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A woman wearing headphones looking at two screens held by a spider-like apparatus or sculpture in blank room with a projection of the ocean and a planet.
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Sondra Perry

Sondra Perry makes videos, performances, and installations that foreground digital tools as a way to critically reflect on new technologies of representation and remobilize their potential.

Perry’s engagement with consumer image-making technologies produces artworks that reveal the calibration, protocols, and algorithms inherent in these devices. She repurposes exercise machines, video games, chroma studios, and computer graphics in multidisciplinary artworks that together form a corrective against the unreflective naturalization of technology. Her works examine how images are produced in order to reveal the way photographic representations are captured and recirculated.

Main Image: Sondra Perry, Eclogue for [In]habitability at Seattle Art Museum, Courtesy the artist.

 

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300 Years of Dance

Rensselaer Orchestra

On Saturday, November 23rd, in the EMPAC Concert Hall, the Rensselaer Orchestra will present a concert of dance music, ranging from the 17th century ballets of Jean-Baptiste Lully to the raucous 20th century music of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. No matter the era, this concert will keep you tapping your feet!

The complete program for the concert is:

  • Jean-Baptiste Lully (Arr. Felix Mottl), Dance Suite
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Petite Suite de Concert
  • Franz Schubert, Symphony No. 7 Unfinished
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Polonaise from Eugene Onegin

This concert is free and open to the public.

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A performer in a squatting position on a black platform wearing a mask of sensors in front of two large screens projecting red and blue abstract scenes. Two people look on, one directing the scene with arm outstretched toward the screens.
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Carrion

Justin Shoulder

Multidisciplinary artist Justin Shoulder will be in residence with support from the Australia Council for the Arts. Working with animation/virtual reality collaborators Sam and Andy Rolfes, the project Carrion aims to develop green-screen video content that the artist will manipulate live with a body sensor system.

International residencies organized by Australia Council for the Arts provide a unique opportunity for Australian artists to immerse themselves in a new international arts context, community and culture. The experience enables artists to articulate their practice within a global context and build knowledge, networks and partnerships that support future international arts activity.

Main Image: Justin Shoulder in Studio 1 as part of his residency with support from the Australian Council for the Arts. May 2019. Photo: Mick Bello/EMPAC.

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Production Residency

Klein

UK-based composer and playwright Klein is in residence at EMPAC developing a new performance to be presented at MoMA PS1’s VW dome. With references ranging from mythology to Pavarotti to defunct UK young-adult TV network Trouble, Klein uses collagist techniques to assemble recordings of her own vocals and instrumentation.

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EKO Artist Residency

Kurt Hentschläger

The New York-based Austrian artist Kurt Hentschläger will be in residence to develop a new audio-visual work for a custom-built LED wall and a multichannel surround-sound system. EKO is the third work in his ongoing series staged in complete darkness.

He will perform the premiere of this piece on November 14.

Main Image: SOL. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Martin Gross.

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