumental piece, The Movement of People Working, a
series of films lasting over 25 hours, realised between 1973 and 1991, in which
the repetitive nature of work movements acts as a direct echo to his minimalist
musical compositions.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;font-family:
Helv;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:13.3pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:19.0pt;font-family:
Helv;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Since the mid-60s, his analogue photographic
work explores New York’s architecture and urban planning. The sequencing and
layout of his images offer a mapping of the location and object photographed,
such as abandoned buildings on Welfare Island (now Roosevelt Island) (1966),
the areas fallen into disuse in South Bronx (1979) or the facades of SoHo
Broadway district (1988). Starting in 1966, Phill Niblock engages in a
reflexion about the projection of moving images through a series of films and
slideshows. Produced between 1966 and 1969, Six Films, a series of short films with sound realised with 16mm
film, heralds his experimental method through portraits of artists and
musicians such as Sun Ra and Max Neuhaus. His obsession for and celebration of
the individual is again at the heart of his series of videos entitled Anecdotes from Childhood. Realised
between 1985 and 1992, this series explores the notion of memory and the
expression of a personal history through intimate portraits.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Helv;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:13.3pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:19.0pt;font-family:
Helv;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Starting in 1968, the artist begins to
experiment a combination of his visual productions with his musical scores in
order to create architectural and environmental compositions with sound. The Environments series, recreated here
by the artist for the first time since it was last shown in 1972, extracts
through images the reality of several environments, all the while generating a
dense and intense temporary environment of projected images, music and movement
throughout the museum space.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;
font-family:Helv;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:13.3pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:19.0pt;font-family:
Helv;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">Presented for the first time in its entirety,
re-edited and remastered by the artist for the retrospective, the series of
films The Movement of People Working portray
human labour in its most elementary form. Filmed on 16mm colour film, and later
on video, in locations including Peru, Mexico, Hungary, Hong Kong, the Arctic,
Brazil, Lesotho, Portugal, Sumatra, China and Japan – with more than 25 hours
of film footage, The Movement of
People Working focuses on work as a choreography of movements and
gestures, dignifying the mechanical yet natural repetition of labourers’
actions. Phill Niblock said of these that The Movement of People Working «came out of necessity because I
was doing music performances with live dancers, and it was too cumbersome and
expensive to tour with so many people. So I started doing those films that I
could project when performing».</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;
font-family:Helv;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:13.3pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:19.0pt;font-family:
Helv;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">These films are accompanied by the whole
corpus of Niblock’s slowly evolving, harmonically minimalist music, realised
between 1968 and 2011. The sound level of these compositions offers a visceral
experience of the long drones and inhabits the ringing, beating overtones.
These scores, presented in the exhibition as photostats realized for his
personal exhibition at London’s ICA in 1982, are the composer’s mixing
instructions and are not used by the musician during the performance. While
moving through space, he plays with the recorded material, sometimes creating
tonalities that coincide with the recording or, on the contrary, that produce
dissonances. The result is a constant movement of beat, rhythm and pulsation,
as well as changing and continuous harmonics during his own motion through
space. The layering of tones echoes the repetitions of the workers’ actions;
the evolution of the films on each screen (changing throughout the day),
combined with a program that randomly plays back different music pieces,
results in a constant renewal of forms, continuously offering an exhibition of
new juxtapositions of sound and image.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:
13.0pt;font-family:Helv;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"></span></div>
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Helv;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-style:italic">The Movement of
People Working </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:19.0pt;font-family:Helv;
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">offers a strong social and political comment, as
highlighted by the title and represented by the closeness with the workers. In
this, the series of film echoes the work of several filmmakers including Jean
Luc Godard or Chris Marker who as from 1967 gave workers the cameras and
informed them of cinematic techniques so that they could actually make their
own films. In a fascinating turn of events, rather than doing fictional or pure
documentary film, some workers formed the Groupes Medvekine and decided to film
themselves working.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;font-family:
Helv;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"></span></div>
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none;text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:19.0pt;font-family:
Helv;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">This retrospective was first shown in Lausanne
Switzerland in 2013, co-produced by the Musée de l’Elysée and the Centre
Circuit for Contemporary Art - Lausanne, and was curated by Mathieu Copeland.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Helv;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial"></span></div>
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