LUMEN is a cutting-edge video art and projection festival featuring site-specific video installations, 3D-video technology, sound-based performances, and art interventions by artists around the globe. Featuring work by emerging Staten Island artists, as well as established video, new media, projection, and animation artists from New York City and beyond, LUMEN will highlight a diversity of artists at the forefront of their media in an industrial landscape on Staten Island’s waterfront.
With views of Lower Manhattan and New Jersey, the outdoor setting of Atlantic Salt is the ideal location for showcasing recent developments in new media art.
Presented by the Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island, LUMEN will take place from 4pm-12am on Saturday, June 26th at 561 Richmond Terrace, Staten Island, NY. For more information, please contact Ginger Shulick at 718.447.3329 or gshulick@statenislandarts.org.
LUMEN is part of SUMMERFEST, a series of FREE arts events across Staten Island sponsored, in part, by the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs
Atlantic Salt Main Stage (4pm-12am)
all screening times are approximate
within 10 minutes
4:00pm; 6:20pm; 8:25pm; 10:20pm Tea Party by Nick Fevelo
4:05pm; 6:25pm; 8:30pm; 10:25pm To a Man by Mikhael Antone
4:20pm; 6:50pm; 8:45pm; 10:40pm Angry Gamers by Nia Burks
4:25pm; 6:55pm; 8:50pm; 10:45pm Lollipop, Don’t be a Hero by Jennida Chase
4:35pm; 7:05pm; 9:00pm; 10:55pm Fleeting by Hassan Pitts
4:40pm; 7:10pm; 9:05pm; 11:10pm Chessfield by Katja Loher
5:00pm; 7:30pm; 9:25pm; 11:30pm Goldrush by Alix Pearlstein
5:05pm; 7:35pm; 9:30pm; 11:35pm Das House by Lena Thüring
5:15pm; 7:45pm; 9:40pm; 11:45 American Haikus by Rob Ludacer
5:20pm; 7:50pm; 9:45pm; 11:50 Nature Lover by Don Porcella
5:25pm; 7:55pm; 9:50pm; 11:50 Unicorn Hunt by Birgit Rathsmann
5:35pm; 8:05pm; 10:00pm SNAP by Mandy Morrison
5:35pm; 8:05pm; 10:00pm Pop Room by Maria Elvira Dieppa
5:40pm; 8:10pm; 10:05pm Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks by DB Lampman
5:45pm; 8:15pm; 10:10pm You are Listening to Metallica Because… by David Politzer
5:50pm; 8:20pm; 10:15pm NMS with
Lights Resolve by Tattfoo Tan
6:00pm In Three’s by Jay Weichun
Atlantic Salt Installation Artists (4pm-12am)
Lisa Dahl, Flooded and Lawn
Flux Factory, Salty Marsh
Paul Moakley, We’ve Been Coming Here for Years
Scott Peehl and BluDog10003, Temporary
Marion Wilson, King Lear’s
Puja
Atlantic Salt Container Installations (4pm-12am)
Steven Lapcevic, Anomalyville
Laura Napier, Container
Atlantic Salt, WALL PROJECTION artists (9pm-12am)
Allison Berkoy
Sean Capone
Brendan Coyle, Clowntrodden (9pm-11pm)
Alex Villar, Overtime
MLAB & Syracuse University; 4pm-12am (by Liedy’s Shore Inn; 748 Richmond Terrace)
Performances and demos by MLAB throughout the day
Video installations by MWF Video Club,
Scott & Gary Show, Don Porcella, and Mike Shane
Ferry Terminal Artist-Led Walks, 3:30pm-10:30pm
Artist-led is an anonymous arts collective
who will be leading walking tours from St. George Terminal to Atlantic
Salt. The walks will explore the history of the Atlantic Salt site through
personal stories & objects.
Grace Exhibition Space Performers, 4pm-12am
Faith Johnson; Boston, MA
Faith Johnson is interested in working with the invisible and internal as visualized and experienced through metaphor. Faith explores these intangible spaces by creating surreal and haunting human poetics through the re-contextualization of everyday objects, actions and spaces.
Erik Hokanson; Newark, NJ
Our bodies, like those of all other organisms here, are communities of cells working together essentially for their own preservation. We will all become food for something someday. The sun will make our place food for itself someday. I don't know what will eat the sun. Then it will likely become cold and dark. I take comfort in this. I like natural states.
http://hokadelic.wordpress.
Vela Phelan; Boston, MA
Vela's performance actions are rooted
to the unknown self inside his spirit
www.templeofmessages.com/vela/
Kelly Pinho; Newark, NJ
Kelly Pinho is new to performance art,
but has been making performances for video for years. She has
performed at Grace Space and in various events.
Alice Vogler; Boston, MA
Alice Vogler’s work centers around the physical and mental healing processes that exist in individual’s lives and her own day-to-day life. She is interested in investigating what heals: the process, that object, or the ritual. Most recently she has been working with the element of anticipation. She has been investigating to what extent anticipation changes how time is experienced. The viewer is always an essential element in her work, whether in her performances, sculptures or installations.
www.alice.templeofmessages.
Adina Bier; Brooklyn, NY
Adina’s work as a performance
artist incorporates a wide variety of visual and conceptual art, including
sound, movement, body, and texture. Her use of the body is a focal aspect
of her performances. Thematically, Bier’s work continuously suggests
her relationships with health, feminine roles, and belief systems. Her
most recent work focuses on physical limitations of the body/mind and
socially constructed confines that we as individuals face on a daily
basis.
Adina and Arielle Bier will perform "My Pussy's Not Suited For Party Lights" at 7pm
Myk Henry; Brooklyn, NY
Myk Henry was a pioneer of the “immersionist”
movement. Mediums such as new media installation, sound sculpture, video
and performance are used by Henry to engage the public and bring them
to a heightened level of awareness. Provocation is used as a tool to
jolt the spectator out of their normal comfort zone, which creates an
arena where various political issues, social stigmas, and stereotypes
are questioned. His performance work often requires the participation
of the public. Henry believes that it is important for both the artist
and spectator to be directly involved in the questioning process. He
is especially interested in the thin divide between public and private
space.
HZ Collective Performers, 8pm-12am
The Robert Rauschenberg Pilottone Experience
The Robert Rauschenberg Pilottone Experience
is an experimental sound ensemble with a revolving cast of members.
Three core members include Jennida Chase, Belinda Haikes and Hassan
Pitts. Pilottone’s live work is electronically driven sound improvisation,
which occasionally employs more traditional instrumentation. Pilottone
includes video in their live performances and has also created sound
tracks for still photography and makes non-traditional ‘music’ videos.
The group has performed with Stephen Vitiello, Blevin Blectum, Anduin,
Caustic Castle, The Grapefruit Experiment and many other sound/noise
artists.
AUDIOVISIONS
AUDIOVISIONS is a collaborative performance
environment for live video feed, reflective Mylar, lapel microphone,
and electronic audio processing. A stationary camera positioned close
to the body focuses
its lens on ever-shifting, reflective distortions that undulate across
the surface of the Mylar, held loosely in outstretched hands. With a
small microphone clipped to the edge of the Mylar, the conscious movement
or inadvertent trembling of my hands sets the Mylar in motion; the sound
of each movement is picked up by the microphone and transformed through
a series of audio filters and delays. The Mylar
thus becomes an instrument, the activation of which provides both sound
and image source. This piece explores the dynamics of collaboration,
physical contingencies, and the shades/gradients of interdependence
and independence within a system in which neither performer wields complete
control.
Nathan Halverson
Nathan Halverson is a sound and video
artist who uses field recordings, sampling from films, guitar, and electronics
to create soundscapes that combine the jittering glitch of modern technology
with 'natural' environmental sounds. His work often uses elements of
popular culture to investigate the boundaries and "translations"
between text, voice, sound and image. In 2007, he released a CD of his
music on Maine-based Peapod Recordings..
J. Robinson
J.Robinson is a filmmaker. His work
is a high-concept low-brow love letter to popular culture and the people
who consume it. He is currently a second year MFA candidate in the Kinetic
Imaging program at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Rachel Thompson
Rachel Thompson works with text, sound, and image. Her most recent project
is a feature-length essay film entitled Year Without Summer, a quixotic
search for the material traces of Java's colonial, mystical,
and paleontological past. As an improvisor on violin/viola she collaborates
regularly with Jonathan Zorn and has recorded with David Kendall, Andrew
Lafkas, and Bryan Eubanks. With Zorn, Thompson runs
the CD label SET Projects. In the melodic realm, Thompson plays pan-Asian
garage rock with the Charlottesville-based Dzian!, ecstatic Balkan folk
with the itinerant Balkan Situations, and Javanese gamelan wherever
she can. She holds a BA and MA in Music from Wesleyan University and
an MFA in Visual Arts from UC San Diego.
Jonathan Zorn
Jonathan Zorn works as a composer, performer, and curator of experimental,
electronic, and improvised music. His electronic music pairs improvising
musicians with interactive computer systems to
create hybrid, human-machine ensembles. Zorn's interest in vocal utterance
has resulted in a series of pieces in which spoken language is interrupted
by electronic forces, drawing attention to the gap
between speech and sound. He is currently working on a solo electro-acoustic
opera. Zorn has been active as an improvisor on bass and electronics
for 15 years and has performed at Red Cat, the Walker
Art Center, the Verona Jazz Festival, the Library of Congress, the Seattle
Festival of Improvised Music, Line Space Line Festival, and the Chelsea
Art Museum. He has performed under the direction of
Anthony Braxton, Alvin Lucier, Fred Frith, and Alison Knowles. His work
has been published in Ord und Bild, the SEAMUS Journal, Notations 21,
and UbuWeb.
Belinda Haikes
Belinda Haikes is an interdisciplinary
artist and cultural critic. Her artistic practice and scholarship is
centered on the poetics of identity construction in the post-human world.
She is currently a PhD candidate in the Media Art and Text Program at
Virginia Commonwealth University and also is a Visiting Assistant Professor
in the Digital Design Program at University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Jennida Chase
Jennida Chase is an electronic artist
who currently explores and combines several aspects of media-based art,
ranging from film, video, animation, sound and photography. Her BFA
was completed at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1998
with a concentration in film, video and sound. In 2009 she completed
her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University's department of Photography
and Film. Themes within her work deal with relational interaction played
out in society at large. Her work has been extensively shown in galleries
and film/video festivals. She currently collaborates in and performs
with experimental sound and multi-media ensemble Pilottone, and has
recently joined the HzCollective based in the mid-Atlantic region of
the U.S.
Hassan Pitts
Hassan Pitts is an interdisciplinary
artist interested in fashioning images around absorption, sensation,
emotion, movement and gesture. Currently he splits his time examining
issues of masculine gestures of the everyday and themes of transience,
both emotional and physical. Hassan received a BFA in photography from
Kutztown University, a BA in German studies from Dennison University
and has most recently completed his MFA at Virginia Commonwealth University
in photography and film. Hassan has shown regionally throughout the
Mid-Atlantic and in Miami, Fl. Virginia is where he currently
resides and produces work.
Jennida Chase Performance, 9pm-11pm
“Passed Sound Bites” is an interactive
collection of voice recordings and “waitron” telling a wide-range
of personal experiences of life in the restaurant industry. In a gallery
setting, a small staff of performers dressed as waitron serve the stories
off of silver platters via ornate headphones which channel these stories
into the participant’s ears to guide their experience, like a huge
stream of consciousness transmission from the dark side of the kitchen,
or from shadows in the bar across the street. The act of service is
a question.
Lee Milby Performance
Each person I see, I will evaluate,
and from a number of labels that I'll carry with me on this journey,
I'll choose one that will most suit them and offer it to the individual,
free of charge. Lee Milby is an alumnus of Pratt and currently attends
the Cooper Union School for the Advancement of Science and Art. Painting
has been her driving passion since childhood, but lately her creative
urges have extended into time-based mediums; performance and video.
As an adopted child, she is interested in the perceptions surrounding
image and classification...how much more important identity is to those
who identify. She likes to imbue objects with power.
Guided walks (an approximate 15 minutes walk) from the Ferry Terminal to Atlantic Salt will occur from 4pm-10:30pm to correspond with each in-coming ferry. The walks are artist-designed by the collaborative group Artist-Led and will explore some of the history surrounding Atlantic Salt (through public installations, actions, and give-aways).
Biking/Driving: Head west on Richmond Terrace from the Staten Island Ferry past the Richmond County Ballpark towards Jersey Street. 561 Richmond Terrace will be on your right, the intersection is with Lafayette Avenue.
Public Transportation: 1,R and W trains stop at Whitehall/South Ferry station in Manhattan and the 4 and 5 stop nearby at Bowling Green station. Take the FREE Staten Island Ferry and transfer to the S40 Bus on Ramp D, which will take you down Richmond Terrace to Lafayette Ave.
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June 26th, 2010
4pm-12am