Spread Art

Art Basel 2012 & A Sneak Peek into 2013

It's that time of year again! Spread Art is in Miami for all that surrounds Art Basel 2012...

We'll be stopping by Fountain Art Fair and checking out the exhibitions and performance art curated by Grace Exhibition Space.  If you are in Miami, do not miss the Non Grata Performances on Friday and Saturday nights! 

As always, the Wynwood district will be full of street art, murals, galleries, people, food and all night extravaganzas.  Other fairs Spread Art will be hitting up include, Select, NADA, Context, Miami Project, Pool, Verge.

Spread Art has been busy preparing for an abundance of creativity 2013.  Here's a quick look into next year:

Expanded Residency Opportunities:
Spread Art recently purchased a house in SW Detroit that we are rehabbing for artist residencies, as well as exhibitions and performances. The combination of the existing space at 2572 Michigan and the new house in SW Detroit opens a world of new possibilities. Its too soon to tell exactly what will manifest from the abundance of space, but we know that 2013 will see Spread Art facilitating more artists' work in Detroit and beyond.

Anti-Auto Show
Detroit Contemporary invited Spread Art to curate the Anti-Auto Show exhibition.

Figment Detroit -- July 21st -22nd

Ever want to paint your own bus?

Come join Spread Art Sat. July 21st during Figment Detroit and help us paint the BUS!

"The Art of Letting Go" is an ongoing collaborative participatory mural project with its beginnings in Brooklyn in 2009. Join us for the debut in Detroit on June 21st 12pm to 6pm during Figment on Belle Isle.  We supply the materials, you express yourself. 

With almost 100ft of 'canvas', Help paint the bus below and join us for for "The Art of Letting Go"

 

The Art of Letting Go - Detroit 2012

 

About Figment:
FIGMENT is a free and non-commercial participatory arts event that seeks to broaden the definition of art and break down the wall between spectator and participant. FIGMENT is completely free to the public and is produced by entirely by volunteer staff and artists. 

Spread Art Co-Directors, Thomas Bell and Christina deRoos. Three New Videos!

Here are some videos of recent performances by Spread Art Co-Directors, Thomas Bell and Christina deRoos!  Enjoy.

 

playing with myself playing with yourself

Christina deRoos, Anya Liftig and Thomas Bell - collaboration at Bronx Art Space.

 

 

Thomas Bell, Christina deRoos, Anya Liftig
April 29, 2012
Bronx Art Space

Part of ITINERANT: FESTIVAL FOR CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE ART

March 30th - May 12th, 2012
Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, Bronx, Staten Island
New York City, USA

QMAD, Queens Media Arts Development is pleased to present ITINERANT, the annual festival for Contemporary Performance Art initiated by artist, Hector Canonge in Queens in 2011. This year’s festival is a citywide program to be presented in collaboration with galleries, artist-run spaces and public institutions in the five boroughs in New York City. ITINERANT 2012 focuses on live performative works that treat notions of intimacy, self-reflection, and introspection. Artists working in performance art were selected to participate from an open call that attracted more than 175 local, national and international submissions. Forty five artists will present new and existing works exploring the program’s theme over a period of five weeks, March 30 - May 12, 2012.

 

Performancy Forum XX: Con(Text)

February 11th, 2012 at Vaudville Park - Brooklyn, NY

Thomas Bell and Christina deRoos -  part of PERFORMANCY FORUM XX: Con(Text). Thank you Esther Neff, co-director of the Panoply Performance Laboratory (PPL), for including us in this opportunity.

 

PERFORMANCY FORUM XX: Con(Text)

Hector Canonge!
Ivy Castellanos!
Birgit Larson!
Ellen O’Meara!
Thomas Bell & Christina deRoos!
Meghann Snow!

AND OTHERS!!!

 

 

Thomas Bell, Christina deRoos and Anya Liftig - Itinerant Festival Performance

I T I N E R A N T Festival for Contemporary Performance Art Sunday, April 29th, 2012, 6 - 9 pm @ BRONX ART SPACE 305 East 140th Street Bronx, NY 10454 Join us Sunday April 29th 6pm to 9pm for the Itinerant Performance Festival at Bronx Art Space.   Spread Art Co-Directors Thomas Bell and Christina deRoos join forces with performance artist Anya Liftig for a collaborative improvised performance experience.  See the whole line up below! "playing with myself playing with yourself" Thomas Bell (sound), Christina deRoos (video) and Anya Liftig (performance) create an intimate collaborative work while each improvises in their respective medium while simultaneously working together.  Christina's video remixes of Anya's past performances, to which Anya performs along with, creates an opportunity for self reflection and introspection.   The addition of live audience participation through the use of video and sound feeds creates an intimate experience between the audience members and the three performing artists.

QMAD, Queens Media Arts Development, continues the presentation of ITINERANT, a citywide Festival for Contemporary Performance Art to be hosted at various venues in the five boroughs of New York City. On Sunday, April 29th, ITINERANT will be in the Bronx to present the work of local, national and international artists performing at Bronx Art Space from 6 - 9 pm. Participating artists at Bronx Art Space: Thomas Bell with Christina deRoos and Anya Liftig, Camila Cañeque, Bryon Carr, Irene Chan, Christine Ferrera, Jia-Jen Lin with Yung-Li Chen, Nadja Marcin, Panoply Performance Laboratory, Negin Sharifzadeh,and Jess Whittam with Lorelei Ramirez. Host: LuLu Lolo. ITINERANT 2012 focuses on live performative works that treat notions of intimacy, self-reflection, and introspection. Performance artists were selected to participate from an open call that attracted more than 175 local, national and international submissions. Forty five artists were selected and will be featuring new and existing works that explore the program’s theme over a period of 5 weeks starting on March 30th through May 12th, 2012. Directions: Bronx Art Space, 305 East 140th Street. #6 Train to 3rd Ave/138th St in the Bronx (first stop after Manhattan). Walk 2 blocks on Alexander Ave., turn left on 3rd Ave (Public Library is on the corner), walk towards the middle of the block. Program (borough, date & time, venue):  * BROOKLYN: Friday, March 30th, 8 - 11 pm at Grace Exhibition Space (past).  * QUEENS: Saturday, April 21st, 6 - 9 pm at Crossing Art Gallery (past).  * MANHATTAN: Saturday, April 28th, 7 – 10 pm at Floor 4 Art (featured).  * BRONX: Sunday, April 29th, 6 - 9 pm at Bronx Art Space (upcoming).   * STATEN ISLAND: Sunday, May 5th, 6 - 8 pm at Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art -     Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden (upcoming). Public Performances: 37th Road Pedestrian Plaza at 74th Street in Jackson Heights, Queens:  * Every Friday, April 6th – May 4th, 3 – 6 PM: “Worlds Together, Worlds Apart,” a durational     performance collaboration between Camila Cañeque and Hector Canonge.  * Saturday, May 12th, 3 – 6 PM: Closing Event with performances by Chloe Bass, John Cichon,     Nancy Nowacek, Lizzie Scott, and Priscila Stadler. About: QMAD, Queens Media Arts Development, is under the direction of artist, Hector Canonge, who launched ITINERANT in Queens in 2011.  Canonge explains that ITINERANT is “the first program for performance art in this borough,” and that he “wants to introduce audiences to this art form as well as to create dialogue and exchange among artists coming from all over to the festival. ITINERANT started as a mini-festival with handful of local artists presenting their live performances at Crossing Art Gallery, I wanted to create the same in larger scale in NYC." Canonge adds that the experience has been an incredible challenge. "To be able to collaborate with organizations and galleries in the five boroughs, to have their support and trust that I could carry such enterprise has been a major incentive in organizing the event.”  QMAD, under the leadership of Canonge, presents the monthly LGBT film series CINEMAROSA, the annual program Framing AIDS, and the monthly art series A-Lab Forum.   More information: www.qmad.org/itinerant or email: communications@qmad.org

ITINERANT is an independent initiative supported by QMAD

 

Spread Art Project: Dimanche Rouge Live stream @ Spread Art

Dimanche Rouge: Saturday Streaming Labs @ Spread Art

 

Spread Art participates in an afternoon of experimental performances streamed live from around the world with streamed performances from Portugal, Barbados, and Argentina (11am-12pm) followed by live performances streamed around the globe (12pm-1pm)

Join us: 104 Meserole Street, Brooklyn, NY
Watch Online: www.livestream.com/dimancherougestream

Streaming In (11am-12pm)
->Vitor Lago Silva, “The last words of Domenico” (digital performance, Oporto, Portugal) http://thelastwordsofdomenico.wordpress.com/
->Michelle Isava, “Dagger Head Net” (performance art, Bridgetown, Barbados)
->Lorena Avallar, “La Puta Idea” (performance art, Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Streaming Out (1pm-2pm)
->Esther Neff & Brian McCorkle (Panoply Performance Laboratory)
->Anya Liftig
->Valerie Kuehne
->Remote Control Tomato (Christina deRoos & Thomas Bell)
->Collective improvisation with all artists

Panoply Performance Laboratory (Esther Neff and Brian McCorkle)
The Panoply Performance Laboratory (PPL) is a performance collective
formed in 2006 by librettist/director/video artist Esther Neff and
composer/musician/sound artist Brian McCorkle. PPL's hyper-structural
performance art projects are developed in collaboration with
individuals from many different walks of life, and through community
workshops, interviews, and other engaged practices. They often examine
complex systems and trace epistemic, emotional, and socio-political
viewpoints held by individuals and groups. Using home-made
technological set-ups, multiple languages, video, interactive and
participatory elements, field-recorded sound, and found materials, PPL
works operate across many disciplines. Their current project is a
5-episode opera called NATURE FETISH in development at University
Settlement. www.panoplylab.org

Valerie Kuehne is an electrically charged virtuoso of all purpose
cello. Dynamic performer, fearless improviser, songwriter, vocalist,
and classically trained connoisseur of Bach and Britten, Valerie can
be found playing incessant shows in NYC, where she devotes formidable
heart, intellect, creativity, and time to cross-pollinating sundry
genres. Armed with finesse, Valerie is impressively present on stage,
rendering poignant punctuations of changeable emotional weather. In
any setting, her instrument aches with human implications and fiendish
alien fuel. www.dreamzoo.bandcamp.com

Anya Liftig’s work has been featured at TATE Modern, Highways
Performance Space, Exit Art, Chashama, Surreal Estate, Eyedrum, Grace Exhibition Space, Flux Factory, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Galapagos, The Flea, Performance Art Institute, Yale University, Center for Performance Research,INCUBATEChicago, University of Wisconsin, University of Chicago, Mess Hall, Joyce Soho and many other venues. Her work, “The Anxiety of Influence,” was an intervention into Marina Abramovic’s “The Artist is Present” retrospective at MOMA. Liftig dressed as the elder artist and sat across from her all day. Her work has been published and written about in The New York Times Magazine, Bomb, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue Italia, Marie Claire Italia, Heeb, The Other Journal, Jewcy, Mix Magazine, Next Magazine, Now and Then, Stay Thirsty, New York Magazine, Gothamist, Jezebel, Animal New York and many others. She is a graduate of Yale University and Georgia State University and has received grant and residency support from The Field, Vermont Studio Center, University of Antioquia, Casa Tres Patios-Medellin Colombia, and Flux Projects, Atlanta. www.anyaliftig.com

Remote Control Tomato (video + sound / Christina deRoos and Thomas Bell) www.christinaderoos.com. www.twin72.com

Spread Art Projects : Remote Control Tomato

Spread Art supports the work of Remote Control Tomato, Oxygen Music Collective, and other creative projects that are developed within the Spread Art Artist Network.  Here is a look at the last few months and what Remote Control Tomato (Christina deRoos and Thomas Bell) has been up to

October 15th, 2011

Remote Control Tomato @ Dimanche Rouge Labs

Remote Control Tomato
Christina deRoos_video + Thomas Bell_sound + special guest Sarah Benoliel_dance

”ArtePax”
15min visual/sound/movement improvisation

Performance for Dimanche Rouge #9 – Streaming Labs
Pole Simon Le Franc, 9 rue Simon Le Franc, Paris 75004

Remote Control Tomato / Dimanche Rouge Streaming Labs / Oct_11 from Christina deRoos on Vimeo

 

Streamed from CPR - Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn, NY

dimancherouge.wordpress.com/​2011/​09/​22/​dimanche-rouge/​

:experimental documentation of experimental performance::video represents approximately 1/4 of physical performance area that was streamed live:

 

August 21, 2011

Remote Control Tomato @ Dimanche Rouge

Remote Control Tomato @ Dimanche Rouge

sound: Thomas Bell / visuals: Christina deRoos / dancer/choreographer: Laura Arend
Streamed live on the interweb.

Participating physical locations:

1. Paris, France
2. Imwinkelried
3. Kiev, Ukraine
4. Zaporizhya, Ukraine
5. Sofia, Bulgaria
6. Utah, USA
7. Castlemaine, Australia
8. Santiago de Chile, Chile
9. Wenzhou, 温州, China
10. Brooklyn, USA
11. Brisbane, Australia
12. Berlin, Germany

Remote Control Tomato @ Dimanche Rouge_Brooklyn from Christina deRoos on Vimeo.

 

 

 

 

 

The Tronic and Anya Liftig performances @ Summer Group Show IV

As part of the Summer Group Show IV, The Tronic performed at 20min set of improvised sonic environments with Circut Bent instuments and plenty of looping.  Live video manipulation and projection by Christina deRoos.  Anya Liftig also performed a 15min solo work.  Watch both videos below!

Spread Art

Summer Group Show IV
Brooklyn, NY

 

The Tronic / Spread Art / June 18, 2011 from Christina deRoos on Vimeo.

 

Anya Liftig - "Want Me Like Time" - Solo Performance

Anya Liftig, Want me like time from Christina deRoos on Vimeo.

 www.anyaliftig.com

 

 

 

Spread Art Project: Creative Music Incubator

$8 -- all ages -- 7:30 pm at The Tank.

Hosted by Oxygen Music Collective founder and musical director Thomas Bell, The Creative Music Incubator unites experimental sonic artists on the first Monday of every month to share creative concepts, and explore new sonic possibilities in an improvised, collaborative performance. Each month a group of sonic artists are invited to collaborate in new line ups and in unique situations.

May 2nd's performance will be a hour and a half set by one of the Oxygen Music Collective's longest standing groups, Oxygen Ensemble

The Creative Music Incubator is a monthly event dedicated to the experimentation and exploration of new sonic possibilities.

About the featured artists:
Oxygen Ensemble:



  
Oxygen Ensemble is a collective of musicians led by New York bassist Thomas Bell. The group takes an improvised collective composition' approach to its music which provides a relentless groove heavily steeped in the traditions of Funk & Free-Jazz, with tinges of Drum n Bass, Hip-Hop, & the experimantal Avant-Garde. The Ensemble's improvisations are reminiscent of Miles Davis' early 70's groups with a modern and often futuristic feel. The music is based on rhythm, spontaneous composition and group improvisation which allows exploration of all styles of music and creates a captivating sound that pushes the envelope of today's music.


Sunday May 2nd:
Confirmed lineup includes:

Gregg Jarvis - drums
Thomas Bell - bass
Chris Mariner - guitar
Jason Polise - sax
On Davis- guitar
Lars - sax


Visuals by Christina deRoos
www.christinaderoos.com

Spread Art Project: Creative Music Incubator

Creative Music Incubator April 5th

First Monday of every month
$8 -- all ages -- 7:30 pm at The Tank.

Hosted by Oxygen Music Collective founder and musical director Thomas Bell, The Creative Music Incubator unites experimental sonic artists on the first Monday of every month to share creative concepts, and explore new sonic possibilities in an improvised, collaborative performance. Each month a group of sonic artists are invited to collaborate in new line ups and in unique situations.

April 5th's performance will be a continuous 3 1/2 hours of music, with three featured half hour sets and conducted collaborative improvisations in between each of the featured artists.

Set times:
7:30 to 8:00 - duo set by Dangeroo Duo
8:00 to 8:45 - conducted collaborative improvisations
8:45 to 9:15 - duo set by The Tronic
9:15 to 9:45 - conducted collaborative improvisations
9:45 to 10:15 - solo set by Yoshitake Expe
10:15 to 11:00 - conducted collaborative improvisations

The Creative Music Incubator is a monthly event dedicated to the experimentation and exploration of new sonic possibilities.

About the featured artists:

Yoshitake Expe:
Since 2001, Yoshitake Expe has made a
name for himself throughout Japan as an inventive
and extraordinary guitarist. With his extensive usage
of over seventy effects pedals, Yoshitake creates
waves of transcendental soundscapes, drawing
from a range of influences including ambient, funk,
electronic and Brazilian music. Yoshitake’s technique,
dubbed “space guitar,” takes the listener on
a spiritual journey that moves beyond time and consciousness.

The Tronic:
Formed in 2008 as an improvisational live jazz-tronic band w/ DJ sensibilities and instrumental proficiency. Gregg Jarvis (nyc) utilizes drums and electronics along with Thomas Bell (nyc) on basses and synthesizers to create soundscapes, grooves and other worldly nastiness. Their unique approach to improvisation blurs the lines between the live musician, the composer and the dj. The Tronic is truly a forward-thinking modern jazz ensemble.

Dangeroo Duo:
"Here's one from a band banging out rock-tinged avant-garde soundscapes. One part tribal and one part post-rock, Brooklyn duo Dangeroo play experimental, improvisational music with a healthy helping of energy and a slight sense of doom. Band members Ofir Gannon and Neil Roberts use everything from six-string guitars to bells to conch shells to create a multifaceted sound. "Circuit Jerk" is full of hyperactive guitar, haunting vocal distortions and thunderous, mystical percussion."
Alana Harper wnyc.org -


Monday April 5th:
Confirmed lineup includes:

Yoshitake Expe
Gregg Jarvis
Thomas Bell
Chris Mariner
Neil Roberts
Ofir Ganon
Robert Pepper
Amber Brien
Jon Worthley
Jason Polise


Visuals by Christina deRoos
www.christinaderoos.com

Spread Art and Oxygen Music Collective at The Tank

Spread Art and Oxygen Music Collective presents:
Creative Music Incubator

First Monday of every month
9:30 pm at The Tank.

Hosted by Oxygen Music Collective founder and musical director Thomas Bell, The Creative Music Incubator unites experimental sonic artists on the first Monday of every month to share creative concepts, experiment with the low and the hi tech as applied to electronic sound art, and explore new sonic possibilities in an improvised, collaborative performance. Each month a group of sonic artists are invited to collaborate in new line ups and in unique situations. Artists are divided into three groups. Each group is given time to perform independently and with each of the other two groups. The evening's performance is a continuous 90 minutes of music, with groups of artists slowly evolving from one to the next, and culminating with a half hour of all artists joining for a final collaboration. The Creative Music Incubator is a monthly event dedicated to the experimentation and exploration of new sonic possibilities.

The first installment was a great success!  Thank you to all who attended and participated.

The Feb edition info is below:  Schedule for March 1st will be posted soon.

Monday Feb 1st:

Oxygen Music Collective founder Thomas Bell along with musicians Robert Pepper and David Tamura will each lead a small group of musicians as the groups perform separately and  together.  The performance will be one continuous set as the groups slowly evolve from one to the next until the final half hour when all three groups will join together for a collaborative finale.

Musicians performing on Feb 1st:

Thomas Bell
Chris Mariner
On Davis
Jason Polise
Matt Dinsick

Robert Pepper
Damian Olsen
Amber Brien

David Tamura
Steve Orbach

Issac Washington