Diane Dwyer and Matthew de Leon

Jan 092014
 

Politics and the English Language

Performance

The title for the proposed piece is taken from the Orwell essay, which concludes, “Political language — and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists — is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”

“Politics and the English Language,”
Orwell, Horizon. — GB, London. — April 1946

Two performers, dressed identically, offer people a word selection. Once the word is chosen, it is recited in unison, followed by contradictory definitions.

For example

SANCTION
to authorize, approve, or allow

SANCTION
to penalize

A simple consideration of context and meaning, political rhetoric and its obfuscation. What may sound fixed, is, in fact, mutable.

 

Artist Bio

Matthew de Leon was born in New York, raised on Governor’s Island, and now lives in Brooklyn. He received his BFA from the UConn, and his MFA from Parsons. Diane Dwyer grew up in New England. She now live in Brooklyn, where she hosts a circus in her apartment. Matthew and Diane are long time collaborators. 

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Nicholas Campbell

Jan 092014
 

Persono

Persono is a conceptual and interactive sound-art installation. Falling sand and spinning motors play guitars, creating a peaceful, patterned drone. Viewers will have the ability to be part of the installation in a way that will add to the experience for all if they choose. Conceptually, Persono utilizes “infinite” and “finite” elements to both create a meditative, structured ambience and to symbolize the two time-elements of existence. One plane of the room is anchored by guitars played by infinite falling sand, while the other plane features two guitars played by automated motors performing a cyclical, finite pattern. In thecenter of these planes is human life, and so an audience triggered element sits in the center.

See some of the elements in the video below. This installation has been performed twice before in Southern California at small galleries:

Artist Bio

I am a newcomer to the world of gallery art, having started my musical journey in more traditional settings. The move towards different forms of sonic expression began initially as an out-cropping of film scoring experiences (I’ve had music in Sundance and SXSW award winning films). When not working on music, I work in web development. I started classes through the New School as a way to deepen my knowledge in that field, and am very happy I did so!

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Phuong Nguyen

Jan 092014
 

The Awkward Listener

The Awkward Listener is a participatory performance. It explores the relationship between sounds, awkward intimacy, the act of listening and movement of the body. The piece will consist of handmade speakers with limited volume in order to demand a specific type of listening from the audience. The sounds are to be explore in limited body movements and demand a specific type of observing. The viewers are asked to have their ear against or close to the speaker’s surface, and also asked to be still in their movement. Thus this act of listening does not only demand a certain kind of attention, it also create awkward intimacy between the viewers and the objects. The piece contains 4 speakers, each plays a different track: a whispering of a story, a reading of academic text, a conversation and a composition of sounds of the body, bodies to bodies and bodies in space.

Artist Bio

Phuong Nguyen, originally from Vietnam, is currently a designer and artist currently residing in Brooklyn, NY. She concentrates in New Media art. She is a part of Fantastic Futures and performed at the New Museum. She also has worked as a designer for MTV Networks. Her works are usually mixed media installation, sculpture and performance. Currently she is an iLand’s resident and Culture Push’s fellow

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Ryan Raffa

Jan 092014
 

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2013, Digital Prints

She Surrounds Us explores personal geographies. These photographic pieces have been manipulated by resonances of the human voice with a single image processed by projecting sonic waveforms into it. Using time and a continuous stream of yelling, the woman depicted distorts, eventually becoming unrecognizable.

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Peter McQuillan

Jan 092014
 

Ecosoundsystem better

ECO(SOUND)SYSTEM: Suite 1: The Seed is a 30 minute mixtape weaving together field recordings, music, poetry and LP samples. Elements of musique concrete and sound collage are employed to explore urban sound ecology and and the human relationship with nature & technology. Eco(sound)system is part of a larger interactive art installation which made its debut on April 20, 2013 at Wollman Hall as part of the 2013 Megapolis Audio Festival. The installation explores our urban ecology through a polyphony of senses. Visitors engage with listening stations, sound objects, microscopes, photographs, collages and found objects woven together into an ecosystem of its own, The project focuses on some of the sounds, sights and symbols which help to define our urban environment and the human relationship with nature & technology.

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Artist Bio:

Peter McQuillan is a musician, radio producer and show promoter based in New York City. Originally from western Massachusetts, he is a founder of Rooftop Shout, a DIY artist collective & record label. McQuillan also co-hosts and produces Amplified Friends, a performing arts podcast on WNSR New School Radio and is a soon-to-be graduate of Eugene Lang The New School for Liberal Arts where he studied Music & Environmental Studies.

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