Codex, 2007
HD & SD video/ Jitter/ mac mini
Atrium Gallery, Richmond Center
Frostic Video and Sound Art Series
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Les Langues, running time 3:10 mins.
Atrium Gallery, Richmond Center
Frostic Video and Sound Art Series
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Essential Chair
Atrium Gallery, Richmond Center
Frostic Video and Sound Art Series
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10th Lesson
Atrium Gallery, Richmond Center
Frostic Video and Sound Art Series
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44 Meaningful Sounds – Sound Art
Atrium Gallery, Richmond Center
Frostic Video and Sound Art Series
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Metropolis (1800 Frames Plus), 2008
1/26 – 2/7/2009
Atrium Gallery, Richmond Center
Frostic Video and Sound Art Series
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Vince Mistretta
1/5 – 1/21/2009
Atrium Gallery – Richmond Center
Frostic Video and Sound Art Series
This video highlights the work of Western New York area media and sound artists interested in composition and new methods of collaboration. This is a witness to the development of original sound and image works that are collaborative and improvised, trustful and open to new ways of working between media and sound artists.
Twelve media artists were invited to produce an original, silent (or near silent) short film or video piece to be “read” as a graphic score by variations of performers from The Open Music Ensemble. Live recordings and performances of the scores in sound are paired with visual works, developed especially for this exhibition, now video. A live concert of selected works was originally performed on September 23, 2005.
Siew Wai Kok
Featured media artists include: Dorothea Braemer, Elliot Caplan, Stephanie Gray, Siew-wai Kok, Carl Lee, Brian Milbrand, Vince Mistretta, Jan Nagle, Alan Rhodes, Kelly Spivey, Carolyn Tennant and Stephen Vitiello.
Participating musicians include: Steve Baczkowski (horns), J.T Rinker (trombone), Josh DeScherer (bass), Ben Harris (violin), Leah Muir (cello), Otto Muller (accordian), Chris Reba (bass), Will Redman (percussion), Bill Sack (electric guitar), Andrew Walsh (contrabass) and Todd Whitman (horns and various alternative noise makers).
The Open Music Ensemble is a collective of over a dozen Buffalo-based musicians affiliated with The Open Music Foundation, a not-for-profit organization for composers and artists dedicated to the promotion of artistic expression based on unconventional, experimental, open-form, and — especially — graphical, forms of communicating musical ideas. For more information, visit http://www.openmusic.us
A second version of this project was commissioned by Hallwalls in Buffalo NY in the spring of 2008.
Joanna Raczynska and Will Redman, curators
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Translations of Lorca, 2006
12/1 – 12/20/2008
Atrium Gallery, Richmond Center
Frostic Video and Sound Art Series
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Visions Fugitive, 2007 – 6:00 mins
11/17 – 11/22/2008
Atrium Gallery, Richmond Center
Frostic Video and Sound Art Series
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Billboard, 2004 – 5:15 mins
11/10 – 11/15/2008
Atrium Gallery, Richmond Center
Frostic Video and Sound Art Series
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Passing Figure, 1999 – 5:00 minutes
11/3 – 11/8/2008
Atrium Gallery, Richmond Center
Frostic Video and Sound Art Series
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© Marina Abramović, The Onion, 1996 – 20:00 mins
10/25 – 11/1/2008
Atrium Gallery, Richmond Center
Frostic Video and Sound Art Series
The first shot is a close up of Abramović looking upward and holding a large onion. Her fingernails are painted bright red, just like her lips. Slowly she brings the onion closer to her mouth, taking a large bite from it and beginning to chew. Her voice-over keeps repeating the following as she devours the onion: ‘I’m tired of changing planes so often, waiting in the waiting rooms, bus stations, train stations, airports. I am tired of waiting for endless passport controls. Fast shopping in shopping malls. I am tired of more career decisions: museum and gallery openings, endless receptions, standing around with a glass of plain water, pretending that I am interested in conversation. I am tired of my migraine attacks. Lonely hotel room, room service, long distance telephone calls, bad TV movies. I am tired of always falling in love with the wrong man. I am tired of being ashamed of my nose being too big, of my ass being too large, ashamed about the war in Yugoslavia. I want to go away. Somewhere so far that I’m unreachable, by telephone or fax. I want to get old, really, really old, so that nothing matters any more. I want to understand and see clearly what is behind all of us. I want not to want anymore.’
As she is complaining, Abramović is noticeably agitated by eating the raw onion. Her eyes are tearing up, her saliva is dripping out of her mouth as her lipstick is rubbed off and bits of onion layers stick to her face. Her chewing is slowing down, but she continues to take ferocious bites from the onion while the voice-over continues. In certain respects, ‘The Onion’ shows familiarities with early performances like ‘Art must be Beautiful, Artists must be Beautiful’, in which Abramović is violently brushing her hair and face while reciting the title of the piece. As the early performances revolve around mental and physical limits of pain, ‘The Onion’ resumes Marina’s dedication to idea of the inseparability of body and mind by challenging apparent limitations of physical stamina. The video is also part of the 16-channel installation ‘Video Portrait Gallery’ (Abramović 1975-2002).
courtsey of the Netherlands Media Art Institute, Montevideo/TBA, © Marina Abramović
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Conquest of the Air – 15:00 mins
9/15 – 9/20/2008
Atrium Gallery, Richmond Center
Frostic Video and Sound Art Series
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Hold On/ Hold Up – 2:54 mins
9/8 – 9/13/2008
Atrium Gallery, Richmond Center
Frostic Video and Sound Art Series
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Hold On/ Hold Up – 8:34 mins
9/2 – 9/6/2008
Atrium Gallery, Richmond Center
Frostic Video and Sound Art Series
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