Monday Night 10.27.03 -- e-Xplo performs live at 16Beaver
Contents:
1. About this Monday Night
2. About Domestic Disturbance; Fight or Flight; or Shelter
3. Streaming Version on Thing.net
4. Upcoming e-Xplo projects
5. Next Monday at 16Beaver
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1. About this Monday Night
When: Monday -- October 27, 2003 7.30pm
Where: 16Beaver -- 4th Floor (see address below)
Who: All are invited (Admission is free)
What: e-Xplo live sound performance accompanied with film screening
http://www.e-Xplo.org
Since their first project Dencity, which involved an electro-acoustic bus
tour around the periphery of Williamsburg, e-Xplo has formally been
investigating the lines connecting sound, space, place, performance and
“cinema”. Despite the gaining popularity of “psychogeography” or
“cartography” within current artistic discourses, e-Xplo continues to be
interested in alternate ways of mapping, isolating, linking and connecting
different places/locations, foregrounding the links between topographical,
historical and personal developments.
Often starting with a specific site (more often a set of sites –
discursive, physical, virtual, historical, …), the collective, comprised
of Erin McGonigle, Heimo Lattner, & Rene Gabri, then develops a set of
themes that often intertwine personal, environmental, architectural,
discursive and political narratives.
Although a great number of their site specific projects have engaged with
the touring genre, they are also interested in other contexts that allow
them to reformulate or reconstitute their investigations.
This Monday, e-Xplo will be performing a live version of a film/sound
installation created for an exhibition in a WWII Bunker located in the
center or the “new” Berlin.
This performance is a follow up to the NY premiere with Shelley Hirsch
last weekend at Location 1. The event was a part of Roulette’s Fall
Series. For more information, please visit: http://www.roulette.org
For tonight’s performance, Ayreen Anastas will be reading.
We hope to see you, for what should be an interesting evening.
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2. About Domestic Disturbance; Fight or Flight; or Shelter
Domestic Disturbance; Fight or Flight; or Shelter, references the
questions that called themselves out in this project: who stays, who stays
where, how, how does one stay, how does one decide to fight for or leave,
what is it to reside somewhere?
Originally exhibited as a multi-track film-sound installation for an WWII
bunker situated in the heart of the "new" Berlin. The "bunker" is the
starting point for a work dealing with the intersections between memory,
politics, war, property, gentrification, media, exile-ration and the
subject.
The film score made for the silent - over-determined space of the bunker,
contains a vocabulary swollen by history, using words, sounds, radio
broadcasts, personal narrative and images that would take the
viewer/listener to another site. Not a site outside the bunker, but next
to it, added to it, informed and in relation to it. A site where the
bunker could slip from shelter to one's residence, from a space of
security to one's insecurity, from a hideout to one's internment.
Continuing with the "bunker" as an in-between space, we propose the
physical environmental space constructively, as a personal one: that is,
the desire to create a vocabulary for oneself.
The challenge for our live version will be to tell this story anew. To
re-stage and re-make this film so that it is no longer dependant on the
presence of the physical bunker. In this case, as in the original
installation the bunker becomes a call or provocation to (re)consider our
relation to dwelling, shelter, security, community.
This performance is a follow up to the NY premiere with Shelley Hirsch
last weekend at Location 1. The event was a part of Roulette’s Fall
Series. For more information, please visit: http://www.roulette.org
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3. Streaming Version of Domestic Disturbance; Fight or Flight; or Shelter
The first option is to visit the link below:
http://www.kunstradio.at/2004A/MP3/29_02_04.m3u
The double click the small file and it should play through and audio player.
or
visit:
http://www.kunstradio.at/2004A/29_02_04.html
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4. Upcoming e-Xplo projects
November
We are happy to announce that we are creating a new bus-tour, exploring
London’s East End. For those of you who are in London or travelling
through, we will be in London for November and perform at the end of the
month.
We will send a detailed description to you coming up. If you are not on
our email list, you can sign up by writing to us at bomb@e-xplo.org. We
will be performing live, most likely for 4 nights.
January-February
We are also pleased to announce that we will be working on a tour also for
Berlin, where Heimo is residing these days. The tour has been
commissioned for the Club Transmediale and Transmediale festival which
takes place at the end of Jan. beginning of Feb.
So if you are not in New York, we hope to catch you in another city.
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5. Next Monday at 16Beaver
Mariana Castillo Deball (Mexico based in Netherlands) and Mojca Pungercar
(based in Ljubljana) will be discussing their work and ideas November 3,
2003 at 7pm at 16Beaver.
