Inkub8 (open-studio series)
12/10/11
inkub8r (open - studio) series
Join Us! for our monthly 2nd Saturday Performance Series at inkub8
During the Wynwood Gallery Walk
Saturday Dec 10th @ 9 pm
ARTISTS
Joey Bargsten, and meme™ —media experimental ensemble
Leo Casteneda
José Manuel Domínguez & Priscilla Marrero
Elana Lanczi
Afterwords please feel free to hang out and have some conversations as we build a community around sharing works in progress, process, production.
For info contact 305-482-1621 or email@inkub8.org
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Info on Artists/Works being shown
Trialog and Interludes (working title) is an examination of simultaneous
ARTIST: Joey Bargsten, and meme™ —media experimental ensemble
narratives, and the mapping of movement, interactive visuals, and music upon those narratives.
The first presentation (Dec. 10) is a video excerpt documenting the first public performance of the work, at the FAU Faculty Biennial Exhibition (Boca Raton). It featured two dancers performing their own dance vocabulary to a time structure I created. The time structure designates one of twelve dance phrases, for specific lengths of time, and the dancers receive these instructions via iPods.
As the dancers perform, their motion is being tracked by a video camera. The video signal is transformed into a 3D grid that changes shape in response to the dancers movement. During the performance, I further rotated and altered the grid, sometimes overlapping or visually 'amplifying' the dancers, sometimes spinning around them. Both the grid and the live video were projected on the wall above the dancers.
Accompanying the performance is a live 4-channel remix of enhanced audio samples of a waterphone, an amazing water-filled metal percussion instrument that can be both bowed and struck. I use software created with the program Max MSP to change the length and speed of the sound samples, along with various kinds of digital audio processing.
ARTIST'S STATEMENT: From the jacket of my recently published book, Hybrid Forms and Syncretic Horizons:I'm kind of a digital renaissance guy—composer, filmmaker, visual artist,designer, web/interactive creator, and writer. Since I've created work in all
those areas, I want to push the boundaries, and figure out what happens when all those elements and ideas collide. How does that work? I take digitized media—music/ sound/ noise/ silence, still/motion images, written/spoken text —and fuse it (using contemporary interactive software) into new expressive
forms, experimental performances, media objects, and events. While my 'hybrid forms' exist outside established, recognized, familiar productions (like films, books, games, concert music, etc), they often use the technology that's all around us to make it happen (iPods, mobile devices, common software like Photoshop or Flash, and the Internet).
ARTIST BIO
Composer/media artist Joey Bargsten is best known for his landmark digital work BAD MIND TIME™ (http://www.badmindtime.com), his iPod opera
ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY™, and several films including PROJEK IAGHT™ (2005) and STICKY NOTES™(2008). He recently published his first book, Hybrid Forms and Syncretic Horizons (http://www.badmindtime.com/amazon2). He teaches digital media at Florida Atlantic University and directs the experimental media ensemble meme™.
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The First Boss: Rise
ARTIST Leo Casteneda
A black box rises and creates a hypnotic turbulence on stage.
ARTIST STATEMENT
I create works that link elements of the past, present and future into a timeless mythology. This myth is organized under the hierarchies of video games where environments are known as “Levels”, and the personified environments/ characters are called “Bosses”. Visually, the result is a mix of atmospheric Romantic landscapes and an oriental Zen aesthetic, with minimalist geometric and abstracted elements. Though the works begin as paintings, they branch out into animations, comic books, sculptures and live performances.
The past year I've focused mostly on the first chapter, "Level One", a colossal explosion where solids, liquids and gases are interchangeable, and "The First Boss", a rectangular box that is the source and end of the entire "Level". My performance at Inkub8 will bring this environment and being, into our current dimension.
I See a Sailor that Sees a Geisha
ARTISTS José Manuel Domínguez and Priscilla Marrero.
A physical theater piece created in collaboration by performing artists José Manuel Domínguez and Priscilla Marrero.The piece is the story of an encounter between Nadie, a dreamer-sailor, and Nada, a tourist-geisha in a neutral place. I See a Sailor that Sees a Geisha is a meditation in movement about immigrants and lost-and-found identities with a blend of irony and sensuality. The project aims to research and question the cultural identities using references to mass culture and global icons like the sailor and the geisha. Structured within the set design, members of the audience will serve as passengers and onlookers of the journey. The text of the piece is written by José Manuel featuring poems of writer Mia Leonin combining the language of words and movements, dramatic text and poetry, within an improvisational structure. Musician Carlos Ochoa will compose and perform a soundscape. The visual artist Glexis Novoa will collaborate as the art director.
ARTIST BIOS
José Manuel Domínguez is a Cuban performing artist who has been influenced by the new theater wave and the latest post-modern aesthetical phenomenon. His inspirational resources go fluidly from ancient myths to post-modern paradoxes. From personal memories and obsessions, to the anti-heroes culture, from the nostalgia of the sixties to the cynicism of the 21st Century, anything is useful to spark creativity
Domínguez graduated from the Instituto Superior de Artes, Havana, Cuba, in 1996 with Bachelor’s degrees in Acting and Theater Direction. During the nineties, José Manuel was part of avant-garde theater troupes touring in Cuba and abroad.In 2000 he moved to Miami, Florida, and began developing a career as an independent artist, collaborating in various multi-disciplinary endeavors with the local artistic community. In 2010, Hilo, a solo performance written and performed by Domínguez, directed by Lucia Aratanha, was invited by the Arsht Center for the Performing Arts to participate in the Miami Made Weekend, and later presented by FUNDarte in its Miami On Stage series.
Domínguez has participated in filming productions for both, English and Spanish audiences. He is an active member of the local community with disability and works at the Miami-Dade College. Most recently, the Spanish comedy “Ñaque, o de piojos y actores” was presented at the TEMFest 2011 under his direction.
Priscilla Marrero
I am an artist who is moved by the desire to bring the stories of contemporary lives to an audience. I create fantasy worlds using references to real life experiences to develop characters that build scenes for the experience in the theater. Duncan lives by my bedside, reminding me to always begin with a blank canvas, to seek authenticity and uniqueness in my artistic process. The classical forms are innate in my framework, but enjoy experimenting with improvisational studies, qualities and technology which transforms my work to the present state of mind. The challenge and curiosity of collaboration forces me to push boundaries of my own limitations-both aesthetically and artistically-as a performer and craft maker. The innocence of the child in their movement in which I witness in my classes, purity in their instincts, impulses questions for my work on embodiment, freshness and authenticity.
Priscilla Marrero, a Miami native, is a contemporary performer, choreographer, and teaching artist. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Dance specializing in Performance and Choreography from Florida International University in April 2009. She has been investigating movement, theater, and the arts since a young age receiving scholarships and work-studies to programs such as Artistic Dance Center, American Ballet Theater, Nutmeg Conservatory for the Arts, Alvin Ailey Dance Theater, and most recently with Florida Dance Festival in Tampa, Florida. She collaborates with experimental designers, visual artists, musicians, and film artists. She has worked with performance companies such as Afro ConTempo Dance Theater, Artistic Dance Theater, Florida Grand Opera, Josee Garant Dance, and Momentum Dance Company. Currently, she is an active member in the arts community collaborating with organizations and schools such as Artistic Dance Center, Arts for Learning, South Miami Senior High School and Inkub8. She is currently being commissioned by Miami Light Project for the Here and Now Festival along with Carlota Pradera for a new piece to premiere in February 2012 at the Goldman Warehouse in Miami, Florida.
ARTIST Elana Lanczi
As a choreographer, I work from an improvisational base to cull movement and emotional responses to ideas and images. The use of structure and form are inherent to the interplay with physicality that takes place in both the creative process and the final work. My work is from a woman’s point of view and often personal in nature but not without a bit of re-imaging what that world might look or feel like.
The current project I am working on takes on the idea of idols, worship and the glorification of others. Using deeply personal material as a starting point, the work is evolving and exploring the idea that behind the idolized figure lurks human fragility, so often hidden from view.
photo credit: top Steven Wang,bottom left,The First Boss Costume Shot, bottom right Carlos Ochoa
