05/17 @ 8:00pm - Share – featured guest Carolyn Teo
Admission: free
what is share?
SHARE is first and foremost a platform to explore expression, in a variety of artforms. Through its weekly open jam sessions, SHARE.nyc engages its participants and spectators in a continually changing dialog on art and culture. As such, SHARE represents an ongoing exploration of collaborative performance as cultural exchange. It mines the relationship of artistic practice to cultural identity, remapping a multiplicity of cultural discourses. The act of creating artistic content in a multicultural collaborative context is a fascinating and natural extension of the SHARE concept.
Share is an open jam, not just for digirati, but for all new culture lovers. Participants bring their portable equipment, plug into our system, improvise on each others’ signal and perform live audio and video. We furnish the amplification and projection. Share happens every Sunday in New York City at the Issue Project Room (through December), from 8 to Midnight.
open jams and walk-in sets
audio jam: Prepared and spontaneous music from eight plus simultaneous performers. This is the time and place to perform a piece of music you’ve written and hear it on a large sound system, improvise spontaneously with other participants, get feedback on your latest project or try out that new max patch/software setup. Bring your noise maker of choice and an XLR, quarter-inch or RCA cable to join.
video jam: multi-user live video synthesis. Generating an immersive visual environment, in the SHARE tradition, in which multiple participants are able to jointly compose the video output. Try out and learn about new VJ wetware. As with the audio, walk-in sets are encouraged. Bring your clips or camera or laptop/amiga and VGA, S-Video, or RCA cables to join
8pm, free —
Tonight’s featured guest:
Carolyn Teo is an artist from Sydney, Australia, who works across media in photography, video, sound, textiles, performance and d.i.y electronics.
Carolyn graduated from Sydney College of the Arts, after having done a stint in Canada as an exchange student at the Emily Carr University of Art + Design. It was here that she discovered her love for sound and electronics, which further developed her character Wun Thong. Carolyn is currently living in Montréal, involving herself in the arts community there by collaborating and performing with local artists.
Using elements of chance and improvisation, Wun Thong hypnotizes his audience with his visual aesthetic, mystical balls and exotic birdcalls.
So who is Wun Thong? Where did he come from this archetypal old Chinese man, mixed between cultures (and perhaps genders)?
Wun Thong literally plays his laptop, mixing in sounds from the Australian bush, found objects and electronics, taking us on a haunting yet whimsical journey through sound.
http://www.carolynteo.com
http://www.carolynteo.com/?cat=25
Share @ Issue Project Room
The (OA) Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215
http://www.share.dj/share/event_info.php?eventID=579
direction/map:
http://issueprojectroom.org/contact
http://is.gd/ljow
SHARE is always 100% FREE!! (no admission!)
Show up early!!! and stay late!!
