2012 Spring

January 26—May 13, 2012

EMPAC — Troy, NY, USA

2012 spring

Media

Spring 2012 Video Reel

January 26—May 13, 2012

EMPAC — Troy, NY, USA

Event Type

Season

Curator

Hélène Lesterlin

Emily Zimmerman

Funding

EMPAC 2011-2012 presentations, residencies, and commissions are supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts (with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; additional funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Community Connections Fund of the MetLife Foundation, and the Boeing Company Charitable Trust), and the New York State Council for the Arts. Special thanks to the Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and Performing Arts for support of artist commissions.

Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 7:30PM

Kim Novak wearing a green 1950's cocktail dress entering a crowded restaurant with red damask wallpaper.

Time-Based Visual Art, Film/Video

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Saturday, February 4, 2012

A woman suspended by a cable harness seemingly defying gravity while dancing on a white cube.

Dance/Theater, Performance

Tethered: Vertical Performance

Rodrigo Pardo + Bárbara Foulkes

2010—2013

Melvin Moti

Series

Observer Effects

Conversations on Art + Science

Wednesday, February 8, 2012 at 6PM

John D Barrow

Talk

Better Than a Thousand Words

2013—2015

a beam of light coming out of an observatory overlooking the RPI campus at night.

Talk, Series

Campus Perspectives

Tuesday, February 14, 2012 at 12PM

Zbigniew Oksiuta in disucssion

Talk

Form, Processes, Consequences

Zbigniew Oksiuta

Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 8PM

A group of three musicians playing on a dark stage lit by a projection of fireworks on a screen behind them.

Film/Video, Music/Sound, Performance

Lucky Dragons

September 23, 2011—October 13, 2012

Musicians on scaffolding with each member of the band on different levels playing a concert to a crowd on a staged draped in sheer white fabric.

Series

Experiments in Time-Based Text

Thursday, February 16, 2012 at 7:30PM

A black illustrated whimsical tree with multiple branches, each holding different creatures, like birds, owls, butterflies, and worms set in front of a green sky.

Film/Video, Time-Based Visual Art

onedotzero_adventures in motion

Saturday, February 18, 2012 at 8PM

Two laptops sitting on an artificial grassy hill in front of two screens projecting blocky random text in a black box studio

Dance/Theater, Performance

Annie Dorsen

February 21—May 31, 2012

A black and white sketch model of the concert hall set in front of the completed concert hall.

Commission, Exhibition

The Periphery of Perception

Ryan + Trevor Oakes

Wednesday, April 18, 2012 at 6PM

A panel of three men and one woman seated behind a table with a black table cloth. A man in a white shirt is speaking into a microphone with his hands outstretched.

Talk, Commission

Ryan + Trevor Oakes

Saturday, March 3, 2012 at 8PM

Two grand pianos among various wires, microphones, and recording devices in a black box studio in front of a projection of a tranquil green pond.

Dance/Theater, Performance

Jean-François Peyret

March 5—May 2, 2012

White text projected on to the wood hull of the concert hall that read "a hideous trumpet, a humor or a worm, a hundred of them, a kind of auditor, a kind of history, a kind of jollity, a kind of Puritan, a kind of remorse, a league of amity, a lecture of them, a parlous boy, no glory, a performance, a philosopher, no trace, a plain knave, no touch"

Installation, Commission

A Shakespeare Accelerator: Experiments in Kinetic Language

Ben Rubin

Wednesday, March 7, 2012 at 6PM

Jonathan Sterne in discussion.

Talk

Jonathan Sterne

MP3: A Hundred-Year History of an 19-Year-Old Format in Under an Hour

Saturday, March 31, 2012 at 8pm

An aerial view of a small orchestra dressed casually in rehearsal on the concert hall stage

Music/Sound, Performance

Music of Fausto Romitelli

Talea Ensemble

Tuesday, April 3, 2012 at 7:30pm

John Zorn

Music/Sound, Performance

Wednesday, April 4, 2012 at 8:30pm

Peter Edwards amongst a crowd.

Music/Sound, Performance

The Hant Variance

Peter Edwards + Sabisha Friedberg

Thursday, April 5, 2012 at 7:30pm

Colin Stetson

Music/Sound, Performance

Colin Stetson + Tyshawn Sorey

with Sarah Neufeld

Friday, April 6, 2012 at 8pm

Six dancers wearing street clothes moving throughout the space diagonally. A white woman and a Black woman stand in the foreground wearing black draped dresses. The white woman Is looking off into the distance as the Black woman hunches, looking down.

Dance/Theater, Performance, Commission

fluid hug hug: (glowing)

Kota Yamazaki

March 27—October 13, 2012

A miniature model of a waterslide on a hill on a white pedestal with a cct camera pointing at it

Commission, Exhibition

Jennifer + Kevin McCoy

Wednesday, April 11, 2012 at 7pm

Tim McGee in discussion

Talk

Biomimicry

Thursday, April 12, 2012 at 5:30pm

A man in a room full of black acoustic tiles with a rigging apparatus hanging above.

Talk

EMPAC: A Public Exchange

April 12, 2012 at Noon

Zbigniew Oksiuta in disucssion

Talk

A Biological Future?

Zbigniew Oksiuta

Thursday, April 12, 2012 at 7:30pm

A person wearing gray sweatpants and sweatshirt standing hunched over a desk with backside to the viewer working on a computer controlling the projected image of a human eye.

Film/Video, Music/Sound, Performance

SUE-C + AGF

Saturday, April 14, 2012 at 4pm

Eight dancers wearing jewel toned tops with black bottoms, moving with arms outstreched in a room with tan acoustic tiles on the walls.

Dance/Theater, Talk

Emergent Improvisation

January 26—May 3, 2012

A man wearing a fur coat and tartan pants laying on the ground next to a deceased fawn in a cuddling position.

Film/Video, Series

The Eternal Return

Thursday, April 19, 2012 at 7:30pm

A man wearing a fur coat and tartan pants laying on the ground next to a deceased fawn in a cuddling position.

Film/Video

Directed by Jim Jarmusch

Friday, April 20-21, 2012

A male dancer wearing all black standing with one arm outstretched towards the ceiling as a female dancer wearing white drags a chair with body in a diagonal pose on a black stage.

Dance/Theater, Performance, Commission

Wally Cardona & Jennifer Lacey

Sunday, April 22, 2012

Three screens showing greenery and rolling hills behind a small pit orchestra on a dark stage.

Film/Video, Music/Sound, Commission

We Have An Anchor

Jem Cohen

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Leslie Vosshall

Talk

Leslie Vosshall

Bitten: Why Do Mosquitoes Bite Some People and not Others

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Lisa Cartwright and Christin Lammer seated on stage in conversation.

Talk

Lisa Cartwright + Christina Lammer

Empathography: The Art of Clinical Intimacy

Thursday, May 3, 2012 at 7:30pm

A woman with blonde hair and a man with brown hair looking longingly into each other eyes while sitting on a roof top overlooking a European cityscape.

Film/Video

Directed by Richard Linklater

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Eight dancers wearing jewel toned tops with black bottoms, moving with arms outstreched in a room with tan acoustic tiles on the walls.

Talk

Mirror Neurons and Our Capacity for Empathy

Thursday, May 10, 2012 at 7:30

The EMPAC Concert Hall lit with spotty filtered light, mimicking the way light dapples through trees. A group of people stand on the stage among a few chairs.

Music/Sound, Performance

Sunday, May 13, 2012 at 6pm

A small orchestra spread out across the concert hall stage as two men play chess in the corner of the stage.

Music/Sound, Performance