November 8, 2008 – 2:19 pm
As you probably know, Co-Lab is an exciting new space in east austin that hosts performances, installations, and video every Sunday. I’m curious about this one because of the subject matter.
Repository : Sarah Sudhoff
Video Installation: Sunday, November 9, 7-11 PM @ Co-Lab
Body art is, “A direct reflection of the artist’s life experiences.” –Rosemary Mayer, 1972
“I examine the body within a medical context by exploring four main themes: pathological waste; containment of the body and its parts; fragmentation and violence against the body; a subject’s relationship to a specific environment.
Following my surgery in 2004 for cervical cancer, I began to perform in hospitals, morgues, medical museums and my doctors’ offices. The film works focus attention on the physical and emotional traces cancer and surgery can leave on the body while challenging the prescribed treatment for recovery and role of the patient.
Through self-performance, private rituals are revealed to the public only through documentation. Personal experiences are intertwined with unfamiliar environments thus creating a new environment for the viewer through their experience in the space. The same character’s presence in many of the works allows for an introspective look at these, in some cases unfamiliar worlds in comparison to one another.
The repetition of spaces, procedures and a central character highlights and reshapes our thoughts on medical environments, the treatment of our bodies in these spaces, what role we have at protecting our bodies and the lengths we will go to achieve a sense of health. While the journey stems from a personal bout with cancer, I hope to resonate with each viewer as they participate in the space and reflect on the work.”
September 4, 2008 – 7:29 pm
Quite excited. Because of the Austin Band Lotto, I’ve had to pick-up a bass. So I’ve incorporated that into the soundtrack composition for the performance installation this Sunday @ Co-Lab.
I got the overhead projector and chalkboard. But I’m still working on one aspect of the installation which is lots and lots of paper. I’ve scored and story boarded the whole thing out: looks like the actual performance = 15minutes: 9:15-9:30. However the event goes on before and afterwards. You won’t be able to see me before 9:17, but that doesn’t mean I’m not there!
“The Reprisal & Renovation of Discarded Ideas”
A Performance Installation by Deena OH
Event: Sunday, September 7, 8-11 PM
Performance: 9:15 - 9:30 PM
– RE: Work Mind Space –
What does it take for an idea to get a second chance?
* This piece is a performative expansion on the concept behind a portrait taken by BEN AQUA
August 31, 2008 – 5:11 pm
Tonight at Co-Lab (613 Allen. St., Austin, TX):
True Three-Dimensional Projection : Stephen Bornstein
Showcase: Sunday, August 31, 8-11 PM
Stephen Bornstein, conceptual Artist and professional Industrial Designer, has created real 3-D images that actually occupy volumetric space and time. This is a “virtual” recreation of realty. This is not real. It is projected light, fleeting, temporal and illusionary.
This installation invites interactivity by encouraging the viewer to bring their own iPod. Before their eyes, they can watch their favorite music morph in 3-D.
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August 24, 2008 – 4:56 pm
Father, Can’t You See I’m Burning?
A Performance in 10 Hz by Loren Dent
TONIGHT
Sunday, August 24, 8-11 PM
@ Co-Lab (613 Allen St )
Performance starts @ 9 PM Sharp [35 Min]
This performance will attempt to provide participants with altered states of consciousness through the use of a stroboscopic film and composed sound, both at 10 Hz. The project is inspired by the Dreamachine, a device developed by Brion Gyson and Ian Sommerville in 1961, which utilized research on the relationship between alpha brain waves and consciousness.
Gyson, a contemporary of William Burroughs, described the Dreamachine as “the first art object to be viewed with the eyes closed.” Following this concept, Loren Dent will present 35 minutes of his composed music altered by filter to emit 10 Hz sounds that will work alongside the stroboscopic projection to facilitate alpha brain stimulation.
A word of caution: anyone with epilepsy or any nervous disorder should avoid participating. One out of 10,000 people experience a seizure during stroboscopic exposure.
August 17, 2008 – 3:47 pm
Visceral Automation : Sean Ripple
Performance: Sunday, August 17, 8:30 PM Sharp
@ Co-Lab
613 Allen St.
Austin, TX 78702
Significantly aided by computational technology, contemporary society has become increasingly adept at replicating/duplicating products, environments, and exact outcomes of prior experience.
Is this drive to duplicate/replicate products, environments, and outcomes of prior experience (a major motivating force behind industrial manufacturing, chain restaurants/chain stores and science among other examples not considered) at odds with the unique individual and a less predictable reality, or are such ideas as the unique individual and a less predictable reality simply myths perpetuated by less organized and undisciplined members of humanity and that in truth, the drive to successfully duplicate/replicate products, environments, and exact outcomes of prior experience is, like biological reproduction itself, integral to humanity’s continuance?
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