This photo was taken on saturday evening, much was done before and after
I arrived at St. Cecelia's late thursday night to find my room on the top floor to be tiny, cold and dark, with pale green paint and chunks of plaster peeling from the walls. the brown tile floor was filthy, tiles missing...sad. neglected. needed more METTA than meta...
I quickly realized that my plan to paint on a screen while Helena played the cello was not going to be possible in this space. The room is to small to project a large image onto a screen....but plans change...i was forced to adapt...such is the nature of site-determined art. So after a minor freak-out (Oh MY GAWD! what am i to do?!?!?!) I began to mend this broken space, opting to peel it open to the outside world rather that close it off. i wanted to let the cold blue nighttime in -- the rattle of the frigid wind and the crunching of the snow beneath your feet.
I mixed paint to mimic the brooklyn twilight sky and invited the shadows inside. then i began painting painting painting the spaces in between the branches of the sycamore trees all around.
i made a sculpture in the center of the room using a motif i've explored in many drawings--a free floating medicine wheel made of tree branches arranged in a mycelium-like formation radiating from the center.
The floor is now coated in a thick layer of smooth white plaster. The only light in the room will be from the tree video/animation that will be projected onto the ceiling above the sculpture.
How to find me in this vast maze? On the third floor, through the baba yaga house, then to the left, down a ladder and at the end of the hall. just follow the white lights....
(on the sequence of waves website there is a graphic of the building---my room is the one with lightning bolts shooting out of it)
Looseworld is making a documentary about this entire process
go to http://www.sequenceofwaves.com/ to see footage, and a live webstream.
THEN COME.
RABID HANDS PRESENTS
SEQUENCE OF WAVES
EXHIBITION: Saturday, January 29th ONLY
HOURS: 2 pm – 9 pm
LOCATION: St. Cecelia’s Convent
21 Monitor Street, Greenpoint, Brooklyn
AFTER PARTY: Union Pool, back room, 9 pm
484 Union Ave, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
CONTACT: Rabid Hands
rabidhands@gmail.com
Rabid Hands is pleased to present Sequence of Waves, the collective’s inaugural sound, visual and multi-media art exhibition. The exhibition is open to the public for one day only, on Saturday, January 29th at St. Cecilia’s Gallery in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and will include scheduled performances. Formerly a convent and school, St. Cecilia’s Gallery is now a hub for rotating art exhibitions and film screenings, effectively bringing life back into the three-story building.
Recognizing the potential for discovery and experimentation in the St. Cecilia building, Rabid Hands has gathered over 40 artists to transform this space during their two-week residency. Given the narrow hallways and cordoned off rooms, the architecture of the building does not inherently lend itself to one large, continuous visual space, nor does it necessarily encourage group investigation. Instead of approaching the architecture as an obstacle, artists will use sound as the organizing and uniting principle. Embracing complete freedom, Rabid Hands encourages all participating artists to look beyond the confines of their personal forms and methods and merge their dialogue with the broader group. While individual works can be seen, what will emerge, more importantly, is the story of how these artists can influence the outcome of each other’s work by way of true collaboration.
Works will vary from: a “red carpet” of bubble wrap weaving through the convent’s hallways; an amalgamation of the exhibition’s microphone cords ascending a three-story tall sculpture made of found materials in the central stairwell, poised for sonic and aerial performance; a robotically controlled symphony of recordings filling the convent’s chapel with sound, as well as many other collaborative projects.
Participating artists include: Adriana Atema, Ranjit Bhatnagar, Jon Bocksel, Terence Caulkins, Skye Chamberlain, Nick Chatfield-Taylor, Ryan Chin, G. Lucas Crane, Jesse Cronan, Vanessa Cronan, Alex Drewchin, Jan Drojarski, Serra Victoria Bothwell Fels, Jessica Findley, Kendall Glover, George Graham, Doktor Greg, James Haddrill, Gaylen Hamilton, Travis Iurato, Elijah Kast, Victoria Keddie, Jesse Kreuzer, Taylor Kuffner, Roberto Lange, Steven Ma, Lili Maya, Zelijko McMullen, Steven Milton, Rob Minervini, Caleb Mitchell, Ben Mortimer, Kelly Nicholson, Ryan O’Connor, Brian Osborne, Mike O’Toole, Brandon Perry, Zac Poff, Nandan Rao, Allen Riley, John Roach, James Rouvelle, Amanda Salane, Isabella Scott, Tod Seelie, Ben Simon, Phillip Stearns, Martyna Szcz, Heidi Tullmann, Emily Willis, Ben Wolf, Nick Yulman, Tyler Zwiep.
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