June 28, 2009 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Composition 8 (2009), still from performance
Composition 8 (2009), still from performance
For the No Soul for Sale closing performance at X Initiative, Naama Tsabar collaborates with 8 NYC musicians to create an installation / lo-fi performance of a new musical piece titled Composition 8. The main image in the performance is that of a musician standing on his amplifier. The amplifier is positioned on the floor (replacing a stage) and becomes a pedestal as well as a speaker; it is aesthetic as much as it is functional.
The musicians will be positioned in the space facing different directions breaking the conventional frontal mode of a rock performance. They will be playing a tremolo of 3 notes with no particular tempo, covering the space with sound. Walking in-between the musician sculptures, the viewer hears different rhythms and notes coming out of each amplifier.
Every 5-10 minutes a metronome will be heard, at this point the musicians
will start playing a rock song written specifically for this event, the whole field will function as a band. Once the song is over they will disperse back into the individual tremolo musical effect.
In this low-fi performance, each musician is a sound source and specifically positioned to create a minimalist visual installation. The aesthetics lead the sound relationship for the performers as well as the visitors walking throughout the space and the sound performance is an equation of the relationships in entire space. The musicians each wear clothes that he/she normally performs in, as the performance also attempts to examine through formal tools the relationship between a subject and a group.
Musicians:
Yva Lasvegas of Yva Lasvegass and formerly Sweet 75
Kelly Irene Corson of the Art of Shooting
Michael Berryhill of the Diagonals
Or Zubalsky of Juviley
Zachary Cooper of Cream Ale Kidz
Jessica Segall of Pesach
Dan Timmons of various bands
Jun Hou of various bands
Born 1982 in Israel, Naama Tsabar currently lives in New York City where she is an MFA student at Columbia University. Her work combines her interests in music, visual aesthetics of minimalist installation, and the role of the individual and group. In addition to showing her art installations in Israel, the U.S., and Europe, she has presented the musical performance "Composition 24", at the Hertzeliya Museum of Contemporary Art, 2006, and at “Can Art Do More?" Art Focus 5, Jerusalem, 2008. The artist is represented by Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv.
More information:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=251lkisrYSk
No Soul for Sale–A Festival of Independents brings together 40 independent forces from around the world that uniquely animate contemporary art (not-for-profit organizations, alternative institutions, artists' collectives and independent enterprises). From June 24–28, all floors of X Initiative will be utilized by the groups to simultaneously present art, music, performances, and publications.
Participants: Artis Contemporary Israeli Art Fund (New York and Tel Aviv), Ballroom (Marfa), BizArt/Arthub (Shanghai/Hong Kong), DISPATCH (New York), Empty Purse Publications (New York), Filipa Oliveira + Miguel Amado (Lisbon), FLUXspace (Philadelphia), Galerie im Regierungsviertel/Forgotten Bar Project (Berlin), Hermes und der Pfau (Stuttgart), K 48 (New York), Kadist Art Foundation (Paris), Kling&Bang (Reykjavík), L'Appartement 22 (Rabat), Latitudes (Barcelona), LAXART (Los Angeles), Light Industry (Brooklyn), Lucie Fontaine (Milan), Migrating Forms (New York), Mousse Magazine (Milan), Next Visit (Berlin), Not An Alternative (Brooklyn), Office for Contemporary Art Norway (Oslo), Participant Inc. (New York), Rhizome (New York), STARSHIP (Berlin), Storefront for Art and Architecture (New York), Studio Film Club (Trinidad), Supportico Lopez (Berlin), Surasi Kusolwong (Thailand), Swiss Institute (New York), TART (San Francisco), The Mountain School of Arts (Los Angeles), Thisisnotashop (Dublin), Transformer (Washington, D.C.), Via Farini (Milan), Vox Populi (Philadelphia), WAGE Artists (New York), White Columns (New York).
