Hope you're enjoying the holiday weekend (who doesn't enjoy teenagers shooting off fireworks in the streets, while it's 90 degrees outside?), but next weekend don't forget to check out the upcoming events at Light Industry!
The Touching of Hands
Presented by Scott Treleaven
177 Livingston Street, Brooklyn
Saturday, July 10, 2010 at 7:30pm
“The title for the show comes from a remark that Gysin made to Genesis, and Genesis to me: that magical training can only be passed on by the touching of hands.” — ST
An evening of solo and collaborative projects by Scott Treleaven and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, focusing on the shared influence of artist and mystic Brion Gysin. Gysin’s close friendship with Breyer P-Orridge, and in turn her friendship with Treleaven, has over time given rise to a number of aesthetic and philosophical affinities found in the work of all three, communicated from one to the other by direct contact.
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A Burning Star
Onishi Kenji, 16mm, 1995, 95 mins
177 Livingston Street, Brooklyn
Tuesday, July 13, 2010 at 7:30pm
One of the most notorious yet unseen works of Japanese experimental cinema, Onishi Kenji’s A Burning Star operates with an emotional and physical intimacy reminiscent of both the confrontational style of Hara Kazuo and the radically subjective camerawork of Stan Brakhage. Made when Onishi was in his early 20s, the film documents his father’s funeral and cremation through subtle Super-8 lensing and a rigorous sense of real-time. At the funeral site, Onishi undresses and manipulates the corpse, scrutinizing it with his camera, then later records the act of cremation through the furnace’s portholes. This last sequence is the morbidly compelling heart of the film, presenting unearthly images reminiscent of an alien planet's gaseous surface, with flames licking over quasi-organic landscapes that look increasingly less like a skull, a ribcage or a hip bone.
The Touching of Hands
Presented by Scott Treleaven
177 Livingston Street, Brooklyn
Saturday, July 10, 2010 at 7:30pm
“The title for the show comes from a remark that Gysin made to Genesis, and Genesis to me: that magical training can only be passed on by the touching of hands.” — ST
An evening of solo and collaborative projects by Scott Treleaven and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, focusing on the shared influence of artist and mystic Brion Gysin. Gysin’s close friendship with Breyer P-Orridge, and in turn her friendship with Treleaven, has over time given rise to a number of aesthetic and philosophical affinities found in the work of all three, communicated from one to the other by direct contact.
&
A Burning Star
Onishi Kenji, 16mm, 1995, 95 mins
177 Livingston Street, Brooklyn
Tuesday, July 13, 2010 at 7:30pm
One of the most notorious yet unseen works of Japanese experimental cinema, Onishi Kenji’s A Burning Star operates with an emotional and physical intimacy reminiscent of both the confrontational style of Hara Kazuo and the radically subjective camerawork of Stan Brakhage. Made when Onishi was in his early 20s, the film documents his father’s funeral and cremation through subtle Super-8 lensing and a rigorous sense of real-time. At the funeral site, Onishi undresses and manipulates the corpse, scrutinizing it with his camera, then later records the act of cremation through the furnace’s portholes. This last sequence is the morbidly compelling heart of the film, presenting unearthly images reminiscent of an alien planet's gaseous surface, with flames licking over quasi-organic landscapes that look increasingly less like a skull, a ribcage or a hip bone.
Two Films by Thomas Comerford
Wednesday, May 5, 2010 at 7:30pm
177 Livingston Street, Brooklyn
The Indian Boundary Line, 16mm/8mm/S8mm on digital betacam, 2010, 41 mins
Over the last eight years, Chicago musician and filmmaker Thomas Comerford has been at work on a series of quietly-observed films that contemplate the entwined social, political, and environmental histories of Chicago (Figures in the Landscape, 2002; Land Marked/Marquette, 2005). The Indian Boundary Line (2010) follows a road in Chicago, Rogers Avenue, that traces the 1816 Treaty of St. Louis boundary between the United States and “Indian Territory.” In doing so, it examines the collision between the vernacular landscape, with its storefronts, short-cut footpaths and picnic tables, and the symbolic one, replete with historical markers, statues, and fences. Through its observations and audio-visual juxtapositions, The Indian Boundary Line meditates on a span of land in Chicago about 12 miles long, but suggests how this land and its history are an index for the shifting inhabitants, relationships, boundaries and ideas of landscape -- as well as the consequences -- which have accompanied the transformation of the “New World.”
Land Marked Marquette, 16mm, 2005, 23 mins
A series of clear, concisely observed landscape studies of sites and monuments in Chicago connected to 17th century exploration by Jesuit missionary Jacques Marquette. In examining the monuments to Marquette, the "stories" the monuments tell, and the relationship of the monuments to their surroundings, the film deploys different audio-visual and stylistic tactics, allowing for the contemplation of both historical representation and the transformation of the land in the passage of time.
Followed by a conversation with Comerford.
Tickets - $7, available at door
04/18: 3rd Ward Upcoming Events
-Project Runaway, Opening Reception, April 23, 8 to 11 p, 195 Morgan Ave, Bklyn, NY, FREE
A reincarnation of the Dutch Art Collective formally known as Antistrot returns to 3rd Ward for a 2D-3D-Performance Mash-up! In this universe inflatable sculptures come face to face with performances featuring pizza, soccer balls with faces and everything which dwells in between.
RSVP gallery@3rdward.com
-Free MacBook for Unlimited Members
www.3rdward.com/membershipspecials/3w6
The membership that never stops giving, just got back from the Mac Store. Through April 30th, the Unlimited Membership comes with a free MacBook. This dynamic membership provides a complete set of tools for creative professionals: unlimited access to 3rd Ward's facilities & creative community, free classes in art & design and the wheels to get to work, too. We provide the space, the tools, the community and caffeine so you can thrive.
Unlimited Membership Includes:
* A Free MacBook
* A Free Custom Designed Bike
* Unlimited Bookings in our Professional Photo Studios
* Unlimited Wood & Metal Shop Pass
* Unlimited Classes (with over 100 to choose from!)
* Free Coffee Care of Intelligentsia
* Access to Social & Professional Networking Opportunities
To find out more or schedule a tour email membership@3rdward.com or call 718.715.4961!
Offer expires April 30, 11:59 p. Space is Limited.
www.3rdward.com/membershipspecials/3w6
- Class of the Week // Intro to Flash, Tuesdays, April 27, May 4, 11, 18, 25 & June 1, 7 to 10 p
Learn the basics of Adobe Flash, still the most ubiquitous plugin on the Web, capable of delivering interactive graphics, text, animation, audio, and video.
For more information or to sign up visit:
http://www.3rdward.com/3rdwardclasses/intro-to-flash.html
A reincarnation of the Dutch Art Collective formally known as Antistrot returns to 3rd Ward for a 2D-3D-Performance Mash-up! In this universe inflatable sculptures come face to face with performances featuring pizza, soccer balls with faces and everything which dwells in between.
RSVP gallery@3rdward.com
-Free MacBook for Unlimited Members
www.3rdward.com/membershipspecials/3w6
The membership that never stops giving, just got back from the Mac Store. Through April 30th, the Unlimited Membership comes with a free MacBook. This dynamic membership provides a complete set of tools for creative professionals: unlimited access to 3rd Ward's facilities & creative community, free classes in art & design and the wheels to get to work, too. We provide the space, the tools, the community and caffeine so you can thrive.
Unlimited Membership Includes:
* A Free MacBook
* A Free Custom Designed Bike
* Unlimited Bookings in our Professional Photo Studios
* Unlimited Wood & Metal Shop Pass
* Unlimited Classes (with over 100 to choose from!)
* Free Coffee Care of Intelligentsia
* Access to Social & Professional Networking Opportunities
To find out more or schedule a tour email membership@3rdward.com or call 718.715.4961!
Offer expires April 30, 11:59 p. Space is Limited.
www.3rdward.com/membershipspecials/3w6
- Class of the Week // Intro to Flash, Tuesdays, April 27, May 4, 11, 18, 25 & June 1, 7 to 10 p
Learn the basics of Adobe Flash, still the most ubiquitous plugin on the Web, capable of delivering interactive graphics, text, animation, audio, and video.
For more information or to sign up visit:
http://www.3rdward.com/3rdwardclasses/intro-to-flash.html
Help English Kills Art Gallery celebrate with their 3 Year Anniversary show this Saturday April 17, 6-9. Music by The Controversy, and then Andrew Hurst is gonna play some records. Check out the attached images for the represented artists.
ENGLISH KILLS ART GALLERY
114 Forrest St. Ground Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11206
info@englishkillsartgallery.com | 718.366.7323
ENGLISH KILLS ART GALLERY
114 Forrest St. Ground Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11206
info@englishkillsartgallery.com | 718.366.7323
Doctor Who, and Cops with House Music
Presented by Paul Slocum
Tuesday, April 6, 2010 at 7:30pm
Light Industry
177 Livingston Street, Brooklyn
Artist Paul Slocum presents two television manipulations: a selection of fan-made reconstructions of lost Doctor Who episodes, and the premiere of his latest project, Cops with House Music.
Slocum will present a fan restoration of the fourth episode of "The Tenth Planet," which originally aired in 1966. Featuring the first “regeneration” of the Doctor, it is one of the most sought-after lost episodes, and was reconstructed using home-taped audio, 16mm BBC footage used as clips for other programs, film shot by viewers off TV, a series of screen photographs (“telesnaps”) commissioned by the BBC for continuity purposes, and numerous on-set photos.
The second half of the program will be the first look at Slocum’s new project Cops with House Music, which consists of a single episode of the FOX television show Cops set to a variety of house and post-house tracks. By joining the two, Slocum draws out the particular emotional resonances and minute details of each form, submerging the viewer in a strangely disjunctive yet compelling environment that colors the non-stop, bodily beats of house music with an equally relentless image: the roving machinery of street-level law enforcement in underclass America.
Tickets - $7, available at door.
For more information, visit Light Industry
Check out English Kills Art Gallery this Saturday at 5 for Andy Piedilato's closing party. The weather should be nice and they're gonna be bbqing. These are paintings we raved about on latest Gallery Club Podcast!!! Check it.
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Lohin Geduld Gallery, along with a community of generous artists, are presenting a fundraising event to benefit relief efforts in Haiti. All proceeds from this silent auction will be given to the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund (for more information about CBHF, please visit We at Lohin Geduld Gallery, along with a community of generous artists, are presenting a fundraising event to benefit relief efforts in Haiti. All proceeds from this silent auction will be given to the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund (for more information about CBHF, please visit ).
With the purchase of art from the auction you will be providing funds for the immediate relief and long-term support of the Haitian people. There are more than sixty artists participating and many great artworks to choose from.
Work will be on exhibit at Lohin Geduld Gallery from Thursday March 25 to Saturday March 27 at 7pm. A closing reception will take place on Saturday from 5-7 (suggested donation of $10 at the door). Bids will be accepted during the length of the exhibition, and may be placed at the gallery. To see images of all available artwork visit . If you are unable to attend, please see the auction website for details on absentee bidding.
Thank you from all of us at Lohin Geduld Gallery).
With the purchase of art from the auction you will be providing funds for the immediate relief and long-term support of the Haitian people. There are more than sixty artists participating and many great artworks to choose from.
Work will be on exhibit at Lohin Geduld Gallery from Thursday March 25 to Saturday March 27 at 7pm. A closing reception will take place on Saturday from 5-7 (suggested donation of $10 at the door). Bids will be accepted during the length of the exhibition, and may be placed at the gallery. If you are unable to attend, please see the auction website for details on absentee bidding.
Jon Moritsugu's Der Elvis + My Degeneration
Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 7:30pm
Light Industry
177 Livingston Street, Brooklyn
Der Elvis, Jon Moritsugu, 16mm, 1987, 23 mins
My Degeneration, Jon Moritsugu, 16mm, 1989, 65 mins
Tickets - $7, available at door.
02/15: I shit you not.
From Feb. 19-May 27 2010 you can check out a show at The Flag Art Foundation curated by none other than NBA giant (figurative and literal, ha ha) Shaquille O'neal! What good will come of this? Perhaps it will spark an interest in a group of young people who are more concerned with sports stats than auction sales. Maybe it's not a publicity stunt based on a flimsy, silly preface. (how scale is dealt with in contemporary art) It might not simply be a mutual self aggrandizing (circle jerk) of the already famous and long since super wealthy.
02/09: Light Industry is moving!
Light Industry will be moving from Sunset Park to a 5,000-square-foot storefront at 177 Livingston Street in downtown Brooklyn, a space they will be sharing with two extraordinary groups, Triple Canopy and The Public School. On February 20 all three organizations will be throwing a party to celebrate its opening. The event—Light Industry's 100th show!—will also serve as a benefit to help cover the costs of building out the space's interior, which was designed by Common Room.
Impossible Geometries
A Benefit Party for Triple Canopy, Light Industry, and The Public School
177 Livingston Street, Brooklyn
Saturday, February 20, 2010
8pm to the early a.m.
The evening will begin at 8pm with readings by Ed Park and Lynne Tillman. Next, there will be a rare stateside presentation of Lis Rhodes's Light Music (1975, pictured above). Rhodes's double projection is a seminal exploration of 16mm optical sound—the on-screen abstraction is "read" by the projector as audio—and a stone-cold classic of British expanded cinema. The "Anti-Matter Cabaret" of Ambergris and a set by the pop ensemble Skeletons will follow, as will DJ sets by Josh Kline and Gary Murphy & Tim Lokiec.
Tickets: $5-$20, pay-as-you-wish, available at door.
For more info, see:
Impossible Geometries
A Benefit Party for Triple Canopy, Light Industry, and The Public School
177 Livingston Street, Brooklyn
Saturday, February 20, 2010
8pm to the early a.m.
The evening will begin at 8pm with readings by Ed Park and Lynne Tillman. Next, there will be a rare stateside presentation of Lis Rhodes's Light Music (1975, pictured above). Rhodes's double projection is a seminal exploration of 16mm optical sound—the on-screen abstraction is "read" by the projector as audio—and a stone-cold classic of British expanded cinema. The "Anti-Matter Cabaret" of Ambergris and a set by the pop ensemble Skeletons will follow, as will DJ sets by Josh Kline and Gary Murphy & Tim Lokiec.
Tickets: $5-$20, pay-as-you-wish, available at door.
For more info, see:
01/17: Take a Stroll Around DUMBO
FIRST THURSDAY: DUMBO GALLERY WALK
A festive occasion each month for art lovers. A chance to visit many quality galleries at night in one artsy Brooklyn neighborhood - galleries showing works from artists of many disciplines while hosting receptions, producing live music performances, screenings and curator/artist talks among other highlights. Event is free to the public. No RSVP required. Attendees choose their own routes. Maps & location flyers on-site. Drink specials throughout the evening at local bars.
Date: Thursday, February 4, 2010
Time: 5:30pm - 8:30pm
Location: DUMBO, Brooklyn
This month's participating galleries:
AIR GALLERY 111 Front St.
KRIS GRAVES PROJECTS 111 Front St.
MAGASIN TOTALE 10 Jay St.
MELVILLE HOUSE 145 Plymouth St.
MIGHTY TANAKA 68 Jay St.
POWERHOUSE ARENA 37 Main St.
RABBITHOLE STUDIO 33 Washington St.
RANDALL SCOTT GALLERY 111 Front St.
UMBRAGE GALLERY 111 Front St.
WATERMILL BROOKLYN GALLERY 111 Front St.
For more information, check out DUMBO Culture 411
Date: Thursday, February 4, 2010
Time: 5:30pm - 8:30pm
Location: DUMBO, Brooklyn
This month's participating galleries:
AIR GALLERY 111 Front St.
KRIS GRAVES PROJECTS 111 Front St.
MAGASIN TOTALE 10 Jay St.
MELVILLE HOUSE 145 Plymouth St.
MIGHTY TANAKA 68 Jay St.
POWERHOUSE ARENA 37 Main St.
RABBITHOLE STUDIO 33 Washington St.
RANDALL SCOTT GALLERY 111 Front St.
UMBRAGE GALLERY 111 Front St.
WATERMILL BROOKLYN GALLERY 111 Front St.
For more information, check out DUMBO Culture 411
Here are upcoming films being screened during January at Light Industry that will be worth braving the cold to go see:
Riddles of the Sphinx
Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen, 16mm, 1977, 90 mins
Introduced by Emma Hedditch
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 7:30pm
Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen's film addresses the position of women in patriarchy through the prism of psychoanalysis. Riddles of the Sphinx draws on the critical writings and investigations by both filmmakers into the codes of narrative cinema, and offers an alternative formal structure through which to consider the images and meanings of female representation in film.
The film is constructed in three sections and 13 chapters, combining Mulvey's own to-camera readings around the myth of Oedipus's encounter with the Sphinx with a series of very slow 360 degree panning shots encompassing different environments, from the domestic to the professional.
To be shown with:
Schmeerguntz, Gunvor Nelson and Dorothy Wiley, 16mm, 1966, 15 mins
Obedience
Presented by Zoe Beloff
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 7:30pm
Obedience, Stanley Milgram, 16mm, 1962, 45 mins
Folie à Deux, National Film Board of Canada, 16mm, 1952, 15 mins
Motion Studies Application, 16mm, ca. 1950, 15 mins
Obedience documents the infamous "Milgram experiment" conducted at Yale University in 1962, created to evaluate an everyday person's deference to authority within institutional structures. Psychologist Stanley Milgram designed a scenario in which individuals were made to think they were administering electric shocks to an unseen subject, with a researcher asking them to increase the voltage levels despite the loud cries of pain that seemed to come from the other room. Milgram saw his test, conducted mere months after Adolf Eichmann's trial in Jerusalem, as a way to understand the environments that made genocide possible.
Tonight, artist Zoe Beloff pairs Obedience with two earlier works dealing with psycho-social control: Folie à Deux and Motion Studies Application. In stark contrast to the nostalgic whimsy typically associated with old educational films, Folie à Deux and Motion Studies Application play as infernal dreams of systemic power and sources of surprising, unintended pathos.
All tickets - $7, available at door
Light Industry
220 36th Street, 5th Floor - Brooklyn, New York
Riddles of the Sphinx
Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen, 16mm, 1977, 90 mins
Introduced by Emma Hedditch
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 7:30pm
Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen's film addresses the position of women in patriarchy through the prism of psychoanalysis. Riddles of the Sphinx draws on the critical writings and investigations by both filmmakers into the codes of narrative cinema, and offers an alternative formal structure through which to consider the images and meanings of female representation in film.
The film is constructed in three sections and 13 chapters, combining Mulvey's own to-camera readings around the myth of Oedipus's encounter with the Sphinx with a series of very slow 360 degree panning shots encompassing different environments, from the domestic to the professional.
To be shown with:
Schmeerguntz, Gunvor Nelson and Dorothy Wiley, 16mm, 1966, 15 mins
Obedience
Presented by Zoe Beloff
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 7:30pm
Obedience, Stanley Milgram, 16mm, 1962, 45 mins
Folie à Deux, National Film Board of Canada, 16mm, 1952, 15 mins
Motion Studies Application, 16mm, ca. 1950, 15 mins
Obedience documents the infamous "Milgram experiment" conducted at Yale University in 1962, created to evaluate an everyday person's deference to authority within institutional structures. Psychologist Stanley Milgram designed a scenario in which individuals were made to think they were administering electric shocks to an unseen subject, with a researcher asking them to increase the voltage levels despite the loud cries of pain that seemed to come from the other room. Milgram saw his test, conducted mere months after Adolf Eichmann's trial in Jerusalem, as a way to understand the environments that made genocide possible.
Tonight, artist Zoe Beloff pairs Obedience with two earlier works dealing with psycho-social control: Folie à Deux and Motion Studies Application. In stark contrast to the nostalgic whimsy typically associated with old educational films, Folie à Deux and Motion Studies Application play as infernal dreams of systemic power and sources of surprising, unintended pathos.
All tickets - $7, available at door
Light Industry
220 36th Street, 5th Floor - Brooklyn, New York
