Saturday, May 31 (Rain or Shine!)
8:53pm (Civil Twilight)
Gansevoort Plaza, Manhattan
At the intersection of Gansevoort, Little West 12th, 9th Ave., and Greenwich
Admission: Free
www.illuminatedcorridor.com
Nicholas Chase with NOVA: The Illuminated Corridor at the 2008 Whitney Biennial
Chase joins the San Francisco based Illuminated Corridor for the 2008 incarnation NOVA, creating a new film-sound installation on the streets of Manhattan. Illuminated Corridor joins forces with Neighborhood Public Radio to re-light Gansevoort Plaza in the Meat Packing District of Manhattan in a one-night-only outdoor performance of watchable radio. One of the culimating events of NPR's "American Life" exhibition at the Whitney Biennial 2008, this Corridor explores all manner of NOVA: heavenly event, (ir)rational inquiry, cataclysmic variable, and rumbling imperative. A dozen or more artists will set up projectors in Gansevoort Plaza to project original, experimental film and video onto plaza surfaces and selected facades. The projections will be accompanied by a live radio broadcast, hosted by Neighborhood Public Radio. You are invited to bring a portable radio to listen to the live broadcast and to walk among the artists, musicians and projections as they infiltrate and illuminate a city street with experimental outdoor cinema.
More about this event here illuminatedcorridor.com/20080531.html
Nicholas Chase NOVA: Street Transmissions
Chase's contribution to the NPR/Illuminated Corridor NOVA event channels the presence of passers-by through television and radio and re-organizes and re-interprets them into a surreal, sceneographic composition entitled Street Transmissions.
More about the project at nicholaschase.blogspot.com
Street Transmissions is made possible by a generous grant from the American Composers Forum of Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Dubbed by LA Weekly as an 'Eye/Ear Explorer,' Nicholas Chase's audio visual work has been acclaimed as 'pushing the edge.' Chase's electro acoustic musical compositions have been performed internationally by ensembles and soloists alike, featured at venues such as Stanford University's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, Holland and as part of the Weimar-New York festival in Weimar, Germany. Future events include the opening of Untitled: An Installation with Xiaoping Zhen and the BauhausFM Experimental Radio in Berlin, the world premiere of Considering Light by the Los Angeles Wholesale Orchestra in Los Angeles and a tour of solo audio/visual performances culminating in a residence at the 12th International Festival of New Music Plus at the Janaçek Academy of Music.
Details about events at www.nicholaschase.net
The Illuminated Corridor
The Illuminated Corridor is a next step in outdoor cinema: a nomadic public art project that creates site-specific illumination of public space, drawing on local traditions of film and live music. Working with unlikely natural and built spaces, The Illuminated Corridor has convened six times since the Summer of 2005, catalyzing site-specific work,showcasing diverse collaborations between performative projectionists and musicians, and covering a vast territory of film and music genres.
Project co-oridinator Suki O'Kane
More about The Illuminated Corridor at www.illuminatedcorridor.com
Neighborhood Public Radio
NPR contributes 'American Life' to the 2008 Whitney Biennial and has has installed a broadcast point inside the Whitney Museum. In addition NPR has been transmitting live talk, music and experimental sound shows created by gallery visitors, artists, activists and community members, from a storefront adjacent to the Museum on Madison Ave. in Manhattan. Going one step further, content gleaned from NPR's Portable Radio Instruments (or PRIs) placed in cities across the US has been rebroadcast from the New York hub. NPR's motto is "If it's in the neighborhood and it makes noise, we hope to put it on the air" and its mission is to provide an alternative media platform at the community level - "access in excess."
Named by San Francisco Magazine "Best Super Local Radio Station," Neighborhood Public Radio (NPR) was founded in 2004 by multimedia artists and educators LeE Montgomery, Jon Brumit and Michael Trigilio. Acting as a traveling band of guerilla broadcasters, NPR personnel have hosted thematic broadcasts far and wide including in numerous galleries in San Francisco, at Chicago's Version 5 Festival (2005) and San Jose’s Zero1 Festival (2006) as well as various projects in Europe.
View the project in progress at www.neighborhoodpublicradio.org
Listen live here
Whitney Museum of American Art 2008 Biennial
The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York is the leading advocate of 20th and 21st Century American art. Since its founding in 1932, the Biennial has evolved into the Whitney’s signature exhibition and with its history of exhibiting the most promising and influential American artists and provoking intense critical and public debate, the Biennial has become the most prominent exhibition of modern American art in current times.
The 2008 Biennial, the seventy-fourth in the series of Whitney Annual and Biennial exhibitions held since 1932, presents eighty-one artists working at a time when art production is above all characterized by heterogeneity and dispersal. Many of the projects presented in the exhibition explore fluid communication structures and systems of exchange that index larger social, political, and economic contexts, often aiming to invert the more object-oriented operations of the art market.
Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street
March 6 through June 1
www.whitneybiennial.org
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