Exhibition Artists | Film & Video | Performance & Music | Site-Specific | All
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For the festival Temple will be presenting "The Shallows." Written and performed by Temple Crocker, Directed by Tom Shade, Additional text excerpted from Oscar Wilde's Salome and Pamela Zoline's The Heat Death of the Universe. |
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Baraka de Soleil / D UNDERBELLY
For the Festival Baraka will be performing "Koool-aid Luv Odyssey," a non-linear multimedia performance collage that follows the psychedelic odyssey of impresario 'RedRed' as he unearths the mysterious liquid legacies of a syrupy sweet stuff that comes in only one real flavah - RED. Witness video dancing divas Cherry & Rouge strut their stuff to the hip electronic soundscapes of DJ-RedD as RedRed shares with 'you the woes, throes, highs and lows of being all up in the Koool aid of Luv'. Along this trippy journey you'll be immersed in a fixating world of afros, saturated colors and raucous post-mod movement, leaving you with a undenying taste of this good ole ' OH -YEAH'! Award-winning Interdisciplinary Artist Baraka de Soleil currently resides in Brooklyn, NY; having been involved in the experimental movement, music & performance art scene, throughout the country & internationally, for the past 15 years. At the center of his career is the collaboration on and creation of experimental works for the theatre, dance & alternative spaces; receiving acknowledgements including: a McKnight Fellowship(MN), commissions by Walker Art Center, Red Eye Collaborations (MN) & Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center, and an AUDELCO nomination for Obatala: King of the White Cloth. In New York,he has performed with: legendary avant-garde Musical Artist Cooper-Moore; Marlies Yearby's Movin Spirits Dance Theatre, Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Performance Group; as well as continuing to collaborate with Dj/Producer/Multi-media Artist Daniel Givens. He is currently an artist-in-residence at Brooklyn Arts Exchange [BAX] and spearheads D UNDERBELLY; which celebrates its tenth year in existence as an ever-fluid underground network of artists of color committed to multi-disciplined exploration through the excavation of 'new' work & communal exchange. Previous projects include 'N This Hous' [Tribeca Performing Arts Center], 'First Dark Drama' [Ontological Hysteric Theatre] and 'Koool-Aid Luv Odyssey' [ February 23 - 25th at BAX]. Other endeavors include the development of EGRESS (summer/fall 07) - a series of kinesthetic and ambient compositions inspired by Jean-paul Sarte's No Exit' - and researching the historic slave routes in Ghana latter July for the developing project 'Water Moves the Soul' (08). This past fall, for his choreographic work on 'Sango: Lord of Thunder', he was awarded the prestigious Katherine Dunham Choreography/ AUDELCO for excellence in Black Theatre at the 34th annual Vivian Robinson/AUDELCO ceremony. |
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Rachel will be performing her piece "Deep Red" conceived while traveling and doing performances in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. The piece is inspired by the films of Italian director Dario Argento, and his experiments with the aesthetics of blood. Rachel will also be performing with SLAPDOWN! |
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For the festival GilbertandGrape will be presenting their piece "”Hotdog is the only English word in her Vocabulary" a video and bananna art/performance installation. |
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Sarah Milinski & The Kotuwokan Initiative for pragmatic mysticismMembers: As an organization of dancers and musicians, we have collectively dedicated 105 years to our empirical studies of rhythm, movement and prayer. Our experiences have led us to exist as both performers and purveyors of pedagogy. In this spirit, we exhibit our findings in hopes that the creative force, the embodiment of the ceaseless cycles of destruction and renewal that transcend the everyday world of facile appearance, aids our participants in a purification that will ultimately energize the body and establish electrochemical balance. |
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Untitled Sit: Snow Is Falling Quietly is an intimate performance-installation reflecting on memory, friendship, love and the weather. Untitled Sit is the generic label for a series of compositions originally devised for performance in private homes. Each work is centered around the presence of a still and silent seated figure, the composer. Audience members are invited to join the composer in sitting. While the composer does follow a precise and unique score for each performance, no visible or audible performance act takes place. Instead, there is a free-form exchange of sensory information encouraged between performer, viewer and environment. Brooklyn-based composer Michelle Nagai utilizes sound, physicality and concept to create site-specific performances, installations, radio broadcasts, dances and other interactions that address the human state in relationship to its setting. These works and activities explore the exchange of perception between performer and audience/viewer. Nagai recognizes transmission, reception and “limbo” as continuously shifting, highly interactive states of being. She engages these states in her working process in order to open up the field of perception and action beyond that which she is herself capable of comprehending, making or doing. Recent creative projects incorporate through-composed and improvised music for acoustic instruments and electronics, as well as natural environments, found objects, video, costumes, texts and material structures fabricated from a variety of media. Nagai’s work has been presented throughout the US, Canada and Europe. She has been supported by the American Composers Forum, Eyebeam, Harvestworks, the Jerome and McKnight Foundations, Meet the Composer and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. A graduate of Bennington College (BA Music Composition, 1997), Nagai has studied with composers John Luther Adams, Pauline Oliveros and Yung Wha Son, video artist Tony Carruthers and sculptor Sue Rees. Nagai is a founding member of the American Society for Acoustic Ecology and co-chair of the NY Chapter of that organization. She holds a teaching certificate from the Deep Listening Institute. She is been represented as a transmission artist by free103point9. http://www.treetheater.org/ |
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Spoon Popkin received her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and has studied at the North Carolina School of the Arts, the Glasgow School of Art and the Chautauqua Institute for Performing Arts. Solo exhibitions include The Lee Nagrin Workshop (NY, NY), The Kunstlerhaus (Salzburg, Austria), RGB Gallery (NY, NY), The Garfield Artworks (Pittsburgh, PA), The American Institute of Architects Gallery (Baltimore, MD) and the International Festival of Women in the Arts (Glasgow, Scotland). She has had residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and the Kunstlerhaus in Salzburg, Austria and has received awards from the Maryland State Arts Council and the CityArts Individual Artist Award in Visual Arts. Her work has taken her to India, the UK, Panama, Mexico,Turkey and throughout Europe.
Found photographs, slides, tapes, letters: the accumulated memories of a lifetime tossed aside, this is where I find inspiration. For me, the found object simultaneously possesses elements of mystery and familiarity. Snapshots of moments that are seemingly banal and everyday are revealed as intensely personal; a kiss is exposed, a smoke is shared, a pet is loved devotedly. It is this feeling of mystery that compels me to paint. The original image however, is subordinate to the painting. Here the painting is reality. my piece is "Identity: Cell Phone reflections of self" I'll be drawing portraits of people on their cell phones from a costume loaded with art supplies. Ink pots, brushes and erasers stuck to every surface. I'm considering calling the sitter on their phone & chatting while we make the drawing. |
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Baltimore musician Chiara Giovando will present Marina's score WHITE LINES. WHITE LINES is a modular composition, based on a technique of subtle visual to sonic translation. Performers - and audience - view a gradually mutating screen projection featuring a pair of large vertical white lines whose evolving qualities (width, opacity, etc.) comprise a set of musical parameters. Projected on a transparent surface that floats between audience and performer(s), Rosenfeld’s video is both score and interface, making both the composer's intentions and the realization of those intentions by players public, transparent, visible and ephemeral. In this performance, a small orchestra of experimental musicians will execute a live interpretation of the WHITE LINES score. One of Rosenfeld’s aims in WHITE LINES is to create a shared moment between the performers and the public: “This effective ‘triangulation’ of the normally binary relationship between composer and performer is one of my intentions. Another is to render communal or social the act of reading music, a normally private experience that I have always regarded, as a performer of other composers' works, as mystical, fascinating, and full of magic.” Marina Rosenfeld is a New York-based composer, artist and turntablist, working at the intersections of composition and improvisation, sound and visual art. Her work has explored the social and situational contexts of music-making, digital/analogue culture, and experimental or open forms in a variety of formats. As a turntablist, she's developed her distinctive sound by playing exclusively her own custom acetate records, or 'dub plates', which are imprinted with original, fragmentary sounds she mixes and manipulates live. She's also noted for a series of large-scale performance works developed in situ, often featuring non- or amateur musicians with whom she develops custom performance strategies (The Sheer Frost Orchestra, Emotional Orchestra). Rosenfeld performs frequently in the U.S. and Europe, and has performed with leading contemporary artists, including Merce Cunningham Company, Sonic Youth, Christian Marclay and Laurie Anderson. Rosenfeld's work has been presented in a wide variety of contexts including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Tate Modern Museum and festivals including Donaueschingen, Ars Electronica, Maerz Musik, Mutek, Wien Modern, Taktlos Bern. Her most recent release is joy of fear (2006, Softl/Cologne). http://www.tomlabel.com/~marinarosenfeld/index.html |
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Wham bam thank you mam! If you're looking for
some over-the-top tough girl |
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Oluyemi & Ijeoma Thomas of Positive Knowledge has recorded & performed
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Nao
Bustamante is an internationally known performance art pioneer originating
from the San Joaquin Valley of California.
Her work
encompasses performance art, installation, video, pop music and
experimental rips in time. Bustamante's work has been presented,
among other sites at, the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London,
the San Francisco Museum of Modern Arts, and the Kiasma Museum
of Helsinki. She has performed in Galleries, Museums, Universities
and underground sites throughout Asia, Africa, Europe, New Zealand,
Australia, Canada, Mexico and of course the United States. Her
collaborations
include working with such luminaries as Coco Fusco and Osseus
Labrint. In 2001 she received the prestigious Anonymous Was a Woman
fellowship.
Currently she is living in Troy, New York and an assistant professor
of New Media and Live Art at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. 
The Center for Tactical Magic engages in extensive
research, development, and deployment of the pragmatic system known
as Tactical Magic. A fusion force summoned from the ways of the
artist, the magician, the ninja, and the private investigator, Tactical
Magic is an amalgam of disparate arts invoked for the purpose of
actively addressing Power on individual, communal, and transnational
fronts. At the CTM we are committed to achieving the Great Work
of Tactical Magic through community-based projects, daily interdiction,
and the activation of latent energies toward positive social transformation.
Temple
Crocker is a theater artist and educator. She makes interdisciplinary
and collaborative performance works as well as objects and installations.
Before moving to the east coast in 2003 Temple lived and worked
in San Francisco where she performed with various theater and dance
companies including Campo Santo, Art Street Theater, Torque Dance
Theatre and Pearl Ubungen Dancers and Musicians. In 1996 she co-founded
the experimental performance ensemble STRANGEFRUIT with Annie Kunjappy
and Rowena Richie. STRANGEFRUIT has created six original performances
including The Heat Death of the Universe based on the science-fiction
story by Pamela Zoline and Sewing Lessons, a surrealist lifecycle
based on the lives and art of Remedios Varo and Leonora Carrington.
Temple's first performance in Baltimore was a collaboration with
artist/performer Jackie Milad at the first Transmodern Age Festival
in the spring of 2004. Since then she has presented work at spare
room, CHELA and the Baltimore Book Festival. For the past two years
she has had an ongoing relationship with the Ontological-Hysteric
Theater in New York presenting new work at the Summer Series in
2005 and acting in Richard Foreman's ZOMBOID in the spring of 2006.
Temple is currently a member of the theater faculty at Towson University
and Villa Julie College. 
Koool-aid
Luv Odyssey {an excerpt}
Rachel Hoffman lives and works
in Tampa, Florida. In 2004 she achieved her MFA in studio art from
the University of
South Florida. Hoffman teaches courses in Color Theory and Design
at the Art Institute of Tampa, and is a contributing writer for
M/The New York Art World Magazine. She exhibits nationally and internationally,
including performances at PS1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island
City, New York, the Museo de Arte Moderno in Santo Domingo, Edge
Zones Art Space in Miami, Florida, and CIRCA PR in San Juan, Puerto
Rico. 
(Anne-Marte
Eidseth Rygh N) and Helen Pritchard (UK) is Norwegian/British
duo GilbertandGrape. Established in 2003
the artists share a background in performance writing at Dartington
College of Arts, UK. GilbertandGrape work within a genre they call
performance journalism. By exploring subjects through a perspective
of language they question how we read and write our stories. The
way they gather material is similar to that of journalism, but differs
in their attempt to gain independence from a commercial media with
a prescribed political bias. Questioning the media’s dissemination
of information and values. 
Fat
Worm of Error is four knuckles & one barely
prehensile tail. They reside in a fertile valley in Western Massachusetts,
where they craft hectic compositions inside a wooden shack. Their
recordings are self-produced, high-density, studio calisthenics, which,
at times, scarcely resemble the group's "live sound." Semi-regularly,
FWOE leaves the confines of their shack to perform their costumed,
spasmodic rituals with local tribes as well as consort & share their
findings with a larger, national esoteric community. 
LEXIE
MOUNTAIN BOYS was born in 2005 and features a molten core of Amy
Harmon, Amy Waller, Sam Garner, Katherine Hill, Roby Newton and
Lexie Macchi. 2006 saw the Mt Boys breaking bones, fending off wild
animals and disease yet still managing to complete an international
tour, an album called "Sexy Fountain Noise" and a month-long
human pyramid project at the Baltimore Museum of Art's Sculpture
Garden. 2007 should find the Mt Boys continuing to engage and devour
themes of gender performativity, teamwork, self-sufficiency and
living life in as satisfying a manner as possible, all the while
making bizarre and beautiful music with their minds and bodies. 
Untitled
Sit: Snow Is Falling Quietly When I was 17 I went
with a Norwegian friend into the woods near my house. There was
deep
snow on the ground. We lay down on a steep incline in a dry creek
bed and looked up at the clear night sky above us. The moon was
there, full and bright. The trees were empty and brittle. The snow
was solid, densely packed. We lay in absolute silence and only
our breaths made a sound, white puffs of dancing air shivering
and clicking in the bitter cold. - Michelle Nagai
Statement
Slapdown! began in May 2004 as the collaborative project in Tampa, Florida
Ijeoma
Thomas - Wordsmith, spoken word artist, poet vocalist and teacher
believes "all art is a gift of the
Holy Spirit." Composer, teacher & multi-reed musician (bass
clarinet, saxophones) Oluyemi Thomas brings elements of life and
work to the flow & he believes: " The musician's art is
among those arts worthy of the highest praise..." As a great
enhancement to their compositional approaches, Positive Knowledge
continues to perform throughout the United States, Africa, Asia,
Europe, South America, Israel, Canada, and the Caribbean Islands
which has resulted in a rich multifaceted vocabulary to date. They
have recorded or performed with such artists as Cecil Taylor, Wadada
Leo Smith, Roscoe Mitchell, Alan Silva, Peter Kowald, Henry Kaiser,William
Parker, Miya Masaoka & Gino Robair, "Kidd" Edward Jordan.
2006 (c) Transmodern Age, Inc. All Rights Reserved. All images not related to bios were taken by Mike Muniak and Stewart Mostofsky. Drawings by Jackie Milad