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A Fold in The Fabric

October 9, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

John Hudak, Kurt Ralske

LMAK projects

526 W 26th St

LMAKprojects is pleased to present A Fold in The Fabric, an integrated exhibition and media performance series featuring artists whose works often fall into the boundary zone between exhibition object, installation environment and live performance. These artists conjure systems of relations between objects in the world and their media representations, often manipulating both in the moment of live performance.

Performance by John Hudak and Kurt Ralske Monday, October 9, 2006, 7pm LMAKprojects 526 West 26th Street, #310, NYC Admission is free

John Hudak hypnogoge sound and video performance

Kurt Ralske For Phillip Guston At Half-Speed sound and video performance

---------------------- About the artists:

John Hudak has been interested in sound and music from the age of four when he began to play a variety of instruments. At the University of Delaware (BA, English 1981) and Naropa Institute for the Arts (1979), he studied video, photography, creative writing and dance. He then began to create taped soundtracks for his solo performance art pieces. In recent years, he has concentrated on sound, particularly natural sounds. Hudak’s current sound work focuses on the minimalism and repetition of sounds below the usual threshold of hearing, sounds that are filtered out or considered non-musical. These sounds are recorded, deconstructed and processed, their rhythms and textures being the basis for aural manipulations.

hypnogoge Utilizing aspects of sound and body movement, my performance will dwell upon the place between waking and sleeping, where the conscious and the unconscious mind overlaps, leaving the two parts to intermingle. The give and take of what is known and what is remembered presents interesting juxtapositions that the driving hyper-aware cognitive part wouldn't necessarily think to make.

---------------------- Kurt Ralske's video installations and performances are created exclusively with his own custom software. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Guggenheim Bilbao, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art.

Kurt programmed and co-designed a 9-channel video installation that is permanently in the lobby of the MoMA in NYC. In 2003, his work received First Prize at the Transmediale International Media Art Festival in Berlin, as a member of the video ensemble 242.pilots. He is also the author/programmer of Auvi, a popular video software environment in use by artists in 22 countries.

Kurt resides in New York City. He teaches at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the School of Visual Arts, New York.

For Phillip Guston At Half-Speed Composer Morton Feldman (1926 - 1987) described parallels between his music and the rough, irregular patterns of certain antique Turkish carpets. Artist Kurt Ralske's video performance/installation "For Phillip Guston At Half-Speed" uses images of these carpets as a point of departure. Static images are animated via a series of processes modeled on various natural phenomena. The video clarifies the connection between sound and image, and provides an entry point to total immersion in Feldman's world of repetition, evolution, sound and silence.

"All we composers really have to work with is time and sound – and sometimes I'm not even sure about sound." -- Morton Feldman

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