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David Grubbs / Eli Keszler / C. Spencer Yeh
First-time trio performance by these three musicians.
Jules Gimbrone
Los Angeles-based composer and recipient of a 2012 Emerging Artists Commission from ISSUE Project Room.
Ben Lerner
Poet and novelist, author of the celebrated Leaving the Atocha Station.
Animated Drawings by Amy Sillman
Two videos, to be introduced by the artist: Draft of a Voice-Over for Split-Screen Video Loop and Pinky’s Rule.
David Grubbs is an associate professor in the Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College, CUNY, where he also teaches in the MFA programs in Performance and Interactive Media Arts (PIMA) and Creative Writing. He is the author of the forthcoming book Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, The Sixties, and Sound Recording (Duke University Press). Grubbs has released twelve solo albums and is known for his collaborations with writers such as Susan Howe and Rick Moody, and with visual artists such as Anthony McCall, Angela Bulloch, and Stephen Prina. Grubbs was a member of the groups Gastr del Sol, Bastro, and Squirrel Bait, and has performed with the Red Krayola, Will Oldham, Royal Trux, Tony Conrad, Pauline Oliveros, and Mats Gustafsson, among many others. He appears in Augusto Contento’s 2013 documentary film Parallax Sounds, and Grubbs and Angela Bulloch recently presented their new performance work The Wired Salutation at the Centre Pompidou and at Berlin’s Tanz im August festival of contemporary dance. Grubbs is a member of the ISSUE Project Room Board of Directors.
Eli Keszler is a composer, artist and multi-instrumentalist based in New York City. In performance, he often plays drums, bowed crotales, and guitar in conjunction with his installations. In his ensemble compositions, he uses extended strings, motors, crotales, horns, and mechanical devices to create his sound, balancing intense harmonic formations with acoustic sustain, fast jarring rhythm, mechanical propulsion, dense textures, and detailed visual presentations. He has collaborated with Christian Wolff, Oren Ambarchi, Phill Niblock, Roscoe Mitchell, Tony Conrad, Joe McPhee, Loren Connors, Geoff Mullen, Jandek, and many others, and has recorded more than a dozen CDs and LPs for PAN, ESP-DISK and his own REL.
C. Spencer Yeh was born in Taipei, Taiwan, studied film at Northwestern University in Chicago IL, repped Cincinnati OH for many years, and is now based in Brooklyn NY. Yeh is active both as a solo and ensemble artist, as well as with his project, Burning Star Core. As an improviser, Yeh has focused on developing a personal vocabulary using violin, voice, and electronics. In more compositional and organizational modes, Yeh works with all aspects physically, conceptually, and aurally available. He is concerned not only with the sensual aspects of sound, but the gestural qualities as well. Yeh has collaborated with a deep and ever-growing list of individuals and groups and has performed across the U.S.A. and Europe. He has also had visual art and video works presented internationally.
Jules Gimbrone is a composer and artist who now lives in Los Angeles, CA. Jules approaches sound and composition through the lens of architectural, sculptural and choreographic interplay. Jules attempts to erect system and structures, which are conceptually sound but simultaneously house their inevitable demise and fallibility, specifically within the multiple failures and queerings of the performative body. Jules co-created, and curates Pack Projects, an art-music collective based in New York City and Los Angeles, who in September 2013 released its latest project: a compilation LP, book and digital download titled FAULT LINES. Jules’ work has been shown at such spaces as Human Resources LA, ISSUE Project Room, Spectrum, 3LD Art & Technology Center, Bodega Gallery, MOMA PS 1, Socrates Sculpture Park, Galapagos Art Space, The Performance Project, and Cameo Gallery. Jules is currently experimenting at CalARTS, studying with Michael Pisaro and pursuing an MFA in Composition. {julesgimbrone.com packprojects.us}
Born in Topeka, Kansas in 1979, Ben Lerner is the author of three books of poetry: The Lichtenberg Figures (2004), Angle of Yaw (2006), and Mean Free Path (2010), all published by Copper Canyon Press. He has been a finalist for the National Book Award in poetry, a Fulbright Scholar in Spain, a Howard Foundation Fellow, and a Guggenheim Fellow. In 2011 he became the first American to win the Preis der Stadt Münster für Internationale Poesie for the German translation of The Lichtenberg Figures. His first novel, Leaving the Atocha Station (Coffee House, 2011) won The Believer Book Award and was named one of the best books of the year by The New Yorker, The Guardian, The New Statesman, The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, and The New Republic, among many others. His second novel is forthcoming from Faber/FSG. His recent essays and criticism can be found in Art in America, boundary 2, Frieze, Harper’s, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. He teaches at Brooklyn College.
Amy Sillman is an artist whose paintings, drawings, and animations propose intentional interactions and conversations between diverse genres and forms. She negotiates between such formats as figuration and abstraction, language and image, humor and high seriousness; her work ranges in scale from the intimate to the outsized. Sillman's work has been written about and exhibited widely in galleries and museums in the US and Europe for the past two decades, and is included in many public and private collections including The Whitney Museum, MoMA, The Brooklyn Museum, San Francisco MoMA, and The Tate. She has been the recipient of many awards, including a Guggenheim, a Tiffany, and an NEA grant, and Fellowships from such institutes as The American Academy in Berlin and The Radcliffe Institute. A mid-career survey show and monograph, "one lump or two," is currently on view at the ICA Boston until January 2014. The show will then travel to The Aspen Art Museum and The Hessel Museum at Bard College. Sillman lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
