Please join me for this very *Special Live Perfomance* on Saturday, May 19 (7-11pm) with video artist Douglas Davis +architect Frank Gehry @ FUN, 130 Madison Street, NYC regards, Cristine WangTitle: MAY 19 AT FUN, 130 MADISON ST, NYC
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Saturday, May 19 (7-11 pm) @ FUN, 130 Madison Street, New York City / F-train to East Broadway / Lower East Side D
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sponsors: NY ARTS magazine, SPECTRA DIGITAL, KIM VIDEO, FOTOGRAFISK CENTER/THE DIGITAL ROOM, COPENHAGEN *Please join us for a Special Live Performance* "An Evolving Work of Meta-Media Theater in which You play an active, critical role EACH TIME the story leaps into a new phase in a new city led by the new man or woman above...PUSHING THE ARTIST ASIDE, TURNING HIM, HIS GENDER, AND HIS BRAINS INSIDE OUT... and laying final claim to his precious oh too precious, virginal ID,In this action you will play many roles, as Voyeur, as Playwright, as Reader/Critic, as Actor (yes you can read lines in company with a global cast of volunteers, whom you can already see, hear, and scent below) ... and in so doing you will join the twisting, Moebius-strip virtuality of the new century, where nothing will ever stand still for long...but twist, twist, twist twist twist " --Douglas Davis You are invited to participate and be present at this very special: **new media thriller**
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Please join us for a very special evening of live performances with artist, theorist, performer, teacher + writer, DOUGLAS DAVIS, who has played an active role in contemporary art since the 1960's. A pioneer of video in the 1970's, and web art in the 1990's, his "live" satellite performance/video/web pieces are seminal exercises in the use of interactive technology as a medium for art + communications. In 1977 he joined with Nam June Paik + Joseph Beuys for the first live international satellite telecast by artists, transmitted from Documenta 6in Kassel, West Germany. Davis' pioneering work with interactivity has evolved with new technologies. His ongoing interactive project for the World Wide Web, entitled The World's First Collaborative Sentence, was commissioned by the Lehman College/CUNY Art Gallery and is in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. "Metabody"(The World's First Collaborative Visions of the Beautiful), 1997, collection George H. Waterman III, website co-sponsored and hosted by P.S.1/The Institute of Contemporary Art, NYC;Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; Municipal Gallery and Museum, Reyjkavik, Iceland; Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw; Donajski Digtal Gallery, Warsaw shows you hundreds of bodies sent from all cultures. "Terrible Beauty", an evolving work of interactive global theater (on-going since 1997), uses the bodies and faces on the web as theatrical partners. And now, "Moralpornography.com",which just opened in Copenhagen, Denmark, will scandalize our mayor,delight you, and reform heterosexuality forever. As an artist/performer, Davis confronts the anonymity and passivity of technological production and reception, establishing an intimate, interactive dialogue with the viewer as a forum for intellectual and moral debate. Articulating his approach to video, Davis writes: "Television is usually considered a public medium, but because of the way it is experienced -- in a personal space -- it is in fact quite private. When I began to work overtly with the medium, I acted out of the same sense of intimacy, this time on the other side of the screen." The author of several books, including Artculture: Essays on the Post-Modern (1977) and The Museum Impossible: Architecture and Culture in the Post-Pompidou Era (1990), and The Five Myths of Television Power. Davis has been a critic for Newsweek and contributor of essays, opinions and fiction to the New York Times, Artforum, Art in America, The Village Voice, and The New York Press. Davis received a B.A. from American University and an M.A. from Rutgers University. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (D.A.A.D.); he was artist-in-residence at the TV Lab at WNET/Thirteen, New York, and a Fulbright Scholar at the State University of the Humanities in Moscow. Davis' work has been seen in solo shows at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Metropolitan Museum, New York; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse; and The Kitchen, New York, among other institutions. His work has also been exhibited at festivals and institutions including the Venice Biennale; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Kolnischer Kunstverein, Cologne; and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Douglas Davis
lives and works in New York, and is currently readying himself for several
global network theater projects linking cities around the world.
Frank Gehry, architect of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, winner of the The Pritzker Prize (commonly referred to as "the Nobel of architecture"). He has frequently been know to collaborate with artists rather than with architects, as he once said he was "intellectually intrigued with their process, their language, their attitudes, their ability to make things with their own hands," whereas with fellow architects, he felt like "an outsider." He has collaborated with such artists as: Claes Oldenburg, Coosje van Bruggen + Richard Serra. On May 19, he will now be collaborating with media artist Douglas Davis, in a live meta-media theater performance piece. (under the Manhattan Bridge, Lower East Side, New York City) take the F-train to East Broadway (Chinatown) * * R S V P F O R G U E S T
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For More Information Contact: Cristine Wang, Curator tel: 917.318.0081 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
