[Microsound-announce] Brooklyn::August 25th & 26th -Rooftop Media Installation Show

[icraigepps at ianepps.com]

Hi All,
the following, is an announcement for a Rooftop Media Installation, 
taking place in Brooklyn, NY...
one of the video pieces, by Eva Teppe, will feature music by Mika Vainio.
It's really quite a nice piece...and I thought microsounders, in the 
vicinity of brooklyn, might enjoy it
the press release can be found at... http://www.ianepps.com/news.htm
I will also be introducing a new sound sculpture...but that's not the 
focus of this announcement.
hope you can make it
thanks,
Ian Epps
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*OH THE WEIGHT OF IT ALL*
A Rooftop Media Installation Show
August 25th & 26th 2006
*--- Rain Dates: September 1st & 2nd*
Rooftop, 210 Cook St. Bushwick, Brooklyn. Exhibition opens at sundown 
each evening.


On August 25th & 26th Ian Epps, Darrin Martin, Shana Moulton, Blithe 
Riley, Eva Teppe, and Dan Walsh present a series of looping video and 
sound works designed specifically for rooftop installation. Centered on 
the theme "gravity," the works collectively comment on the physical and 
psychological impact this invisible force has on human navigation and 
perception.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Blithe Riley
beriley at gmail.com
412.443.5758

OH THE WEIGHT OF IT ALL
A Rooftop Media Installation Show
August 25th & 26th 2006
Rooftop, 210 Cook St. Bushwick, Brooklyn. Exhibition opens at sundown 
each evening.

On August 25th & 26th Ian Epps, Darrin Martin, Shana Moulton, Blithe 
Riley, Eva Teppe, and JD Walsh present a series of looping video and 
sound works designed specifically for rooftop installation. Centered on 
the theme “gravity,” the works collectively comment on the physical and 
psychological impact this invisible force has on human navigation and 
perception.

Sound artist Ian Epps premieres his new sound sculpture, Untitled in 
which balloon-like ‘Ashrams’ float suspended in the air. Headphones link 
the listener to the object broadcasting Epps’s new original 
compositions. The piece is both meditative and metaphorical evoking an 
illustrative study of an individual’s personal sanctuary, dream-like 
states of emotional release, and the conflict of being firmly planted to 
the ground.

Darrin Martin’s new work was initially inspired by a book-on-tape 
version of James Gleick’s Isaac Newton bought at a truck stop. His video 
Sensorial Principia, “celebrates the specialization of knowledge through 
the rubbing of an iconic pinnacle of scientific achievement against the 
artistic ambivalence of the human body.” Martin’s work questions the 
access points, as well as the goals of the producers and distributors of 
human knowledge.

Shana Moulton’s video Inside the Mountain Where Everything is 
Upside-Down presents an interior space that resembles a familiar 
domestic setting but exhibits physical properties that defy the laws of 
nature. Household rituals meant to reduce stress trigger a disruption in 
the space-time continuum, causing objects in the room to have 
supernatural properties. The bewildered protagonist unsuccessfully 
attempts to restore natural order to the space until she accepts its 
irrational logic.

Blithe Riley’s site-specific video projection uses looping repetition to 
highlight the labor of repetitive action. In Wat(h)er Fall, a performer 
moves through an old twenty-foot metal frame defunct water tower base, 
in an endless and goalless journey. The journey is broken into time 
frames, mirrored by the structural frames that dissect the physical object.

In Half Asleep, Eva Teppe works with various modes of extremely 
decelerated motion. By manipulating footage of “base-jumpers” performing 
their skydives, the artist dispels all sense of the danger posed by such 
reckless leaps. The “base-jumper” is made to look like a diver gliding 
through a fluid biotope, giving the impression of a sleepwalker, This 
mood is further heightened by the soundtrack composed by Finnish 
musician Mika Vainio.

In JD Walsh's Weekend, leisurely city dwellers engage in various weekend 
activities. The electronically removed background emphasizes and 
exaggerates the mundane tasks that we know as "free time". Actions 
become unhinged from their environments, gestures freed from governing 
laws of physics and society. For Oh, the Weight of it All Walsh presents 
"Weekend (reprise)", a two-channel version, in which these gestures are 
presented alongside those found in interior spaces, further complicating 
role of the body in and out of doors.

ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

Ian Epps is a Sonic/Visual Artist whose explorations are invested in how 
an object speaks, utters, and dissolves itself within its given 
surroundings. His work has been exhibited in the Walker Art Center, 
Lovebytes Biennial (Sheffield, UK), A.I.R. Gallery (NYC), EYEDRUM 
(Atlanta, GA), and SIGGRAPH 2004 (Los Angeles, CA). He has performed 
alongside and in collaboration with Rafael Toral, Andrew Deutsch and 
Pauline Oliveros, Ogurusu Norihide, among many others. Epps’s recent 
releases can be found on SoftL Music, Grain of Sound, Powershovel Audio, 
On;(do), and Seasonal.

Darrin Martin’s videos and performances have shown internationally at 
festivals and museums including the MOMA, the DIA Center for the Arts, 
Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Arts, Pacific Film Archive, and the 
European Media Art Festival in Germany. His installations have exhibited 
at venues such as The Kitchen and WRO Media Arts Biennale in Poland. 
Martin also frequently collaborates with Torsten Zenas Burns building 
diverse speculative fictions around reimagined educational practices. 
Their videotapes are distributed by Vtape in Toronto.

Shana Moulton’s videos feature her character Cynthia who has psychic 
adventures with her home décor, and whose orthopedic dresses reveal her 
anxieties and strange inner fantasy worlds. These videos are distributed 
by Electronic Arts Intermix as part of their emerging artist series. Her 
work has screened at exhibitions and festivals in Pittsburgh, New York, 
Toronto, Amsterdam, Paris, the United Kingdom, Germany and Sweden. 
Moulton attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and just 
completed a two-year residency at De Ateliers in Amsterdam.

Blithe Riley is an artist working with video, performance and 
installation. Her work has been screened nationally an internationally 
at venues such as Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center in Buffalo, NY, 
Pittsburgh Filmmakers, The Warhol Museum, and Regina Miller Gallery,in 
Pittsburgh, PA as well as The European Media Arts Festival, in Germany. 
Riley received an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University in 2005. In 
addition to her own work, she has organized and programmed video 
screenings since 1998, including the formation of Press Play Video 
Series in Pittsburgh, PA.

Eva Teppe currently resides in New York for a one-year studio 
scholarship from the Hess Cultural Foundation. Her latest video work was 
screened at a group show called Portraits - The View Behind The Make-Up 
at the Gallery Anita Beckers Frankfurt (Germany). In 2005 she 
participated at the ARS Electronica Linz listening between the lines. 
Teppe’s film and video regularly shows at international film and video 
festivals including the 33rd International Film Festival Rotterdam (NL), 
Transmediale Berlin (D), 16th Onion City Experimental Film and Video 
Festival, Chicago (USA), and European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück (D), 
25. Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis, Saarbrücken (D)).

John Daniel Walsh is an artist based in Brooklyn. He received his BFA 
from Alfred University and an MFA from Bard College. His work has been 
included in group and solo shows internationally. In 2005, his piece 
Life Expectancy Test was on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as 
part of Tony Oursler’s Studio: Seven Months of my Aesthetic Education. 
His solo show Display, was held at Solomon Projects gallery in Atlanta. 
His video sculpture Weekend was purchased by the High Museum of Art in 
2003, and his work has been reviewed in Sculpture Magazine, Art Papers 
Magazine, New Art Examiner, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He has 
taught at the Cooper Union School of Art, Atlanta College of Art and at 
New School University’s MA program in Media Studies.

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