Oct 14 - Oct 18: GNY Cinema, Screening with Redmond Entwistle

Sunday, October 17, 2010
3:00 PM to 6:00 PM

Redmond Entwistle
Paterson-Lodz, 2006 (16mm, 60 mins)
Performed at 3pm on Saturday, October 16 and Sunday, October 17.

Impressions of the ground from Paterson, New Jersey and Lodz in Poland cast into glass and then filmed against the sky as the light changes through their intricately detailed surface. Fragments of voice-overs recounting the history of the two towns at the start of the twentieth century, in particular two events: the 1905 revolution in Lodz and the 1913 Paterson Silk Strike. Soundscapes of the two towns that playback so that their streets seem to cut through the auditorium. These excavated pieces of our world are set alongside each other. They each speak in their own way, and through the friction that builds up around their edges; history, space and representation are invested with a quality both concrete and plastic.

Each time the film is projected a computer selects new fragments of the histories and new sounds of the cities to play over the image. This is a history that goes backwards and forwards in time, that changes according to new sets of connections in the sound, in which beginning and end are unclear. Paterson-Lodz is a reflection on the possibilities and failure of two social movements that opened the twentieth century, and of a present moment still searching for a way to enter history. - RE

 

October 17: Greater New York performances by Aki Sasamoto with Saul Melman, Mariah Robertson, and Ryan McNamara. Open Studios with robbinschilds

Sunday, October 17, 2010
2:00 PM to 6:00 PM

2pm                
Aki Sasamoto, Skewed Lies/ Central Governor

Sasamoto will peform Skewed Lies/ Central Governor in collaboration with artist Saul Melman in the basement-level Boiler Room.

12-5pm           
robbinschilds, Instruction Construction

Instruction Construction, robbinschilds workshops a series of sound recordings leading viewers through detailed movement-based scores responding to the dimensions and characteristics of their open studio room located on the 3rd floor of PS1. Suggesting that our bodies are informed by our surroundings, robbinschilds explores the range of possibilities of movement impulses drawn from spatial relationship. Interested viewers can download mp3 file (available on RC website after10/13: www.robbinschilds.com)
loaded with the artists' directives.  These directives will guide participants to react, using their bodies, to different touch points within the room. Individual interpretations are welcomed and spontaneous choreographies will result. robbinschilds'  site-reactive  work in process, includes the spectators themselves, positing a visit to the museum as a series of impromptu exchanges in which roles and definitions of participant and viewer are in flux. The workshop will take place in Room N307 on the 3rd Floor.

3:30pm          
Mariah Robertson, Lecture.

Robertson will give a lecture in commemoration of Greater New York in the 1st Floor Painting Gallery featuring surprise guests.

4:30pm          
Ryan McNamara, The Finale    

McNamara will give a final dance performance starting in the 1st Floor Lobby and continuing throughout the Museum as part of his ongoing Teach Ryan How to Dance series at MoMA PS1.