tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45543088169202342762024-03-20T16:35:19.364-07:00MomenTechm01123581321345589144@gmail.comUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4554308816920234276.post-44319836627531568542021-03-20T12:39:00.025-07:002023-09-22T20:40:34.694-07:00Pantone Headlines<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Is there a connection between color and culture, between a tonal palette and the <i>Zeitgeist</i>? MomenTech took some of the biggest 10 New York Times headlines, one per year, from 2010 to 2020, and paired them with the Pantone Color of the Year from each year. 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THREE GOOD CREATURES TOOK OVER OUR TROUBLE—THEY WERE:—DRUM, SONG AND DANCE (2018)<br />
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MomenTech was invited by curator/art historian Halston Bruce and choreographer/dancer Anneke Hansen to create a site-specific piece that responds to "The Palm-Wine Drinkard" and "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts," two novels by the late Nigerian author Amos Tutuola, based in part on Yoruba folktales.<br />
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The final piece, "THREE GOOD CREATURES TOOK OVER OUR TROUBLE—THEY WERE:—DRUM, SONG AND DANCE," was presented on January 7, 2018, at a private home in New York City's Chinatown, as part of the “First Person Plural” performance/conversation series, which takes place in domestic settings in New York City.<br />
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The audience participatory piece was led by the members of MomenTech, who guided participants in a circular, meditative path around a central altar in a darkened room. To join the movement, participants were asked to light a votive candle, place it on the altar, pick up one of the percussion instruments, and join in the walk, playing their instrument or making rhythms using body sounds (e.g., clapping, snapping fingers, hitting the body, etc.) and chanting specific lines from the Tutuola text. The circumambulation—the act of moving around a sacred object—around the altar represented the "journey into the bush" undertaken by the lead character in "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts." At the end of the journey, participants put their instruments down, blew out one candle and left the circle. The performance was completed when the last candle was blown out.<br />
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The piece could be called a participatory artwork, a group exercise, a collaboration, a game, a ritual. MomenTech hoped to create a space of intention together as a group. MomenTech simply provided a loose structure and we will all play within that structure.<br />
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There was also a presentation by Julian Knox, Professor of Literature from the University of South Alabama. The performance was followed by a conversation.<div><br /></div><div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">TRANSCRIPT</span></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Hi everybody. My name is Rey from <span class="il">MomenTech</span>. My fellow co-conspirators are Mika and Maciej. Thank you Halton and Anneke for inviting us today. And thank you Julian for you insight into Tutuola's strange and wonderful text. And thank you to you all for making out today in this frigid temperature. We hope that <span class="il">our</span> piece will warm you up a bit.</span></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">So first a little bit about <span class="il">MomenTech</span>. We are less an art collective than we are an experimental production studio. We rarely, if ever, make work in a vacuum. Rather, we create work based on calls for entry or commissioned work at the request of a curator. So when Halston and Anneke invited us to this salon, we read Tutuola's text and came up with a piece that is named after a section of Palm-Wine Drinkard; "<span class="il">THREE</span> <span class="il">GOOD</span> <span class="il">CREATURES</span> <span class="il">TOOK</span> <span class="il">OVER</span> <span class="il">OUR</span> <span class="il">TROUBLE</span>—<span class="il">THEY</span> <span class="il">WERE</span>:—<span class="il">DRUM</span>, <span class="il">SONG</span> AND <span class="il">DANCE</span>."</span></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">For this piece, we will take you on a short, loosely guided journey into the bush, inspired and driven by Tutuola's text. </span></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">You could call it a participatory artwork, a group exercise, a collaboration, a game, a </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; font-weight: bold;">ritual</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">. Whatever it is, we hope to create a space of intention together as a group. <span class="il">MomenTech</span> is simply going to provide a loose structure and we will all play within that structure.</span></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">We are going to use four kinds of sounds to describe <span class="il">our</span> journey into the bush. <span class="il">MomenTech</span> will lead with these sounds, and we ask each of you to simply mimic us. As we go deeper into the bush, feel free to express yourself as you wish. This is an open exploration; there are no wrong answers, no incorrect responses. The bush in unpredictable.</span></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><ol style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">Body sounds. These sounds describe a gathering storm (<span class="il">they</span> are, in increasing intensity):</span></li><ol><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">palms rubbing (wind)</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">snap fingers (drizzle of rain)</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">slap thighs (full rain)</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">claps (storm with thunder)</span></li></ol><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">Animal and monster sounds. In his journey into each bush, the Palm-Wine Drinkard experiences many strange monsters (p. 229: "I saw a terrible animal coming to the farm and eating the crops, but one morning I met him there, so I started to drive him away from the farm, of course I could not approach him as he was as big as an elephant. His fingernails <span class="il">were</span> long to about two feet, his head was bigger than his body ten times. He had a large mouth which was full of long teeth, these teeth <span class="il">were</span> about one foot long and as thick as cow's horns, his body was almost covered with black long hair like a horse's tail hair. He was very dirty. There <span class="il">were</span> five horns on his head and curved and levelled to the head, his four feet <span class="il">were</span> as big as a log of wood.)</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">Percussion sounds. We made some shakers that you can use. Grab one, shake it, share it.</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">Chanting. For this, I will read a couple of lines from the text, and we'll use a few words from each quote to be basis of a chant.</span></li></ol><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">Before we start <span class="il">our</span> journey, we're going to ask each of you light a candle and place it on the table in the center. Once you place it on the table, start walking slowly around the table, the "fire" in a clockwise direction. This is </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; font-weight: bold;">circumambulation—</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">the act of moving around a sacred object.</span></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">Physically, <span class="il">our</span> journey will be represented by simply walking around the "fire." While we walk, we'll be creating the sounds that describe <span class="il">our</span> journey.</span></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"><span class="il">Our</span> journey into the bush will take </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; font-weight: bold;">approximately 20 minutes</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;"> and be done in <span class="il">three</span> acts.</span></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">Before we start, Mika will perform a sage smudging ritual to cleanse <span class="il">our</span> auras and clear the space.</span></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">Then, we're asking everyone to light one votive candle (lighting from another lit candle) and place it on the table. That table will represent <span class="il">our</span> 'fire." Once you put your candle on the table, start walking around the table, clockwise.</span></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">Then we'll take you through the piece. Just follow us, mimic <span class="il">our</span> sounds and get into it. All you have to do is walk and do what we do. It's very simple. Feel free to enter and leave the walking circle at any time. This is an organic creation; we have no idea what it will sound like.</span></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">Each act will end when Maciej rings the Tibetan bowl. When we hear the ring, we'll stop walking, stop making noise and engage in a few moments of deep breathing, in through the nose, out through the mouth.</span></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">Then Maciej will ring the bowl again, and we start the next act, by circumambulating again, silently around the fire until we start more sounds from the bush.</span></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">At the </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; font-weight: bold;">end of the piece</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">, I will blow out a candle, and then we all blow out one candle. When the last candle is blown out, <span class="il">our</span> journey is <span class="il">over</span>.</span></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">Before we begin, are there any questions?</span></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">Now, before we turn off the lights and set up <span class="il">our</span> "fire," let's all stand up and stretch, get ready for a 20-minute walk into the bush.</span></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">While we set up, for musical inspiration and to get <span class="il">our</span> rhythmic juices—I'll play the Brian Eno and David Byrne album named after Tutuola's other novel, "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts."</span></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">>>></span></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; font-weight: bold;">SETUP</span></div><ol style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">Turn off lights</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">Tibetan bowl sound</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">Turn on Sonos: Eno/Byrne "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts"</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">Everyone light a votive candle (lighting from each another lit candle), place them on the table</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">Once people put their candle on the table, start perambulating around the table, clockwise</span></li></ol><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">>>></span></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; font-weight: bold;">ACT 1</span></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">Body sounds in this order:</span></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><ol style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">palms rubbing (wind)</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">snap fingers (drizzle of rain)</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">slap thighs (full rain)</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">claps (storm with thunder)</span></li></ol><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">(Approx. 4-5 minutes)</span></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">Tibetan bowl sound</span></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">Everyone stops -- no sound/no walking</span></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">Breathing in place</span></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">Tibetan bowl sound again, then people start walking in silence</span></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">>>></span></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; font-weight: bold;">ACT 2</span></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">Walking in silence</span></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">Mika starts animal sound</span></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">All participate with animal sounds, in increasing intensity</span></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">(Approx. 4-5 minutes)</span></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">Tibetan bowl sound</span></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">Everyone stops -- no sound/no walking</span></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">Breathing in place</span></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">Tibetan bowl sound again, then people start walking in silence</span></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">>>></span></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; font-weight: bold;">ACT 3</span></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">Walking in silence</span></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">Mika starts percussion sound</span></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">All participate with shaker or body sound</span></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">Rey starts reading text and then leads chant #1: "The very day that we left that town, we travelled up to forty miles inside the bush. And when it was 6:30pm in the evening, we reached a very thick bush; this bush was very thick so that a SNAKE COULD NOT PASS.</span></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">Chanting: "SNAKE COULD NOT PASS."</span></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 14px;">(Approx. 4-5 minutes)</span></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">Tibetan bowl sound</span></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">Everyone stops -- no sound/no walking</span></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">Breathing in place</span></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 14px;">Tibetan bowl sound -- start walking</span></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">Walking in silence</span></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">Mika starts percussion sound</span></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 14px;">Rey starts reading text and then leads chant #2: "But immediately we <span class="il">were</span> running away from this tree, we heard a terrible voice suddenly as if many persons talked into a big tank, then we looked at <span class="il">our</span> back and there we saw two large hands which came out from the tree and made a sign of "stop," but directly we saw him saying so, we did not stop after all, after that he said again—"STOP-THERE AND COME-HERE."</span></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 14px;">Chanting: "STOP-THERE AND COME-HERE."</span></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 14px;">(Approx. 4-5 minutes)</span></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">Tibetan bowl sound</span></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">Everyone stops -- no sound/no walking</span></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">Breathing in place</span></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">Everyone blows out their candle</span></div><div dir="auto" processed="true" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif;">Tibetan bowl sound - END</span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-fb38bc54-7fff-312f-bc34-13a94d3efe05"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">MomenTech</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Death Drums</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Live performance piece, approx. 5-10 minutes, dimensions variable</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Three performers dressed in white, white lights, drum kit, drum sticks, black water-based paint, paint containers, canvas, video camera</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 63pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">"The drum beat, the ringing of the bell, the funeral procession driven by percussive rhythms are all manifestations of our use of percussion as human expression when facing death." - Mickey Hart</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Death</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Drums</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, an unrealized performance piece by experimental production studio MomenTech, explores the cultural death-drums connection. From New Orleans jazz band funeral marches to Haitian Vodou drumming to the "funeral drum" employed by the Hmong people of Southeast Asia, drums are connected to death. In contemporary rock music, there is a recurring joke that “the drummer always dies,” referred to in the film “This Is Spinal Tap.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Death Drums </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">is </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">a drums-and-vocals-based piece that has three elements:</span></p><br /><ol style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;">a live performance involving live drums being played to a pre-recording death chant (approx. 5 minutes)</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;">an “action painting” created from the performance</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: decimal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;">a film of the performance (and the painting being made)</span></p></li></ol><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Setup: Single room. Drum kit on large canvas on floor, covering the performance area. Three performers dressed in white. Performer #1 plays drums. Performer #2 pours black paint on drum heads, causing paint to splatter. Performer #3 films performance The video and painting can be shown as artifacts.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">For more information, please visit</span><a href="http://momentech.blogspot.com." style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></a><a href="http://momentech.blogspot.com" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">http://momentech.blogspot.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> or contact MomenTech at </span><a href="mailto:m01123581321345589144@gmail.com" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">m01123581321345589144@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">.</span></p><br /></span>
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<br /></div><div processed="true"><span class="il">PULSE</span> is a conceptual art project that culminated in the production of six (6) hi-res digital photographs that represent print ads for the eponymous fictional product. [SEE ATTACHED ZIP FOR LO-RES IMAGES]. </div><div processed="true"><br /></div><div processed="true"><div processed="true"><span class="il">PULSE</span> (Personal Universal Library System for Eternity) is a fictional solution, by <span class="il">MomenTech</span>, to a very real problem: the survival of our books and libraries, and the culture preserved within them, in the 21st century and beyond. With extreme heat, deadly storms, drought and sea levels on the rise, the world’s vast collections of books and libraries, some of which date back to antiquity, will soon be vulnerable as our economic, environmental, political, and social systems destabilize and potentially collapse.</div><div processed="true"><br /></div><div processed="true">"<span class="il">PULSE</span>" is a print advertising campaign for the eponymous fictional product. For this work, <span class="il">MomenTech</span> takes on the guise of an ad agency responding to a Request for Proposals (RFP) issued by the fictional <span class="il">Pulse</span> Digital Storage and Retrieval Solutions Company ("PulseCo"), whose centerpiece product, the "Personal Universal Library System for Eternity", or "<span class="il">PULSE</span>," eliminates the need of storing and caring for physical books through digitization.</div><div processed="true"><br /></div><div processed="true">By sending their physical books to PulseCo, <span class="il">PULSE</span> customers can liberate space in their homes by removing the clutter of physical books, access their <span class="il">PULSE</span> from any Web-enabled device (computer, tablet, mobile phone, etc.), organize their <span class="il">PULSE</span> in multiple views (by author, by date of publication, by subject, etc.), share their <span class="il">PULSE</span> with their friends and family and reconnect with their books in a new, exciting and deeply personal and interactive way (i.e., "finding your <span class="il">PULSE</span>").</div><div processed="true"><br /></div><div processed="true"><span class="il">PULSE</span> services include:</div><div processed="true"><br /></div><div processed="true">-Digitization of books and other related ephemera (catalogs, brochures, pamphlets, etc.)</div><div processed="true"><br /></div><div processed="true">-Optical Character Recognition (OCR) conversion (to enable the ability to search <span class="il">PULSE</span> via text search field</div><div processed="true"><br /></div><div processed="true">- Permanent storage of physical books in a climate-controlled underground bunker that can withstand a nuclear detonation on the surface of the Earth</div><div processed="true"><br /></div><div processed="true">-Emergency deployment of a physical library into space (in case of loss of terrestrial environmental stability), including the entire library digitally pressed into gold-plated digital phonographs</div><div processed="true"><br /></div><div processed="true"><span class="il">PULSE</span>'s client base comprises individuals or organizations wishing to digitize the books and other related ephemera in their library.</div><div processed="true"><br /></div><div processed="true">The various print ads in <span class="il">MomenTech'</span>s <span class="il">PULSE</span> ad campaign address the various services that PulseCo offers and how people can benefit from becoming subscribers.</div><div processed="true"><br /></div><div processed="true">In effort to generate awareness about these issues, along with probing the values attached to books and libraries in general, <span class="il">MomenTech</span>'s ad agency experiment culminated in the launch of a logo, brand, and print ad campaign for a fictional new technology called <span class="il">PULSE</span>: a service that allows clients to choose from different subscriptions, ranging from the simple digitalization of one’s books and related ephemera (catalogs, brochures, pamphlets, etc.) to the preservation of whole libraries, in nuke-proof bunkers that are accessible through hologram technology.</div><div processed="true"><br /></div><div processed="true">As imaginary curators of a not-so-stable future, <span class="il">PULSE</span> was partly inspired by the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway: a refuge for the world’s seeds, constructed on a remote Arctic island in case of a large-scale global crisis. However, while <span class="il">PULSE</span> presently remains fictional, it may soon be a practical solution in a world where it is highly profitable for fossil fuels to be extracted, sold, and burned at a rate that diminishes our future by the hour; profitable to pollute our air and water and undermine our health in general; and profitable for a few, who control almost everything, to create a disposable planet. Since our libraries will be part of what we lose, get <span class="il">PULSE</span> now.</div><div processed="true"><br /></div><b>UPLOAD PICTURES</b>: PLEASE SEE ATTACHED ZIP FILE</div><div processed="true"><br /></div><div processed="true"><b>LINKS TO VIDEO/PICTURES</b>: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://momentech.blogspot.com/2014/05/pulse.html&source=gmail&ust=1695527151382000&usg=AOvVaw2lN2Y4LFS8MD2kCxNDK-AQ" href="http://momentech.blogspot.com/2014/05/pulse.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://<wbr></wbr><span class="il">momentech</span>.blogspot.com/2014/<wbr></wbr>05/<span class="il">pulse</span>.html</a></div><div processed="true"><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4554308816920234276.post-48784843922404124922013-11-06T13:21:00.020-08:002023-09-22T20:56:11.320-07:00RFAOH<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">Date: Sunday, April 27, 2014</div><div style="text-align: left;">Time: 4-6pm</div><div style="text-align: left;">Location: Rubin Museum Theater</div><div style="text-align: left;">Capacity: 137 (auditorium style)</div><div style="text-align: left;">Proposed Event Name: "The Art of Meditation at the Rubin" (working title)</div><div style="text-align: left;">Proposed Event Details:</div><div style="text-align: left;">This event centers around the art and practice of meditation. The project is proposed by</div><div style="text-align: left;">the experimental production studio MomenTech as part of the group's 2013-2014</div><div style="text-align: left;">residency with the not-for-profit artist residency organization Residency for Artists on</div><div style="text-align: left;">Hiatus (RFAOH).</div><div style="text-align: left;">For this event, MomenTech has secured the participation of Roshi Pat Enkyo O'Hara, a</div><div style="text-align: left;">Zen master and abbott/founder of the Village Zendo, a Zen sangha located in SoHo.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Roshi will introduce the art of meditation, touching on the differences between different</div><div style="text-align: left;">traditions (e.g., Zen, Tibetan, Indian, Southeast Asian), then lead the audience in a guided</div><div style="text-align: left;">meditation.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">After the meditation session, Roshi will be joined by artist and Rinzai Zen expert Paweł</div><div style="text-align: left;">Wojtasik in an audience Q&A.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">In addition to the introduction to Zen meditation, guided meditation, and Q&A sessions,</div><div style="text-align: left;">MomenTech will execute a meditation experiment as part of the</div><div style="text-align: left;">research for their RFAOH residency. Audience members will be asked to create a quick doodle on a high-quality sheet of archival paper in permanent</div><div style="text-align: left;">marker or similar drawing implement prior to the meditation session, and then another</div><div style="text-align: left;">one immediately after the meditation. These anonymous doodles will be collected,</div><div style="text-align: left;">analyzed and presented on the RFAOH website in a "before-and-after" format, in an</div><div style="text-align: left;">attempt to reveal possible changes in participants’ mental state due to the effect of the</div><div style="text-align: left;">meditation session.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">In addition, MomenTech has been in discussion with the non-profit residency</div><div style="text-align: left;">organization Residency Unlimited (RU) to collaborate with one or more of their resident</div><div style="text-align: left;">artists to present relevant work and/or create new work tied to the theme of meditation</div><div style="text-align: left;">and/or Tibetan medicine (specifically to resonate with the themes explored by the Rubin</div><div style="text-align: left;">exhibition Bodies in Balance). </div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4554308816920234276.post-45924954634939501902013-09-08T08:00:00.002-07:002023-09-22T20:59:04.157-07:00Imagination Survival Kit<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="il" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Imagination</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="il" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Survival</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="il" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Kit</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">, inspired by Julian Beck: "</span><span class="il" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">Imagination</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> as </span><span class="il" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">survival</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="il" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">kit</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> of the brain." </span><span class="il" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">MomenTech</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> will create its own version of the </span><span class="il" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">kit</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">, i.e., what artifacts of human society, culture, and knowledge will MomenTech will need to be </span><span class="il" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">MomenTech</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> after an environmental, economic, and/or societal collapse? This is a template for people and groups to create their own personalized kits. The kits contain the things, books, films, concepts, etc., that nourish the human </span><span class="il" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">imagination for each person or group.</span><br />
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Inspired by Fluxus, Dada and Zulu zombie mythology, <i>Zombie Tag</i> is a situational, public-space, user-interactive project inviting people to secretly tag others with "zombie stickers."<br />
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If one discovers the sticker on themselves, they can "pass on the infection" by placing it on someone else.
<i>Zombie Tag</i> explores <i>Entfremdung</i> (estrangement), Marx's theory of alienation describing the separation of things that naturally belong together; and the placement of antagonism between things that are properly in harmony.<br />
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<i>Entfremdung</i> describes the social alienation of people from aspects of their human nature (Gattungswesen, "species-essence") as a consequence of living in a society stratified into social classes.<br />
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This theory was rearticulated by The Situationist International (SI), an exclusive international organization of social revolutionaries, avant-garde artists and intellectuals, and finds a more playful approach in <i>Zombie Tag</i>, which celebrates the humor and fun element that was an important aspect of Fluxus art.<br />
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<i>Zombie Tag</i> investigates the social alienation and stratifications present in the "us vs. them" aspect of zombie mythology, offering a slight shift in perspectives regarding the public spaces we occupy.
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To play, simply download and print the <a href="https://app.box.com/s/241iefmgycijv5a3bje2" target="_blank"><i>Zombie Tag</i> template</a> on sticker paper, cut up the stickers and you're ready to secretly tag someone in the public space. If you are able to take a picture of your "victim,"please post online with #zombietag.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4554308816920234276.post-29195053071422104622013-06-20T00:01:00.003-07:002023-09-22T20:59:51.158-07:00Inwigilacja (Surveillance)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br /><table id="m_-5367999952567607153itemcontentlist" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><tbody><tr><td processed="true" style="line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px;"><div processed="true" style="line-height: 18.2px; margin: 0px;"><b>"We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government."</b> -- William Orville Douglas (1898–1980), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States<br /><br />Taking its cues from the work of Polish director Jerzy Grotowski, <i>Inwigilacja</i> (Polish for "surveillance") re-imagines the traditional theatrical process through the lens of our modern surveillance culture.<br /><br />Two rooms are connected via a simple closed circuit television (CCTV) setup. A video camera is installed in one of the corners near the ceiling in a room marked "Stage.” It is connected to a video monitor located in an adjoining room marked "House."<br /><br /><i>Inwigilacja</i> explores Grotowski's “paratheatrical” attemps to transcend the separation between performer and spectator by letting viewers decide if they want to view the spectacle or be the spectacle itself. By entering the "Stage," one becomes an actor. By entering the "House," one becomes a viewer.<br /><br />Exploring the increasing loss of privacy due to surveillance in which members of the public become unintentional subjects/performers for an anonymous audience that holds voyeuristic power through the use of video technology, <em>Inwigilacja</em> contemplates a dystopic, Orwellian vision of the future in which—as Justice Douglas suggests—"there are no secrets." However, presented as a "complete theater," i.e., with dedicated "house" and "stage" locations, <em>Inwigilacja</em> also provides a way to examine the relationship between theater and politics, both on a governmental (control/power) and interpersonal (audience interplay) level.<img class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" height="1" jslog="138226; u014N:xr6bB; 53:WzAsMl0." processed="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEjHtTOngXGOiY7AeOqPCeWyJXpC7A5CktFJh8XiH8ZHtoiemvOnKXTkYAGeL9KIlIPW9ygcukVVkagjTsQB_B5eKkXrPG37WmNFrX5M9TJOMEjtfAINqISoiI4501tbudjENOpLuS8OjNRAbAZcel7jkkQFvUCxcJfPU4s_SRGkZSSWpSNAYOX2k0N09C3_7UbcheV9_KjaYw3VpLI0Rg=s0-d-e1-ft&utm_medium=email" style="visibility: hidden;" tracker="true" width="1" /></div><div><br /></div></td></tr></tbody></table>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4554308816920234276.post-26927951049427392072013-03-05T08:52:00.004-08:002023-09-22T21:01:34.746-07:00HOME<div style="text-align: center;">
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<i style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="il">HOME</span></i> (2013), digital print, 7.5"x 7.5"</div></i><br /><div><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">March 5, 2013 (New York)</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> -- "</span><span class="il" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">HOME</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">" is a new small graphical work produced by </span><span class="il" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">MomenTech</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> for the </span><span class="il" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">HOME</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> Project, a collaboration between Ground.Arts and Art Start that supports children in homeless shelter programs. Ground.Arts is a not-for-profit organization helping build art programs around the world for children. Art Start is a non-profit that runs creative arts workshops with youth in homeless shelters and alternative to incarceration programs. Both organizations are based in New York City.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">"</span><span class="il" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">HOME</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">" is a remix of American pop artist Robert </span><span class="il" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Indiana</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">'s iconic "</span><span class="il" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">LOVE</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">" sculpture, the image of which was originally designed as a Christmas card for the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1964. Since then, it has been reproduced in a variety of formats and recreated in multiple versions and a variety of colors, on display around the world.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="il" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">MomenTech</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> has taken the graphic version with </span><span class="il" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Indiana</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">'s original color choices and transformed the word "</span><span class="il" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">LOVE</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">" into "</span><span class="il" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">HOME</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">," showing how close these two words are.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Indeed, the two concepts are often been regarded as synonymous. As the American poet Oliver Wendell Holmes once said, "Where we </span><span class="il" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">love</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> is </span><span class="il" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">home</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">—</span><span class="il" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">home</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> that our feet may leave, but not our hearts."</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4554308816920234276.post-24357047148607433572013-01-08T00:01:00.002-08:002023-09-22T21:02:48.697-07:00Emotional Responses to Western Painting<br />
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Silvia, an associate professor of psychology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, published a paper on art and emotion entitled "<span class="il">Emotional</span> <span class="il">responses</span> to art: From collation and arousal to cognition and emotion," in the journal of the American Psychological Association (APA). He writes: "Emotions and art are intimately related. From ancient to modern times, theories of aesthetics have emphasized the role of art in evoking, shaping, and modifying human feelings. The experimental study of preferences, evaluations, and feelings related to art has a long history in psychology."</div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: left;">The goal of Silvia's paper was "to introduce the assumptions and predictions of appraisal theories to researchers interested in <span class="il">emotional</span> <span class="il">responses</span> to art."</div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><span class="il" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="il">MomenTech</span>'s "<span class="il">Emotional</span> <span class="il">Responses</span> to <span class="il">Western</span> <span class="il">Painting</span>" seeks to build on this research with a new study that aims to understand <span class="il">emotional</span> <span class="il">responses</span> to art through the use of a selected group of well-known paintings from <span class="il">Western</span> art.</div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: left;">By studying <span class="il">responses</span> to this culturally specific group of work by individual test subjects (from across all cultures and geographic regions around the world, not just the West), we hope to better understand the cultural-<span class="il">emotional</span> context that exists in the human experience of art in general, as well as cultural- and location- specific <span class="il">emotional</span> <span class="il">responses</span>. This study will add to the ongoing research into the relationship between art, emotion, culture and psychology.</div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: left;">For this work, a special deck of 52 cards will be used. Each card has one of 52 different human emotions printed on one side. Forty-eight of the 52 emotions were taken from the Emotion Annotation and Representation Language (EARL) as proposed by the Human- Machine Interaction Network on Emotion (HUMAINE). The four remaining emotions were taken from the tree-structured list of emotions as described by W. Gerrod Parrott, a professor of psychology at Georgetown University, in his 2001 book <i>Emotions in Social Psychology</i> (Psychology Press, Philadelphia).</div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;"><div style="text-align: left;">On the other side of each card is a reproduction of a <span class="il">painting</span> selected from the group of paintings from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art that the museum’s curators have determined are “highlights” from the collection. <span class="il">MomenTech</span> has associated each of the 52 emotions with a <span class="il">painting</span> from this exclusive group. By using famous <span class="il">Western</span> paintings, the aim is to explore and question the validity of the <span class="il">Western</span> art canon as a source of <span class="il">emotional</span> response across all cultures, both <span class="il">Western</span> and non-<span class="il">Western</span>.</div></span></div>
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<b>"The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction." -- Rachel Carson (1907-1964), American conservationist </b></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">June 14, 2012</span> (New York) -- MomenTech's sound piece "Red List (Endangered Avians, Europe)," has been selected by <a href="http://picnic-raum.org/" target="blank">PICNIC Art and Music Space</a> for inclusion in their "48h Radio Show" that will take place during the <a href="http://www.48-stunden-neukoelln.de/2012/index.html" target="blank">48 Stunden Neukölln Festival</a> in Berlin, June 17-18, 2012.<br />
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According to the festival wesbite, the 48 Stunden Neukölln "reflects the impact of the 275th anniversary of a large number of religious refugees from Bohemia settling in (Böhmisch)-Rixdorf. They had suffered religious persecution in their homeland and were in desperate need of a safe haven. Friedrich Wilhelm I duly invited a number of families to settle in Berlin, where they established themselves in a village that later bore a name making reference to them, on 15 June, 1737."<br />
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Acting as a natural world metaphor for this historical refugee event, "Red List (Endangered Avians, Europe)" highlights the ongoing plight of the region's endangered bird species, who are increasingly lacking a safe haven as human activity—urban and agricultural development, pollution and anthropogenic climate change, for example—reduces and destroys their natural habitat.<br />
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"Red List" a 10'43'' audio piece composed entirely of the calls of the following nine endangered European/Eurasian bird species:
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1. Skylark<br />
2. Slender-billed Curlew<br />
3. Egyptian Vulture<br />
4. White-headed Duck<br />
5. Saker Falcon<br />
6. Japanese Crested Ibis<br />
7. Eurasian Peregrine Falcon<br />
8. Balearic Shearwater<br />
9. Song Thrush
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Press the PLAY button to hear the track:
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"Red List" follows a similar compositional structure to "Boléro" (1928), a one-movement orchestral piece by Maurice Ravel originally composed as a ballet commissioned by Russian ballerina Ida Rubinstein.
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Like "Boléro," in which the orchestra repeats a single melody with increasing musical instruments, "Red List" starts with a single birdsong, getting more and more layered, until all nine birds are singing by the end of the piece.
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If mankind does not help conserve these endangered species, these birds will go extinct and their birdsongs will be lost forever, existing only as recordings such as this one. But "Red List" highlights just a small fraction of the many endangered species around the globe that are the unintended victims of "environmental persecution." According to IUCN, 12 percent of birds, 21 percent of mammals and 30 percent of amphibians are currently endangered. Meanwhile, humans continue to overpopulate the planet to an unsustainable and dangerously high population of 9 billion by the year 2050.<br />
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"<span class="il">Inequallet</span>" features an image of a Louis Vuitton wallet with the famous "LV" insignia replaced with unequal signs, along with the Warren Buffet quote above.<br /><br /><strong>ABOUT <span class="il">MOMENTECH</span></strong><br /><br /><span class="il">MomenTech</span> is a New York-based experimental production studio that was founded in 2010. <span class="il">MomenTech</span> coined the term <em>Augenblicksmus</em> (a neologistic variant of the German word “augenblick,” meaning literally, “in the blink of an eye”) to describe a creative principle based on the primacy of the <span class="il">moment</span> in the development of advanced methods for the mobilization of transnational progressivism, post-humanism, neo-nomadism and futurism. With simple instructional works, covert public interventions, user-generated content (UCG) and user-assisted content (UAC), <span class="il">MomenTech</span> provides innovative solutions to leaders, teachers, curators, producers, directors and organizers looking for state-of-the-art methods to engage the public on the fundamental, practical and theoretical questions encountered at the intersection of education, science, technology, arts, culture and sports.<br /><br /><span class="il">MomenTech</span> has presented projects around the world, including "Field of Dreams Festival," Bruce High Quality, Brooklyn New York; The 7 Billionth Person Project, Yale University; "3 Walls on Wednesdays," Athens, Greece; "An Exchange with Sol LeWitt," Cabinet, Brooklyn, New York; NewMedia Daet Festival, Camarines Norte, Philippines; "Escape," 6x6 Media Arts, Athens, Georgia; "Placebos for Art," Behring Institute for Medical Research, Dresden, Germany; Magmart International Video Festival VII, Naples, Italy; "April Fools' Show," SpaceCamp Gallery, Indianapolis, Indiana; "mailto:," Drift Station, Lincoln, Nebraska; DUMBO Arts Festival 2011, Brooklyn, New York; "Ethnographic Terminalia," Eastern Bloc Center for New Media and Interdisciplinary Art, Montreal, Canada; "Strategies for Public Occupation," Storefront for Art & Architecture, New York; and "End of War: Your Re-Imagined Peace Sign," WNYC Radio, New York.<div processed="true"><img alt="" class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" height="1" jslog="138226; u014N:xr6bB; 53:WzAsMl0." processed="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEjCN79IhaUsokG8-dxtWLcq8X21wPhOLKGlgt9RF9Lv0fJf1q7CHuHF1YNMTs-b9Kiqf1eyBUNM12U00kq8ZBONSbEhw1UBLWboB2nV8B3Ta_yX6eozUSRu3JXOG0x7XwK1kSi4thDdPs3XKuBmXrPQdNfGU2iljDWFzBCy3RBM8qxBUtU-SmCWJ9hM5HpH-Orwgm1v-vmLs7SbgpzkgXfAWDHC7O1Xw-Mu9lVzAoY=s0-d-e1-ft" style="visibility: hidden;" tracker="true" width="1" /></div><img class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" height="1" jslog="138226; u014N:xr6bB; 53:WzAsMl0." processed="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEgydQaji4Ahd96uYqzcyimv6kSLQ2VRY7N8agM5ZtLi60iKhaNEbjy-0isNU1Qe74Vllo3TXFEtiXSmMAYDrBuyi1KHylCKU59JScRjMRZD11ne37yfPr93hLOsxZxqdvTcQy7An2SxgYfA4zEEMdHQft8RaXssngWmxUZAEPrVIA8d7hUstVtvFROaifGyEtUHXSt8EnCLLwmBFV1aAg=s0-d-e1-ft&utm_medium=email" style="visibility: hidden;" tracker="true" width="1" /></div><div><br /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4554308816920234276.post-44380123403781169302012-03-30T18:37:00.012-07:002023-03-18T21:55:49.281-07:00Peace Option Key<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRN-1Q0X7AmIhpOajnkG9t-b28pi_1EJYBKLtR5spRIBGyOKOk5xrHeX02HBFQ-jjgw6Ggx2h7SuIuK43AIh4DJMy-UN8WOKKfBsF7WJMccUCjSZntwuC7ZaALdF314NipU0I399ha6pm2/s1600/option+peace_s.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5726079708927914018" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRN-1Q0X7AmIhpOajnkG9t-b28pi_1EJYBKLtR5spRIBGyOKOk5xrHeX02HBFQ-jjgw6Ggx2h7SuIuK43AIh4DJMy-UN8WOKKfBsF7WJMccUCjSZntwuC7ZaALdF314NipU0I399ha6pm2/s400/option+peace_s.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; 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