This conference, MODE, METHOD, MEDIUM brings together artists and cultural organizers who work between disciplines both in terms of medium and in terms economic/field-based distinctions. We hope to take a step towards dialectic and artistic solidarity between the independent and ‘avant-garde’ communities in dance, performance art, theater, and music, and to share our vocabularies and methods.
Presentations will include performances, project presentations, artist talks, papers, and interactive workshops.
Inherently and formally political, often interactive and/or participatory, always startling and deeply considerate, artists, curators, scholars, and cultural organizers will share their work, discuss their practices, and participate to two open round-tables about what “medium,” as a mode of transmission, means to us now.
Saturday, May 21, 2011, 2pm-6pm Sunday, May 22, 2011, 2pm-10pm
Public round-tables at 4pm both days
University of the Streets
130 East 7th Street (between 1st Avenue and Avenue A)
New York, NY 10009-6164
Open to the Public Free
Participating artists and companies include:
Handan Ozbilgin, showing part three of her MAIDS project, members of experimental music ensemble thingNY, Ben Spatz/Urban Research Theater, JJ Lind and Liz Vacco of Immediate Medium, Peruvian artist Amapola Prada and her Lima New York Project, participatory performance art-ist Carrie Dashow, cultural organizer/icon Jason Andrew, sound and movement researchers William Bilwa Costa and Martin Lanz Landazari, Ashley Kelly-Tata of Enthuse Theater, Melanie Armer and Chance Mueleck of Nerve Tank, GoGoVertigoat’s Lindsey Drury, and interdisciplinary practitioners Sarah Maxfield, Angela Washko, Rebecca Patek, Nate Hill, Hyatt Michaels, Gelsey Bell, Dave Thrasher, and many others!
SCHEDULE:
Saturday, May 21
2-3:00
Handan Ozbilgin (MAIDS)
3:15pm-3:25
Dave Thrasher
3:25-4:00
Hyatt Michaels
Carrie Dashow
4:15pm-5pm: round-table 1
medium, mode, method (emphasis on participation)
5-5:30
Amapola Prada
5:30-6pm
thingNY
Sunday, May 22nd
2pm-3:15pm
Hector Canonge
3:15-4pm Nate Hill
4pm-5:00pm: round-table 2
medium, mode, method (emphasis on discipline)
5:00 performances
Angela Washko
5:30-7pm: presentations/artist talks
Jason Andrew
Gelsey Bell
Sarah Maxfield
The Nerve Tank
7:00
William Bilwa Costa, Rebecca Patek, Martin Lanz Landazari
8pm Lindsey Drury
8:45-9pm (clean up and short break)
9:00pm
Ben Spatz/Urban Research Theater
STRIKE 11-end
This conference is organized by Esther Neff of the Panoply Performance Laboratory