Susie Asado: Hello Antenna
Sept. 18th, 7-10pm
Susie Asado is the poet and songwriter Josepha Conrad. She grew up in Frankfurt am Main and in Chicago and naturally geographic challenges and a life between countries are her main subjects. “Hello Antenna” is the title of her debut album released on the German independent label Lolila in 2008. These songs are about borders and crossing them, about falling in love with border patrol and with countries and that is more than one country. They are about the construction of home and the relationship to fictional characters and books. In many ways Susie Asado is a dialog with the writings of Gertrude Stein. You might know Josepha’s strange wordy songs from Crazy for Jane, the band that she has with her brother Philipp. You might have seen her in Uli M Schueppel’s film “Berlin Song”. You might have run into her along the Landwehrkanal in Berlin where she currently lives.
www.susieasado.com
www.myspace.com/susieasado
www.susieasado.com/video.html
About Second Saturday Events
Open Source announces an open call for submission of proposals for Second Saturday (of the Months) Events.
Open Source offers artists the opportunity to perform/view/sing/act/show/create. The Second Saturday Events are always happening within a show that is ongoing in the Gallery.
If you have an idea please contact us.
PAST EVENTS
Simon Joyner: May 26th, 8pm
Simon Joyner was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, but he’s lived in Omaha, Nebraska most of his life. The geography, mythology, and personal connection to both the South and the Midwest act as shadow characters throughout his large body of work–swallowing some characters, emboldening others, always reminding us that place is much more than mere scenery. Joyner’s songs and stories focus on struggling or haunted characters who confirm their humanity during moments of strength and weakness, disappointment, failure, and, of course, love. Here is the site to buy tickets in advance:
http://www.weeblackskelf.co.uk/tour/buy.html
Admission: $12
Deconstruction: by Anne Phelan
directed by Nicole A. Watson
April 10th: 7:30 and 8:30
image in the right bottom corner:
Parker Leventert, Jacob Grigolia-Rosenbaum, Cotton Wright and Director Nicole A. Watson
“Deconstruction” takes place a few years from now, after the U. S. has been defeated in World War III. In some major American city, Emma and Trudy are assigned to the same work detail to clean up the post-war rubble. Their very different pasts and personalities clash immediately.
The Play is written to be and will be performed during the opening reception of Rachel Youens show at Open Source called “Cornucopias”.
Silver Ticket Project: Help Wanted
Saturday Nov 21st, 7-10pm
With unemployment numbers at 8.8% in New York City and topping 9% nationally, laid off workers are turning to their passions to find more meaningful work. Artist Erik Fabian wants to help, and luckily the Silver Ticket Project is hiring!
Join Erik Fabian, at the Open Space Gallery on Saturday, November 21st, from 7-10pm, for a performance constructed and delivered by fully paid labor. Erik asks the audience to consider the value of artistic labor in the midst of a once-in-a-lifetime economic crisis.
Erik Fabian is an artist working in performance, installation and conceptual art. For several years, in anticipation of the current economic crisis, Erik has been presenting work that explores notions of value; how we value art and the experience of performance; and how the perception of value changes during inflationary monetary periods. The Silver Ticket Project pair performances with simple commodities (like silver bullion) within marketplace environments in an attempt to establish a rational price for performance art. Erik is a graduate of the Master of Fine Arts program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Autotune the Art Object: October 24, 4-6pm
by Patrick May
Medusa digital c-print, 2009; download source (~198MB)
On Saturday October 24th, 4-6pm, Patrick May will present the processes and ideas behind his recent body of work “Portrait Photo Considered Harmful”. His recent work uses digital techniques weave together gestures of documentation, craftsmanship, selection, and narrative. These juxtaposed layers of authority expose each other, causing the final images to question the notion of the artist as an individual speaker.
In keeping with the notion that the artwork is in a state of constant collaboration, the full source files of the artworks have been released under a Creative Commons license at http://hexane.org. Any interested parties are invited to examine, re-use, or appropriate any materials or techniques from the exhibition.
May received a BS in Studio Art from New York University in 1999. His work has been exhibited in New York, Miami, and Berlin, including Maiden Brooklyn, ZONE: Chelsea Center for the Arts, and the Galerie Scherer 8. He currently works in Brooklyn, NY creating intimate portraits of his friends and family.
Victoria Stanton and Christian Richer: Sat Oct 10th
Performance starts at 8.30pm (25min)
We will be serving Wine and Beer from 7-10
When Parts of You Are Still Arriving
Photo: Lisa Grave
Victoria Stanton and Christian Richer will present a live performance of their current work-in-progress. Blending their two distinct, yet complimentary practices, this piece will be an inquiry into collaborative audio-visual and intertextual explorations.
With a background in narrative, relational, infiltrating, and visual performance, Stanton has lately been examining comprehensive states of “performative consciousness,” investing a “performative” presence within multiple spaces / times. Using video montages of taped public interpolations, within a live setting, she has been layering recorded and live performance to produce a composite presence – fractured, whole, congruent, in transition; at times obscured but nevertheless felt.
An emerging electro-acoustic composer and tape-deck performer, Richer combines analogue and digital technologies, building and deconstructing sound loops for audio recordings and live presentations. With field recordings from both urban and rural settings, he takes the seemingly mundane and transforms it into architecturally responsive, multi-textured environments, creating atmospheric (and at times unsettling) spaces with, and through, sound.
http://www.bankofvictoria.com
http://www.myspace.com/elementkuuda
URBAN PLANT RESEARCH EVENTS
Week One
- Saturday August 15, 7-10pm: Opening
- Sunday August 16, 1-5pm: Local herb tea on the stoop; 5pm: Field trip to the Waterpod, a “floating green home” currently docked at Brooklyn Bridge Park (departs from gallery at 5pm)
Week Two
- Saturday August 22, 6pm: A Walk Around the Block, an urban nature walk led by the artists, followed by a happy hour featuring local mint mojitos
Week Three
- Thursday August 27, 6pm: Visit to 6/15 Green, a nearby community garden (departs from gallery at 6pm)
- Friday August 28, 3-5pm: Activities for kids
- Sunday August 30, 1-5pm: Acoustic Jam for the Plants, a jam open to all levels and genres of musicians. Bring your acoustic instrument and join in, or just bring along your houseplant and listen!
Second Saturday Event: June 13, 7-10pm
Joseph Krings: All Aboard Future
All Aboard Future is a series of 8 silent short films shot on black and white Super 8 film which reflect a variety of humorous viewpoints about the future of mankind. All characters are played by the filmmaker.
I’m In You
The brooklyn based indie band “I’m in you” will play a 45 min set using Hubert Dobler’s “3 priseners” as their stage.
check out their myspace site for more:
http://www.myspace.com/iminyou
Second Saturday Potluck Dinner
Saturday May 9th, 7pm – 10pm
Please join us on Saturday, May 9th, for an addendum to the current photogaphy exhibition at open source gallery, Are We Not Famous Men?. Food at this potluck dinner will be provided by the artist and the subjects in the photographs on view. This event is free of charge and open to the public.
ALSO: UPRISING #17: Site specific interactive performance directed by Nicole Garneau
http://www.nicolegarneau.com/UPRISING.html
on view now
Peter Feigenbaum “Trainset Ghetto: Streetsmart”09.04.-09.30.2010 Opening: Saturday 09.04.2010 7-10pm In September 2010, Peter will be showing a new series of large-scale photographs at Open Source Gallery based on a site-specific installation of his “Trainset Ghetto” sets on the street in front of the gallery storefront space. The images will feature increasingly bizarre and phantasmagorical juxtapositions of time, scale, and [...]
upcoming
ORFI NYC: LIVE GIG 2010
Nobuko: wa
Pirmin Hagen: First
past
Images NYC
make Soap Box Racers for the Soap Box Derby
ONE BIG WINDMILL
Open Source Residency w/Austrian Artists
Patricia Watwood: Portraits 20/10
Cornucopias: Paintings by Rachel Youens
Ondrej Brody & Kristofer Paetau: Wang Bin Torture in Commercial Quality, High Quality and Museum Quality
Akiyuki Ina: Emitting Evanescent Beauty
John Coburn: Fairlane Marauder
Soup Kitchen 12.1 – 12.24