[Microsound-announce] COLORFIELD VARIATIONS + live SAWAKO/RICHARD CHARTIER/TAYLOR DEUPREE: Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, Sept 8

[RICHARD CHARTIER]

ISSUE PROJECT ROOM (Brooklyn, NY) Sept 8, 2007
http://www.issueprojectroom.org

http://www.3particles.com/colorfieldvariations



 > LIVE PERFORMANCE:
SAWAKO  (JP/NY)                       (20:00)
www.troncolon.com

 > LIVE PERFORMANCE:
"SPECIFICATION.FIFTEEN" (40:00)
RICHARD CHARTIER + TAYLOR DEUPREE
http://www.12k.com
http://www.3particles.com

For this collaboration, sound artists Richard Chartier and Taylor  
Deupree were invited by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,  
Washington, DC, to create a new live work inspired by the Seascapes  
series of renowned Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto on the  
occasion of his retrospective exhibition. The result is this live  
recording, Specification.Fifteen. This work premiered on March 30,  
2006 in front of the curved panoramic window of the Museum’s Lerner  
Room as the sun set across the city’s skyline. Specification.Fifteen  
evokes the stillness and opposing yet related spaces of Sugimoto1s  
Seascapes, which suggest infinitesimal change and variation under a  
seemingly uniform surface.

A second performance for Transmediale.07 at the Akademie der Kuenste  
[Berlin, Germany], where the work was also exhibited and awarded one  
of five Honorable Mentions from the Jury. For this live performance a  
new video work was created utilizing the 13 Sugimoto Seascape images  
which had been present in the Hirshhorn exhibit. Over 45 minutes the  
perfectly aligned still images transition and dissolve between and  
over each other in an often barely noticeable 3 minute hazy and  
hallucinatory shift.

“Water and air. So very commonplace are these substances, they hardly  
attract attention and yet they vouchsafe our very existence.
Mystery of mysteries, water and air are right there before us in the  
sea. Every time I view the sea, I feel a calming sense of security,  
as if visiting my ancestral home; I embark on a voyage of seeing.” -  
Hiroshi Sugimoto




COLORFIELD VARIATIONS
curated by: Richard Chartier (www.3particles.com)

This program, curated by renowned sound artist Richard Chartier, is a  
collection of audio/visual works reinterpreting the Color Field  
movement by an international array of critically acclaimed sound and  
new media artists including: Frank Bretschneider, Alan Callander,  
Chris Carter + Cosey Fanni Tutti (Chris&Cosey/Throbbing Gristle), Sue  
Costabile, Evelina Domnitch + Dmitry Gelfand, Mark Fell (SND/Blir) +  
Ernest Edmonds, Tina Frank + General Magic, Ryoichi Kurokawa, Stephan  
Mathieu, Steve Roden, and Bas Van Koolwijk. Colorfield Variation  
includes new works especially created for this program.

Color Field painting, an abstract style that emerged in the 1950s  
following Abstract Expressionism, is characterized by canvases  
painted primarily with stripes, washes and fields of solid color. The  
first serious and critically acclaimed art movement to originate in  
the nation's capital, Washington Color School was central to the  
larger Color Field movement. As a reaction to the emotional energy  
and gestural surface of Abstract Expressionists, the Color Field  
artists and members of The Washington Color School turned away from  
the individual mark in favor of color itself becoming the content of  
the work. Breaking painting down to the fundamental formal elements,  
the Color Field artists created pure simplified, large-format, color- 
dominated fields on a large monumental scale.

During the early sixties, Color Field painting was the term used to  
describe younger artists whose work were related to second generation  
abstract expressionism yet clearly pointed toward a new direction in  
American painting. Artists such as Clyfford Still, Mark Rothko,  
Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Helen Frankenthaler, Leon Berkowitz,  
Frank Stella and others eliminated recognizable imagery from their  
canvas and presented abstraction as an end in itself with each  
painting as one unified, cohesive, monolithic image.

This program in its original form was created for Washington Project  
for the Arts/Corcoran (www.wpac.org) as part of the city wide  
Colorfield Remix events which took place in April-June 2007 in  
Washington, DC.


AUDIO/VIDEO SCREENING program:

STEVE RODEN (US)
“dark over light earth” / 13:00 / 2007
www.inbetweennoise.com

ALAN CALLANDER (US)
“CF01” / 5:00 / 2007
www.visionload.com

FRANK BRETSCHNEIDER (DE)
“looping i-vi (excerpt)” / 12:00 / 2004-5
  www.frankbretschneider.de

STEPHAN MATHIEU (DE)
“Orange was the color of her dress” / 10:00 / 2007
www.bitstream.de

SUE COSTABILE (US) + BEEQUEEN (NL)
“AMP_SWELL” / 3:49 / 2005
www.sue-c.net  /  www.beequeen.nl

TINA FRANK + GENERAL MAGIC (AT)
“Chronomops” / 2:00 / 2006
www.frank.at

BAS VAN KOOLWIJK (NL)
“FDBCK/AV - Silver” /  3:29  / 2007
www.umatic.nl

CHRIS CARTER + COSEY FANNI TUTTI (UK)
“Chronomanic Redux” / 10:00 / 2007
www.cartertutti.com

  RYOICHI KUROKAWA (JP)
“Scorch” / 3:04 / 2005
www.ryoichikurokawa.com

EVELINA DOMNITCH + DMITRY GELFAND (RU/US)
“Ten Thousand Peacock Feathers in Foaming Acid” / 8:00 / 2007
www.portablepalace.com

ERNEST EDMONDS (AU) + MARK FELL (UK)
“Broadway One”(excerpt) / 2:00 / 2004-5
www.markfell.com / www.ernestedmonds.com




  
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