EMPAC Announces Fall 2024 Programs

16th Fall Highlights Include:

• US Premieres from Marina Rosenfeld, and Bassem Saad & Sanja Grozdanić
• Concert performances by Charles Curtis, Sarah Davachi, and Charmaine Lee & Conrad Tao
• Artist Talks with Laurie Anderson, Raven Chacon, and SHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY

Also, four thematic series bring together art and ideas across experimental film/video, music, new media, choreography, and performance throughout the fall season.

Troy, NY: EMPAC / the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute announces its schedule of public presentations for the fall 2024 season.

From August through December, the EMPAC Curatorial Program presents 20 opportunities for audiences to explore the boundaries of art, science, and technology with the curators and artists of its commissioning and residency initiatives.

Free artist talks and a free work-in-progress event, as well as a dynamic program of film/video screenings, concert performances, and premieres continues EMPAC’s commitment to contemporary artists who are making challenging new work, and to audiences who thrill in the experience.

Those who venture in can engage with ideas of making art, art histories, and social currents while encountering extraordinary experimental artworks within one of the world’s most technically advanced centers for artistic production.

Single tickets and full event info available now.

The fall season offers general admission single tickets to its events. The curators have collected select presentations into four series, gathering ideas and audiences around themes, experiences, and reasons to return to EMPAC throughout the fall.

The Surge Conditions series from curator Katherine C.M. Adams features a new program each month from September through November for audiences ready to inquire into film and video as a spatial practice, and to celebrate the US Premiere of her first commission for EMPAC.

The Decommission series, also from Adams, entreats audiences of choreography, film, and sculpture to join us across three programs in seven days this October, for a playful arc on the effect that difficult social and economic conditions can have on our relationships to technology.

The year-long Ephemeral Organ series from curator-in-residence Tara Aisha Willis begins in November, with two distinctive talks sparking connections to Willis’s own research and creative practices, alongside technologically intricate artworks in the making.

The Within | Without Limit series from curator Amadeus Julian Regucera invites cello and live music audiences to discover the rewards of experiencing the center’s differentiated venues through two solo cello programs, one in Studio 2 and another in the Concert Hall.

EMPAC 2024 FALL
Presentations are listed in chronological order.

Brigitta Mutendorf: TRILOGY FOR TWO PIANOS
Sunday, August 11, 2024 at 7:30PM
Mary Flagler Cary Hall, DiMenna Center for Classical Music (NYC)
US Premiere. Co-presented with TIME:SPANS 2024
Performance. Tickets: TIME:SPANS 2024

Laurie Anderson: Building an ARK
Thursday, August 29, 2024 at 6PM
Talk. Tickets: Free, no ticket required.

Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi, Tatiana Mazú González:
In a plenum space
Thursday, September 5, 2024 at 7PM
Film/video. Tickets: $10

Charmaine Lee & Conrad Tao: Feedback
Friday, September 13, 2024 at 7PM
Performance. Tickets: $20

Sarah Davachi: Constants
Wednesday, September 18, 2024 at 7PM
Performance. Tickets: $20

Ho Rui An, Revital Cohen & Tuur van Balen, Bahar Noorizadeh, Total Refusal, and Wu Tsang: A gift horse’s mouth
Wednesday, October 2, 2024 at 7PM
Film/video. Tickets: $10

Dana Michel: MIKE
October 4 & 5, 2024 | 6PM Friday & 2PM Saturday
Performance. Tickets: $20

Constantina Zavitsanos: Works in Sensing and Feeling
Tuesday, October 8 at 6PM
Talk. Tickets: Free, no ticket required.

Sharlene Bamboat: A showing of BOTH, INSTRUMENT & SOUND
Friday, October 11, 2024 at 7PM
Film/Video. Tickets: $10

Bassem Saad & Sanja Grozdanić: An Evening with the Artists
Wednesday, October 23, 2024 at 7PM
Film/Video. Tickets: $10

Bassem Saad & Sanja Grozdanić: PERMANENT TRESPASS
Friday, October 25, 2024 at 7PM
US Premiere. Co-commission with NW Aalst.
Performance. Tickets: $20

Marina Rosenfeld: μ (MU)
Friday, November 8, 2024 at 7PM
US Premiere. Co-commission with Gwangju Biennale.
Performance. Tickets: $20

Tara Aisha Willis: Ephemeral Organs: Dance Curation, Research, and Performance
Tuesday, November 12, 2024 at 6PM
Talk. Tickets: Free, no ticket required.

SHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY: Investigating trigger mechanisms, machine learning, and bodily gesture
Thursday, November 14, 2024 at 6PM T
alk. Tickets: Free, no ticket required.

Raven Chacon: New and Recent Work
Thursday, November 21, 2024 at 6PM
Talk. Tickets: Free, no ticket required.

Kite: Open Rehearsal
Thursday, December 5, 2024. Time to be announced.
Co-presented with iEAR Presents!
Work-in-progress. Tickets: Free, no ticket required.

Kite: Wógligleya/Imákȟaheye (Geometry/Method): Workshop for Dream Scores
Friday, December 6, 2024 at 7PM
Co-presented with iEAR Presents!
Performance. Tickets: $20

Charles Curtis: NALDJORLAK
Friday, December 13, 2024 at 7PM
Performance. Tickets: $20

Charles Curtis: Within | Without Limit: Music for Cello
Saturday, December 14, 2024 at 2PM
Performance. Tickets: $20

General admission single tickets for all performances are $20. EMPAC offers $15 reduced price tickets for ages 55+, students, and RPI faculty.

Single tickets for film/video programs are $10.

No reservations are necessary for talks, tours, and work-in-progress events, which are always free to attend.

Curators

Amadeus Julian Regucera, Music
Katherine C.M. Adams, Time-based Visual Arts
Tara Aisha Willis, Curator-in-Residence, Dance & Theater

Special Thanks

EMPAC 2024 FALL is made possible by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. EMPAC’s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Additional program support provided by NW, Open House for Contemporary Art and Film in Aalst; and by Gwangju Biennale.

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