Spread Art

Upcoming Performance: July 28 "You Are Here"

Remote Control Tomato (Thomas Bell and Christina deRoos) will perform Saturday 7/28 from 3pm - 7pm at Secret Project Robot (Brooklyn, NY) as part of the You Are Here Festival (aka The Maze)). Six projectors!!!

The ‘You Are Here’ festival, takes place in New York City approximately once every two years. The festival consists of 4 weeks of performance and time- based arts events in a life size maze installation.

 

 

Trouble, Sam Hillmer and Laura Paris – the art duo responsible for ‘You Are Here’ - designs and builds an actual maze into a gallery space accompanied by light, projections, sound, sculpture, and of course, a myriad of performance and time-based arts events.

The ‘You Are Here’ festival interrupts the performance rituals of the arts communities it inhabits. Artists who present are, primarily, members of these communities. Audience members arrive at ‘You Are Here’ with the intention of catching a particular presentation, but intentions are frustrated and transformed by the labyrinthine construction the festival provides. Artists and audiences alike are invited to question the expectations that arise around performance in the context of community.

Performers this year include Laurel Halo, Miho Hatori's New Optimisim, Ann Liv Young, Dustin Wong, Hunter Hunt Hendrix, Noveller, Mick Barr, Jack Quartet, Lucky Dragons, JG Thirlwell, Babycastles, Extralife, and many others...

Read more here.

 

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 Project: Remote Control Tomato at Panoply Lab

Remote Control Tomato (Thomas Bell and Christina deRoos)  will perform and talk about their work as part of the Panoply Performance Lab Conference of Work on November 12th at Grace Exhibition Space.

See full description and details below:

Conference of Work: Operations and Participations

The second in a series of creative production conferences, Conference of Work: Operations and Participations is part group exhibition and part theoretical thinktank.

These November weekends will bring together performances, workshops, and discussions that deal with the operations (social, political, aesthetic, economic, etc) of participatory, interactive, aleatoric, and other “open source” forms in the practices of artists, curators, and cultural organizers.

Open to the public ALL DAYS. Both the beer and the portmanteaux will flow!

Performances and presentations taking open source forms will be enjoyed and discussed. For a schedule and complete list of presenters, check back here as the conference takes shape. Group discussions will allow artists across disciplines to share concerns and ideas about the use of participation, aleatoricism, engaged practices, and “community driven” work with its many incarnations and implications.

INITIAL CONCERNS TO CONFER ABOUT: Open source and socially engaged forms operate in new ways as developments in interactive technology both online and in live performance multiply. Audience expectations shift, and artistic modes of production meet institutional structures as bubbles burst, grassroots political organization meets performance, and more individuals cognize themselves as artists. How are our concerns evolving now, postdramatically, post-modernly, and perhaps post-humanly? How does the institutional rhetoric surrounding “community involvement” and “social practices” relate to aesthetic developments and methodologies in our various mediums and disciplines? These questions and those they spawn will collide with performance work created in their metabolic soup.

Grace Exhibition Space
840 Broadway
2ND Fl.
Brooklyn, NY 11206
(Flushing Avenue Stop on J-Z Trains - Walk 3 blocks East on Broadway)

Vaudeville Park
26 Bushwick Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11211
(Graham stop on the L train – Walk two blocks East on Graham Avenue and turn right onto Bushwick Ave.)

Friday the 4th of November at Grace Exhibition Space: Open Source
7:00pm: Beatriz Albuquerque
7:30: Felix Morelo
8:00: Anna Jane McIntyre
8:30: Maria Hupfield
9:00: Stephen Bracco
9:30: Dara Malina
10:00pm: SK Orchestra

While director-curators Jill McDermid and Eric Hokensen occupy downtown Manhattan, PPL invites performance artists and performance-makers to occupy Grace Space. The assembled body, curated from the streets, from craigslist, from arts social networks, and by word-of-mouth as well as from Grace Exhibition Space and PPL’s rosters of well-known artists, will be provided with lights, sound, running water, a formalized public platform, and the context of "performance art" by one of the world's best-known performance art spaces. After the show, artists and attendees may decide go down to Zucotti Park to experiment with what kind of spectrum exists between "art" performance and “political” performance, and to continue exploration of what performance artists can do to break out of a sense of autonomy and truly participate in public culture.

Saturday the 5th of November at Grace Exhibition Space:
Opens at 3:30.
Ongoing: Social Practices Arts Network (SPAN) site: practice documentation
Ongoing: Fill out story cards for Anna Jane McIntyre
Ongoing: Urban Layers INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION
4:00-7:00pm: Dimanche Rouge Skype Exhibition and Simultaneous Performance: Alexandre Pombo-Mendes, Carmen R. Cruz with Florent Maton and dancer Karl Paquemar, Daniel Gaudard, Manuela Centrone, ETC (Julien Arnaud + Anthony Carcone + Emmanuel Rébus), Savio Debernardis, Vlasta Delimar. (PRESS RELEASE HERE)
Streamed live from Batofar, 7 port de la gare, 13e, Paris, FR. Exhibition link HERE skype
7:30: Jules Rochielle, SPAN Organizer, skype
8:00: Lindsey Drury, Love Letter to A Dance Artist you Don't Know (nor Care to Know)

The private is political, the local is global. Via skype, PPL and Dimanche Rouge join forces to present a simultaneous performance, as well as video, dance, and multi-media work streamed live across the Atlantic from Paris, France to Brooklyn NY, and vice versa. Participants, audiences, and attendees are also invited to fill out hand-drawn storycards for Canadian artist Anna Jane McIntyre, to be performed live via skype one week later, to co-create with Urban Layers, to engage with global practice-documentation project SPAN (Social Practices Arts Network) and create dance work to be performed and filmed by the choreographer/performer.

Friday the 11th of November at Vaudeville Park:
7:00pm: Welcome! drinks, introductions
7:30: Ann Hirsch
8:00: G Douglas Barrett
8:30: Anya Liftig
9:30: Alex Young
10:30: Gretta Louw's Controlling Connectivity skype

Five individual artists working in music composition, performance art, and interactive/internet forms describe, perform, and present projects that maintain artistic authorship and vision while experimenting with modes of participation, demonstration, and intervention. Come ready to partake in the bar, bring an instrument, bring a dry erase marker, bring a powerpoint presentation, bring an anecdote or joke, bring mittens.

Saturday the 12th of November at Grace Exhibition Space:
Ongoing: Social Practices Arts Network (SPAN) site: practice documentation
Ongoing: Urban Layers INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION
3:30pm and ONGOING: Mari Novotny-Jones in 9-Hour Performance of INFECTION, COAGULATION, SEDIMENTATION, FILTRATION, DISINFECTION.
4:00pm: Open Discussion: documenting, proposing, and theorizing social practiced, engaged processes, and performance art.
5:00: Gelsey Bell
6:00: Christina de Roos and Thomas Bell (Spread Art)
7:30: Aliza Simons (radio transmission)
8:00: Nate Hill (play online game here)
8:30: Angela Washko
9:00: Anna Jane McIntyre
skype performance of Fill It In Yourself story cards
10:00: Hector Canonge
10:30pm: Dave Ruder's Why Lie?

Artist-curators, theorist-artists, and inter-disciplinary performers who wear "many hats" and come from many different performance backgrounds come together to share their work. Live participatory performances, talks, open bar, hands-on radio broadcasting from the space, and more!

Sunday the 13th of November at Vaudeville Park:
4:00pm: Open Discussion: Politics of Aesthetics meet Practice
5:00: Carrie Dashow
5:30: Valerie Kuehne
6:00: Alison Fleminger from the Performance Project @ University Settlement
6:30: Douglas Paulson
7:00: Urban Layers Presentation
Closing and Afterparty (9pm: Organizations and artists planning meeting)

How do artists work in a public sphere? How do artists become political agents, and how can create work, cultural organization, and social sculpture operate in socio-politically? What does 'responsibility of form' mean to us now? What are the political concerns of "avant-garde" theories and forms? Diverse artistic practices, from notarization of public statements during Occupy Wallstreet through co-creative urban mapping, through conceptualized musical improvisation are juxtaposed, discussed, experienced, and documented.

 

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.

 

 

 

 

 

Spread Art Project: Remote Control Tomato Dimanche Rouge #9

SAP: Remote Control Tomato to perform for Dimanche Rouge Saturday Streaming Labs October 15th.  The performance will be streamed live from the Center For Performance Research in Williamsburg Brooklyn.

Details of the entire Dimance Rouge Live streaming  weekend below:

Dimanche Rouge #9 – October 16 at Petit Bain

 

PROGRAM
►PERFORMANCES OF DETERMINED LENGTH
16h-18h30

• Frédéric Mathevet + Jean Phillipe Velu (sound, France) 15 min
• Un escargot vide (multimedia, France) 15 min
• Alexandre Pombo-Mendes with Louise Bouvet (performance art, France) 15 minutes
• Hektor Kafka (sound, France) 15 min
• Yao Qingmei (spoken word, China), 5 min
• Marc Plas (video, France) 15 min
• Manuela Centrone – (performance art, Italy) 30 min

18h30-21h

• ETC ( Julien Arnaud + Anthony Carcone + E.Rébus) (sound, France) 15min
• Savio Debernardis (performance art, Italy) 20 min
• Vlasta Delimar, (multimedia, Croatia) – 10 minutes
• Sarah Cassenti, Mogly Speix, Martin von Frantzius, Loic Djian (performance art/Kinect, France/Germany) – 15 min

21h-end

• Batchass+MisterX, (Electro VJ Performance, UK/France)
• Diis Paradiis (DJ, Norway/France)

►PERFORMANCES OF UNDETERMINED LENGTH AND INSTALLATIONS

• Katrinamuri (intervention, Austria)
• Rith Banney (photo installation, France)
• William Geist (video installation, USA)

►OCTOBER 15th ►SATURDAY STREAMING LABS
►13:00am-17:00 Paris Time @ Pole Simon Le Franc, 9 rue Simon Le Franc, Paris 75004
VIEW IT HERE http://www.livestream.com/dimancherouge9
 

13h

• Opie Boero Imwinkelried/Eva Richter Lorentzen, presentation “Dimanche Rouge” (Paris, France) 10 min
• Yao Qingmei, performance, (spoken word, China/Paris, France) 10 min

14h

• Zhu Yanguang, performance “Sang Group” (Beijing, China) 15 min
• Patricio Ponce Garaicoa, video performance “Transaccion” followed by presentation “Experimental Performance In Ecuador” (Quito, Ecuador ) 20 min

15h

• Moe Satt, presentation “Performance Art In Myanmar” (Yangon, Myanmar) 15 min
• Beloved Boy Chokra (تشوخرآ), presentation “Performance Art In The United Arab Emirates” (United Arab Emirates/USA) 15 min

16h

• Remote Control Tomato (Christina deRoos + Thomas Bell), video & sound improvisation”ArtePax” (Brooklyn, USA) 15 min

  XiaoKe &Tomaz Chow, physical performance, <Diary 2011.10.15> (Shanghai ,China) 15min