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Cultural Stimuli in NYC
Issue 346: time lapse flavor
Thoughts and predictions about future fortunes and fates usually occupy the talking heads in January, yet with 2007 still in its infancy, New York finds itself casting backward glances all week. The most flamboyant, visionary example is a live screening/performance of Bill Morrison's Decasia, which captures long-lost film stocks as they're decomposing — to uncommonly beautiful, solemn effect. Creative polymath Ira Cohen infuses his similarly surreal, oh-so '68 Thunderbolt Pagoda with his own abstracted poetics and a deeply psychedelic live score from Sunburned Hand of the Man. Stan Douglas' abstract film Klatsassin finds its muse in interactions between peoples inhabiting a circa-1864 Canadian wilderness. For more lighthearted temporal shifting, APT beckons vinyl archivists with a record fair, and Point Break LIVE! resuscitates the '91 surfer-brah classic with more than a handful of contemporary, cheeky tweaks. Rewind your watches and clocks, and spread it.
- Jake Lancaster, Managing Editor
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Acetate Oblivion
The surreal beauty of forgotten, decomposing film stocks that comprises Bill Morrison's Decasia (2002) screens with full orchestral support over three nights at Angel Orensanz this week.
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| MULTIMEDIA |
Leesa & Nicole Abahuni: In the Sky
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Now through Sat 1.27 (Tue-Sat: 12-6pm) |
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Location One (26 Greene St, 212.334.3347) map |
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Though the twin sisters and new-media duo Leesa & Nicole Abahuni work in a conceptual vein and are recent artists-in-residence at technophile institutions Location One and Harvestworks, In the Sky doesn't skimp on the visceral. A dense canopy of ball chain fills the gallery space,
requiring viewers to wade through it on the way toward a large projection of a woven rug being
undone by a pair of hands. A clearing along the way features a knotted crimson bed sheet hanging
from the ceiling in a spotlight. Shuffling and rustling sounds, vaguely rhythmic, were recorded at
the exhibit's opening by musicians and a dancer; now it serves as the show's mysterious soundtrack.
(HGM)
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| COMPETITION |
LVHRD presents Master-Disaster Architect Duel III
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Tue 1.23 (8pm) |
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TBA |
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In the past, LVHRD's Master-Disaster series has brought us foil-folding fashion designers and crunk-a-dunkin' dance bots, and tonight's green-themed battle royale promises to generate yet another spirited spectacle. Four architects chosen from environmentally progressive firms — Field Operations' space reclaimers Sierra Bainbridge and Maura Rockcastle, and Balmori Associates' eco-techy Sarah Wayland-Smith and Killian O'Brien — wield their X-Actos for three lightning rounds of on-the-fly design, creating a dwelling to solve a dilemma announced only moments earlier. As the creative juices flow and the excitement, er, builds, the audience sips adult beverages and cheers its fave teams. (IB)
Note: The top-secret location will be released via email or text message the day of the event.
 In 50 words or less, pitch us your design for a new downtown building. Our
favorite response wins a pair of tickets to this event.
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DJ: Record Fair
Shakey's Record Fair and Wax Poetics Release Party feat. Monk One w/ the Wax Poetics All-Star DJs
Tue 1.23 (8pm) APT (419 W 13th St, 212.414.4245) map
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DJ Shakey brings back her 45-fest in APT's higher ground, while Wax Poetics scribe Monk One fêtes the groove-lovin' zine's latest issue from the turntable, spinning smooth soul classics, dub rock, and throwback hip-hop. (IB)
 
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| THEATRE |
A Beautiful View
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Now through Sun 1.28 (Wed-Fri: 7pm / Sat: 3pm / Sun: 4pm) |
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The Public Theater (425 Lafayette St, 212.539.8500) map |
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Toronto-based da da kamera revels in its austere minimalist style, which nevertheless infuses the narrative with extremely well-designed sound, light, and design elements. In Daniel MacIvor's A Beautiful View, the company takes on the weighty issues of love and relationships, and accomplishes a layered, lyrical exploration of the unexpected emotional dynamics between two women. The characters bump into each other, connect, lose touch, reconnect, become inseparable, separate, float through life, find each other again, and are finally forced to face their greatest fears and insecurities. The push-and-pull of their relationship is central to this captivating story, resplendent with sly humor and quick-witted dialogue, which captures the bittersweet essence of true love. (SP)
Note: This play is a part of the Under the Radar festival.
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| MUSIC: Sounds Eclectic |
Giant Step presents Gilles Peterson's Brownswood Sessions 1.0 feat. Soil & "Pimp" Sessions
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As heir to John Peel's throne at BBC Radio 1, Gilles Peterson has parlayed his DJ reputation into yet another label, Brownswood Recordings. Named after the home he left when it grew too small for his massive record collection, Brownswood boasts a roster that reflects Gilles' worldly taste in nu-jazz, Latin, funk, and soul. Headlining tonight's label showcase is a vigorous live set from Soil & "Pimp" Sessions, a hyper-tight speedball-jazz sextet from Japan. Brazilian acid-jazz-hop songstress Tita Lima, local lyricist José James, a DJ set by Peterson, and one-man-band special guest Taylor McFerrin round out the night. (JRC)
What was the name of John Peel's record label, founded in 1969, and what was it named after? The third
correct response wins a pair of tickets to this show.
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MUSIC: Indie Pop
Camera Obscura w/ the Essex Green
Wed 1.24 (8pm) Warsaw (261 Driggs Ave, Greenpoint, 718.387.0505) map $17 / $15.50 advance
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Indie-popsters Camera Obscura may act affable, but Tracyanne Campbell's affected, lispy vocal lines mask something far more morose. They're a band for both sides of the breakup — a warm smile for the dumped masking the cold heart of someone feeling sinister. (AP)
Note: Openers the Essex Green also hit Maxwell's tomorrow night.
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MUSIC: Hip-Hop
Clipse w/ Kidz in the Hall and Skyzoo
Wed 1.24 (8:30pm) Bowery Ballroom (6 Delancey St, 212.533.2111) map $30 / $25 advance
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Grinding harder than ever, Clipse knocked critics on their collective asses with 2006's Hell Hath No
Fury. The Neptunes' best beats in years didn't hurt, but it's the Virginia Beach brothers' silver-tongued
yay-game devilry that makes 'em the best thing going in hip-hop now. (JRC)
Note: Chicago's decidedly unthugging Kidz in the Hall and Brooklyn's Skyzoo open.
What does the name "Clipse" stand for? The first correct response wins a pair
of tickets to this show.
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| ARTS & CRAFTS: Opening |
Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting
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Thur 1.25 - Sun 6.17 (10am-6pm) |
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Museum of Art and Design (40 W 53rd St, 212.956.3535) map |
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A survey of artists who employ lace and knitting techniques for innovative and ambitious projects,
MoAD's show gives knitting a public-image makeover. Althea Merback specializes in microscopic
knitting and makes gloves at 1/12th scale with fingers the size of rice grains. Janet Echelman moves the craft even further from a demure hobby; she creates enormous, public installations using
industrial fibers. Sabrina Gschwandtner, founder of the magazine KnitKnit and an organizer of
knitting events, brings craft techniques to her avant-garde films. The show's message is clearest
in Freddie Robins' iconic Craft Kills: a grey wool figure impaled with needles, it's a pastiche
of St. Sebastian's death and a gesture of triumphant social upheaval. (HGM)
Note: The museum holds late hours on Thursdays; from 6-8pm admission is pay-what-you-wish.
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| MULTIMEDIA |
Decasia Live
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Thur 1.25 - Sat 1.27 (7 & 9:30pm) |
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Angel Orensanz Foundation (172 Norfolk St, 212.529.7194) map |
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Decasia, Bill Morrison's iridescent cinematic collage of decaying film stock and one of
2002's true artistic triumphs, goes live for three nights with help from a 55-person orchestra at
New York's oldest synagogue. Michael Gordon's haunting score is droning and sometimes dissonant — written to include four out-of-tune pianos, it can be as unrepentantly self-destructive as the nitrogen in the decomposing film stock,
propelling the film through a global
odyssey of lost images that seem to perpetually deteriorate and reconstitute themselves. The
orchestra performs behind scrims onto which Decasia is projected, giving
the audience a unique theatre-in-the-round experience for this remarkable union of sound and
vision, and setting a new standard for a 21st-century Gesamtkunstwerk. (AD)
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Point Break LIVE!
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Thur 1.25 - Sat 2.24 (Wed-Sat: 8pm) |
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La Tea Theatre (107 Suffolk St, Ste 200, 212.529.1948) map |
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After a successful run at Galapagos last spring, Point Break LIVE! is cruising into Manhattan. That's right, the totally rad '91 Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze vehicle is live onstage. It's the "spiritual side of surfing," complete with extreme, hands-on audience participation. Each performance features a random audience member reading Keanu's lines entirely from cue cards, thus ensuring proper delivery of his deer-caught-in-the-headlights persona. This is low-brow, high-energy theatre so unflinching in its pursuit of righteous individualism, it will blow your mind. Seriously. (TS)
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Robots and the Novay present Troy Pierce w/ Marc Houle and Ambivalent
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Thur 1.25 (10pm) |
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Cielo (18 Little W 12th St, 212.645.5700) map |
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Corn-fed kid Troy Pierce has come a long way from his rural Indiana upbringing. After growing up
on the brittle beats emanating from nearby techno hub Detroit, Pierce began producing minimal
tracks, joined Richie Hawtin's acclaimed M_nus label, and relocated to dance-music hotbed Berlin.
2006 saw Pierce release "25 Bitches," a freaky, rubbery workout caned at clubs worldwide, and a
breakout remix of of the Knife's dark-pop hit "Silent Shout." Tonight, the esteemed DJ joins
labelmate Marc Houle — a live sequencer noted for his polyrhythmic sounds and
improv-inspired sets — local boyo Ambivalent, and the Robots crew at swanky downtown
disco boîte Cielo. (JJ)
Other than corn, list three of Indiana's cash crops. The first two correct responses each win a pair of tickets to
this show.
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| MULTIMEDIA |
Feedback: The Video Data Bank, Video Art, and Artist Interviews Programs 2 & 3
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Fri 1.26 (6:15 & 7:30pm) |
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MoMA (11 W 53rd St, 212.708.9400) map |
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The Video Data Bank, a Chicago institution that pioneered the distribution of video art in the
VHS era, turns 30 and MoMA celebrates with a week of screenings. In concert with MoMA's symposium
The Feminist Future, VDB has selected interviews by its co-directors Kate Horsfield and Lyn
Blumenthal, as well as videos that address feminism and women artists. The first program on Friday evening
features two 1975 interviews with New York artists: American sculpture doyenne Louise Bourgeois and the resilient portraitist Alice Neel. The evening's second program features two
interviews with arch-modernist Lee Krasner, regarding her role in the New York School, and contemporary
abstract painter Elizabeth Murray. (HGM)
Note: Program 2 begins at 6:15pm and Program 3 begins at 7:30pm. The series continues through Wed 1.31.
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I Am Not a War Photographer: Films of Lynne Sachs
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Fri 1.26 - Sun 1.28 (7:30pm) |
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Anthology Film Archives (32 2nd Ave, 212.505.5181) map |
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$8 |
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A reverie of war-torn terrains floats silently across an editing screen, accompanied by long-distance
calls between an American journalist and a beleaguered Israeli. Children play in front of a
television rolling out images of oddly abstracted battlegrounds. Herein lies the world of director
Lynne Sachs, whose films splinter the typical structure of social-issue documentaries, applying an avant-garde sensibility to harsh realities that usually inspire stultifying over-earnestness. In this three-night series of screenings and talks
about Sachs' decade-long appraisal of war, what emerges most is that rare political filmmaker whose
forms prove as worthy as her function. (LR)
Where has Lynne Sachs said she'd like to work one day? The second and third correct responses each win a pair of tickets to a screening.
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Tamar Rogoff Performance Projects: Edith and Jenny
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Fri 1.26 - Sun 2.4 (Tue-Fri: 8pm / Sat: 5 & 8pm / Sun: 5pm) |
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P.S. 122 (150 1st Ave, 212.477.5829) map |
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Claire Danes and Ariel Rogoff Flavin have been best friends for two decades, both had their film debuts at 11, and have been dancing ever since. In Edith and Jenny, choreographer Tamar Rogoff — Ariel's mom — explores the dynamics of their relationship through live dance and film sequences from the two independent films the friends starred in. Taking Danes' performance as "Edith" in Dreams of Love and Flavin as "Jenny" in Coyote Mountain, Rogoff manipulates the films so that space and time become interchangeable concepts, integrating fictional and non-fictional elements to convey the highly personal rite of passage between the women. (SP)
Note: The opening-night performance is a benefit; tickets are $75, and include a post-performance reception. Sun 1.28 includes a post-performance talk-back with the artists. The Wed 1.31 performance is for members only.
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| MUSIC: Jazz-Hop |
The Pro-verb Duet
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Fri 1.26 (8 & 10pm) |
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The Stone (NW corner of E 2nd St & Ave C) map |
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This perfect storm of jazz and hip-hop is whipped up by Cuban drummer Dafnis Prieto and freestyle lyricist Carl "Kokayi" Walker. No ordinary drummer, Prieto is a medium of world soul, channeling beats on the streets from every corner of the globe. No ordinary rapper, Kokayi
rhymes, sings, and scats in an elevated zone of improvisational consciousness. Steve Coleman, one of
the great maestros of modern jazz, joins in on sax to seal the deal and make it real. (JM)
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I cannot escape being me so that is what I will show you
Fri 1.26 - Sun 1.28 (Fri & Sat: 8pm / Sun: 3pm) Dance New Amsterdam (280 Broadway, 2nd Fl, 212.625.8369) map $17
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Antonietta Vicario's latest piece takes on the voyeuristic concept of "being looked at" from three
women's points of view, as it explores the fine line between class and crass. (SP)
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MUSIC: Indie Rock
Deerhoof w/ Busdriver and Proton Proton
Fri 1.26 (9pm) Irving Plaza (17 Irving Pl, 212.777.6800) map $16 advance
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Deerhoof's forthcoming album Friend Opportunity (their first as a trio) sees the spazz-pop geniuses at their most focused, concise, and — believe it or not — accessible. Similarly crazed rapper Busdriver and Proton Proton open. (TG)
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| COMPETITION |
Idiotarod 2007
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Sat 1.27 (TBA) |
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TBA Brooklyn location |
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$25 per team / Free for spectators |
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If Alaska's Iditarod is a competition of endurance, then NYC's annual Idiotarod is a competition of
lunacy, if not idiocy. Replacing dog sleds with shopping carts, frozen wilderness with city
pavement, and physical stamina with high alcohol tolerance, this is a barbarically brilliant
spectacle to both see and experience. Teams of five costumed, cart-bound participants must reach
checkpoints throughout Brooklyn and Manhattan while avoiding officially sanctioned sabotage and
the occasional cop. Part Halloween parade and part roving, drunken food-fight, the Idiotarod
questions the integrity of natural selection with shameless delight. If Darwin could only see us
now. (CB)
Note: The Idiotarod afterparty and awards show is tonight from 6pm-4am in Long Island City ($10).
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| ART: Openings |
International Airport Montello and Andamio
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Sat 1.27 (6-8pm) |
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Art in General (79 Walker St, 212.219.0473) map |
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AiG's sixth-floor gallery, given an overhaul by Steven Learner Studio, re-opens with two new
commissions: eteam's multichannel video installation International Airport Montello and
Andamio (Temporary Frameworks), by the young Mexican sculptor Alejandro
Almanza Pereda. Eteam, a collective formed by artists Franziska Lamprecht and Hajoe Moderegger,
transformed a small Nevada town by reinvigorating its defunct airstrip and casting local residents
as airport employees. The ruse culminated in an extensive, choreographed layover of a plane,
supposedly bound for Las Vegas, and filled with curators and art patrons. A giant accident waiting
to happen, Pereda's precarious sculpture is a scaffold structure in dire need of
attention from the Building Department. (HGM)
Note: This exhibition runs through Sat 3.31 (Tue-Sat: 12-6pm).
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Ira Cohen presents The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda and Brain Damage feat. Sunburned Hand of the Man and Mahasiddhi w/ Hubcap City
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Ira Cohen's film The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda (1968) transcended its hippie roots by
being a lot more than a little unsettling. Take Herzog's foreboding disconcertion, cross it with
Tim Leary's devotional substance abuse, and you're somewhere close. Oversaturated shots of stoned,
face-painted waifs and bubbling celluloid disfigurements abound. Issue Project Room screens
Invasion and Cohen's newly assembled Brain Damage, accompanied by his
Ginsberg-esque poetic meditations, while Sunburned Hand of the Man lend the soundtrack with their
unpredictable clatter of boozy, street-tough jams. Is everybody in? (MG)
Note: This event is part of the Independents Festival. Sunburned Hand of the Man also play Club
Midway on Mon 1.29.
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| READING |
Martin Amis and Norman Rush
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Tonight, in the venerable Kaufmann Concert Hall, the mad, bad, and dangerous-to-know Martin Amis of 1980's Money fame pairs up with Norman Rush for readings from their latest novels. Rush, whose past work has been centered on Botswana (where he and his wife worked in the Peace Corps), reads from his forthcoming Subtle Bodies, while Amis presents his newly released House of Meetings, a book-long letter from Russia about gulags and a love triangle. When Rush's tale, a social comedy about a man obsessed with evil in the seven days before Iraq, meets Amis' cold-hearted Russia, it promises to be a dark and witty night. (EMM)
Note: This event will likely sell out. Purchase tickets in advance.
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| THEATRE |
The Polish Play
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Now through Sat 2.3 (Wed-Sat: 8pm / Sun: 7pm) |
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Walkerspace (46 Walker St, 212.868.4444) map |
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If theatre is an insular world, The Polish Play is an inside joke. But like the best inside jokes, it still works for the uninitiated. A conflation of Ubu Roi and Macbeth, the freewheeling production features Avenue Q's Jordan Gelber as the corpulent, vulgar anti-hero of Alfred Jarry's proto-absurdist plays, complete with a huge foam gut. If you're familiar with both plays, the witty intertwining of the two is most impressive. For those of us a little shaky on our 'pataphysics, an onstage deadpan Foley artist in Chucks, a shitload of poop jokes, and a gruesomely inventive puppet massacre are more than sufficient to command attention and awe. (JDS)
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Stan Douglas: Klatsassin
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Now through Sat 2.10 (Tue-Sat: 10am-6pm) |
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David Zwirner (525 W 19th St, 212.727.2070) map |
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Klatsassin looks like an artful riff on Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, but the
star behind what the artist calls a "Dub Western" is Stan Douglas, not Paul Newman. The acclaimed
Canadian filmmaker captures the caustic relations between the settlers and natives of 1864
backwoods Canada. Douglas borrows techniques from Kurosawa, layering perspectives, flashbacks, and
non-sequiturs until their permutations obscure any narrative. In lieu of plotline, the film engages
with alpine landscapes spliced with beer brawls and character close-ups. Two series of photographs
accompany the high-definition film, and the black-and-white portraits of the Klatsassin cast are as
craggy and innately powerful as the film's mountainous backdrop. (LM)
Note: This show is in conjunction with Stan Douglas: Inconsolable Memories at the Studio Museum Harlem.
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To be continued. . .
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Now through Sat 2.17 (Wed-Sat: 12-6pm) |
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Silo (1 Freeman Alley, 212.505.9156) map |
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To be continued. . ., Silo's last exhibition at Freeman Alley before relocating, brings together the
diverse work of seven artists. Becca Albee uses solicited cosmetic secrets to inspire her photographs in
the ongoing series Beauty Tips. Her 31. Wynne Greenwood, Ladies Don't Touch Your Moustache
includes a free take-home card with this
titular advice for viewers. Cammi Climaco's humorous video The Dissolution of Happiness features
such daily affirmations as "all of my dreams came true today," skillfully written out in yellow bubble
letters. In the context of this work, Douglas Boatwright's series of reverse-printed C-prints depicting
natural scenes takes on a deadpan humor, as the photographs are overexposed and the images barely
visible. (PJ)
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Carnegie Hall presents Welcome to Dreamland feat. Adem, Devendra Banhart, Vashti Bunyan, Cibelle, CocoRosie, Vetiver, and an introduction by David Byrne
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Avant-rock Oberon David Byrne gathers the woodland sprites next week, staging a midwinter night's dream deep inside the freak-folk forest. Part of the Psycho Killer's three-evening Perspectives series at Carnegie Hall, the Welcome to Dreamland show features performances by scene sage Devendra Banhart, twisted crooners CocoRosie, beardie weirdies Vetiver, and folktronic post-popster Adem. Recently reemerged scene mother Vashti Bunyan is also on hand, filling the legendary hall with delicate ballads of the wayward road. In proper grandfatherly fashion, Byrne himself introduces the acts, riffing on the movement's emergence and their places within it. (AP)
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Bloomberg might be making waves with his current proposal to kill the city sales tax on clothes and
shoes (!), but in 2004 he announced a five-year plan to reduce homelessness in the city by
two-thirds.
Each year, the Homeless Outreach Population Estimate (HOPE) sends volunteers out to scan streets,
parks, subway stations, and other public places to count the number of people living without
shelter throughout the boroughs. Figures from the tally are used to reconfigure outreach services,
increase prevention in high-risk communities, and expand shelters and benefits for New Yorkers in
need. HOPE 2007 needs 2,500 volunteers to be a success, and while you could find other ways to
spend the time between 10:30pm and 4am on January 29, this is a much better reason to call in sick
to work. (IB)
Note: The Department of Homeless Services usually
assigns study areas one week before the event. To
register, call 311 or sign up online to get a spot close to home.
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CD REVIEW: Fujiya & Miyagi, Transparent Things |
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Deaf Dumb + Blind
Released January 2007
$12.99 (Insound)
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As with most elements of Fujiya & Miyagi's elegant formula, the slight, downtempo funk and
tranced-out Krautrock of Transparent Things are red herrings, clever little fabrications
meant to distract you from what the pale British trio (not a Japanese double helix among them) is
really going on about. Gently whispered, lightly syncopated lyrics about "things" —
porno mags, human bones, tape cassettes, and sneakers — conceal paranoid narratives, and the
DFA-lite production flourishes — rail-thin guitar intrusions, dirt-funk snares, and handclaps
aplenty — nod to Eno and Neu! '75 while exhorting you to dance, but not too
hard. "We were just pretending to be Japanese," David Best purrs on the insistent, clavi-led
"Photocopier," revealing Fujiya & Miyagi's most charming trick: Fujiya is a Japanese turntable
company, and Miyagi is the old man who taught Ralph Macchio the crane kick. (TG)
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In an attempt to further satiate your every cultural need, Flavorpill offers a weekly radio show on Viva Radio, playing the best in new music and ultra-hip oldies. Tune in this Friday at 6pm EST for a special mix of obscuro '60s pop and rock, or thumb through recently archived shows to find songs from artists like Portland folk songstress Alela Diane, Providence-based shoegazers the Brother Kite, and Swedish minimal techno fiends Minilogues. Also, in the interest of variety, we've thrown a bit of a curveball with "International WTF," a bizarre selection of "global quasi-pop and pseudo-ballads," tailor-made for the adventurous listener. (CJN)
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Hi-fidelity updates
A twice-monthly email magazine highlighting the latest in electronic music — including news, reviews, and original features
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Books worth reading
A monthly review focusing on smart, readable works of fiction and nonfiction, from current titles to past gems
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Global fashion trends
A twice-monthly, insider view on fashion trends breaking in Paris, London, New York, and around the world
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International art
A twice-monthly email magazine covering art, design, and architecture with profiles, news, and reviews of international shows
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World news once a week
A weekly roundup of the most important and engaging news stories from around the globe
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