Please note, this event will be held at Experimental Intermedia!

Monday, March 10th

8:30 pm

OptoSonic Tea

Live sets by:

- Leah Singer & Lee Ranaldo
- Kjell Bjørgeengen & Okkyung Lee

Invited moderator / respondent:

- Kathleen Forde

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Suggested donation: $ 7

Experimental Intermedia
224 Centre Street, 3rd Floor
New York NY 10013

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about the artists:

Leah Singer is a visual artist based in New York. Known for her live 16mm film performances, Iloveyouihateyou is a new work using digital imagery and live sound. It will be presented as installation in two upcoming exhibitions at cneai in Paris and The Hudson Valley Community College in Troy.

Lee Ranaldo is a writer, visual artist and member of the group Sonic Youth, founded in New York City in 1981. They are currently "gone retro," performing the 1989 album "Daydream Nation" around the world. His most recent chapbook is "Hello From The American Desert" [Nov '07, Silver Wonder Press, Chicago], poems composed from internet spam. He has a 12" 'art record' in the Paul Thek show at ZKM, Karleruhe in collaboration with Dutch artist Zeger Reyers. He is currently writing a piece for the Bang on a Can Orchestra, to premiere April 15 in Chapel Hill, NC.

Kjell Bjørgeengen's art practice is an investigation of reality.
Known for his installations, Kjell's practice has recently begun toemphasize live video performance. In this respect he has worked with musicians like Joelle Leandre, Evan Parkers Electro Acoustic Ensemble, Marc Ribot, Philipp Wachsmann, Keith Rowe and MIMEO. The live work often features the production of "flicker videos", which have also been presented in various exhibitions since 2002. Flicker is sound obtained by feeding video sync, thus becoming video and revealing the self-identity of the two. The flicker image is perhaps the most simple and fundamental image we can think of: an oscillation between shades of light and darkness, given from the outside as a simple pairing of opposites. A still image from the video reads like a minimal work; set in motion the work turns into its opposite.
www.kjellbjorgeengen.com

After being in music schools from age of 3 to 25, Korean cellist/improviser/composer Okkyung Lee finally found her artistic freedom in New York's Lower East Side where she moved in 2000. Since then she has performed and recorded with numerous artists including Laurie Anderson, Derek Bailey, Chris Corsano, Nels Cline, John Hollenbeck, Andrew Lampert, Christian Marclay, Min Xiao-Fen, Thirston Moore, Vijay Iyer, Jim o'Rourke, Zeena Parkins, Jim Thirwell and John Zorn. OkkyungÕs music is mostly influenced by movies, visual art, sound, Korean traditional/pop music and, of course, noise.
okkyunglee.com
myspace.com/okkyunglee

Kathleen Forde is the Curator for Time-Based Arts at the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center in Troy, NY.
Prior to her current position at EMPAC Kathleen worked as Curatorial Director for Live Arts and New Media for the Goethe Forum in Berlin. She concurrently curates on a freelance basis for various organizations and museums that have included Peregrine Arts, Philadelphia; The Eyebeam Center for Arts and Technology, NYC; Independent Curators International, VideoZone, Tel Aviv; ATA Cultural, Peru; Kunstverein in DŸsseldorf and Cologne; SFMOMA and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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