2014 Spring

January 21—May 8, 2014
EMPAC — Troy, NY, USA

2014 spring

Event Type
Season
Program
2014 Spring Brochure2.44 MB
Curator
Argeo Ascani
Vic Brooks
Ash Bulayev
Emily Zimmerman
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.

January 21–March 25, 2014
Image
Nine UFO type crafts placed through out a desert landscape.
Film/Video, Time-Based Visual Art, Series
Filmmaker Focus
January 21—April 3, 2014
Image
A black screen with a slight beam of light in the center.
Film/Video, Time-Based Visual Art, Series
Frieze Film
Petra Cortright, Peter Gidal, Patricia Lennox-Boyd, Oraib Toukan, and Erika Vogt
Tuesday, January 21, 2014 at 7:30PM
Image
10 flying saucers landed in a mars-like desert scape.
Film/Video, Time-Based Visual Art
Futuro: A New Stance for Tomorrow
Directed by Mika Taanila
Tuesday, January 21, 2014 at 7:30PM
Image
A black hand blurred in motion repairing the cylinder head of an engine.
Film/Video, Time-Based Visual Art, Commission
Carl dis/assembling w/ self
Patricia Lennox-Boyd
Saturday, January 25, 2014, at 8PM
Image
A Black man with a prominent mustache in front of a green and yellow projection examining various colored wires.
Film/Video, Music/Sound, Time-Based Visual Art
Peradam
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe + Sabrina Ratté
January 30–April 2, 2014
Image
Black and white turn of the century building facade in a city with the text 'VERY NICE, VERY NICE' in bold font over top.
Film/Video, Series
A Door Ajar
Thursday, January 30, 2014 at 7:30PM
Image
Two white hands holding a small carcass over a dinner plate as pieces of meat fall to plate below. A serving platted of other meats on a bed of greens is in the top corner.
Film/Video
eXistenZ
Directed by David Cronenberg
Thursday, January 30, 2014 at 7:30PM
Image
A white woman with bleach blonde hair and red lipstick throwing red rose petals at the camera with a white cloth over her head.
Film/Video, Time-Based Visual Art, Commission
Bridal Shower
Petra Cortright
Saturday, February 1, 2014, at 8PM
Image
a man wearing dark gray overall and white shirt sitting holding a small plant while balancing a glass of water on the side of his head.
Performance
Allege
Clement Layes
Wednesday, February 12, 2014, at 7:30PM
Image
A woman playing the cello seated next to a man playing the trumpet in front of a grid of acoustic tiles with a rainbow shadow.
Music/Sound, Performance
Roberts / Wooley
Mariel Roberts + Nate Wooley
September 2013—May 2014
Image
avital ronell on stage in lecture.
Series
In Other Words
Wednesday, February 19, 2014, at 7PM
Image
Seth lloyd
Talk
Seth Lloyd
Programming the Universe
Thursday, February 20, 2014 at 7:30PM
Image
An illustration of a human skull facing forward with the numbers "21-87: across the eyes in white bold font.
Film/Video
The Short Films of George Lucas & Arthur Lipsett
Thursday, February 20, 2014 at 7:30PM
Image
A black screen with a slight beam of light in the center.
Film/Video, Time-Based Visual Art, Commission
CODA I + CODA II
Peter Gidal
Sunday, February 23, 2014, at 4PM
Image
kristian bezeudenhout playing piano on the concert hall stage.
Music/Sound
Kristian Bezuidenhout
2013—2015
Image
a beam of light coming out of an observatory overlooking the RPI campus at night.
Talk, Series
Detail View
Campus Perspectives
Tuesday, February 25, 2014, at 12PM
Image
ellen esrock in lecture.
Talk
Ellen Esrock
Touching Words & Images
Tuesday, February 25, 2014 at 7:30PM
Image
Three people, two chairs, a microphone, and a camera on a tripod silhouetted against an oval of light projected on a black wall.
Film/Video, Time-Based Visual Art
Future is Not What it Used to be
Directed by Mika Taanila
Tuesday, March 4, 2014, at 7PM
Image
zach belanger in lecture.
Music/Sound, Talk
Zackery Belanger
The Next Acoustic Architecture
Thursday, March 6, 2014 at 7:30PM
Image
A 1950's style man laying on his stomach with the side of his face resting in a reflective puddle.
Film/Video
Orpheus
Directed by Jean Cocteau
Thursday, March 6, 2014 at 7:30PM
Image
AN abstract green comb shape overlaid with a grid and red and blue lines.
Film/Video, Time-Based Visual Art, Commission
Darker Imposter
Erika Vogt
March—May, 2014
Image
Four lit white boxes with small cutouts on black pedestals in a black box studio.
Music/Sound, Talk, Commission
Strange Cloak–Sub-Flight Infinity
Sabisha Friedberg
Saturday, March 22, 2014, at 8PM
Image
People walking though and contemplating a maze of wooden palettes
Performance, Commission, Work in Progress
26 Letters to Deleuze
Alain Franco, Jörg Laue, Peter Stamer
Tuesday, March 25, 2014 at 7:30PM
Image
Six robots wearing blue or red on a pitch playing a form of soccer with a red ball surrounded by men controlling them.
Film/Video, Time-Based Visual Art
RoboCup 99
Directed by Mika Taanila
Friday, March 28, 2014, at 7PM
Image
a woman giving a talk on a black stage in front of a projection of a 1500's sketch.
Film/Video, Talk
Low Relief
Lucy Raven
Tuesday, April 1, 2014, at 7PM
Image
Gordon Hall sitting on white cube next to a projection of a chair on to a larger white cube
Performance, Commission
Gordon Hall
“Read me that part a-gain, where I disin-herit everybody”
Thursday, April 3, 2014 at 7:30PM
Image
A man wearing a 60's era trench coat and fedora standing above an office of cubicles looking down at the workers.
Film/Video
Playtime
Directed by Jacques Tati
Thursday, April 3, 2014 at 7:30PM
Image
A bob cat holding a dead bird in its mouth in front of a green background.
Film/Video, Time-Based Visual Art, Commission
From the impossibility of one page being like the other
Oraib Toukan and Ala Younis
Friday, April 11, 2014, at 8PM
Image
A dark stage with various abstract wooden set pieces placed thought the space.
Time-Based Visual Art, Commission
The Artist Theater Program
Erika Vogt
Friday, April 18, 2014, at 8PM
Image
A small orchestra dressed casually practicing on the concert hall stage cluttered with musical equipment.
Music/Sound
Wet Ink
Saturday, April 19, 2014, at 8PM
Image
A black table cluttered with various office items in front of a projection of a facebook profile
Performance
33RPM
Rabih Mroue
Wednesday, April 23, 2014, at 7PM
Image
Thomas Keenan on stage in front of a large projection of an image of Patricia Hearst robbing a bank
Talk, Commission
Thomas Keenan
New Media, New Documents: On Images, Examples, and Evidence
Saturday, April 26, 2014, at 8PM
Image
xavier leroy
Dance/Theater, Performance
Product of Circumstance
Xavier Le Roy
2013—2014
Image
A group of nine people seated at a conference table clutter with beverage cups and laptops in active discussion.
Talk, Series
The Jaffe Colloquia
May 1—2, 2014
Image
A group of nine people seated at a conference table clutter with beverage cups and laptops in active discussion.
Talk
Held In Trust
Caitlin Berrigan, Annie Dorsen, David Levine, Ryan McNamera, Laura Mott, Michael Oatman, and Marnix Rummens
Wednesday, May 7, 2014, at 7PM
Image
avital ronell on stage in lecture.
Talk
Avital Ronell
The Test Drive