Second Sundays Guitar Series: Dieter Hennings 6/13
Posted on 02. Jun, 2010 by DanielKalmar in Art at Roger Smith, Arts
Sunday June 13th, 4pm Dieter Hennings, a native of Mexico, was awarded the Aaron Brock Prize in 2008. A graduate of the University of Arizona School of Music, where he received the Outstanding Senior Award, in Guitar Performance in 2004, Mr. Hennings is currently pursuing a double Doctoral degree in Early Plucked Instruments and Guitar Performance and Literature with Paul O’Dette at the Eastman School. Mr. Hennings has won many prestigious competitions including the 2005 Eastman Guitar Concerto Competition, the 2002 Villa de Petrer (Spain) International Competition Ralph Stevens Guitar Competition, the 2001 Portland Guitar Competition the 1999 and 2000 Claire Schaeffer Guitar Competition.
In the field of guitar performance Dieter is deeply committed to the diffusion of new music, specially of Latin America, having recently performed works by Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez and Mario Davidovsky.
co-presented by the NYCCGS and Roger Smith Arts
The Solarium, 16th floor at The Roger Smith Hotel
Tickets $15, includes wine and cheese
pay at the door, cash only
For reservations, email rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com
or call 212.339.2092
LISTINGS INFORMATION:
Dieter Hennings plays The Second Sundays Classical Guitar Concert
Roger Smith Arts & The New York City Classical Guitar Society
The Solarium at The Roger Smith Hotel
501 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10017, 47th and Lexington
Subway: E, 6, V to 53rd and Lexington or 4, 5, 6, 7 to Grand Central
June 13th, 2010 at 4pm
$15 includes wine and cheese
212-339-2092
http://secondsundays.tumblr.com
The Traders’ Ball: An Installation, June 11 – July 2, 2010
Posted on 28. May, 2010 by DanielKalmar in Arts, LAB Gallery
The LAB (for installation + performance art) is pleased to announce ‘The Trader’s Ball’, an installation by French artist Fred Forest. With his trademark over the top irony, Forest rubs salt in the wounds of the free market banking industry , mocking their response to the financial crisis that has shaken the world. The installation will include corporate mannequins dancing the night away in The LAB and parallel scenes of jovial ignorance taking place via Second Life on large screens in the gallery. The action will take place to music by New York rapper Jamalski, who will orchestrate the movements of the dancers to a syncopated beat based on the real time fluctuation of the financial markets. To see the project’s website go to: www.thetradersball.com/
This piece will be in conjunction with a piece based around Forest’s Second Life avatar, Ego Cyberstar, that will be showing at The Science Fair at Flux Factory, June 5th- 13th.
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Photos: Adam Wallace
Fred Forest is a French new media artist. He is the holder of a state doctorate in the humanities from the Sorbonne and has also taught on the faculty of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Art, Cergy-Pontoise and University of Nice Sophia Antipolis. Forest has taken part in the Biennale of Venice (1976) and the Documenta of Kassel (1977, 1987) and his work has won awards at the Bienal do São Paulo (1973) and the Festival of Electronic Arts of Locarno (1995). In 2004, Forest’s archives, including his video works, were added to the collection of the Institut National de l’Audiovisuel of France and a retrospective of his work was held at the Slought Foundation in Philadelphia in 2007. Beginning in 2008, Forest launched a new series of performances in the environment of Second Life.
For more information please contact Danika Druttman on 212.339.2092 or email rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com
The LAB (for installation + performance art) is a New York based, converted storefront turned fishbowl producing 30+ fast paced performance art and installation exhibitions annually. Aimed at furious midtown foot traffic, The LAB’s programming is designed to confront modern relationships between art and audience and seeks to force interaction between high energy, “outrospective” exhibitions and nearly 25,000 daily passersby. THE LAB is located on the North East corner of 47th and Lex and is a Roger Smith Collaboration in Art. www.thelabgallery.com
The Traders’ Ball Second Life Video
DannyGoulash reporting..
Posted on 12. May, 2010 by DanielKalmar in Art at Roger Smith, Arts
I’m here at the setup for the Great Nude Invitational at Roger Smith Hotel. This exhibition is taking place on the second (Mezzanine) floor of the hotel in the Starlight and Screening rooms, which are two of the event spaces in the hotel.
Everyone’s working full speed with the setup and we already got some interesting art on the scene. Stay tuned for more as this installation progresses!
Here’s the link to the main article:
TheGreatNude Invitational
Catch you guys later,
DannyGoulash
Friday, May 14th
The setup is complete and large amounts of paintings and artifacts are displayed all over the Mezzanine floor of Roger Smith Hotel. Here are the results of the hard work put in the last two days!
Recap of the finished Great Nude Invitational show with Danika Druttman of the LAB gallery.
Susan Suh Jewelry has arrived @ RS POP!
Posted on 30. Apr, 2010 by DanielKalmar in Art at Roger Smith, Arts
Susan Suh Jewelry has arrived as RS POP- UP Shop!
Opening night was a huge hit and guests were truly impressed with Susan’s talent.
Having once given up her dream because it seemed impossible, Susan Suh learned a valuable life lesson that one should never stop dreaming. Wings allow you to fly and she incorporates their aesthetic into her collection. Her jewelry signifies strength and elegance.
Our Video:
Store Hours: M-F 11am-8pm
Sat 12pm- 7pm, Sun 12pm- 6pm
For Mother’s Day we are doing a special giveaway!
Enter for a chance to win the Double Wings Necklace in sterling silver from the Freedom & Hope Collection.
Contest rules (US residents only):
1. Must be a fan of Susan Suh Jewelry on facebook and
2. Post a picture of you and your mother on the Susan Suh Jewelry fan page.
Contest begins: NOW
Contest Ends: May 1, 2010
The winner will be announced on May 1st at 2pm @RS POP-UP Shop, 501 Lexington Ave. & 47th St. NYC.
Freedom & Hope has inspired both her dreams and her jewelry.
Science Friction #2: A Salon Discussion Series
Posted on 27. Apr, 2010 by DanielKalmar in Art at Roger Smith, Arts
The Hottest Artists in Science, A Salon Discussion Series curated by Kóan Jeff Baysa, M.D
The Penthouse, The Roger Smith Hotel Sunday, May 2nd 2010 4-6pm
Tickets are free, seating is limited
Roger Smith Arts in pleased to announce Science Friction, a discussion series addressing the touted and contested grounds of collaborations between arts and sciences.
In this salon-style event, two notable artscientists will present their individual and collaborative work followed by a Q&A session.
Science Friction #2 will include Adrienne Klein, Director of Special Projects in the Office of Research at the Graduate Center of CUNY. She is also an artist and co-Director of Science And The Arts, a National Science Foundation-supported series of public programs. Also speaking is Virgil Wong, an artist, and Associate Director of Web & Multimedia at Weill Cornell Medical College and New York-Presbyterian Hospital. He is also Assistant Professor of Media Studies at The New School, and a PhD candidate in Cognitive Studies and Intelligent Technologies at Columbia University.
For more information, or to reserve seats please contact Danika Druttman at email: rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com or phone: 212.339.2092
A Salon Discussion Series
The Penthouse, The Roger Smith Hotel
Sunday, May 2nd 2010
4-6pm
Tickets are free, seating is limited
Roger Smith Arts is a multi-disciplinary arts production company providing cultural entertainment as a way to promote dialogue within and between the leading disciplines of the New York and global art worlds. The company’s mission is to establish itself as a pre-eminent and sought after cultural institution to the city of New York. Recognizing dialogue as the backbone of any cultural organization, RSA embraces variety as a means to foster the exchange of creative ideas. RSA produces performance art and site-specific installation exhibits, jazz and acoustic singer/songwriter concerts, poetry readings, chamber music concerts, and ongoing speaker series, all with leading creative intellectuals of their various fields.
Bennyroyce Royons CHRONOS
Posted on 23. Apr, 2010 by DanielKalmar in Arts, LAB Gallery
Future artist in The LAB Gallery at the Roger Smith Hotel has an amazing set of performances this weekend at University Settlement in New York City. Have a look at these spectacular shows as a sneak peak to what’s about to take place at The LAB Gallery of the Roger Smith Hotel!
BENNYROYCE DANCE PRODUCTIONS’
CHRONOS PROJECT
An evening of dance on a theme of time…
Featuring World Premieres by
Brian Gibbs
Nilas Martins
Monique Meunier
Bennyroyce Royone
DATE: April 22-24, 2010
TIME: 7:30PM
LOCATION: 184 Eldridge Street, NY
ADMISSION: $15 General ($10 Student & Seniors)
WWW.BENNYROYCE.COM
WWW.UNIVERSITYSETTLEMENT.ORG
“Backstage Transmission” The Installation Process: Time Lapse Video
Posted on 22. Apr, 2010 by DanielKalmar in Arts, LAB Gallery
Morgan O’Hara’s Live Transmission drawings track, in real time, the vital movement of living beings, transcending both figuration and abstraction, executing a direct neural translation from one human action into another. Drawing methodically with multiple razor-sharp pencils and both hands, as time-based performance, O’Hara condenses movement into accumulations of graphite line which combine the controlled refinement of classical drawing with the unbound sensuality of spontaneous gesture. Time-space coordinates for each drawing are described with great precision in the titles.
The source for this site-specific wall drawing was a pencil drawing done in Japan in 2001. The situation took place in Kid Ailack Hall in Tokyo where 40 performance artists were walking through their performances in a large stage area, identifying places where props were to be placed, where lighting technicians needed to place a spotlight, where and when technicians were to produce sound for each performance. O’Hara sat alone in the audience area and drew the movement of all these proceedings, tracking each person as he or she crossed and re-crossed the stage area. She made one large drawing of all observable movement for four hours in that space.
For this site, the 2001 stage-blocking drawing was photographed, downloaded into a computer, printed in sections, copied onto acetate and projected in sections onto the walls of the LAB using an overhead projector. The work progressed from left to right. Thirty volunteers from Fordham University, the School of Visual Arts, artsengine, LAB supporters, and occasional passersby assisted Morgan O’Hara with the painting. The modus operandi was to paint black the spaces between the lines, allowing the lines to emerge on their own from the white walls.
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A site-specific wall drawing is a drawing which is done specifically for a particular space. Concept, scale, proportion and architectural elements must all be taken under careful consideration. This particular drawing was selected by O’Hara from among many possibilities as the best one for this particular space. In the nearby theatre district of New York as well as in the many concert halls not far from the Roger Smith Hotel, preparations for performance are taking place every day. It is hoped that this drawing will call attention to the many unnoticed backstage activities which support the performing arts.
Live Transmission is on view 24/7 at The LAB (for installation + performance art) thru May 7th, 2010.
“LIVE TRANSMISSIONS” @ The LAB: A Series of Collaborative Time Based Performances
Posted on 20. Apr, 2010 by DanielKalmar in Arts, LAB Gallery
The LAB (for installation + performance art) will be hosting “Live Transmissions” a series of live collaborative time based performances by our current LAB artist, Morgan O’Hara, and a selection of unique musicians and artists. They will take place in the Gallery, which is also the location of O’Hara’s latest site specific wall drawing. Each performer will play in the space while O’Hara simultaneously draws a “Live Transmission”, which will result in an abstracted map of the their gestures.
Each performance will be fully audible and visible from the street outside the gallery on 47th and Lexington.
For more information please contact Danika Druttman 212.339.2092 or email rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com
Schedule
MORGAN O’HARA and Friends at the LAB April 2nd-May 7th 2010
Morgan O’Hara’s Live Transmission drawings track, in real time, the vital movement of living beings, transcending both figuration and abstraction, executing a direct neural translation from one human action into another. Drawing methodically with multiple razor-sharp pencils and both hands, as time-based performance, O’Hara condenses movement into accumulations of graphite line which combine the controlled refinement of classical drawing with the unbound sensuality of spontaneous gesture. In the context of her recently completed site-specific wall drawing, O’Hara will do a LIVE TRANSMISSION DRAWING PERFORMANCE duet, drawing with each of the following. The site-specific wall drawing, Backstage Transmission, will be in place until 7 May 2010.
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PETER GREGSON 20 April 6 – 7 PM
Broadcast LIVE on rogersmithlife.com @ 6pm – DON’T MISS IT!
Born in Edinburgh, Peter Gregson is a cellist and innovator in the field of contemporary music. He has performed widely in the UK and the US, at venues ranging from The Royal Albert Hall in London to the Twitter Offices in San Francisco. Recently commissioned by Bowers & Wilkins and Peter Gabriel to record an album of original music for acoustic and electric cellos for their Society of Sound label. His work has been recognized with the 2008 Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Award for music and with membership in the Courvoisier Future 500. Peter is the 2010/2011 Creator in Residence at the Hospital Club in London. Selected performances in 2010 include MIT Media Lab, Roundhouse, Future Gallery, 92nd Street Y, The LAB, Queen’s Hall and King’s Place.
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KEVIN NORTON 22 April 8 – 9 PM
Kevin Norton is a unique percussionist (at times playing vibraphone and drum set simultaneously) as well as a prolific composer with over a dozen CDs released as a leader. Kevin has played with many highly esteemed European improvisers such as Paul Rogers, Joëlle Léandre, Paul Dunmall and Frode Gjerstad. For ten years, Norton was Anthony Braxton’s main percussionist in both the “ghost trance” phase and the “standards” phase, plotting out the course for all percussionists who followed him. His most recent projects include compositions for various sized chamber groups and a duo with pianist Connie Crothers. Norton was a resident composer at the prestigious MacDowell Colony and has served on the faculty of several schools including the University of Maryland. He is currently on the faculty of William Paterson University.
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DAVID WATSON 26 April 2 – 3 PM
Originally form New Zealand, where he was instrumental in developing a scene in for experimental and improvised music where he co-founded braille records to record the local improv music scene , David Watson has become an internationally respected highland bagpipe player whose work subverts any conventional expectation. His performances draw on traditional sources, electronics, and experimental improvisation to “blow the bagpipes into the 21st century”. In 1987 he moved to New York and has performed in clubs, new music and concert venues throughout New York (cbgb’s, The Knitting Factory, The Cooler), Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. He has curated music series for Roulette, Experimental Intermedia Foundation, St. Mark’s Church, Greenwich House, Bang-on-a-Can, PS 1, and PS 122, toured Japan with John Zorn and members of The Boredoms, Merzbow, Ground Zero, Makigami Koichi among others.
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JUNSUNG KIM 26 April 6 – 7 PM
Born in Seoul, Korea, attended Hunter College, the Art Institute of Chicago, and currently a student at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Junsung Kim will perform his piece “108 Deep Bows”. For Kim, O’Hara’s site-specific wall drawing evokes a strong sense of Buddhism, seeing it as a metaphor for “Tangled human relationships among living beings and the universe which are both absolute and simultaneously fall into nothingness.” Using white paint, rice paper and black thread he will prepare himself physically and then execute the practice of 108 deep bows in the space.
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TOMOMI ADACHI 28 April 8 – 9 PM
Born in Kanazawa, Japan, Tomomi Adachi is a performer, composer, sound poet, and installation artist. He studied philosophy and aesthetics at Waseda University in Tokyo. He has played improvised music with voice, live electronics and self-made instruments and composed work for his group “Adachi Tomomi Royal Chorus” which is a punk-style choir. He has performed contemporary music by John Cage, Cornelius Cardew, Christian Wolff, Tom Johnson, Dieter Schnebel, as well as Kurt Schwitters’s “Ursonate”. for the first time in Japan. Recent work involves voice, sensors, computer, self-made instruments, and sound poetry. He is currently in residence in New York City.
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JOAN GRUBIN 29 April 3 -4 PM
Joan Grubin is a Brooklyn-based visual artist who makes dimensional installations in paper. Her work is rooted in the vocabulary of minimalist geometric painting and deals with issues of perception and color. Her intention is to engage the viewer through an optically disorienting ambiguity of space that gives rise to a tension between what is materially present and what is not. In the Lab, she will be creating elements with fluorescent paint and tape for a new wall installation of whimsical sculptural gestures made out of the detritus from her primary body of work. She has shown widely in solo and group exhibitions in and around the New York area and beyond, including the Islip Museum and the Weatherspoon Museum. In 2008 she was awarded a Fellowship in Painting from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She has twice been a finalist for a Percent for Art public art commission.
“CLEAN THE ROOM”, A Roger Smith Short by Dmitry Povolotsky
Posted on 13. Apr, 2010 by DanielKalmar in Art at Roger Smith, Arts
Clean the Room by Dmitry Povolotsky from Panman Productions on Vimeo.
“Clean the Room”, is a film about mistaken identity and serendipity. This physical comedy, which takes place in the Penthouse of the Roger Smith Hotel is a modern day Cinderella story in which the dreams of a maid strangely come true, while she cleans a messy hotel room. Clean the Room won Best Film at the Roger Smith Shorts Film Festival in August 2009.
About the Director
Dmitry Povolotsky is a writer, director, and choreographer living in Brooklyn. At the age of ten, he was selected to attend the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow to study classical ballet. After graduating from the academy nine years later, Dmitry was awarded a full scholarship to Juilliard in New York City where he received a BFA in modern dance and choreography.
Dmitry remained in New York City to perform with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet for eight seasons and to teach ballet and choreograph for inner city youth at the Harlem School of the Arts.
After making his first short film in 2003, Dmitry left the dance world to study film at Columbia University Film Division. PAL/SECAM, his thesis film, has played at 40 film festivals all over the world, has won several prestigious film awards and was sold to 6 territories so far.
Credits
Written and Directed by Dmitry Povolotsky
Story Idea by Bilge Ebiri
Executive Producers -?Brendan Crane, ?John Knowles
Cast?Maid – Susan Brady
Bobby – Michael Mason
Superstar – Sarah Lilley
Crew
Director of Photography – Christina Voros
Art Direction – Julia Cairo
Assistant Director – Rebecca Conroy
Sound – Marin Conroy
Editor – Julia Kots
Wardrobe Provided by CMarchuska and The Green Room NYC
Special Thanks to the Roger Smith Hotel
Fourth Sundays Chamber Music Series: Jason Eckardt
Posted on 09. Apr, 2010 by DanielKalmar in Chamber Music Series
Sunday april 25th, 4pm
The Talea Ensemble, along with the iO Quartet, presents “When Music Becomes Unruly”. The concert focuses on award-winning composer Jason Eckardt’s 16 for flute and string trio. Jason writes, “The work’s title refers to the sixteen words that should have been excised from George Bush’s January 2003 State of the Union address: “The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.” This false claim illustrates the policy of deceit typical of the morally impoverished current administration. As an artist angered and ashamed by my country’s actions, my deepest response is expressed in my work and my faith in art’s ability to contribute to, if not transform , society.
Additionally Jason has curated the concert. Complementing his work will be Brahms’ fierce and tragic c minor String Quartet. Jason will speak about the ideas of struggle and adversity within a musical work.
The Solarium, The Roger Smith Hotel
tickets $15 on the door, cash only
includes wine and cheese
For reservations please contact 212.339.2092
or rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com
