A FuturePerfect Project:
Kurt Hentschläger's ZEE
A Hallucinatory and Immersive Environment of Sound and Light
The inaugural event of FuturePerfect,
a new performance, media & technology initiative.
Kurt Hentschläger's
ZEE
is now previewing BY INVITATION ONLY
for individual visits by the press, curators, and professionals in the art and performance community. Due to limited capacity, entrance is by confirmed RSVP only -please contact rsvp@futureperfectfestival.org and include your phone number.
ZEE
project.
Kurt Hentschläger's ZEE A Hallucinatory and Immersive Environment of Sound and Light
New York Premiere
Produced by FuturePerfect and 3LD Art & Technology Center
In association with Performance Space 122
please note.
Kurt Hentschläger's ZEE is now previewing BY INVITATION ONLY for individual visits by the press, curators, and professionals in the art and performance community. Due to limited capacity, entrance is by confirmed RSVP only -please contact rsvp@futureperfectfestival.org and include your phone number.
dates.
October 28 - November 15, 2009
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 5pm - 8:30pm
Saturday, Sunday 2-6pm
Project begins on the hour and the half hour; approximate time 20 minutes
venue.
3LD Art & Technology Center, 80 Greenwich Street near Rector St., Lower Manhattan
directions.
about ZEE.
ZEE is a rigorous mindscape; a hallucinatory architecture of light; a dream machine.
An enclosed space is filled with a dense, odorless fog that completely obscures the walls, floor and ceiling. Individuals freely roam this environment, while flickering light filters through the haze, inducing hallucinations and sensory distortions within each viewer. A droning soundscape intensifies this full-immersion experience, shifting dynamically according to changes in the color, frequency and intensity of the light.
Exhilarating and meditative, Kurt Hentschläger's pulsing, stroboscopic and mind-altering ZEE pushes the boundaries of human perception and creates an intense audiovisual journey. A constant innovator and one of the most influential figures in the field of contemporary art and technology, Hentschläger merges conceptual art, sound, video, performance, and technology in his large-scale installations. Since launching his career in 1983, his work has been commissioned worldwide, including: NoiseGate 2000 for Creative Time's Art in the Anchorage as part of the Austrian duo Granular-Synthesis, representing Austria at the 2001 Venice Biennale, and his most recent installations ZEE, RANGE and KARMA/X are currently touring. www.kurtHentschlager.com
Hentschläger's piece delivered literally on the hackneyed promise that art will refashion one's way of seeing the world. - Kenneth Baker, Art Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, November 2008
Kurt Hentschläger is represented by Richard Castelli / Epidemic. Technical Assistance for ZEE New York is provided by Ian Brill.
Important information.
Anybody with the following conditions should not attend ZEE: photosensitive epilepsy; asthma, breathing and heart problems; abnormal blood pressure; migraine & headaches; all kinds of eye & ear diseases; claustrophobia or anxiety. Pregnant women are also advised to refrain from attending. Please note: The artificial fog being used is proven, even in extreme intensities, not to be of any health risk; the stroboscopes used in the show are standard theatrical units.
commission credits.
This is ZEE's New York premiere. The project was originally co-commissioned by OK-Center Linz, and Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, in 2008.
addittional credits.
Graphic design: Arthur Kremer
Media Producer: Linda Lewett
Webdesign: Shual | Mushon Zer-Aviv
Panel Discussion
panel.
Panel Discussion in conjunction with ZEE Performance, Installation and Immersion
Presented by FuturePerfect and CPR-Center for Performance Research
venue.
CPR-Center for Performance Research
361 Manhattan Avenue, Unit 1, Williamsburg, Brooklyn [map]
date.
Sunday, October 25, 2009
1:30pm - 3:30pm
FREE
details.
More than any other concept, "immersion" has become one of the most taken-for-granted expressions in writings on technology, and increasingly used to describe a vast array of different media, creative processes, and ways of audience engagement. From video games and 3D cinema, to new counterinsurgency strategies for simulating theaters of war; from realistic touch feedback medical training systems, to the aesthetics of site specific performance and installation. They all share the same desired effect: collapsing the gap between viewer and work, image and reality, inside and outside. Five distinguished panelists will show and discuss their work in relationship to these and others issues.
In conjunction with the opening of ZEE, FuturePerfect, CPR-Center for Performance Research, 3LD Art & Technology Center, and PS122 invite you to a panel on Performance, Installation, and Immersion. Participants include: Kevin Cunningham (Director, 3-Legged Dog Media and Theater Group), Kurt Hentschläger (Artist, Austria/US), Kora Van den Bulcke and Thomas Soetens (Workspace Unlimited, Artist Collective Belgium/Canada), Allen Feldman (Associate Professor, Anthropology, NYU), and others to be announced. Discussants include Vallejo Gantner (PS122), Morgan von Prelle Pecelli (PS122), Wayne Ashley (FuturePerfect), Dr. Frank Hentschker (Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, CUNY), Jonah Bokaer (Co-Founder, CPR) and others. www.cprnyc.org
Conversation
conversation.
From Performance to Installation:
The Immersive Works of Kurt Hentschläger
Presented by Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, CUNY Graduate Center
venue.
Martin E. Segal Theatre
365 Fifth Avenue, at 34th Street, New York, NY [map]
date.
Monday, Nov 2, 2009
6:30pm
FREE
details.
At the Segal Center, FuturePerfect founding artistic director Wayne Ashley and Kurt Hentschläger will discuss the ZEE project and other solo works by Hentschläger, including his performances under the name of Granular Synthesis.
The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center initiates and develops a dialogue with international and American theatre artist as well as cultural institutions in New York City with the goal of building a bridge between the professional theatre and academia, international and American theatre and performance. http://web.gc.cuny.edu/mestc/
Press
press release.
About FuturePerfect
about the initiative.
ZEE is the inaugural event of FuturePerfect, a new initiative that researches and presents hybrid performance practices, media forms, and artistic ideas that continue to emerge as computer technologies and electronic networks mature and become inseparable from contemporary culture. In particular focus is the future of live performance and related visual culture. FuturePerfect 2011, a performance festival and exhibition, is slated for New York City during Spring 2011. Wayne Ashley is FuturePerfect's founding artistic director, the former Director of Arts in Multimedia at Brooklyn Academy of Music, BAM.
