Friday, March 13

7 - 10 pm

Saturday, March 14

2 - 10 pm

Laura Kavanaugh + Ian Birse:

Instant Places

software instruments + multi-channel sound

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 FebruaryÑApril 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

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