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- Occupy 2012
- Kids Photography Workshop - Mexico - Dec 2011
- OWS / Zucotti Park 11_14 / Brooklyn Bridge 11/15
- Dimanche Rouge: Saturday Streaming Labs @ Spread Art
- #OWS / Times Square / 10_15_11
- Remote Control Tomato @ Dimanche Rouge Labs
- Remote Control Tomato @ Dimanche Rouge
- Photos: The Tronic @ Warper Party
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Friends that Inspire
- Tracy Lovell
My best friend in this world, Tracy has inspired & supported me since the day we met. - Erin Partridge
Erin rocks my world. A creative inspiration & best friend with a heart of gold. - Thomas Bell
Perhaps I would be making art if I hadn't met Thom, but it certainly wouldn't be the same. Nobody is more dedicated to life as art.
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January 01, 2012
Kids Photography Workshop - Mexico - Dec 2011
I recently returned from a trip to La Manzanilla, Jalisco, Mexico. While I was there I taught a series of digital photography workshops to a group of local students ranging from 10 - 15 years old. I was completely inspired by the kids enthusiasm and work, and look forward to anohter series of workshops in the future.
Photo by Betito
Thank you to La Catalina Foundation, and especially Dean Klompas, for selecting the students from their Wings Scholarship program and otherwise supporting the workshops.
Photo by Citlalli
See more photos from students in the workshop here.
November 18, 2011
OWS / Zucotti Park 11_14 / Brooklyn Bridge 11/15
A beautiful couple nights in NYC...More photos here.
November 16, 2011
Dimanche Rouge: Saturday Streaming Labs @ Spread Art
Spread Art participates in an afternoon of experimental performances streamed live from around the world with streamed performances from Portugal, Barbados, and Argentina (11am-12pm) followed by live performances streamed around the globe (12pm-1pm)
Join us at 104 Meserole Street, Brooklyn
Or watch online: www.livestream.com/dimancherougestream
Streaming In (11am-12pm)
->Vitor Lago Silva, “The last words of Domenico” (digital performance, Oporto, Portugal) http://thelastwordsofdomenico.wordpress.com/
->Michelle Isava, “Dagger Head Net” (performance art, Bridgetown, Barbados)
->Lorena Avallar, “La Puta Idea” (performance art, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Streaming Out (1pm-2pm)
->Esther Neff & Brian McCorkle (Panoply Performance Laboratory)
->Anya Liftig
->Valerie Kuehne
->Remote Control Tomato (Christina deRoos & Thomas Bell)
->Collective improvisation with all artists
Panoply Performance Laboratory (Esther Neff and Brian McCorkle)
The Panoply Performance Laboratory (PPL) is a performance collective
formed in 2006 by librettist/director/video artist Esther Neff and
composer/musician/sound artist Brian McCorkle. PPL's hyper-structural
performance art projects are developed in collaboration with
individuals from many different walks of life, and through community
workshops, interviews, and other engaged practices. They often examine
complex systems and trace epistemic, emotional, and socio-political
viewpoints held by individuals and groups. Using home-made
technological set-ups, multiple languages, video, interactive and
participatory elements, field-recorded sound, and found materials, PPL
works operate across many disciplines. Their current project is a
5-episode opera called NATURE FETISH in development at University
Settlement. www.panoplylab.org
Valerie Kuehne is an electrically charged virtuoso of all purpose
cello. Dynamic performer, fearless improviser, songwriter, vocalist,
and classically trained connoisseur of Bach and Britten, Valerie can
be found playing incessant shows in NYC, where she devotes formidable
heart, intellect, creativity, and time to cross-pollinating sundry
genres. Armed with finesse, Valerie is impressively present on stage,
rendering poignant punctuations of changeable emotional weather. In
any setting, her instrument aches with human implications and fiendish
alien fuel. www.dreamzoo.bandcamp.com
Anya Liftig’s work has been featured at TATE Modern, Highways
Performance Space, Exit Art, Chashama, Surreal Estate, Eyedrum, Grace Exhibition Space, Flux Factory, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Galapagos, The Flea, Performance Art Institute, Yale University, Center for Performance Research,INCUBATEChicago, University of Wisconsin, University of Chicago, Mess Hall, Joyce Soho and many other venues. Her work, “The Anxiety of Influence,” was an intervention into Marina Abramovic’s “The Artist is Present” retrospective at MOMA. Liftig dressed as the elder artist and sat across from her all day. Her work has been published and written about in The New York Times Magazine, Bomb, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue Italia, Marie Claire Italia, Heeb, The Other Journal, Jewcy, Mix Magazine, Next Magazine, Now and Then, Stay Thirsty, New York Magazine, Gothamist, Jezebel, Animal New York and many others. She is a graduate of Yale University and Georgia State University and has received grant and residency support from The Field, Vermont Studio Center, University of Antioquia, Casa Tres Patios-Medellin Colombia, and Flux Projects, Atlanta. www.anyaliftig.com
Remote Control Tomato (video + sound / Christina deRoos and Thomas Bell) www.christinaderoos.com. www.twin72.com
October 17, 2011
October 15, 2011
August 21, 2011
Photos: The Tronic @ Warper Party
Photos from Warper Party 8/16/11 in Brooklyn. It was damn relaxing to have an evening with nothing more than a camera to concern myself with. More photos here.
Above: Gregg Jarvis
Above: Thomas Bell
Above (L to R): Unknown dude, Thomas Bell + Gregg Jarvis = The Tronic
