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This is a fun video that Shane Ohmer (my roommate), Brittany Davis (my NYC friend), and I filmed and edited in 24 hours! The three of us are loving the Montréal life and thought we’d share a piece of it with everyone! Please bear with us for the YouTube video quality. It’s the best I could do. The version on my MAC computer is so much better… it really looks like a fun dance film. Enjoy!
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| Posted by Tony Schultz
Hey Wingers. Just back from Santa Barbara visiting my girlfriend Lisa. It is so gorgeous out there. Perhaps the most wonderful weekend I have ever had. Lisa shows me lots of beautiful things and is always ready for adventure. I will be glad when she comes back to home to New York. Though California is seductive I am happy to be back home in the Bronx. There are beautiful things here too if you know how to look for them.
This is a timelapse video of Van Cortlandt Park and the 1 line train yard, taken from the window of my apartment. I recorded it over a year ago when I first started building time-machines to harvest media. This day was simply amazing and I feel lucky to have captured it. This video was the first I ever posted on the internet. It was featured in a video collection curated by Jonny Goldstein at Anthology Film Archives back in December of 2005. The music is by my good friend and Bronx native Damien Quinones.
I am happy to share this video with all of you because it represents the spaces and places that are dear to me. It should remind us of all the wonderful worlds hiding around us, ready to open up when we take the time to see them. Its important we look out for these things and share them with others when we find them. I hope Lisa likes it and that you do too.
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This weekend I am participating in the premiere performance of TUNDRA at the COOLNY Festival. This project is directed by my friend Mare Hieronimus who I introduced to you a few weeks ago. Mare is dancing with Marcy Schlissel and Elyse Sparkes to a hypnotic soundscore composed by Derek Morton. I will be performing through a virtual protazoa whose image will be projected in video. This is my first time doing live media performance with dancers. Here is a sneak preview of the creature and the sound.
Friday February 2nd @9pm
Sunday February 4th @6pm
The COOLNY Festival
White Wave Theater
25 Jay Street, DUMBO
all performances are FREE!
http://www.whitewavedance.com
Directions:
F to York street; exit the train and walk straight
down to the water. Theater is on your right.
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So here we are again. Winter break is over and school is back in session. This semester I am teaching alongside Charles Atlas at Sarah Lawrence College. Charles Atlas is an accomplished dance videographer probably most well known for his work with Merce Cunningham. One of my favorite works of his is Walkaround Time (1972). In this piece Cunningham’s choreography is set amidst large sculptural elements. Fabricated by John Jaspers, these structures were based on Marcel Ducamp’s installation The Large Glass. A clip of this work can be seen in this video that Doug Fox posted last week alongside Septet (1964). Both of these dances include Cunningham’s prickly rose, Viola Farber. I studied with Viola as an undergraduate and am still gaining an appreciation for her work. She begins on the right of Septet. Amazing…
Last night, to help ease the pain of getting back to work I met up with a motley crew of dance bloggers including Tonya Plank, Doug Fox, Salome Justita and our very own Kristin Sloan. This cabal had lots to share including some exciting secrets. Don’t worry, all will be revealed in good time.
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Thursday night we got to check out Doug Aitken’s Sleepwalkers and attend the opening night party in the lobby and mezzanine area of the MoMA (thanks Daniel!).
The West wall - the building is alive!
One of the projectors.
Unfortunately it happened to be one of the coldest nights this winter - not exactly the best scenario in which to view an outdoor art piece. Nevertheless, the scene in the sculpture garden was stunning and the characters were interesting to watch. (I’ve always been fascinated with Tilda Swinton).
Tilda’s giant arm.
Doug, with Charles Renfro’s back of head, in the sculpture garden.
Me freezing, in line for the party, with Doug’s jacket - he’s the best.
At 10PM the projections stopped and it was time for the party. It was completely packed!
But luckily we were upstairs by the “Out of Time” exhibit, which they eventually opened up to make more room for everybody. We missed the music performance by Seu Jorge which was downstairs, but we were having fun checking out things like the Bill Viola piece and the art made by the residue from the 2002 fireworks celebrating MoMA’s new digs in Queens.
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For those of you who have been readers for a while, you may remember we mentioned something about an upcoming “New York Public Art Project”.
Well that project is Doug Aitken’s Sleepwalkers, a video art piece that will be projected onto the EXTERIOR walls of the Museum of Modern Art. How fantastic is that?
courtesy MOMA/Creative Time
I don’t want to give away details (although I’m sure most of you have already read plenty about it in the press recently) but I have no doubt it will be both fascinating and beautiful. You can see it tonight until February 12th, from 5PM to 10PM.
Before (or after) going, I highly recommend checking out Doug Aitken’s book “Broken Screen“, in which he has casual discussions with other creative luminaries like Robert Altman, John Baldessari, Rem Koolhaas, and Ed Ruscha about art, modern life, and the concept of nonlinear and visually fragmented film, among other things. The beauty of the book is that it really feels like you are listening to two artists chat over coffee. A tone that we like a lot here.
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More info to come after the opening party tonight.
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