Sara Bouchard: The News: Monday-Friday, Parts 1 & 2
Installation on view
March 2nd- March 3rd
Performance
March 2nd, 8PM
Brooklyn-based artist, composer and musician Sara Bouchard returns to Open Source for a special combined performance and exhibition of her recently completed song cycle and series of works on paper “The News: Monday-Friday.”
The two parts of “The News” each consist of five songs that Sara wrote in five consecutive days. Each day, from Monday through Friday, Sara collaged lyrics from words and phrases cut out of that day’s newspaper and used her background in American roots music to interpret the corresponding melody and instrumental accompaniment. Sara carried out this rigorous exercise during a week in 2010 to create Part 1 and again in 2011 for Part 2.
Through this process, a modern American folk tale emerged. A community, uprooted from their homeland by a natural disaster, is forced to migrate into the unknown and adapt to their new surroundings. A kaleidescope of characters parade by: a mysterious religious leader, a haughty politician, a mourning mother, a stranger with bright ideas… It remains up to the listener/viewer to weave the pieces together, but an underlying concern emerges: how can we maintain a permanent home when the waters keep rising?
Sara will perform the songs on guitar, mandolin and autoharp amidst an exhibition of mixed media works on paper. The visual works are transcriptions of the songs in which collages of the lyrics are presented alongside Sara’s alternative system of musical notation, which she devised to emphasize visual patterns in the melodic line.
In addition to the debut of Part 1 of “The News” in 2010, Sara has exhibited and performed several times at Open Source, including her recent work “Songs of Lewis & Clark,” the group show “Associated” and the two-person show “Urban Plant Research.” “The News: Monday-Friday” was largely realized at the residency program chashama North in 2010 and 2011. Sara earned a B.A. in studio art from Yale University in 2003 and performs regularly in the Americana string band Union Street Preservation Society.
http://sarabouchard.bandcamp.com
Open Source Soup Kitchen
For the month of December Open Source Gallery is about, Cooking, Eating, Sharing, Celebrating…
Dinner is served from 7-9pm
It’s time for the 4th annual OPEN SOURCE SOUP KITCHEN. So if you want to participate, please reserve a date. We are looking for artists, cooks, friends and neighbors to join us for SOUP KITCHEN, where for as many days as we have volunteers, we will be offering a “one-pot meal” to all on a first-come, first-served basis. The cook is responsible for the night. Unique dishes from any ethnic tradition are more than welcome. We will provide cookware, utensils and help with logistics. We ask that you supply the love. LET’S EAT!!!
Each night in December, a different person signs up to cook a meal for approximately 15 -20 people to be served between 7 and 9pm every night. Kind of like an advent calendar for food. Most of the dishes are a one-pot meal–either a soup or stew which can be served in bowls with bread on the side.
Mostly, people from the neighborhood or artist or musician friends sign up to cook, but occasionally there is the new person who sees the sign up sheet and is up for a challenge. The people who come vary from working class people to self-employed artists and occasionally a neighborhood person who is down on their luck or simply hungry.
2009 was the second year of soup kitchen. Some nights up to 50 people were standing in line for the delicious food, other nights the conversation, wine and beer kept us up until 3am in the morning. Sometimes, the chef did incorporate an artistic element to the evening, either displaying photographs on the stark, white gallery walls or reading a monologue from a play he or she has written.
Sometimes the conversation flows easily and sometimes not, but the food is nearly always tasty (it’s new York after all–we have standards!)-Lily White
Community Garden by Ruth Kaaserer
November 12th, 7pm,
In the summer of 2005 I walked into a garden in Harlem. The people within informed me that it was a community garden for the neighborhood, and that anyone could visit there whenever the gate was open. I was struck by the discovery of a whole diverse world within the city, diverse not only in plants, but in amazing people and objects too.
For the next three years it became my habit to visit community gardens all over New York City with my camera and audio recorder.
100 Days After
Sunday, Oct 2, 7pm:
Miho Suzuki visited Miyako City, Iwate, Japan this summer, where she photographed ruins and transitions at the fisherman’s towns and the city. 100 days after the cataclysmic earthquake and the massive tsunami hit northern Japan much of debris had been removed or organized into big piles. Over thousands of damaged houses were still left standing and waiting to be dismantled. People just started moving to temporary shelters or school class rooms instead of living in school gyms.
“if you look up” by Anna Azrieli and Performance by Joseph Keckler
Saturday 17th: 8pm
Dance artist Anna Azrieli creates a landscape of scattered, subtly vibrating bodies in the space. Unceasing movement transforms both performers and viewers alike. A lone figure emerges from the simple yet overwhelming rhythm. How long will resistance last to the pull of surrounding energy?
Saturday 17th: 8:45pm
Tempest
September 10th, 8.30pm
Colin Adams-Toomey, Sky Bennett and Anna Paratore will perform an excerpt from the Tempest.
Soap Boxes for Grown-ups!
Remember when you were the coolest kid on the block? Miss those carefree summers of your childhood? Reclaim the former glory of your younger years and join Open Source Gallery for our annual soapbox competition and derby. We will be hosting an open workshop with tools and adult beverages Thursday and Friday nights from 7pm-9pm, July 25th to August 12th. We hope to have more grown-ups join our 3rd annual soap box derby, so bring your brilliant soap box designs and your competitive spirit! The winner will receive a special trophy and bragging rights until next summers derby!
Needing some inspiration? Look at Monika’s brilliant creation for Makeprojects.com. Doesn’t that look more fun than discussing politics/world economy/rent increases/your boring job over overpriced cocktails?! Yes, it does!
So come on down to the adults workshop hours:Thursdays & Fridays, 7pm -9pm July 25th-August 12th 306 17th St. Brooklyn, NY 11215
($40.00 material costs. and donations very welcome!!)
Also, we are now looking for any donations and contributions of useable materials!!! wheels (jogging stroller wheels are best!), wood, fabric, paint,… anything that you find or want to get rid of and could be used for a soap box is very much appreciated!!
OPEN SOURCE CARNIVAL
Come on down to the Open Source Carnival for a rollicking good time! Suit up in your favorite costume, bring a taste for the bizarre, the spontaneous, the sublime… and bring a little pocket change, too. A benefit to help Open Source Gallery rebuild after the fire last November, the Carnival will feature a festive variety of performances by a dozen local artists and musicians all day long.
It all takes place in a four-story wal…k-up rendered uninhabitable last November as firefighters fought the fire in the adjacent gallery building. Concurrent with the Carnival is a group exhibition throughout the vacant brownstone entitled ASSOCIATED, and together these events serve as something of a New Orleans style funeral and wake for the building. Come on out, join the spectacle and help us transform this disaster site into one of celebration!
ARTIST PERFORMANCES
Doors open at noon – $5 suggested donation
1pm: Tour of the exhibition ASSOCIATED
2:30pm – 5:30pm: ARTIST PERFORMANCES
James Leonard: Boardwalk Style Portraits
Jason Gaspar: Taco Hell
Sara Bouchard: Songline 1: Paper Wrinkle on melodica
Lily White on saxophone
Wendy Chu and Keiji Kubo: Libertango choreographed by Yuka Kawazu
6pm – 11pm: MUSICAL PERFORMANCES
Ethan Crenson: “disaster songs” on 78s
Hari Ganglberger: drums and percussion
Glen Einbinder: Carnevale music on 78s and more
Union Street Preservation Society: Americana string band
In The Loop: improvised electronic sound-scapes
Jeremy Slater and Ami Yamasaki: sound performance
11pm: FOOSBALL TOURNAMENT Finals hosted by Monika Wuhrer and Frank Scheiderbauer
Raffles will be held at 5:30pm and 9pm!
Beverages and snacks will be available for a suggested donation.
More about the Carnival:
more information
More about the exhibition ASSOCIATED:
http://mim.io/ff16f
The Final Feast
Flying Teeth (Aaron Diskin, William Haugh) in concert
Sat March 26th 7pm – midnight
174 Franklin Street, Brooklyn 11222 (G Train: Greenpoint Avenue)
In the OPEN SOURCE space on 174 Franklin Avenue in Greenpoint, Raphaela Riepl’s installation hosts “The Final Feast” with Flying Teeth in Concert, where not only the band will be integrated into the show, but also the show in the band.
Sara Bouchard
November 20th, 7pm
DUE TO FIRE THIS PERFORMANCE WILL HAPPEN AT KORZO [ 667 5th Avenue
NY 11215, (718) 285-3425 ]
“The News: Monday-Friday”
The News: Monday-Friday is a collection of five songs written one per day of a single work week, the lyrics being found poems compiled from each day’s newspaper. While rooted in words and phrases from the actual news, the songs build upon each other to tell their own “subconscious current events” story. It is a tale of a community struggling with its spirituality when faced with leaving home and transitioning towards a strange and unknown future. Sara will perform the entire song cycle on guitar, mandolin and autoharp as well as other recent work. She recently performed her last album Songs of Lewis & Clark at Open Source.
http://www.myspace.com/sarabouchardmusic
on view now
Leigh Davis: The Burrow (H.H.)January 14th – Feb 8th, 2012 Opening Reception: January 14th, 7-9pm Leigh Davis, detail from Foreclosed Storage Unit, 2009 “Now the truth of the matter – and one has no eye for that in times of great peril, and only by a great effort even in times when danger is threatening – is that in [...]
upcoming
Evan Robarts and James Moore
Sara Bouchard: The News: Monday-Friday, Parts 1 & 2
Karl Spörk, Another Meeting
BETWEEN MOUNTAIN
Felipe Mujica: One Day This Will All Be Yours
Patrick Cadenhead
past
Open Source 2011
Open Source Soup Kitchen
Borderland Collective
Jason Reppert: Parlor Tricks
Felipe Mujica: One Day This Will All Be Yours
James Leonard – 927 Days at Sea
Soap Box Derby
Naoe Suzuki and Dramahound Productions: Mi Tigre, My Lover
Associated
Raphaela Riepl: adorable steamed sea urchin
Allison Read Smith: Thugs
Open Source Gallery 2008-2010
Soup Kitchen 2010
Pirmin Hagen: First
Nobuko: wa
ORFI nyc: live gig 2010
Peter Feigenbaum “Trainset Ghetto: Streetsmart”
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
Sara Ching-Yu Sun: Nov 7th- Nov 30
Victoria Stanton and Christian Richer: Sat Oct 10th
Patrick May: October 3 – november 2
Christian Brown: September 5 – October 1
Urban Plant Research: August 15 – August 30
Make Soap Box Racers! July 13th-August 8th
Hubert Dobler: June 6th – July 1st
Gary Baldwin: May 2nd – June 4th
Second Saturday Event: June 13, 7-10pm
Scott Groeniger: March 27 – April 26
Sara Bouchard: April 4th, 8pm
MonsterBASH | July 4th – August 15th | Party July 4th 4-7pm
Jeremy Slater and Tamara Yadao
