Century of Progress / Sleep and Bed-Stuy to Beebe

Showings

North Quad Space 2435 Fri, Mar 23, 2018 3:00 PM
Film Info
Event Type:Off the Screen!

Description

Century of Progress / Sleep

Paul Catanese

Century of Progress / Sleep is a cross-disciplinary performance for voice, tuning fork, ship’s bell, sea drum, software instruments, and live-cinema system. This work imagines that inanimate objects, hyperobjects and hypothetical entities, having recently acquired consciousness, immediately reject rational systems for conceptualizing “the nature of things” and instead adopt an intellectual posture of epistemological chaos emerging from mutative half-truths, mischaracterizations of science, and lawless theories of knowledge. This variable-duration work navigates a geometric libretto—a terrain of texts—via electronically processed vocals that energize a plurality of software instruments resulting in a hypnotic, mirage-like soundscape.

Bed-Stuy to Beebe

Lyn Goeringer and David Bering-Porter

This improvised audio and video performance weaves urban environments and landscape footage into early video art aesthetics, accompanied by live accordion and electronically processed sounds and field recordings. Over the course of approximately 20 minutes, the artists weave the video and audio media together, working to create an experience where the two are intrinsically linked and where the viewer-listener is immersed in a complete environment of experimental video and sound.