Temporary Roadmaps
Looking foward to Temporary Roadmaps, the trio of artists and their video/performance/voice/installation/sound pieces sound x-citing. Part of the Alembic Series at Performance Works NorthWest (4625 SE 67th), Temporary Roadmaps is an evening of experimental video performance curated by Karl Lind (ODDS AND ENDS screening series) featuring artists Ed Mellnik, Stephanie Simek and Adam Keller.
Temporary Roadmaps runs two nights July 17 and 18 at 8:30 PM. Admission is $8-10 (sliding scale) and you can reserve tickets at 503 777 1907 or purchase at Brown Paper Tickets.
Here’s the program:
ED MELLNIK
1) The Moment—A poem for three voices by Toby Lurie performed in live and video space.
2) The Door—a short video
3) Subjective Space- Third Movement—a short video with music by Roger Luther.
4) Excepts from “The Other Side of the Echo”—a work in progress involving both live actors and projected video. Music by Mother Mallards Portable Masterpiece Company
Statement for Brea(d)th:
It’s sad that the air is the only
thing we share.
No matter how close we get to each other,
there is always air between us.
It’s also nice that we share the air.
No matter how far apart we are,
the air links us.
-Yoko Ono
Drawing from the poem “Air Talk” by Yoko Ono (which later became a song on her Approximately Infinite Universe album in 1973), this performance connects participants in various cities around the world in a real-time experience of global community. Brea(d)th uses webcams positioned at the sky from these different locations, with each member reciting a dissected part of the poem, causing the fragments of speech to converge, disengage, and layer when broadcasted together.
An ArcEnabled Performance
Described as “Part ritual, part laser light show,” ArcEnabled is based on a video installation Keller created for the PDXFest. “Thousands of strings hanging from above form a canopy of colored lights, and are accompanied by sound collage and vocal performance. This piece follows an arc from the quiet hum of nighttime rainfall to a fully enabled state of awareness, where anything is possible, and all choices present themselves at once.”