Cultural Conversations

March 2010 at Diapason Gallery : Theo Burt and Roc Jiminez de CisneroCultural Conversations with hanrahan Meyers architects

image from theoburt.com, Colour Projections 2009

Diapason presents:

Theo Burt's Colour Projections
Colour Projections is a computer-based audio and video work creating precise relationships between sound and geometry.

Roc Jiménez de Cisneros’s Hands in the air, reach for the laser
Curated by Allon Kaye
Computer-generated piece for 12-channel diffusion system

March 6, 13, 20 and 27

2-8pm
free


Diapason
882 Third Avenue (between 32nd and 33rd Street)
10th Floor
Sunset Park, Brooklyn
Info: 718.499.5070 | www.diapasongallery.org

Subway: D, N, R to 36th Street/4th Avenue

Lightung / Clearing : New work by Liz Gerring Dance Co. at Baryshnikov Arts Center March 11 -14Cultural Conversations with hanrahanMeyers architects

 

LIGHTUNG / CLEARING March 11 - 14th, 2010

Baryshnikov Arts Center, 450 West 37th St., NYC

“a collaborative visual/sound/movement environment - 3 elements in 3 dimensions”

Liz Gerring - choreography

Ursula Scherrer - video
Michael J. Schumacher - sound

dancers:
Elizabeth DeMent
Philip Montana
Tony Neidenbach
Adele Nickel
Matt Sweeney
Jessica Weiss

In this new work for 6 dancers Liz Gerring continues her longtime collaboration with artists Scherrer and Schumacher, layering her choreography with light and sound. The audience is seated within a multi-channel sound and multiple projection area where space is both marked and defined through the movement and relationship between all three mediums.

Opening this Friday Feb.12th: Kim Jones at PIEROGI Gallery and Brian Conley at the BOILERCultural Conversations with hanrahanMeyers architects

  image from Brian Conley exhibition at Yerba Buena Arts Center, 2008

Please join us to celebrate the opening of two new exhibitions at PIEROGI and The BOILER:

KIM JONES Venice High
Opening reception Friday, 12 February (7-9pm) at
PIEROGI
177 North 9th Street
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 11211


BRIAN CONLEY Miniature War In Iraq...and Now Afghanistan
Opening reception Friday, 12 February (7-10pm)
LIVE PERFORMANCE | Saturday, 6 March. 9-11pm at
The BOILER 7-10pm
191 North 14th Street
Williamsburg, Brooklyn 11211

This Week at Diapason Gallery : Two Extended PerformancesCultural Conversations with hanrahanMeyers architects

 Diapason Gallery

TWO EXTENDED PERFORMANCES

Samuel Sfirri, Taylan Susam and Jason Brogan
Tuesday, February 9
8pm
$7 suggested
"Over the course of the night that separates the 9th from the 10th of February, composer-musicians Jason Brogan, Sam Sfirri and Taylan Susam of Wandelweiser will take vigil in the relaxed, sympathetic setting of Diapason Gallery and incant the daybreak."

rise set twilight
Thursday, February 11
8pm
$7 suggested
rise set twilight is the multimedia project of Linda Aubry Bullock and Michael T. Bullock.  Layering analog and digital feedback, phonography, and projections, rise set twilight creates immersive performance installations.  In 2009, rise set twilight performed at CABLE# Festival in Nantes, France; EMPAC in Troy, NY; and free103point9's Radio Festival NYC. 

For this performance, rise set twilight will create a live piece using field recordings; fuzzy drones of AM radio noise bands and forgotten cassettes; and video projections of rooms both real and fictional.

http://www.FineNoiseandLight.net/

882 Third Avenue (between 32nd and 33rd Street)
10th Floor
Sunset Park, Brooklyn
Info: 718.499.5070 | www.diapasongallery.org

Subway: D, N, R to 36th Street/4th Avenue

http://www.diapasongallery.org

Paintings by Igor Kozlovsky and Marina SharapovaCultural Conversations with hanrahan Meyers architects

  "THE WALKERS - XII
(Big Noses)"
2008
Oil on canvas
64/48" (160/122 cm)

"We are artists, which is an excellent thing. We are married, also an excellent thing. We work together-not necessarily an excellent thing. What do we mean by this? Clearly, it isn't that we don't find inspiration in each other's work or ideas. However, on a practical level, it is hard to avoid some problems.  First of all, though we have been together for twenty years, whenever we work on a picture together, we spend most of our time arguing. Perhaps this isn't all that surprising. Van Gogh and Gauguin tried to work together in Arles. They stood side-by-side, produced some wonderful work,and ultimately came to hate each other. Our task may even be harder. They weren't married after all, and we don't want to end of hating each other. Still, as we say, working together generally produces conflict rather than peace.

Why? Primarily, it is because we come to a canvas from different directions. Igor's specialty is a subtle sense for color, a wonderful appreciation for the tactile nature of paint, canvas, and wood, and an intuitive feel for how to play with abstract images. Marina, on the other hand, possesses an excellent and subtle touch for realistic drawing and is capable of creating new images on the basis of the works of older artists, particularly those of the Italian and Dutch renaissance. We have been working towards our present level of cooperation for many years, first employing the techniques of realist art, then becoming interested in the achievements of abstraction, then those of the Russian avant-garde. "

The above text is excerpted from the artists' website : http://www.igor-marina.com

"NEBULA"
2004
Oil on canvas
60/48" (152x122cm)

Liz Gerring Dance Company presents Lichtung/ ClearingCultural Conversations with hanrahan Meyers architects

This Saturday Jan 9th at 2:30 pm there will be special preview of a new work Lichtung/ Clearing by the Liz Gerring Dance Company.  The full work will debut from March 11 to 14th at the Baryshnikov Arts Center.

About Lichtung / Clearing:

In this new work for 6 dancers Liz Gerring continues her longtime collaboration with artists Scherrer and Schumacher, layering her choreography with light and sound. The audience is seated within a multi-channel sound and multiple projection area where space is both marked and defined through the movement and relationship between all three mediums.

Liz Gerring: "We're attempting to create an environment in which meaning is derived from the image not the story. Non-narrative movement is deepened by the other media, each following a parallel trajectory or tangent, allowing 'story' to exist independently for each member of the audience."

Baryshnikov Arts Center
450 West 37th Street, Fourth Floor
(btw 9th and 10th) NYC
Howard Gilman Performance Space

Click here for more info: http://www.lizgerringdance.org/Upcoming.html

The Biomuse Trio at Diapason Gallery Sat. Jan 9thCultural Conversations with hanrahan Meyers architects

The Biomuse Trio

Ben Knapp, Eric Lyon and Gascia Ouzounian

  using the human body as an "instrument" : The Biomuse Trio

The Biomuse Trio was founded in 2008 to perform computer chamber music integrating traditional classical performance, laptop processing of sound, and the transduction of bio-signals for the control of musical gesture. The work of the ensemble encompasses hardware design, audio signal processing, bio-signal processing, composition, improvisation, and gesture choreography. The Biomuse Trio consists of Gascia Ouzounian, violin, Ben Knapp, biomuse, and Eric Lyon, computer.

Saturday January 9 at 8:00pm
$7 suggested

Diapason Gallery
882 Third Avenue (@ 33rd Street), Brooklyn, 10th floor
Subways: D, N, R to 36th Street
Phone 718.499.5070 | Email info@diapasongallery.org

Best Wishes for 2010!Cultural Conversations with hanrahan Meyers architects

  hMa's Infinity Chapel is currently under construction in New York, NY click here to view more photos of Infinity Chapel on hanrahanmeyers.com

 
HAPPY HOLIDAYS

Happy Holidays from hanrahanMeyers architects.  2009 has marked a very successful year for hMa.  In 2009 hMa had more projects in construction than we've ever had in one year.  hMa broke ground on the new Buddhist Training Center in Claverack, New York in November.  The Won Buddhist Training Center is a remarkable project where hMa designed five buildings, including residential halls, a Meditation Hall, and a 200-acre landscaped campus.  Battery Park City Community Center is in construction, and scheduled to be complete in 2011 with a Platinum LEED rating, the highest Green rating available. Infinity Chapel, featured above, is a 10,000 square foot chapel scheduled for completion in February 2010. We hope to see you at the opening for the Infinity Chapel.  Best wishes from hMa for 2010!

 

ONLINE

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Holley House and Battery Park City Community Center featured on www.designitgreener.com
Ash 4 Ways featured on www.apartmenttherapy.com
Holley House on www.houzz.com
Victoria Meyers featured in BuildBLOG's Women Making an Impact Series www.blog.buildllc.com
Pratt Pavilion on Architect WORLD
Visit an interactive floorplan of hMa's Holley House on Wallpaper*.com
http://www.wallpaper.com/architecture/holley-house-new-york/2622

 

ON AIR

In September 2009, Victoria Meyers was interviewed for Art on Air Radio
http://blog.hanrahanmeyers.com/2009/09/artonair_corwin_meyerstst.html

 

IN PRINT

Pratt Pavilion in the Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century Architecture

Pratt Pavilion in 101 Cool Buildings by Richard McMillan

Holley House, Pratt Pavilion, WaveLine and Ash 4 Ways in Architecture Highlights 2 published by Shanglin A&C Ltd.

 

IN CONSTRUCTION

Won Buddhist Retreat

Infinity Chapel

Battery Park City Community Center

Singer Residence, Florida

 

VISIT US

View hMa’s body of work on our website : www.hanrahanMeyers.com
Keep up with hMa’s current events with our blogs:  www.blog.hanrahanMeyers.com and www.culturalconversations.com

Sculptures by Ursula von RydingsvardCultural Conversations with hanrahan Meyers architects

  Ursula von Rydingsvard
Plate with Dots, 2006
Cedar
9'7" x 7'5" x 3.5"

"Ursula von Rydingsvard born in Deensen, Germany (1942 -) is a sculptor who has been working in Brooklyn, New York for the past 30 years. She received her MFA from Columbia University in 1975 after which time she started to work with cedar, a material through which she has explored a wide range of images."

"Von Rydingsvard is best known for creating large-scale, often monumental sculpture from the cedar beams which she painstakingly cuts, assembles, and laminates, finally rubbing powdered graphite into the work's textured, faceted surfaces. She deliberately uses cedar boards milled into 4" by 4" widths with varied lengths which create a neutrality or "blank canvas" which enables her to dip into many different possibilities often within the arena of the psychological and emotional. As von Rydingsvard explains this approach: "If I were to say how it is that I break the convention of sculpture (and I'm not sure that's what I do or even if that's what I want to do), it would be by climbing into the work in a way that’s highly personal, that I can claim as being mine. The more mine it is, the more I’m able to break the convention."  Read more of this text from the original source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_von_Rydingsvard

  Ursula von Rydingsvard
Damski Czepek, 2006
Polyurethane Resin
11'11" x 33'10" x 30'4"

Works by multi-media artist Cornelia ParkerCultural Conversations with hanrahan Meyers architects

  Cornelia Parker: Hanging Fire Suspected Arson, 1999
Charcoal, wire, pins, nails
Length: 140 cm Width: 84 cm Height: 220 cm

excerpt from Parkers bio on www.frithstreetgallery.com

"For some years Cornelia Parker’s work has been concerned with formalising things beyond our control, containing the volatile and making it into something that is quiet and contemplative like the ‘eye of the storm’. She is fascinated with processes in the world that mimic cartoon ‘deaths’ – steamrollering, shooting full of holes, falling from cliffs and explosions. Through a combination of visual and verbal allusions her work triggers cultural metaphors and personal associations, which allow the viewer to witness the transformation of the most ordinary objects into something compelling and extraordinary. Lately Parker’s attention has turned to issues of globalisation, consumerism and the mass-media."