2016 Spring

January 17—April 26, 2016
EMPAC — Troy, NY, USA

spring 2016 brochure cover

2016 Spring season reel. Courtesy the artists/EMPAC.

Event Type
Season
Program
2016 Spring Brochure1.35 MB
Curator
Vic Brooks
Argeo Ascani
Thursday, January 28, 2016 at 7:30pm
Image
A split screen, on the left an asian woman plays the cello under a canopy of lit sphere paper lanterns. On the right, a white woman playing the clarinet in front of a music stand and a microphone setup.
Music/Sound
Rane Moore + Okkyung Lee
September 2, 2015—May 12, 2016
Image
A woman in orange sits int he foreground with legs crossed as three other woman in black leotards walking in a V formation.
Series
On Screen/Sound
Thursday, February 4, 2016 at 7PM
Image
A man on a rope descends next to a massive granite carving of a head.
Time-Based Visual Art
On Screen/Sound: No. 9
Morgan Fisher and Alfred Hitchcock
Thursday, February 11, 2016 at 7PM
Image
Johannes Goebel and Hui Su in discussion in front of a seated crowd.
Talk
Vectors and Circles: CISL and EMPAC
A Conversation with Johannes Goebel and Hui Su
Friday, February 12, 2016 at 8PM
Image
nate wooley playing his trumpet in a black box studio with red and purple lights.
Music/Sound
For Kenneth Gaburo
Nate Wooley
Thursday, February 18, 2016 at 7PM
Image
An unclose mouth with text above it reading "their demands have been put aside"
Time-Based Visual Art
On Screen/Sound: No. 10
Clio Barnard and Joyce Wieland
Thursday, February 25, 2016 at 7PM
Image
A man standing in the woods smoking a cigarette with white text over his face reading "in her mind the images were burning".
Time-Based Visual Art
On Screen/Sound: No. 11
Tony Cokes / Alexander Kluge / Sara Magenheimer / Laure Prouvost
Thursday, March 3, 2016 at 7PM
Image
The Deccan Trap in blocky font in a desert scene
Time-Based Visual Art
On Screen/Sound: No. 12
Charles Atlas / Ephraim Asili / Christian Marclay / Lucy Raven / Godfrey Reggio
Thursday, March 24, 2016 at 7PM
Image
A man standing in front of a large salad and cut up watermelon, crinkling a piece of lettuce into a microphone.
Time-Based Visual Art
Berberian Sound Studio
Peter Strickland
Friday, April 1, 2016 at 8PM
Image
Two camels walking across a green screen in a black box studio.
Film/Video, Performance, Commission
Atlas Revisited
Karthik Pandian and Andros Zins-Browne
Thursday, April 7, 2016 at 7:30PM
Image
Four men playing saxophone in a semi circle on a stage washed in pink light.
Music/Sound
Bearthoven + Battle Trance
Friday, April 8, 2016 at 7PM
Image
Distorted image of three men with the tops of their heads blurred upwards.
Time-Based Visual Art
On Screen/Sound: No. 14
Oskar Fischinger / Mary Ellen Bute / Ryoichi Kurokawa
Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 7:30PM
Image
A small orchestra dressed in black posing for a picture, smiling at the end of the concert hall stage.
Music/Sound
The Music of Salvatore Sciarrino
Friday, April 15, 2016 at 8PM
Image
boychild lunging to the ground painting the floor with their hands in red light
Time-Based Visual Art, Performance
You Sad Legend
Moved by the Motion: Wu Tsang and boychild, featuring Patrick Belaga
Wednesday, April 20, 2016 at 2PM/7PM
Image
Abstract computer generated image of red and gray cylindrical shapes.
Talk
Bernd Lintermann
Art and Science: Pushing the Limits of the Creative Process in Media Art
Thursday, April 21, 2016 at 4PM
Image
Empty grey black box studio.
Music/Sound, Talk
Markus Noisternig
Modern 3D Audio Technologies and the Relationship Between Sound and Space
Thursday, April 21, 2016 at 7:30PM
Image
A quartet playing spread out across the concert hall stage.
Music/Sound
Amirtha Kidambi’s Elder Ones + Longleash
Thursday, April 28, 2016 at 7PM
Image
a woman with brown hair wearing a cream sweater and black pants laying on her side on a black stage.
Talk, Work in Progress
Patricia L Boyd
Thursday, May 5, 2016 at 8PM
Image
A small ensemble of three men, one playing piano and two on percussion, playing on the concert hall stage washed in blue/purple light.
Music/Sound
Nik Bärtsch's MOBILE
Thursday, May 12, 2016 at 7PM
Image
A vintage film still of a tilted rocky beach.
Time-Based Visual Art
On Screen/Sound: No. 15
Michael Snow / Miguel Angel Rios
2016-21
Image
Students waiting in line out side of a black box with an oval door in a hallway.
Music/Sound, Installation
SubBassProtoTon
Johannes Goebel
June 27–29, 2016
Workshop
Entertainment Electrics Workshop
Learn the essentials of planning, setting up, testing, and troubleshooting electrical systems for lighting, audio, and video.
Friday, May 13, 2016 at 8PM
Image
A crowd of people laying on their backs across the Concert Hall stage.

EMPAC Spring 2016

Music/Sound, Performance, Commission
WITHIN
Tarek Atoui