Cultural Conversations

Giant Redwood, California: Collage by Victoria Meyers

Giant Redwood, Ca., collaged photographic study:  Victoria Meyers architect

hanrahan Meyers architects are presenting a series of collages created by hMa principal Victoria Meyers.  The series is titled 'manipulated nature', and the collaged pieces are referenced in various hanrahan Meyers architects (hMa) built projects.  hanrahan Meyers has developed a consistent body of work by placing pieces of nature within abstract minimalist envelops. Manipulated Nature explores the firm's work through manipulated photographs, and the series includes trees, sky views, water views and flowers.

Rie Nakajima at Diapason Gallery: Wednesday June 15, 7-9pm

Rie Nakajima performing a piece in Florence (link to article)

(bio) Rie Nakajima is a japanese artist based in London, working with installations and performances that produce sound.  Her works are most often composed in direct response to unique architectural spaces using a combination of audio materials and found objects.

In the residency, by using the gallery environment, she develops her current research on the space materialization with sound.

Wednesday, June 15, 7-9pm
free

New address:
220 36th Street
between 3rd and 2nd Avenues
Studio #407 (4th floor, all the way to the back)
Brooklyn, NY 11232
info: 646-286-3367
http://diapasongallery.org/

N, R or D train to 36th Street (Brooklyn)
walk towards the elevated highway
JUST 2 STOPS INTO BROOKLYN!!!


Come enjoy the view, drink some wine or beer, and meet Rie Nakajima, who will present a "work in progress" sound installation.

hanrahan Meyers architects Likes: "Parks to Parking Lots: All the City's a Stage" - City as Urban Theater

Photo: Yana Paskova for The New York Times

Excerpt from "Parks to Parking Lots: All the City’s a Stage"  from www.nytimes.com

By: Stephen McElroy

“Don’t I have a nice theater?” Stephen Burdman asked as he stood in a green field in Central Park near West 103rd Street on a recent Saturday afternoon. During a rehearsal break he was pointing out sites used in past productions by his company, New York Classical Theater.
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“This was the heath in ‘Lear,’ ” he said, and then, “This was the forest of letters in ‘As You Like It.’ ” Ten minutes later Mr. Burdman, along with cast and staff members working on Molière’s “School for Husbands,” were huddled under a tree during a downpour.

So it goes for providers of outdoor entertainment.

Clouds loomed over Riverside Park in Manhattan the next day, but the stars were better aligned for the cast of this month’s Hudson Warehouse production of “The Merry Wives of Windsor.” The weather was chilly but dry as the company rehearsed, and though every so often a dog and its walker traipsed across what stood for the stage, things went smoothly.

New York Classical and Hudson Warehouse are among a number of companies preparing free outdoor productions of classic plays — mostly Shakespeare — for performance this summer in parks from Inwood to the Battery in Manhattan, and in Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx, too. The smaller companies may find themselves competing for attention not just with the Public Theater’s shows at the Delacorte in Central Park, but also with the Royal Shakespeare Company, presenting a five-play repertory at the Park Avenue Armory (where tickets are decidedly not free) as part of the Lincoln Center Festival.

“I try to think of it as a fantastic boon that there is continued interest in exploring Shakespeare’s work,” said Hamilton Clancy, artistic director of the Drilling Company, which offers Shakespeare in the Parking Lot (literally) on the Lower East Side.

Some other artistic directors had a similarly glass-half-full view of the crowded theatrical field. “Good theater benefits all theater,” said Judith Jarosz, a producing artistic director (with David Fuller) of Theater 2020. “If somebody on the Upper East Side goes to the Armory and has a positive experience, it’s all the more possible they’ll go to the park and see something else.”

Jason Marr’s feelings about the Royal Shakespeare Company’s coming to New York from Britain are a bit more complicated.

“To be honest, as a theater artist, I’m always left feeling very torn about the projects that are of this scope and scale,” said Mr. Marr, the artistic director of Hip to Hip, a Queens company. He acknowledged wanting to see some of that company’s shows himself, “but at the end of the day, I feel that they’re preaching to the choir,” he said. “Sometimes these sorts of projects are for the culturally elite.”

Mr. Marr’s mission, similar to those of several artistic directors interviewed recently, is inspired by Joseph Papp, who started presenting Shakespeare more than 50 years ago and saw his work as anything but elitist.

“I always felt that we should travel,” Papp is quoted as saying in “Free for All,” the 2009 book that provides a history of the Public Theater through interviews with Papp and others. “I wanted to bring Shakespeare to the people, that was the whole idea. I had to reach the thousands of people who lived and died in their neighborhoods.”

But today it can be tough to get even a free ticket to the Public’s summer shows at the Delacorte. Fortunately, though, for those in New York, enthusiasts of the classics can try to check out the productions of the Public and the Royal Shakespeare Company, but can also find plenty of free alternatives, including an all-female “Henry V,” one of at least three productions of that play (another involves a boat ride to Governors Island).

Click here to read the full article on www.nytimes.com

LISA Salons : Leaders in Software and ArtCultural Conversations with hanrahan Meyers architects

Paul Amitai, past LISA presenter

Leaders in Software and Art (LISA) is a society of creative thinkers centered around monthly salons.  Founded by Isabel Walcott Draves in fall of 2009, LISA is a membership organization with the following
aims:

- To join interesting people together for fellowship, camaraderie and
good food and drink
- To introduce the membership to fascinating endeavors
- To become the first stop for the best new art in the world
- To advance the artistic and/or technology careers of its members
- To help creative software entrepreneurs grow their businesses

Past presenters include:

- Mark Napier has been commissioned to create net artwork for SFMOMA, the Whitney Museum, the Guggenheim, and more, and is represented by Bitforms. He combines his training as a painter with 15 years of expertise as a software developer to create "art interfaces", software that addresses issues of authority, ownership and territory in the virtual world.  http://potatoland.org, http://marknapier.com

- Paul Amitai is a visual and sound artist whose work has been presented internationally at venues such as Scope Art Fair (New York), Art Chicago, and Manchester Exchange Square (UK).  He has performed electronic and improvisational music with the likes of Run-DMC and the Skatalites; is a curator of film, music, and art for venues like the Knitting Factory and Eyebeam; and has written about arts and culture for publications like Signal to Noise and The Onion.  http://paul-amitai.com/.

- Marty St. James is a London-based artist who has concentrated on performance art, video and
installation art (time based-media) and digital works since the 1980's.  He exhibits internationally and his work has been shown, among other places, in a one-man show at the National Contemporary Arts Centre in Moscow and alongside alongside major works by Picasso, Bacon, Warhol, Freud, and Warhol at the National Portrait Gallery in London.  http://martystjames.com, http://www.theprojectroom.org/martystjames.html

- John F. Simon Jr. has been producing art professionally for nearly 20 years and has seen his work acquired by the Whitney, the Guggenheim, MoMA, SFMOMA, LACMA, and many others.  He has exhibited internationally and is represented by the Gering and Lopez Gallery.  The main way that he shows his software art is through sculptural wall hangings with LCD screens he calls "art appliances" which he has made and sold since 1999.  numeral.com.

The next LISA salon is on Thursday August 12th.  For more info, visit:

http://softwareandart.com/

or email Isabel Draves (founder) at isabel at draves.com

May 8th & 9th at the Pierogi Boiler : A Moving Image and Light Event with Live MusicCultural Conversations with hanrahanMeyers architects

 

Virtual Gallery : Photography by David TeepleCultural Conversations with hanrahanMeyers architects

hMa is pleased to present our first-ever 'virtual gallery' exhibition of photographs by artist David Teeple. 

The works here represent several different series, and are all available as high-quality photographic prints for sale through hanrahan Meyers architects LLP.  

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL GALLERY 

Artist's Statement:

"My fundamental trajectory as an artist has been to actuate a methodology that allows me to investigate the nature of being within the shroud of structure, while transcending action and definition altogether"

Contact hMa with questions and for information pricing and availability info@hanrahanmeyers.com

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL GALLERY

 

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

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

November at Diapason Gallery: Nicolas Collins, Archival Jukebox, Kamran SadeghiCultural Conversations with hanrahanMeyers architects

  Mr. Collins and his trombone-propelled electronics in action, Europe, late-1980s

Nicolas Collins: Tall Poppies
A sound and video installation

Saturdays in November: 11/7, 11/14, 11/21, 11/28 - 2-8PM
Reception Saturday November 7th, 6- 8PM  Free

Diapason Gallery is pleased to present Tall Poppies (2009), a new multi- channel sound and video installation by artist Nicolas Collins.

According to the artist, "In Tall Poppies, contact mikes on the stems of sparklers pick up the whoosh of the burning magnesium and the subsequent ping and pop of the wire cores as they cool.  Video projectors beam synchronized recordings of individual sparklers onto the walls of the gallery, each image accompanied by its own sound channel.  The vagaries in burn-time and cool-down produce an odd polyphony."Playing on a 2- minute loop, the videography for Tall Poppies is by Tommy Heffron. 

New York born and raised, Nicolas Collins has collaborated with numerous soloist and ensembles around the world.  He has studied composition with Alvin Lucier at Wesleyan University and worked with David Tudor for many years.  He lived and traveled in Europe for most of the 1990s, where he acted as Visiting Artistic Director of Stichting STEIM (Amsterdam), and completed a DAAD composer-in-residence in Berlin.  Since 1997, he has been editor-in-chief of the Leonardo Music Journal, and since 1999, has been a Professor in the Department of Sound at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.  The second edition of his book, Handmade Electronic Music – The Art of Hardware Hacking, was published by Routledge in 2009.  Collins has the dubious distinction of having played at both CBGBs and the Concertgebouw. 
www.nicolascollins.com

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