[Microsound-announce] A Fold in the Fabric: performance by John Hudak and Kurt Ralske at LMAKprojects

[Kim Cascone]

LMAKprojects is pleased to present A Fold in The Fabric, an  
integrated exhibition and media performance series featuring artists  
whose works often fall into the boundary zone between exhibition  
object, installation environment and live performance. These artists  
conjure systems of relations between objects in the world and their  
media representations, often manipulating both in the moment of live  
performance.

Performance by John Hudak and Kurt Ralske
Monday, October 9, 2006, 7pm
LMAKprojects  526 West 26th Street, #310, NYC
Admission is free

John Hudak
hypnogoge
sound and video performance

Kurt Ralske
For Phillip Guston At Half-Speed
sound and video performance

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About the artists:

John Hudak has been interested in sound and music from the age of  
four when he began to play a variety of instruments. At the  
University of Delaware (BA, English 1981) and Naropa Institute for  
the Arts (1979), he studied video, photography, creative writing and  
dance. He then began to create taped soundtracks for his solo  
performance art pieces. In recent years, he has concentrated on  
sound, particularly natural sounds.
Hudak's current sound work focuses on the minimalism and repetition  
of sounds below the usual threshold of hearing, sounds that are  
filtered out or considered non-musical. These sounds are recorded,  
deconstructed and processed, their rhythms and textures being the  
basis for aural manipulations.

hypnogoge
Utilizing aspects of sound and body movement, my performance will  
dwell upon the place between waking and sleeping, where the conscious  
and the unconscious mind overlaps, leaving the two parts to  
intermingle.  The give and take of what is known and what is  
remembered presents interesting juxtapositions that the driving hyper- 
aware cognitive part wouldn't necessarily think to make.

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Kurt Ralske's video installations and performances are created  
exclusively with his own custom software. His work has been exhibited  
internationally, including at the Guggenheim Bilbao, Los Angeles  
Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art.

Kurt programmed and co-designed a 9-channel video installation that  
is permanently in the lobby of the MoMA in NYC. In 2003, his work  
received First Prize at the Transmediale International Media Art  
Festival in Berlin, as a member of the video ensemble 242.pilots. He  
is also the author/programmer of Auvi, a popular video software
environment in use by artists in 22 countries.

Kurt resides in New York City. He teaches at the School of the Museum  
of Fine Arts, Boston, and the School of Visual Arts, New York.

For Phillip Guston At Half-Speed
Composer Morton Feldman (1926 - 1987) described parallels between his  
music and the rough, irregular patterns of certain antique Turkish  
carpets. Artist Kurt Ralske's video performance/installation "For  
Phillip Guston At Half-Speed"  uses images of these carpets as a  
point of departure. Static images are animated via a series of  
processes modeled on various natural phenomena. The video clarifies  
the connection between sound and image, and provides an entry point  
to total immersion in Feldman's world of repetition, evolution, sound  
and silence.

"All we composers really have to work with is time and sound - and  
sometimes I'm not even sure about sound." -- Morton Feldman
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LMAKprojects
526 West 26th Street # 310
New York, NY 10001

p. 212 255 9707
f. 212 255 9708
e. info at lmakprojects.com

www.lmakprojects.com


-- 
john hudak
http://www.johnhudak.net
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