Sabisha Friedberg: “Hinterkante, Resonanz (Hoffe Axiom)”

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Don’t miss the latest piece from artist Sabisha Friedberg performed tonight at ISSUE Project Room at 8:00PM 22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn.

For the first performance of her 2013 residency, Sabisha Friedberg presents Hinterkante, Resonanz (Hoffe Axiom), or Trailing Edge, Resonance (Hope Axiom), a new chamber piece for acoustic instruments, modified subwoofers, and voice, featuring internationally renowned basso profondo Kevin Maynor. Friedberg focuses on the concept of an experiential threshold, with notations and an arrangement of frequencies that engage the most physical states of hearing. This new work draws on the extremes of perception in the lower end of the sonic spectrum: the opening of a psychoacoustic territory which deals exclusively with bass tones and their resonance.

Sabisha Friedberg photographed by Matthu Placek in her MoMA/PS1 studio on March 14th 2012

AMBER MARTIN Returns to Joe’s Pub!

AmberVision is a patchwork performance of some timelessly fantastic music and some great storytelling… involving the usual costume and wig changes plus some very special guests… Mike Jackson, The Pixie Harlots, Jill Pangallo, Lost Lockets and House of Cunt Performance Group from Portland, Oregon… also a special appearance from Randy Jones, The Village People COWBOY! It promises to give you an instant facelift. 

ONE NIGHT ONLY TOMORROW!

Joe’s Pub

425 Lafayette Street

9:00PM

Tickets onsale now at www.joespub.com

Amber Martin photographed by Matthu Placek in New York City on January 10th 2011

Trust Me: Big Art Group at Abrons

Don’t dare miss one or all of the last 3 performances by the progress collective, Big Art Group at the Abrons Art Center in their new work “Broke House” 

Broke House is a new group performance from Caden Manson / Big Art Group and follows a narrative about the residents of a house and their hanger-on, once a documentary filmmaker arrives to capture their lives. On a skeletal set webbed with video cameras, the characters try to recall their given roles as inevitably the foundations of their dreams collapse, and they are thrown into the desert of their own futures. Part comedy, part ritual, part love spell.

The Performance explores the process of construction, when that process becomes sharply interrupted by historical events, and dissolves into the shapelessness of an aftermath. Those processes that were “building” previous to the play’s beginning include a life, a family, architecture, or a system of beliefs, an economy of values, and the creation of the performance itself. But when events intervene— events like collapse, upheaval, disaster, abandonment, forgetting, fear, and strife— all the raw materials and the players themselves become deformed into a new formlessness, and enter a transitional state of potentiality. Like the pause loop in a video game, Broke House takes place in this marginal time zone.

Like all of Big Art Group’s works, Broke House offers our meditation on the current states of America, which we believe have been in flux for at least as long as our ensemble has been up and running. Beyond the topical symptoms of foreclosure crises, credit crises, occupy movements and extremist rhetoric, we suppose that the metaphorical heart of the country has been suffering, and perhaps has decided to rebuild the body that surrounds it.

Broke House (New Group Work)
Abrons Arts Center (NYC)
466 Grand Street (at Pitt Street)
New York, NY 10002

April 20, 2012 8:00pm
April 21, 2012 8:00pm
April 22, 2012 7:00pm

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My darling studio mate Michael Bullock has compiled the best Sunday afternoon I can recall in recent years. Hosted at PS1’s performance dome, come out Sunday at 130PM for a performance by The Freaky Boiz and a debut screening of the film The Source by NYC based artist collective Yemenwed. 

Michael Bullock presents Yemenwed and The Freaky Boiz

with DJ sets by Honey Dijon and Michael Magnan

MoMA PS1 Performance Dome 

22-25 Jackson Ave.at the intersection of 46th Ave. Long Island City, NY 

March 18: Sunday Sessions: 1:30–6:00 pm

1:30- 2:00  Yemenwed

2:00- 4:00  Honey Dijon

4:00- 4:30  The Freaky Boiz

4:30- 6:00  Michael Magnan

Yemenwed

Multidisciplinary NYC based artist collective Yemenwed will debut their new video The Source,  A CGI animation interpretation of a live performance presented 

at Santo’s Party House last Halloween. The Source features an inspirational life coaching seminar conducted by a giant Ice block. Yemenwed’s work often explores a detached reality; a hyper re-clarification of the present moment, which frequently results in the visual shifting of peripheral experiences to the foreground. Casual back-up dancing, mundane movement, and domestic abstractions are often employed to this end, as they are theatrically rearranged to be viewed as central, and with increased detail.

The Freaky Boiz 

Tired of changing the words around in hit songs to make them relevant to their own lives, The Freaky Boiz took to Youtube and uploaded some videos featuring themselves rapping in bed, often shirtless. With only smart lyrics and loads of charisma these videos have attracted over a million views. The Freaky Boiz are 22 year old Terrance “TTgotit” Wilson and Pierre “P-Weezy” Phipps. Like 2 Live Crew before them, the Freaky Boiz deliver blatant sexual lyrics with unapologetic bravado.  When interviewed on Chicago radio’s WGCI’s Morning Riot they were asked, “Is there room for homosexuality in hip-hop?” P-Weezy answered “I believe there is not room, that’s why we are gonna make room for it! We are going be the artists that finally represent people like us.”

Michael Bullock is a NYC based writer and publishing adviser that works with and contributes to PIN-UP, BUTT, Fantastic Man, The Gentlewoman and Apartamento.  His first book Roman Catholic Jacuzzi is being published by Karma this spring.  

Photograph by Marcelo Krasilcic