Temporary Distortion @ Ideal Glass Jan. 7-11
http://www.ps122.org/my-voice-has-an-echo/ MY VOICE HAS AN ECHO IN IT is a six-hour durational performance of live music, spoken text and video set within a freestanding, sound-proof installation that is 24 feet long by 6 feet wide. While viewing the performers through two-way mirrors, audience members listen to music ranging from drifty ambient sounds to erasure poetry […]
continue reading‘Rock N Roll’ AKA Experimental Media and Performance Art
As EMPAC’s promotional literature puts it, “EMPAC’s building is a showcase work of architecture and a unique technological facility that boasts unrivaled presentation and production capabilities for art and science spanning the physical and virtual worlds and the spaces in between.” Johannes Goebel is the founding director of the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center […]
continue readingEMPAC and the culture of Artist in Residency
The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) is a multi-venue arts center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, which opened on October 3, 2008. The director of EMPAC is Johannes Goebel. He was previously the director and founder of the Institute for Music and Acoustics at the Center for […]
continue reading“My Voice Has An Echo In It” Video
http://vimeo.com/112511073 MY VOICE HAS AN ECHO IN IT is a six-hour, installation-based performance with live music, text and video. The performance takes place inside a freestanding, soundproof installation that is 24 feet long by 6 feet wide. Spectators watch the performance through two-way mirrors at listening stations positioned along the outside perimeter of the […]
continue readingIDEAL AVENUE Continues with live music & performance by Ideal Orkestra
Ideal Glass in partnership with The Fourth Arts Block invites you to explore the history of Lower East Side and the issues regarding the urbanism and gentrification through two public projects: Ghost by Levan Mindiashvili and video installation Ideal Avenue by John Sully.The mural Ghost is commissioned by Fourth Arts Block and is part of FABLES, a series of public works exploring Lower East Side History. […]
continue readingIDEAL AVENUE video/sound install Thurs-Sat 7/17 thru 8/9 sundown
So excited to present the latest in my Ideal Video Series ‘IDEAL AVENUE’ Audio/Video artist John Sully in collaboration with video designer Scott Fetterman continues his Ideal Video series with his latest project ” Ideal Avenue”. inspired by and in concept with Levan Mindiahsvili,s mural ” Ghost ” at Ideal GLass, Facade, Sully uses video […]
continue readingFear and Self Loathing in Watermill Center Day 5/6
The Edge… there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. Hunter S. Thompson mor·tal ˈmôrtl/ adjective (of a living human being, often in contrast to a divine being) subject to death. I miss Hunter. No I […]
continue readingDomestication, Volume and Day 4 At Watermill
Being able to focus full time on the creative process and having full access to the appropriate resources and space is the peak experience for me. Plus working with a team that is able to function artistically as well as domestically is crucial. Not only is the Center fully stocked with any kind of technical […]
continue readingPerspective, Gratitude and day 3 at Watermill
As a child of the 60s I grew up with the Kennedy, King and X assassinations, mega celebrity crash and burns (Hendrix, Morrison, Joplin, Jones) civil rights, student protests, racial riots, police brutality, Vietnam body/ kill counts on the 6 o’clock news and nuclear annihilation on the horizon. I remember asking myself as a kid, […]
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