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520 Kingsland Avenue
Brooklyn, NY, 11222
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EVENTS

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Mothership Salons are informal gatherings for artist friends & colleagues and other arts appreciators – come join us for wine, laughs and shared stories! Typically (but not always!) occurring from around 7-11pm on or close to the full moon of each month, the evening's highlight is usually a talk or other short production by our current Artist-in Residence onboard, followed by other visiting artists and/or local creatives. Improvised presentations by audience members are also very welcome: whoever wants to sing, play, perform or show us something cool will have the most appreciative audience in all of New York! During the warm months, the salons happen outdoors on our Main Deck; in fall and winter or when it rains, we gather at Last Frontier NYC, Captain Sol’s studio by the water a few blocks away. There is no cover charge, but please bring some cash to make it rain on our fabulous presenting artists — tipping the talent is part of the fun!
For an updated list of salon dates, we invite you to visit https://www.mothership.nyc/monthly-salons



Sat, January 21, 2023
@Last Frontier NYC, 7pm-late
MOTHERSHIP NYC PRESENTS:
A Whole Box of Chocolates !!!

Live performances, art exhibits, film, theater & artist presentations, courtesy of current sailors onboard @mothershipnyc:
Visual Artists Mary Naylor (UK)  & Chantal deFelice (US), Curator Natalia Ivanova (Mount) (Bulgaria),
Actress Giselle Barcasi (Brazil)
Percussionist/Conductor/Composer Marshall Trammell (US)

Plus, visiting armultidisciplinary duo Patera+Perego (Italy)
as well as our very own contortionist from down the street,
Shipra 'Shipwreck' Saraogi (India).

More info available here !!!


Sat, Dec 17, 2022 @ Last Frontier NYC
Performance 6-8PM

A Sacred Dance, Music and Healing Journey with Sufi Master of Yarsan Order Farima Berenji, PhD

Join us on a path of healing and self-growth through the power of Sufism, Sacred Circles, Music, and Sacred Dance. We will create a  supportive space where we can all release whatever energy no longer serves us, relax and open our heart, body, and mind. We will discover the power and mystery of ancient Persian and Sufi dance and rituals – a gateway for self growth and spiritual transformation – through prayers, whirling, music, and love. Be moved by beautiful Sufi rituals, sacred music, songs, chanting, poetry, and dance in prayers and Love!
Video from last year’s event HERE
Sun Dec 18: Workshop from 2-4 pm

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Thursday, November 24, 2022 | 6PM ~ late
Don’t have family in town and looking to spend the holidays in good company? Come join Mothership’s crew & friends at Last Frontier NYC to celebrate our tribe of international artists, our wonderful city, and life in general!
Our Friendsgiving gathering comes in three acts:
6–8:30 pm: A scrumptious multicourse vegan dinner by our favorite Brazilian super chef, the legendary Mariana Tamiozzy! In compensation for her tremendous efforts, expenses, and culinary creativity, we suggest a donation of $35.00 for everyone who wants to partake in this delicious meal – please sign up at Mariana’s EventBrite here. (If you are a starving artist, you pay what you can.)
9-10:00 pm: Live performances by our very own superstars, fabulous ONE-MAN-CIRCUS Michael Saab of Modern Gypsies, and newcomer Shipra Shipwreck Saraogi, an amazing CONTORTIONIST!
10 pm onwards: Everybody getting down on the floor underneath the disco ball – feel free to bring your own highly danceable play list to share with us all!


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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2021 | 7PM with Farima Berenji | See full VIDEO


Opening of Public Outdoor Season |
10th Anniversary Celebration

SUNDAY, JUNE 6, 2021 | 6 - 10 PM
@, above and around Last Frontier NYC

~ Dance collaborations across our roofs:
Brianna Taylor/Confluence Performance Project with live music by Nico Tower
+ Maira Duarte/Dance to the People
~ Reveal of site‐specific sculpture for Kingsland Wildflowers by Yvonne Shortt in collaboration with Anhkhlave Arts Alliance
~ Live music acts against the Manhattan Skyline: 
Katy Gunn; Matapena and more…
~ Silent Auction of artworks by international NOoSPHERE Artists
~ After party: Let’s dance by the Creek with joyful La Banda Chuska !

All proceeds to benefit our 
WE ARE NATURE programming:
This summer, our rooftop series will feature live music, dance performances, theater, performance art, visual art, a short-film festival, and lectures by international luminaries. Please keep returning to this page for a continuously updated calendar of events, or sign up for our mailing list here.

FOR TICKETS, PLEASE GO TO EventBrite !!!


Footage captured by Oliver Correa, Lilly Winter, and James Westfal
Video Edited by Julia Discenza

YEAR 1 | 2020

A co-production by NOoSPHERE Arts & CreateART sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC).

Part of the official Climate Week 2020 programming, the live events were scheduled as bookends to the annual environmental summit hosted by the United Nations and the City of New York. Each featured a theme introduction by renowned scientist, educator, writer and activist Fritjof Capra, a newly commissioned site-specific dance work performed across several outdoor stages, and guest artist performances.

PROJECT SPONSORS:


For the KWBS Fall Festival, NOoSPHERE Arts will be offering several types of programming:
~  Broadway Stages Gallery: REPOPULATIONS, an exhibition of works by 20+ Greenpoint artists addressing environmental themes, curated by Daniela Holban
~  Last Frontier NYC:
Aerial performances by Megan Hornaday and avant-accordionist Erica Mancini
~ KWBS Rooftop Garden:
Hivewild - a dance performance created by Katherine Maxwell
Performed by Gabriella Sibeko and Robyn Ayers
Sunset concert by Lesley Kernochan 


MARIPOSAS
on the ROOF!

Saturday, June 22, 2019 | 6:30pm SHARP
@
Last Frontier NYC / Kingsland Wildflowers

In collaboration with NYC Audubon, the initiators behind the beautiful Kingsland Wildflowers bird sanctuary, NOoSPHERE Arts presents a series of summer shows on this stunning outdoor stage to raise awareness for environmental justice issues and community efforts to revitalize Newtown Creek and the surrounding Greenpoint neighborhood.

Limited to 200.
Free, but registration is required.

RSVP BY EVENTBRITE MANDATORY!

NIGHT OF A THOUSAND THRILLS

Saturday, June 15, 2019 | 7:30 pm
Mothership Salon with
NOoSPHERE Arts’ Residency Award Winner,
Ahmed Umar (Visual Artist, Norway/Sudan)
Xanthe Alexis (Siren Songs for Sordid Times)
Ghost Pony
(Spaghetti Western for Moon People)
Click for more info

For Greenpoint Open Studios on 520 Kingsland Ave, the NOoSPHERE Arts team joins forces with Kingsland Wildflowers to offer up plenty of fun:

Sat-Sun, 12 PM - 4 PM: Open Green Roofs:
Bring your sketchbooks or easels for a sit n’ sketch from our wildflower meadow. No RSVP.
Sat-Sun, 12 PM – 6 PM Open Studios:
~ 4TH FLOOR - Painting: Andrew Abbott
~ M1 FLOOR - LAST FRONTIER NYC :
Painting: Sol Kjøk
Performances: Natacha Voliakovsky | Julha Franz | Gabrielle Johnson

Saturday, 6:30 PM: ROOFTOP CONCERT!!
featuring world-renowned Mexican violinist Ernesto Villalobos and NOoSPHERE Arts’ very own favorite singer-songwriter Katy Gunn.
RSVP on Eventbrite.

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PERFORMANCE EVENT & PARTY
Sat, June 1, 2019 | 7pm-12
Curated by Georgia Usborne & Nicole Von Arx
$15 tickets in advance, $20 on the door.
Food will be served

FILM: Charlotte Bydwell, Jeffery Docimo,
Jeff Schick, Elena Vazintaris, Winnie Cheung
DANCE: Keerati Jinakunwiphut, Garrett Parker, NVA & Guests, Hannah Wendel, Doron Perk, Chelsea Ainsworth
SPOKEN WORD/DANCE:
Paul Rabinowitz & Debbie Maciel
LATE NIGHT MUSIC/INSTALLATION:
Voyager Collective, Animal Feelings

Sat, May 25, 2019 | 8-11pm
ITINERANT, the annual Performance Art Festival of NYC (May 21-25, 2019), invites the public to a week of Live Action Art in different NYC boroughs.

This year's program, directed and curated by interdisciplinary artist, Hector Canonge, focuses on works that explore, treat, propose, and consider somatic (re)constructions and (re)presentations regarding gender, nationality, identity, and civil status. Departing from the current social, political, economic transformations around the globe, ITINERANT will feature performance art works by emerging and established local, national as well as international artists from Europe, Latin America, Asia, and North America.

Irena Boćkai & Roko Nakić (Croatia)
Olha Pryymak (Ukraine)
Natacha Voliakovsky (Argentina)
Hee Ran Lee (South Korea)
Verónica Peña & Hector Canonge (Spain / US)

ARTIST SALON

Tuesday, April 16, 2019
7:30 pm to midnight
Mothership Salon @ Last Frontier NYC:
DANCE | PERFORMANCE | BIOART
Aastha Gandhi, PhD
Dancer/Choreographer (India)
Dalila Honorato, PhD
Social Scientist (Portugal/Greece)
Adam Zaretsky, PhD
Bio Artist (US)
Hector Canonge,
Performance Artist & Curator (Argentina/US)

Diverse Universe
NYC 2018

Saturday, December 22,2018 | 7PM – 1AM
NON GRATA Performance Festival

Presented by NOoSPHERE Arts
& WILD EmbeddingS
More information here

NEW VAGUE CITY by KiNo

Tuesday, Nov 13,2018 | 7:30 pm
Mothership NYC’s 2nd Tuesday Salon guest-produced by multi-disciplinary British artist KiNo. He will present a live stage production of the upcoming underground TV show, New Vague City, featuring a diverse cast of NYC talent.

Sat, Nov 3, 2018
8:00-11:00pm

Presented by NOoSPHERE Arts +
Van Alen Institute

To celebrate the DIY in all of us, the Desire Path Variety Show brings together a hodgepodge of pop-up performances, installations, sound mixes, and artists for an evening of spontaneous interpretations of the notion of desire paths and paving your own way.

Free Shuttle bus from the G line Greenpoint Avenue Stop. Beverages will be served.

Desire Path Variety Show is part of Van Alen's Fall Festival City-Making from the Outside IN

For the night's line-up, click here


TEEPEE NAMING CEREMONY

Sunday, Oct 28, 2018
8pm

Intimate ceremony for 14 guests conducted by current Sea Artists @ Mothership NYC:
Kirsty Whiten, Visual Artist (Scotland)
Marita Isobel Solberg,
Performance Artist/Vocalist (Norway)

FRITJOF CAPRA & FRIENDS

Tue, October 9, 2018 | 7:30 pm
@ Last Frontier NYC
Our Honorary Scholar-in-Residence,
Fritjof Capra, Scientist/Author/Educator/Activist,
premieres for our salon his slide talk
“Leonardo da Vinci and the Dream of Flying” ,
accompanied by Mothership artists:
- Megan Hornaday, Aerialist/Dancer (NYC)
- Marie-Louise Jones , Visual Artist (London)
- Kirsty Whiten, Visual Artist (Edinburgh)
- Marianne Skjeldal, Dancer/Choreographer/Performance Artist (Oslo)


LAUNCH PARTY

Sat, October 6, 2018
8 pm until late

Let’s celebrate the Golden Age of Williamsburg during the 90's with the launch of Mara Catalan’s new photo book:
Williamsburg, a Place I Once Called Home.
Live music, performances, books and free drinks while supplies last. *Please BYOB.


Saturday, September 22, 2018
12 - 4pm
Music & Special Performances, including
a bird dance by our very own Autumn Kioti
Doors open @LastFrontierNYC,
now home to NOoSPHEREArts’ new office.
Come by for a studio visit and try out
our famous in-door swing!


SOUND BATH

Aug 20, 2018: The evening begins with a Laughter Science workshop with Indy Rishi Singh as he shares tools and exercises to help improve your mental and physical wellbeing. He has trained with the world's top doctors, yogis, researchers, and life hackers.
The second half of the experience is a Sound bath lead by Siddhartha Mehta. A seasoned musician and artist, His acumen of Indian classical music and Western acoustic music is unique and powerful. The Sound Bath is a chance to relax and experience music and sound in a therapeutic capacity. Bonus: Using Active Body Listening techniques, Siw Laurent will offer Tuned Song as part of the sound bath.


The opening of ITINERANT 2018 will take place
May 18, 2018 @ Last Frontier NYC in Greenpoint.
This annual performance art festival will present an inclusive programming at various organizations in the five boroughs in New York City:
May 19 @ Queens Museum
May 20 @ Staten Island Arts
May 22 @ Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance
May 23 @ Smack Mellon
May 25 @ Knockdown Center
In addition, the festival will feature the exhibition Grounded on May 17 @ artist-run EOArts;
the symposium Bodies That Matter
@ La Guardia Community College, LIC,
and public Interventions at the historical
Flushing Meadows Park, Queens.

NON GRATA

Saturday, March 10, 2018 @ 9 PM - 1 AM

Worldwide caravan of performance madness of Diverse Universe Festival at Last Frontier NYC:
Wild Saturday in Brooklyn - step into a lucid dream with Non Grata crew!
Non Grata (Estonia)
Kinobox Obscura (Finland)
Joey Sledgenovski (USA)
Danny Gonzalez (Puerto Rico)
Gordon Berry (USA)

Suggested Donation $10


ITINERANT 2017 | Performance Art Festival NYC: May 13 – 21
* OPENING NIGHT * 
Saturday, May 13, 2017, 8-11 PM  

ITINERANT, New York City’s annual Performance Art festival, will launch its 2017 program on Saturday, May 13th, 8 - 11 pm at Last Frontier NYC in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The festival continues through May 21st with the presentations of performances and public interventions in different venues in the city: Queens Museum, Socrates Sculpture Park, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Grace Exhibition Space, Panoply Performance Laboratory, and Flushing Meadows Corona Park.

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The annual performance art festival, ITINERANT, invites the general public to a week of Live Action Art in different boroughs in New York City. This year's program, organized and curated independently by interdisciplinary artist Hector Canonge, will take place from Saturday, May 13th to Sunday, May 21st at various venues in the city. ITINERANT 2017 will feature performance art works by local, national and international artists coming from Europe, Latin America, Asia, and North America.

ITINERANT 2017 will feature works that treat, explore, and touch on notions of human displacement, pilgrimage, physical dislocations, psychological migrations, and corporeal transportations. Artists working in contemporary performance art and its diverse modalities will be featured in the week-long program at various cultural institutions, performance art spaces, and public sites in New York City.

Artists featured on OPENING NIGHT @ Last Frontier NYC, Saturday May 13:
Siw Laurent (Norway), Annabel Guérédrat and Henri Tauliaut (Martinique), Carolina Mayorga (Colombia), Alex Côté (Canada), Jerico Domingo (Philippines), Arantxa Araujo (Mexico), Qinza Najm (Pakistan), Jil Guyon (United States), and Amy Wilson (United States).


NON GRATA's Scandinavian Performance Summer + Book Release
Saturday, April 22, 2017 @ Last Frontier NYC | 7 PM - 10 PM

Presented by NOoSPHERE Arts,  The Nordic Culture FundWILD EmbeddingS, and Last Frontier NYC
Come join us for the worldwide premiere of Non Grata's Diverse Universe, Vol 4, the latest edition of the chronicles of the worldwide caravan of performance madness that is Diverse Universe Festival! This new Non Grata performance bible covering the years 2011–2016 features Non Grata & Diverse Universe actions from US tours, European tours, Asian tours, writings from all over the world, and tons of pictures!
Non Grata (Estonia)
Around the name NON GRATA, there have been different hushes and shushes for a long time. Already from the point of view of the death of conventionalization of art it has embodied the horrible and unwanted disembodiment of the human person, from which the meaninglessness of nowadays art, is pouring out. For those, whose world of arts starts from the point, where the art world ends, NON GRATA has been a liberator, the orphic gap in the seemingly unalterable course, which however betrays us, it is a cure from incest. The main point of the group is ethical — it is the image of primitivism, impersonality and experimental creativity. The performances of the group take place according to the logic of avoiding codes. The presentations are physical texts, whose ways of orthography and reading are kept within limits of real actions by the group members. Aesthetical and provocative challenges are represented in places where the Art World doesn't work.

For Facebook Invite, click here

For Facebook Invite, click here

Anonymous Boh (Estonia)
Through non-stop world tours, performances, exhibitions, and publications, Anonymous Boh has created one of the most representative, significant, timely and transformative art movements in all of history. As Ring Master, Boh has become the Wild Bill Hickok, the P.T. Barnum, the Alfred Jarry, the Tristan Tzara, the Ezra Pound, the Orson Welles of our Era. We have entered The Apocalypse, The Storm. Boh, implementing all The Arts via NON GRATA’S Diverse Universe global performances, reveals to us not only where we presently stand in The Storm but he also conjures visions of our soon to be realized post-apocalyptic absurdly playfully tormented kaleidoscopic landscapes.
Taje Tross, aka Devil Girl (Estonia)
An Estonian performance, installation and new media artist, Taje was trained at the alternative art institution Academia Non Grata in Estonia, as well as the Fine Arts Academies of Helsinki and Tallinn and Universität der Künste in Berlin. Since 1998, she is one of the main engines of International Non Grata Performance Group. As Devil Girl, this femme fatale has been seen on underground scenes worldwide, wild and anonymous. MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

(Clockwise from top left: Devil Girl, Juho Pösiloe Pöysti, Risto Puurunen, Marita Isobel Solberg, Lína Thoroddsen, Joey Sledge)

(Clockwise from top left: Devil Girl, Juho Pösiloe Pöysti, Risto Puurunen, Marita Isobel Solberg, Lína Thoroddsen, Joey Sledge)

Marita Isobel Solberg (Norway)
Born 1977 in Tromsø, Norway Marita is a visual artist and musician from Manndalen/Olmmáivággi, now based in Tromsø in the north of Norway. Marita works on the borderline between art, life and science, focusing mainly on sound, performance art and installation. She likes to experiment with different media, and her work is often site-specific and relational, reinforced by a strong performative tension.
Her oeuvre is characterized by a straightforward and sincerely personal expression. Approaching the audience with an utmost seriousness and taking it with storm, she consistently shakes up the crowd of spectators. Her experience as a Sami, a woman and a citizen of the world are interweaved into her living pictures, which are multi-layered works stemming from deep reflection.
Juho Pösiloe Pöysti (Finland)
Born in Finland in 1974, Juho Poesiloe Pöysti is probably best known for inventing the first 3D camera obscura in the world in the artists’ collective Kinobox Obscura. Since 2012, the team has been building different kinds of 3D camera-obscura houses, bikes and a pedal paddle wheel boat. The founding members of Kinobox Obscura, Juho Poesiloe Pöysti and Risto “CW01” Puurunen, have a long history og making art in its different forms: be it music, fine arts or performance art, most notably in Risto “CW01” Puurunen’s band Cleaning Women. Poesiloe is the VJ and a visualist in the band. Both are also members of the Russian-Finnish performance/music group The Execution of Music – Poesiloe as a singer and a poet/lyricist and Risto as a musician. Lately, Poesiloe has been working also as a solo artist writing an alternative history for a parallel universe, making 3D-videos and autostereoscopic sculptures.
Risto Puurunen (Finland)
A Finnish artist born in 1972, Puurunen works interdisciplinary in the cultural landscape as an artist and musician. As of 1996, he is the founder of Cleaning Women, a band that has toured all over the world. DIY spirit sound machines and visual environments have been part of his creations also in the visual art field, along with Camera 3D-creations. Wth his Kinobox Obscura group, he has presented performances and installations. His multidisciplinary artwork has taken him to Mexico City, Torino, Bhutan, Pärnu,Riga, Moscow, Miami and New York.
Lína Thoroddsen (lceland)
Professional filmmaker; editor, visual artist, videographer, director, producer - Owner and manager at VALA Motion Pictures. Vala Motion Pictures is bringing in new perspectives considering the challenges of a modern Nordic country.
Joey Sledge (USA)
"Afterwards, I had to learn what happened again "
Joseph Sledgianowski is a sound and performance artist living in New Jersey. Attempts to express / translate boundaries of mental disturbance, detention. Incidental restrictions to template. Anxieties suggesting this may all be automatic.
AMAZING PHOTOS HERE
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WE SHALL OVERCOME: AN INAUGURATION OF LOVE Friday, January 20, 2017. Doors open at 7:30   This Inauguration Day it feels particularly essential to "be the beauty we wish to see in the world." To tune our beings to peace and love, so that we are clea…

WE SHALL OVERCOME: AN INAUGURATION OF LOVE
Friday, January 20, 2017. Doors open at 7:30


This Inauguration Day it feels particularly essential to "be the beauty we wish to see in the world." To tune our beings to peace and love, so that we are clear and strong for this new chapter. Please join us this January 20th for an evening of Inaugurating Love through sound healing, live music, and community.

8-8:30pm: Alex & Casey's Somatic and Sonic Guided Meditation
Alex Gordon-Brander has made a lifelong study of the relationship of sound, energy, and consciousness. Drawing on his training in Tibetan Buddhist, Sufi, Kabbalistic, and Taoist meditation; his musical training in piano, didgeridoo and Hindustani classical singing; and on his study of the neural correlates of consciousness, he has developed a body of secular meditation practices that use sound, breath, and guided imagery to invoke rapid and deep personal transformation.
Casey Karr is a musician and sound practitioner. Since she began learning piano at age 3, Casey has been captivated by sound and the profound impact that audible frequencies can have on the mind and body. With degrees in both music and psychology, she has conducted research on how the human brain perceives and responds to sonic stimuli, and continues to study the metaphysics of sound. Her immersive sound journeys, using more than a dozen different instruments, are designed to enable participants explore new layers of physical, emotional and spiritual self-awareness.

8:30-9pm: Katy Gunn: live acoustic set
with violin + looper featuring a short appearance by Little Church,
accompanied by movement/performance art by Autumn Kioti
Katy Gunn is an American singer/songwriter, producer and performer. Spanning several genres in the pop world her collaborations include works with Method Man (Wu Tang Clan), Teenage Love (her electro-pop duo in Denmark), AndyOp, and various other artists in the pop industry. Her solo work with voice and violin often includes collaborations with interdisciplinary artists - most recently with members of Mothership NYC, such as Sol Kjøk and Autumn Kioti Moonface

9-10pm: Lesley Kernochan & band
featuring Arthur Vint on drums, Boo Reiners on guitars, and Abby Hollander on bass.
Music much like Forrest Gump's box of chocolates... though these days many of the chocolates seem to have a soft country twang flavor.
Lesley Kernochan is a singer/songwriter with particular leanings these days towards country/folk as well as pop and rock. She has five albums of original music, each one a unique world unto itself. Her most recent album "A Calm Sun" is soon to be released in the US, and just received 4-star review in Rolling Stone Magazine in Germany this January. She plays guitar, piano, sax, musical saw, and has studied opera and music composition.


SATSONG: an Evening of Meditation and Music
Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 7-9 pm

A lightly guided meditation will be given by Taz Tagore of The Reciprocity Foundation to begin the evening. The music will be offered by Lesley Kernochan, and then Sam Hammerman. We will close the evening with a music jam and prayer.
Lesley Kernochan is soon to release a new album of songs that come from her unexpected love affair with country music while living in NYC. Her deepening love for meditation blended with the country influence creates a unique twang and tenderness.
Sam Hammerman is a singer/songwriter whose music lives in the pop world, filled with beautiful melodies and catchy guitar hooks but with a depth and soul rare in that field. The lyrics are rich, the voice is smooth as a waterfall, and the chords are imaginative.


THE HIDDEN VALLEY presented by WILD EMBEDDINGS and PULSAR
A two-day multimedia festival Oct 7-8, 2016
PICTURES AVAILABLE
HERE

«According to the Large Hadron Collider website, scientists can only account for 5% of the universe today. “The Hidden Valley” is a parallel world made up of dark matter that does not interact with the electromagnetic forces with which we are familiar. What does this mean for us as humans living in a highly quantitative age?

WILD EMBEDDINGS and PULSAR have invited local, national, and international artists working in performance art, experimental music, and avant-garde video to open a gateway to mysterious worlds through collective ceremony. The setting is a large industrial space in Greenpoint, Brooklyn that is devoted to cutting edge art and cultural understanding.
NARCISSISTER (Morocco) is a video / performance artist who lives and works in Brooklyn. She is always disguised in a mannequin mask. Narcissister makes videos with herself that present transgressive narratives of female identity. She questions fetishism, which is notorious in its fixing of racist and gender stereotypes. Rather than abandon this contaminated site, Narcissister dives headlong into the muck, into the depths of the fantasy and fetish itself, to expose and deconstruct their power. www.narcissister.com
KATIE CERCONE (NYC) is a video / performance artist who is originally from California. Through the phantasmagoric ‘veil’ of her own distorted magnitude, Cercone has developed a derelict cosmogony of the spiritualism of hip hop via the embodied freedom encompassed in its interdynamic gestures of power, symbolism, triple metaphor, dance and song as metalanguage. She is the co-director of Go! Push Pops. http://katiecercone.com
ELISA GARCIA DE LA HUERTA (Chile) is a video / performance artist who works in NYC. Her work confronts patriarchy, capitalism and post colonialism, embodying a new hierarchy of emotional values grounded in the wisdom of indigenous folklore, goddess and queer worship, women’s crafts and feminism. Garcia is the co-director of Go! Push Pops. http://www.elisaghs.com
RUDE INK (NYC) is a creator of video art and experimental content. All pieces are written, directed, and produced by Gabrielle Lenhard who is based out of Brooklyn.  www.rude-ink.com
ANDREW BRADDOCK (NYC/Ohio) is a performance artist who manipulates analog audiovisual equipment in psychedelic ways.  http://braddock.website/
NINA YHARED (Mexico) is a performance artist who currently works in Lithuania. Yhared has done over 200 performances in Mexico, United States, Spain, United Kingdom, and Argentina. Her work is meditative and sensual with underlying political issues. http://www.yhared.com/
DR. AL CUMMINS (England) is an historian, poet, and diviner whose research centers on religion, philosophy, medicine, and magic. In particular, his work focuses on folk magic, necromancy, and divination.  www.alexander-cummins.squarespace.com
THOMAS ALBRECHT (New York) is a performance artist whose projects explore ritual and language in public spaces, galleries, and museums, prodding cultural beliefs and individual doubts. He serves as Assistant Dean in the School of Fine and Performing Arts, and Associate Professor in the Art Department, at the State University of New York at New Paltz.       www.thomasalbrecht.com
WILD TORUS (Russia/NYC) is a collaborative platform of artists led by Vlady VØz Tokk and Mág Ne Ta, who create chaotic action happenings within multi-sensory installations. Ultimately, the coming together of WT’s clashing identities, invented tools, cryptic symbols, and physical renderings erupts into an extreme, dystopian spectacle. www.wildtor.us
RUDI SALPIETRA (Italy) is an Italian-born performance artist with a background in theatre acting and studies. Upon completing his BA in Drama & Theatre Studies at Royal Holloway University of London and archiving a decade-long career in acting and dance, he successfully progressed into performance art debuting work at the Whitechapel and Hoxton Arches galleries in London with installations regarding the ontology of live art and gallery practice. http://www.rudisalpietra.com/
KAROLINA KUBIK (Poland) is a performance artist who performs in between definitions--creating installations, video-art, drawings and workshops. In her art she concentrates on the changing subjectivity of the spectator and the artist, when the latter unnoticeably becomes a spectator of the spectator.  www.cargocollective.com/karolinakubik
HUISI HE (China) is a New York-based / Chinese-born artist. She is very active in the New York performance art scene and is inspired by the rawness, freshness, and authenticity of performance art in Brooklyn. From her experience in China to the experience of survival as a New York artist, He's artworks represent her life moments.  www.huisihe.com
GHOST IN SALAD (Philadelphia) makes surreal noise wearables that amplify absurd narratives. Your guide through the looking glass. Trust your nervous system and don't panic. Manipulates, mesmerizes and mystifies!  www.ghostinsalad.com
AMY MILLS (NYC) is a musician and photographer who makes ethereal sounds with synthesizers and saxophones. She is also part of the band Epistasis on Crucial Blast Records. www.amymills.net
DOMESTIQUE (Rhode Island) is a sound, video and performance artist who plays the sewing machine and dons a rainbow beard.   www.facebook.com/domestiquemusic
GODXSS (NYC) Harsh noise meets new age meets industrial with this duo of Disney princesses. https://www.facebook.com/GODXSS/
ZILMRAH (NYC) Musical Instruments and sound sculptures are designed for the project for perpetual audio motion and also for cultural expansion. https://www.facebook.com/Z-I-L-M-R-A-H-130725230281693/
J SLUSHER (NYC) is an electronic musician specializing in dark beats. https://soundcloud.com/unstable-systems
WILD EMBEDDINGS is a collaborative platform for performance events and media, focused on spontaneous cross-disciplinary interactions and exploration of expanded format performance. Founded by Vlady Voz Tokk and Mág Ne Tá of WILD TORUS. https://www.facebook.com/wildembeddings/
PULSAR is a curatorial initiative founded by Tif Robinette + Ian Deleón, which aims to refocus magic, aesthetics, and high production value within contemporary live performance practices. Regular event venues include the Catland bookstore as well as domestic spaces throughout the NYC area. P U L S A R also organizes frequent salon-style conversations around performative issues under the podcast: Trouble Performing  http://www.pulsarperformance.com/


IDEAS IN THE AIR hosted by NOoSPHERE Arts
Saturday, July 9, 2016

IN THE AIR is a multidisciplinary collaboration between visual artists Sol Kjøk & Peter Max-Jakobsen and performance artists Katy Gunn & Autumn Kioti. In connection with the second chapter of this ongoing international series, IN THE AIR: New York at Denise Bibro Fine Arts in Chelsea, NYC, June 2-July 2, 2016, the artist group reached out to the scientist, educator, activist, and author Fritjof Capra, whose fundamental philosophical-scientific tenet that everything is interconnected reflects the essence of their artwork.
On July 9, 2016, during Capra’s residency at the international artists’ collective Mothership.NYC, creative minds across several fields came together at Last Frontier NYC in Greenpoint, Brooklyn for a special evening of sharing and exchange of ideas around this topic:

Sol Kjøk & Peter Max-Jakobsen: IN THE AIR
A joint presentation of the genesis of and vision for their ongoing international exhibition series
Francesca Ferrando, PhD: The Posthuman
WILD TORUS: High Performance
presented by Ian Deleon & Tif Robinette
A slideshow of photos from the immersive, interactive performance event that took place at Last Frontier NYC on Nov 7 2015,
Kim Holleman: Environmental Architecture
A slide presentation on nature meeting the built world: public art, education and the future
Katy Gunn & Autumn Kioti: WHISPERS IN THE AIR
Using vocal, physical, and aerial elements, Autumn and Katy create sacred space in which they explore the depths of identity, reflecting on those things that connect us as collective beings and define us as individuals. Together they ask, where do I/you end, where do you/I begin?
Fritjof Capra, PhD: The Science of Leonardo
A slide presentation on Leonardo da Vinci’s investigations of the natural world showing that the artist applied the empirical method a century before Galileo. Capra argues that Leonardo was the first systems thinker and that he created a unique synthesis of art, science, and design.


HIGH PERFORMANCE hosted by VV/LD T0RVS | Saturday, November 7, 2015 at 8:00 PM PICTURES AVAILABLE HERE

⚠ action performance art ⚠ experimental noise ⚠ dance beats hosted by VV/LD T0RVS
NON GRATA (Estonia);  WILD TORUS (NYC); 
PETER PEPPE ROSVIK; AGROFEMME (NYC);  IAN DELEON (NYC);  EUU (NJ); DJ SEMITA SERPENS (NYC)
VV/LD T0RUS + guests enact participatory rituals:: hypnotic visuals:: dystopian soundscapes:: experimental sounds :: avant-garde performance art :: digital visuals :: culminates in interactive avatar rave :: otherworldly / aural titillations :: makeshift instrumental noise :: body transformations / mass corporeal contact :: immersed in environment of digital sublimity :: xXxpose your true self :: celebrate in collective dance


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