Laura Kavanaugh + Ian Birse: Instant Places. Software instruments + multi-channel sound. Friday, March 13, 7 - 10 P.M.; Saturday, March 14, 2 -10 P.M. Cost: Pay what you can
During a residency at Diapason, the artists will comb the Brooklyn waterfront for sounds, images and objects, and build software instruments to transform them in a multichannel sound field. During the two events, the artists will present process performances in which the work evolves to a new state. Laura Kavanaugh and Ian Birse create intermedia artworks on location using software instruments they design. In their practice they combine independent activity that is local and micro-scale with internet collaboration and broadcast events. From a base in Tokyo they spent February—April 2008 presenting performance/installations at centers across Japan, and traveled to Chicago in May to make Movie Palace, a series of intermedia works centered on the historic Congress Theatre building. Most recently they have presented a public projection project in Toronto called Citizen, video transfigurations of snapshot portraits of residents, and premiered a performance for 12 speaker sound array and live video called Head! Smashed! in! Buffalo! Jump! at SoundPlay 2008. Visit their project archive at www.instantplaces.ca