Sept 11: GNY Cinema, Performance by Andrew Lampert

Saturday, September 11, 2010
4:00 PM to 5:00 PM

September 4 and 11
Andrew Lampert
Films and Performances
Saturday, September 4 at 3pm and Saturday, September 11 at 4:15pm.

Despite—or perhaps because of—his training as an archivist, Andrew Lampert’s films and performances undermine any expected reverence for the preservation and exhibition of media artifacts. “The projector and the screen and the projectionist and the audience are together far more integral to cinema than any film running through a projector in a booth behind the audience,” Lampert has written, in a short statement on his practice. “Celluloid is not cinema, not even close.” For Lampert, cinema is what happens right now, and he loves to tangle the lines between the documented and the live, creating sets of rules for each work that allow for improvisation and chance operations. As part of Greater New York Cinema, Lampert will present two afternoon events. For “Contracted Cinema” on September 4, Lampert will perform Jacka Spades (2009), his audio-visual record of a day of Super 8 filming in New York, presented back in real time, and the similarly peripatetic Am I from Brooklyn? (2010). On September 11th, “The Old World and This One, Too” will include Lampert’s take on the dance film and portrait genres, as well as the premiere of a Super 8 double-projection with artist Fern Silva, who will perform with Lampert as the duo Double Trouble. In keeping with Lampert’s events at Anthology Film Archives and elsewhere, both shows will include impromptu readings, odd bits of ephemera, and door prizes to lucky audience members!

Sept 11: Greater New York performances with Caleb Considine recommends XXX Macarena, Ei Arakawa, Naama Tsabar and Franklin Evans

Saturday, September 11, 2010
12:00 PM to 6:00 PM

The Greater New York performance series returns on Saturday September 11 with a roster of exciting and innovative works. 

3pm, Terrace
Caleb Considine recommends XXX Macarena
Musicians Tony Conrad, John Miller, Greg Parma Smith and Jutta Koether will perform as XXX Macarena on the MoMA PS1 Terrace. 

3pm-5pm, N308
Ei Arakawa/Grand Openings, WarmUp with Ei
The artist-in-residence holds his monthly office hours in MoMA PS1's Third Floor Conference Room.

4pm, S206
Naama Tsabar's Untitled (Speaker Walls)
Tsabar and musicians Christine Edwards, Emily Manzo, Kristin Mueller, Or Zubalsky and Shahin Motia will perform a live composition on her Second Floor Main sculptural speaker walls.

5pm, N102
Frankin Evans, Balcony Scene 2010
Balcony Scene 2010 is a performance by Frankin Evans and Paul David Young with Anna Kate Bocknek, Brian Bickerstaff, J.B. Rote, and Christopher Schramm, and video courtesy of Melissa Pearl Friedling. The performance investigates the following topic: Roberta Smith and Jerry Saltz, Tino Seghal and Marina Abramovic, looking for love in all the wrong places: Can the art world keep these star-crossed lovers apart?