Warmest wishes from us on the corner of 47th and Lex,

Matt and Danika

THE LAB
[a roger smith  collaboration]
501 Lexington Ave NYC (map)
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APPLE DONUT AND CIDER DANCE-OFF
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2011
6:30-7:30pm

Interview with Jongil Ma and Elizabeth Winton

Installation Time Lapse

Video from our last LAB food cart evening: POPSICLE PARTY!

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THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 1ST 6:30-7:30pm

Please join us to celebrate the completion of our Summer show ‘Projected Drawings’, with home-made Popsicles from the Roger Smith Food Cart outside the gallery on the corner of 47th and Lexington.

SHOW ENDS SEPTEMBER 2ND, 2011
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Helen Dennis: Projected Drawings Video Interview click to watch

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Thank you all for another exceptional year. From start to finish the artists we showed continued to challenge the space, the neighborhood, and themselves to create bold, engaging work. From Grimanesa Amoros’s “La Incubadora” at the beginning of the year, exploring the subjects of gender and science with her pregnant male sculptures, to Veronica Pena’s performance installation “Without Name”, confronting concepts of absence and death. The year delved into subjects from mathematical poetry to meteorological phenomenons, from movement mapping to the economic collapse.

Also included were shows dealing with abstract representation of musical scores, our never ending search for intimacy, the problem of materialism and the subconscious.

We could not be more pleased or prouder of the work our artists achieved this year.

2011 begins tomorrow, we begin the year with a brief period of renovation and then launch back into a full schedule of cutting edge performance and installation art.

Stay tuned for all that’s to come next.

Happy new year!

Matt and Danika

2010 ARTISTS- GRIMANESA AMOROS KAZ MAZLANKA MORGAN O’HARA GA HAE PARK FRED FOREST DANIEL ROTHBART MAIA MARINELLI KRISTINA SKOVBY YEON JIN KIM NU DANCE THEATER VERONICA PENA

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A Performance Installation

by Verónica Peña

Curated by Creighton Michael

Performance in collaboration Moira Williams and Shizu Homma

December 10-31 2010 Performance every Thurs & Fri at 6pm

The LAB (for installation + performance art) is thrilled to present “Without Name”, a re-incarnation of a performance installation originally created by Veronica Peña in 2008. The show is inspired by her desire to experience the union between the absent and the present, in response her father’s passing in 2007.

For the show’s installation, Peña will cover The LAB with a thin layer of plastic, which will be painted red as part of the performance. Peña will then fill the space with large masses of grouped paper and string, rearranging them until the materials begin to convey a sculptural presence. Covered in a thin skin of plastic and red paint the performer will seek to blend in with the installation creating a living sculpture among the lifeless string and paper shapes. The performer’s eyes will be covered, rendering them blind, able only to hear. “Hearing is the last sense we loose when we are dying” says Peña, “I will build the space and wait for my father, for the absent, to come join me”.

Verónica Peña is an interdisciplinary artist from Spain, currently living and working in New York City. She received her BFA in Painting from The Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain) and her MFA from Stony Brook University (New York) with a focus on installation/performance and video. Peña work has been exhibited in Spain, Italy, and the United States. In New York her work has been featured in “Spain In The City” at the Armory Show 2010 (Gabarron Foundation), in “A Book About Death” at the Queens Museum of Art, in the “13th DUMBO Art Under The Bridge Festival” at the DUMBO Arts Center and The Parrish Art Museum (Long Island). In Spain, her work has been exhibited at Casa de America (Madrid), Fundacion Antonio Saura (Cuenca), Museo Orus (Zaragoza), Fundacion Caja Rioja (La Rioja), and The Polytechnic University of Valencia (Valencia). Peña has been a recipient of the Socrates-Erasmus Grant, the Juan Genoves Universidad Complutense de Madrid Fellowship, and a candidate for the Dedalus Foundation Grant. She has recently published The Presence Of The Absent, a thesis about her body of work.

Creighton Michael received his MA in art history from Vanderbilt University and a MFA in painting and multimedia from Washington University in St. Louis. He is a recipient of a Pollack Krasner Foundation grant, a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in sculpture and a Golden Foundation for the Arts award in painting. His work is in various public and private collections including the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Brooklyn Museum, and Denver Art Museum.
Michael has had solo exhibitions at numerous galleries and art centers in New York City and throughout the United States, including The High Museum of Art (Atlanta); Katonah Museum of Art (Katonah NY) and the Queens Museum of Art at Bulova Corporate Center (Queens NY). He has also shown internationally, in Copenhagen, Montreal and Reykjavík. In the November 2010, Tangible Marking: The Dimensional Drawings of Creighton Michael, will be on view at The College of Saint Rose (Albany New York). Michael has been a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at Hunter College, New York City since 2005 and is a member of American Abstract Artists and the International Sculpture Center, where he was recently elected to the Board of Directors.

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.  www.thelabgallery.com

QUICK INFO

Without Name
A Performance Installation by Verónica Peña
The LAB (for installation + performance art)
501 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10017, 47th and Lexington (map)
Subway: E, 6, V to 53rd and Lexington or 4, 5, 6, 7 to Grand Central
December 8-31st 2010
Performances: every Thursday and Friday at 6pm
All works of art and performances in The LAB are shown within the confines of the space , and are intended to be viewed by the audience from the sidewalk. This event is free.
For more information please contact Danika Druttman at rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com or 212.339.2092

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November 8-26th, 2010

Performances: Monday to Friday 6:30pm

Preview: In Rehearsal with Nu Dance Theater, October 2010

Clip from November 8th 2010 performance

The LAB (for installation + performance art) is thrilled to present Into Me See, a duet created by Nu Dance Theater (Eva Perrotta and  Sophie Bortolussi) in collaboration with the architects Eva Perez De Vega Steele and Ian Gordon of e+i Architecture.

Trying to reconnect with themselves and each other, two women face their own shadows in an endless effort to find intimacy. Tearing apart the many layers resisting vulnerability, together they travel through an invisible maze of unspoken beliefs and opinions. The fish bowl environment of The LAB offers an inherent and incredibly rich tension to the exploration of intimacy, how to transgress the unspoken, publicly and openly, without only provoking, but more importantly going beyond our stigma of sexuality and gender differentiations.

The cloud like installation, constructed of 80,000 feet of hanging nylon string of varying densities and lengths, aims to build an intimate world of soft layers, evoking a sense of mist and condensation.The work interfaces the exposed nature of The LAB creating secluded and hidden zones where dancers moving in and around the installation can appear and disappear, thus shaping an ambiguous ‘in between’ zone where exterior [audience] and interior [dancers] meet. The limits of the space are visually dissolved though the layered strings, giving  both audience and performers a sensation of an endlessly enveloping and boundary-less inner world.

Nu Dance Theater was created in 2006 by Artistic Director, Eva Perrotta. Sophie Bortolussi, the founding dancer, became Artistic Associate of the company in 2009. The work of the company has been presented at the Puffin Room, La Guardia High School of Performing Arts, Merce Cunningham Studio Theater, Dumbo Dance Festival, Dance New Amsterdam (RAW Material), Boston University Theater (MA), The Outlet Dance Project (NJ), The Goose Route Festival (WV), The Theater for the New City and Triskelion Arts.  The company’s residencies include Spoke the Hub in Brooklyn in 2008 and SILO residency (PA) in 2010. Following Hinterland (2009) a Site Specific itinerant piece created for a former Synagogue renovated into a four story house , Nu Dance Theater has been invited to create “Si seulement Si” (2010) a site specific work for the 6BC botanical garden in the East Village and “Into me see” (2010) for the LAB Installation + Performing art at the Roger Smith Hotel in NYC.

e+i architecture was founded by architect/choreographer Eva Perez de Vega Steele and architect Ian Gordon, forming an interdisciplinary architecture practice also involved in interior design, product, set design and choreography. The work of e+I has been exhibited in New York (AIA Center for Architecture, Van Alen Institute, RIVAA Art Gallery) as well as internationally, in Milan, Venice Rome, Madrid, Stockholm and Seoul.

For further information about Into Me See or The LAB please contact Danika Druttman at 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.

QUICK INFORMATION:
Into Me See
An Installation and Performance by e+i Architecture and Nu Dance Theater
The LAB (for installation + performance art)
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
November 8-26, 2010
Performances: Monday-Friday 6:30pm
All works of art in The LAB are shown within the confines of the gallery , and are viewed by the audience from the sidewalk. This event is free
Phone: 212.339.2092
Email: rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com

www.thelabgallery.com
www.facebook.com/thelabgallery
www.twitter.com/thelabgallery
A full schedule for Fall 2010 can be found on www.thelabgallery.com/calendar

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By Yeon Jin Kim     Curator: Joel Carreiro

October 7-29th, 2010

The LAB (for installation + performance art) is pleased to announce their October show, All Intellectual Animals are Dangerous is a multi-media installation offering the viewer a more intimate experience than usually found with public art projects. The windows of the gallery will be whited-out except for several small apertures, which will reveal various room interiors constructed out of paper and graphite, depicting an array of characters and events. Like Hitchcock`s Rear Window, each opening will give the audience a glimpse into different lives, however in All Intellectual Animals are Dangerous some rooms are inhabited by animals, some by people and one by an enormous spider. They are all presided over by a giant “Alice in Wonderland” –like character. Several of the interiors are small and present intimate, three–dimensional static tableau, and in a scale jump, two of them open onto larger spaces with narrative video projections, which are made by filming paper and graphite models. Passers-by may experience the piece as a cross between the viewing holes cut in a construction wall and the window displays on Fifth Avenue at Christmas time. On the busy streets of mid-town, this piece provides a voyeuristic experience of a fantastic realm populated by unusual and anthropomorphic creatures, all governed by a dream logic.

Yeon Jin Kim was born in Seoul, Korea, receiving her BFA from Seoul National University and MFA from Hunter College. She has shown work at the Islip Art Museum (Long Island), the Anne Street Gallery (Newburgh NY), the Storefront Artists Project (Pittsfield, MA), the Catskill Art Society, and Times Square Gallery (New York City). Kim’s videos have been screened in Seoul, Egypt, Germany and New York City. She has recently completed residencies at Yaddo (Saratoga Springs NY), the Saltonstall Foundation (Ithaca NY), BRIC/BCAT (Brooklyn) and the Islip Art Museum. Kim is a recipient of awards from both the Tony Smith Fund and the Ahl Foundation, and is currently an artist in residence at Henry Street Settlement. She teaches at the Ashcan Studio in Manhattan.

Joel Carreiro is based in New York City and directs the MFA Program at Hunter College. He has shown nationally and internationally and currently has a solo exhibition at Fairfield University in Connecticut, which will travel next year to the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and then to Muehlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He is also currently showing work in Seoul, Korea. As an independent curator he has organized exhibitions for the Rotunda Gallery in Brooklyn, the Rockland Center for the Arts and the Hopper House Art Center in Nyack, New York, and the Leubsdorf Gallery at Hunter College, as well as the Intar Gallery in New York City. He is currently co-curating, with Brett De Palma, an exhibition for the Catskill Art Society in Livingston Manor,  New York called “Utopia and Wallpaper.

For further information about All Intellectual Animals Are Dangerous or The LAB please contact Danika Druttman at 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.

QUICK INFORMATION:
All Intelligent Animals Are Dangerous
An Installation by Yeon Jin Kim, Curated by Joel Carreiro
The LAB (for installation + performance art)
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
October 7-29, 2010
All works of art in The LAB are shown within the confines of the gallery , and are viewed by the audience from the sidewalk. This event is free
Ph: 212-339-2092
www.thelabgallery.com
www.facebook.com/thelabgallery
www.twitter.com/thelabgallery
A full schedule for Fall 2010 can be found on www.thelabgallery.com/calendar

All Intellectual Animals Are Dangerous

Video: John Birdsong

Photos: Adam Wallace

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The LAB (for installation + performance art) is pleased to present A Piece About…Shopping? a performance by Kristina Skovby, which explores the ordinary  repetition of life, and conversely, the continuous challenges that individualize and energize the human experience. This tale is of a woman’s  initially habitual visit to the mall, and the  anomalous turn it takes when she meets with a stubborn shopping cart. The unexpected shift in the nature of this expedition invites a series of obstacles, success’s and failures.

Kristina Skovby is a performance artist from Denmark and a former student of the Martha Graham School where she studied repertory with Pearl Lang. She recently finished in a production by InOktober at Here Arts Center in Manhattan, and is currently working with Nu Dance Theater on a site specific performance for the Botanical Garden on East 6th Street. Her own performance work has been presented at the LAB, Triskelion Arts Aldous Theater in Brooklyn, Gowanus Arts Building, The Brecht Forum, and Spinvox street events in NYC and San Francisco.

Previous Works:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo8CEVr9bXw
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVFv0gpu5_Y&feature=related

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

For more information, please contact Danika Druttman at rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com or 212.339.2092

www.thelabgallery.com
www.twitter.com/TheLABGallery
www.facebook.com/thelabgallery

Photos: Adam Wallace

A Piece About…Shopping? Video by John John Birdsong

Time lapse video of 09.24.2010 performance

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Schedule

Fall 2010

September

A Piece About…Shopping?

Kristina Skovby

September 20-24th 2010 6:30pm every day

A Piece About…Shopping? is a performance by Kristina Skovby which explores the ordinary  repetition of life, and conversely, the continuous challenges that individualize and energize the human experience. This tale is of a woman’s  initially habitual visit to the mall, and the  anomalous turn it takes when she meets with a stubborn shopping cart. The unexpected shift in the nature of this expedition invites a series of obstacles, success’s and failures.

Kristina Skovby is a performance artist from Denmark. She is a former student of the Martha Graham School, where she studied repertory with Pearl Lang. Her own work has previously been presented at Triskelion Arts Aldous Theater (Brooklyn), Gowanus Arts Building (Brooklyn), The Brecht Forum (New York City), The Martha Graham Center (New York City), The Merce Cunningham Studio (New York City) and in Spinvox Street Events in New York City and San Francisco. Skovby was recently involved in a production by InOktober at Here Arts Center (New York City), and is currently working with Nu Dance Theater in a site specific performance for the Botanical Garden on East 6th St in New York City.

October

All Intellectual Animals

are Dangerous

Yeon Jin Kim

Curator: Joel Carreiro

October 7-29th 2010

All Intellectual Animals are Dangerous is a multi-media installation offering the viewer a more intimate experience than usually found with public art projects. The windows of the gallery will be whited-out except for several small apertures, which will reveal various room interiors constructed out of paper and graphite, depicting an array of characters and events. Like Hitchcock`s Rear Window, each opening will give the audience a glimpse into different lives, however in All Intellectual Animals are Dangerous some rooms are inhabited by animals, some by people and one by an enormous spider. They are all presided over by a giant “Alice in Wonderland” –like character. Several of the interiors are small and present intimate, three–dimensional static tableau, and in a scale jump, two of them open onto larger spaces with narrative video projections, which are made by filming paper and graphite models. Passers-by may experience the piece as a cross between the viewing holes cut in a construction wall and the window displays on Fifth Avenue at Christmas time. On the busy streets of mid-town, this piece provides a voyeuristic experience of a fantastic realm populated by unusual and anthropomorphic creatures, all governed by a dream logic.

Yeon Jin Kim was born in Seoul, Korea, receiving her BFA from Seoul National University and MFA from Hunter College. She has shown work at the Islip Art Museum (Long Island), the Anne Street Gallery (Newburgh NY), the Storefront Artists Project (Pittsfield, MA), the Catskill Art Society, and Times Square Gallery (New York City). Kim’s videos have been screened in Seoul, Egypt, Germany and New York City. She has recently completed residencies at Yaddo (Saratoga Springs NY), the Saltonstall Foundation (Ithaca NY), BRIC/BCAT (Brooklyn) and the Islip Art Museum. Kim is a recipient of awards from both the Tony Smith Fund and the Ahl Foundation, and is currently an artist in residence at Henry Street Settlement. She teaches at the Ashcan Studio in Manhattan.

Joel Carreiro is based in New York City and directs the MFA Program at Hunter College. As an independent curator he has organized exhibitions for the Rotunda Gallery (Brooklyn) the Rockland Center for the Arts (Rockland NY) and the Hopper House Art Center (Nyack NY), as well as the Leubsdorf Gallery at Hunter College, and the Intar Gallery (New York City). He currently has a solo exhibition at Fairfield University in Connecticut, which will travel next year to the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and then to Muehlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He is also currently co-curating, with Brett De Palma, an exhibition for the Catskill Art Society in Livingston Manor, New York, called Utopia and Wallpaper.

November

Into Me See

Eva Perrotta and Sophie Bortolussi

In Collaboration

With e+i Architecture

November 8-26th 2010

Into Me See is a duet created by Nu dance Theater (Perrotta and Bortolussi) in collaboration with the architects Eva Perez De Vega Steele and Ian Gordon. Trying to reconnect with themselves and each other, two women face their own shadows in order to find intimacy. Tearing apart the many layers resisting vulnerability, together they travel through an invisible crowd of unspoken beliefs and opinions. The fish bowl environment of The LAB offers an inherent and incredibly rich tension to the exploration of intimacy. How to transgress the unspoken, publicly and openly, without only provoking, but more importantly going beyond our stigma of sexuality and gender differentiations.

Eva Perrotta, originally from France, first studied theater before focusing on her dance training in Paris, Buenos Aires and New York. She performed for several years with various choreographers and directors in France, Argentina, and the United States. She founded Nu Dance Theater in 2005 and since then her work has been presented in more than 50 venues throughout the Unites States. Recently, she was commissioned to choreograph for the Martha Graham Young Artist Program and was produced by Triskelion Arts Theater (Brooklyn), among others. Following the success of Hinterland, a Site Specific performance exclusively created in 2009 for a former synagogue renovated into a four story house, Nu Dance Theater has been invited to create a new site specific work for the Botanical Garden on East 6th St in New York City.

Sophie Bortolussi was born in France where she started her training in modern, contemporary and improvisational dance. In 2002, Sophie received a grant from the French Ministry Of Culture and Communication and a full scholarship from The Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance in New York. In 2004, Sophie became a member of the Martha Graham Company and since 2005, Sophie has been working with the director and choreographer Martha Clarke, on multiple projects, including Kaos, Garden of Earthly Delights and Angel Reapers. She has also performed with AMDaT and Drastic Action/ Aviva Geismar. Sophie is a founding member of Nu Dance Theater. She became choreographer Assistant for Nu Dance Theater in 2007 and Artistic Associate of Nu Dance Theater in 2009.

December

Without Name

Verónica Peña/Curator: Creighton Michael

December 10-31th 2010

Without Name is a reconstruction of an ephemeral installation/performance created in 2008 in response to the loss of the artist’s father. In order to feel closer to him, Verónica Peña creates the world of the absent, and transforms herself into one of them. Her work is inspired by her desire to experience the union between the absent and the present. For Without Name, Peña will cover the gallery with a thin layer of plastic and, thinking of the garage where her father died, she will paint red over the plastic. The artist will cross the room with strings from wall to wall. Using the strings, she will build a sculptural group evoking an encounter, and arrange and rearrange masses of paper until the sculptures convey a presence. Covered in a skin of plastic and paint, Peña will sit or stand in a corner, a living sculpture, numb for hours. When performing, she cannot see, only hear. Hearing is the last sense we lose when we are dying… she will build the space and wait for her father to come.

Verónica Peña is an interdisciplinary artist from Spain, currently living and working in New York City. She received her BFA in Painting from The Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain) and her MFA from Stony Brook University (New York) with a focus on installation/performance and video. Peña’s work has been exhibited in Spain, Italy, and the United States. In New York her work has been featured in “Spain In The City” at the Armory Show 2010 (Gabarron Foundation), in “A Book About Death” at the Queens Museum of Art, in the “13th DUMBO Art Under The Bridge Festival” at the DUMBO Arts Center and The Parrish Art Museum (Long Island). In Spain, her work has been exhibited at Casa de America (Madrid), Fundacion Antonio Saura (Cuenca), Museo Orus (Zaragoza), Fundacion Caja Rioja (La Rioja), and The Polytechnic University of Valencia (Valencia). Peña has been a recipient of the Socrates-Erasmus Grant, the Juan Genoves Universidad Complutense de Madrid Fellowship, and a candidate for the Dedalus Foundation Grant. She has recently published The Presence Of The Absent, a thesis about her body of work.

Creighton Michael received his MA in art history from Vanderbilt University and a MFA in painting and multimedia from Washington University in St. Louis. He is a recipient of a Pollack Krasner Foundation grant, a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in sculpture and a Golden Foundation for the Arts award in painting. His work is in various public and private collections including the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Brooklyn Museum, and Denver Art Museum. Michael has had solo exhibitions at numerous galleries and art centers in New York City and throughout the United States, including The High Museum of Art (Atlanta); Katonah Museum of Art (Katonah NY) and the Queens Museum of Art at Bulova Corporate Center (Queens NY). He has also shown internationally, in Copenhagen, Montreal and Reykjavík. In the November 2010, Tangible Marking: The Dimensional Drawings of Creighton Michael, will be on view at The College of Saint Rose (Albany New York) Michael has been a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at Hunter College, New York City since 2005 and is a member of American Abstract Artists and the International Sculpture Center, where he was recently elected to the Board of Directors.

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

For more information, or to schedule an interview with the artist, please contact Danika Druttman at rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com or 212.339.2092

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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 5^th- 13^th.

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

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