2013 Fall

July 15—December 6, 2013
EMPAC — Troy, NY, USA
Media

Fall 2013 Video Reel

Event Type
Season
Curator
Vic Brooks
Ash Bulayev
Argeo Ascani
Funding

EMPAC 2013-2014 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.

July 15—17, 2013
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A group of eight in active discussion sitting around a conference table in a darkened room.
Film/Video, Time-Based Visual Art
We Will Show You Film in a Handful of Dust
On Cinema & Circulation
August 14—15, 2013
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A large group of people gathered in discussion around a conference table in a darkened room.
Film/Video, Music/Sound, Time-Based Visual Art
Before the Music Starts
Saturday, September 7, 2013 at 7PM
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A white man looking directly into a video monitor.
Film/Video, Talk
ISOS
Kris Verdonck / A Two Dogs Company
Wednesday, September 11, 2013 at 6PM
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Ursula Heise on stage in lecture.
Talk, Commission
Ursula Heise
The Beautiful Violent Futures of J.G. Ballard
Thursday, September 12, 2013 at 8PM
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Two people behind desks and in discussion on stage infant of a large screen projecting the image of an abstract sculpture, resembling a low table with a long handle.
Music/Sound, Performance
R Plus Seven
Oneohtrix Point Never
Friday, September 20, 2013 at 7PM
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A white man with dark hair sitting cross legged next to a slide projector and lap top.
Performance
Open Core
Julien Maire
Saturday, September 21, 2013 at 7PM
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A white man with dark hair sitting cross legged next to a slide projector and lap top.
Performance
To Sublimate
Julien Maire
Tuesday, September 24, 2013 at 12PM
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Ravi Kane in discussion.
Talk
Ravi Kane
The Design of Nanoscale Therapeutics and Nanostructured Materials
Tuesday, September 24, 2013 at 6PM
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Ewa Borysiewicz in lecture.
Talk, Commission
Ewa Borysiewicz
How a Sausage Dog Works
Wednesday, September 25, 2013 at 6PM
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Flip Phillips in lecture.
Talk, Commission
Flip Phillips
Deconstructing Perception
Friday, September 27, 2013 at 8PM
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Two children standing by a White House fishing in waves of blue and green brush strokes
Film/Video, Music/Sound
Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then
Brent Green
Tuesday, October 1, 2013 at 7PM
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laurie Anderson
Talk
Art and Archive
Laurie Anderson
Wednesday, October 2, 2013 at 7:30PM
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A grid of sixteen vintage film stills depicting a man wearing a 30's era trench coat and hat walking up to and through a distressed building.
Film/Video
Film
Directed by Alan Schneider
Saturday, October 5, 2013 at 7PM
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A dual abstract image of yellow light on a dark background.
Film/Video
A Primer in Sky Socialism
Directed by Ken Jacobs
Wednesday, October 9, 2013 at 6PM
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Randy Martin
Dance/Theater, Talk, Commission
Randy Martin
Dance and Finance—Social Kinesthetics and Derivative Logics
Saturday, October 12, 2013 at 7PM
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Three people on a cluttered stage. A white woman seated in a wheelchair and a white man standing in his underwear both wearing paper bags over their head. The third man sits behind them at a wooden desk yelling at the couple.
Performance
La Jeune-Fille et la Mort (Death and the Young-Girl)
Bureau de l’APA
Saturday, October 19, 2013 at 4PM
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Multipel screens hung in a black box theater depicting red and teal asian inspired flowers. The screens are hung in such a way to create a compartmentalized space.
Performance, Commission
The Angola Project
Jeremy Xido
Saturday, October 26, 2013 at 8PM
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A person standing in a dark room in front of a projection of a cloudy night sky with a full moon
Music/Sound, Performance
Nocturnes
William Basinski
Thursday, October 31, 2013 at 7:30PM
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A rainbow bullseye with a cartoon cat and nude woman super imposed over top.
Film/Video, Time-Based Visual Art
House (Hausu)
Directed by Nobuhiko Ôbayashi
Saturday, November 2, 2013 at 8PM
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A string quartet of four white men playing in front of a wall of gray acoustic tiles.
Music/Sound, Performance
Calder Quartet
Saturday, November 9, 2013 at 7:30PM
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EMPAC Lobby lit in pink and orange spots of light via a lighting rig set up in the middle of the floor.
Music/Sound, Performance
Mark Fell
Saturday, November 16, 2013 at 7PM
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A large screen displaying the shadow of a man wearing shorts and standing in the upper right corner.
Performance
Small Narration
Wojtek Ziemilski
Wednesday, November 20, 2013 at 7PM
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Laurie Anderson wearing a black and white plaid shirt and orange vest speaking into a microphone.
Film/Video, Music/Sound, Talk
Voices
Laurie Anderson
Thursday, November 21, 2013 at 7:30PM
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An asian woman wearing a Cheongsam sitting on a bed in an orange lit room with her head in her hand looking forlorn.
Film/Video
In the Mood for Love
Directed by Wong Kar Wai
Friday, November 22, 2013 at 8PM
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A man seated playing the sitar in a dark room, lit only by the sound panel in front of the stage.
Music/Sound, Performance, Commission
Time Will Tell
Manuella Blackburn
Saturday, November 23, 2013 at 7PM
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Four people standing on stage, back to the viewer looking at a projected image of themselves on a four screens in front of them.
Performance
Central Intelligence Agency
Wojtek Ziemilski
Thursday, December 5, 2013 at 7:30PM
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A white woman with blonder hair looking over her shoulder on the phone. An image of another woman is projected behind her in blue.
Film/Video
Mulholland Drive
Directed by David Lynch
Friday, December 6, 2013 at 7:30PM
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A man lifting his head towards the ceiling with eyes closed in a moment of reverence as he plays a grand piano on a dark stage in a spotlight.
Music/Sound, Performance
Craig Taborn + Vicky Chow