Reviewing

Third Saturday in June

Judy Dunaway, DĂșa de Pel, Katherine Liberovskaya, Sarah Bernstein

Featuring Sonia MegĂ­as, Eva GuillamĂłn, Ztimhcs Aidualc

Harvestworks announces three events for the third Saturday in June 2024 that will take place in our Art and Technology Program Building 10a, Nolan Park, Governors Island. All events are free.

AFTERNOON ARTIST TALK by Judy Dunaway

Time: 2:45 pm

Sound artist Judy Dunaway will discuss her “Aeronaut” installation which commemorates pioneer aviator Charlie Hamilton making the first round trip flight between New York City and Philadelphia on June 13, 1910, taking off from and returning to Governors Island.  This retrofuturist installation features inflated latex balloons as sound conduits.

EVENING PERFORMANCE

Part 1: 7:00 pm for 30 minutes

on the porch, acoustic

(DĂča de Pel) from Spain, composer Sonia MegĂ­as and writer Eva GuillamĂłn: voice and lute, songs and music from different periods and cultures with notable influence from Spain.

Part 2: 7:30 pm – 45 minutes

Indoors

“Liaison transantlantique” NY Katherine Liberovskaya (NY) and Claudia Schmitz (Berlin) combine their real-time expanded visuals and video in live projections dialoguing with Sarah Bernstein’s (NY) solo violin and voice performance.

DATE: Saturday June 15, 2024

LOCATION: Harvestworks Art and Technology Program Building 10a, Nolan Park, Governors Island

Judy Dunaway Talks about her work
Dua de Pel photo by Isis Gayo

‱       BIOS

JUDY DUNAWAY is primarily known for her numerous works for latex balloons as sound producers, including sculptural sonic performances, sound installations, interactive pieces and acousmatic works. She has presented these works throughout North America and Europe at many important venues, festivals, museums and galleries including the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Alternative Museum (NYC), Audio Art Festival 2016 (Krakow), Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA), Cafe Oto (London), Bang on a Can Festival (NYC), Everson Art Museum (Syracuse), Expo’74 at Mass MoCA, Frau Musica Nova (Germany), the Guelph Jazz Festival (Canada), Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors (NYC), the New Museum of Contemporary Art (NYC), Performance Space 122 (NYC), Podewil (Berlin), Roulette (NYC), the Roy and Edna Disney Center (Los Angeles), Seltsame Musik Festival (Austria) and STEIM (Netherlands).

DĂșa de Pel is an ensemble that erases the borders between past and present, between local and universal. Their creations have a notable influence from Spanish folklore, but in them naturally coexist multiple styles, from different periods and cultures, giving rise to an original and inimitable sound. The group was born in Madrid in 2014, when composer Sonia MegĂ­as and writer Eva GuillamĂłn decided to join their respective knowledge and their long artistic career to create a music full of poetry. 
……..Since then, they developed an extensive international career, singing their own compositions in places such as the National Auditorium or Teatro Real in Madrid, The Juilliard School in New York, British Museum in London, Culture Square Theater in Shanghai, Instituto Cervantes in Tokyo, through extensive tours throughout Latin America, Asia or Europe. 
……..More info: www.DuadePel.com

KATHERINE LIBEROVSKAYA (she/her/hers) is a Canadian intermedia artist based in NYC. Involved in experimental video since the 80’s, she has produced numerous single-channel video art pieces, video installations and video performances, as well as works in other media, that have been shown around the world. Since 2001 her work predominantly focuses on the intersection of moving image with sound/music in various both ephemeral and fixed forms (projections, installations, performances), notably through collaborations with many composers and sound artists in improvised live video+sound concert situations where her live visuals seek to create improvisatory “music” for the eyes. For over 22 years she collaborated with composer/intermedia artist Phill Niblock on various live, video and installation projects. Other frequent collaborators include: Dafna Naphtali, Keiko Uenishi, Shelley Hirsch, Barbara Held, Mia Zabelka, Al Margolis (IF,BWANA), David Watson, among many others. In addition to her art work she curates events in experimental video/film, sound/music and A/V performance, notably the yearly Screen Compositions evenings at EI NYC since 2005 and, since 2006 the OptoSonic Tea salons (co-curated with Ursula Scherrer) in NYC and various nomadic locations in North America and Europe as well as on-line during the Covid pandemic. In 2014 she completed a PhD in art practice entitled “Improvisatory Live Visuals: Playing Images Like a Musical Instrument” at the UniversitĂ© du QuĂ©bec Ă  MontrĂ©al (UQAM). She is currently the artistic director of Experimental Intermedia NYC.

www.facebook.com/liberovskaya <http://www.facebook.com/liberovskaya

ZTIMHCS AIDUALC. Artist’s Statement “My work starts where the media intersect. I am not
interested in the modernity of technology as such but in its capacities
for creating new imaginary dimensions. My arrangements constantly assume
temporary states, reject and re-invent themselves, exploring the
space-time continuum, rendering visible and questioning its borders.
They investigate the limitations of media arrangements and modes of
participation.“ As an international media artist, AIDUALC ZTIMHCS
explores boundaries: Limits of perception, real and imagined barriers,
liquid processes, body discourses.She explores paradigms of media
translation – as a solo artist and in collaborative transmedia projects
(dance | performing arts | music | visual art | philosophy). She uses
sculpture and projections, multidimensional drawing, (live) moving
image, AI and food – in real space, virtual and augmented reality to
explore new forms of sound, space and experience. Using LiveMovingImage
in real time on moving sculptures, she opens up the traditional video
projection to an unfolded multi-dimensional spatial projection – her
UnFoldedScreen.Exploring socio-urban fabrics, challenging hegemonial
perception, sustainability, synaesthesia, identity in virtual and real
space, re- vs. interactivity, inter- and transmediality, machine
learning, artificial intelligence are main topics of her current
artistic research. By passing through temporary stages, by discarding
and re-inventing themselves, her pieces explore oscillating stages of
being and non-being, of existence inside and outside the image. Relying
on the spectators to trigger them, many of her pieces discuss the extent
and possibilities of participation.
She is an internationally active artist and educator – won numerous
awards and nominations – is present in international public and private
collections.

SARAH BERNSTEIN is a New York-based violinist/composer whose work blurs the lines between innovative jazz, new chamber music, experimental pop and noise music. Over the course of ten albums as a leader and countless collaborations, she has garnered international acclaim for her multi-disciplinary performances and distinctive recordings. She leads the improvising string ensemble VEER Quartet, the avant-jazz Sarah Bernstein Quartet, the poetic minimalist duo Unearthish, and performs solo with heavily-processed voice/violin as Exolinger. Ongoing collaborations include her noise-electronic duo with drummer Kid Millions and the experimental synth-pop band Day So Far. She has placed in the DownBeat Magazine Critics Poll annually since 2015, winning “Rising Star Violinist” in 2020. She is originally from San Francisco, CA.

Judy Dunaway

For the past twenty years Judy Dunaway has primarily been known for her
numerous works for latex balloons as sound producers, including free improvisations,
electronic and multi-media works, sound installations, and compositions. She has
presented these works throughout North America and Europe at many important venues,
festivals, museums and galleries including the Academy of Media Arts Cologne
(Germany), Alternative Museum (NYC), Bang on a Can Festival (NYC), Everson Art
Museum (Syracuse), Frau Musica Nova (Germany), the Guelph Jazz Festival (Canada),
Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors (NYC), the New Museum of Contemporary Art (NYC),
Performance Space 122 (NYC), Podewil (Berlin), Roulette (NYC), the Roy and Edna
Disney Center (Los Angeles), Seltsame Musik Festival (Austria) and STEIM
(Netherlands). Her discography includes CDs on the CRI and Innova labels. Her
awards/grants/residencies include the Electronic Music Studios Stockholm, New York
State Music Fund. the Aaron Copland Fund Recording Grant, the American Composers
Forum’s Composers Commissioning Fund, ZKM, Harvestworks and the National Endowment
for the Arts performance fund. She has given academic presentations about her works
at many colleges and universities, including The Berlin University of the Arts,
Cornell University, Rennselaer Polytechnic, Tufts University, Syracuse University,
Juilliard School of Music, Musik Akademie Basel (Switzerland), University of
Gothenberg (Sweden), Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera (Milan, Italy) and Hochschule
fuer Gestaltung, Karlsruhe (Germany). She has a Ph.D. in music composition from
Stony Brook University and an M.A. with emphasis in experimental music composition
from Wesleyan University, where she studied with Alvin Lucier. She has been a
Visiting Lecturer at Massachusetts College of Art and Design since 2005. She has
been working with Cycling 74‘s Max for the past 10 years and received a
Max/MSP/Jitter certificate from Harvestworks in May 2011.

DĂșa de Pel

DĂșa de Pel is an ensemble that erases the borders between past and present, between local and universal. Their creations have a notable influence from Spanish folklore, but in them naturally coexist multiple styles, from different periods and cultures, giving rise to an original and inimitable sound. The group was born in Madrid in 2014, when composer Sonia MegĂ­as and writer Eva GuillamĂłn decided to join their respective knowledge and their long artistic career to create a music full of poetry. Since then, they developed an extensive international career, singing their own compositions in places such as the National Auditorium or Teatro Real in Madrid, The Juilliard School in New York, British Museum in London, Culture Square Theater in Shanghai, Instituto Cervantes in Tokyo, through extensive tours throughout Latin America, Asia or Europe. More info: www.DuadePel.com

Katherine Liberovskaya

Katherine Liberovskaya is an intermedia artist based in New York City
and Montreal, Canada. Involved in experimental video since the 80s, she has produced
many single-channel videos, video installation works and video and music
performances which have been presented at a wide variety of events and venues around
the world. Among these: MOMA PS1 PrintShop NYC; The Duolun Museum and The Aurora
Museum, Shanghai, China; The Museum of Arts and Design, NYC; The Bitola Museum,
Macedonia (FYROM); The Tito Museum, Belgrade, Serbia; The Kyoto University Museum,
Japan; The Serralves Contemporary Art Museum, Porto, Portugal; The Roskilde Museum
of Contemporary Art, Denmark; The National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow,
Russia; The Beirut Art Center, Lebanon; The Contemporary Art Center Bunkier Sztuki,
Krakow, Poland. Since 2001 her work predominantly focuses on the intersection of
image and sound, in solo video-audio installation/environments and often in
collaborations with composers and sound artists notably in live video+sound
performance. Frequent collaborators include Phill Niblock, Al Margolis/If,Bwana,
Keiko Uenishi, David Watson, Shelley Hirsch, Guy de Bievre… among many others.
Since 2003 she has been exploring improvised video in live video+sound performance
situations where her live visuals seek to create improvisatory “music” for the eyes.
Over the years she has performed in concert with numerous artists including: Monique
Buzzarte, Anne Wellmer, Tom Hamilton, Margarida Garcia, Manuel Mota, Anthony
Coleman, Barry Weisblat, Mazen Kerbaj, murmer, Andre Gonçalves, Giuseppe Ielasi,
Alessandro Bossetti, Andre Eric Letourneau, Jason Khan, Jim Bell, David Grollman,
Doug Van Nort, among many others. Recent projects have involved: Anna Homler, Leslie
Ross, Chantal Dumas, Richard Garet, Mia Zabelka, Dorit Chrysler, Emilie Mouchous,
Erin Sexton, Corinne Rene and Philippe Lauzier, Magali Babin. Recent solo projects
include: the audiovisual installations “Mise-en-Abyme Cu29” (2016), “Rake”
(2015-16), “sonimaginations tissulaires” (2014-16), “NoizeBreeze” (2014), “Air-Play”
(2013), “Amplifontana” (2012-16) and “Shines” (2008-16) and the intermedia
installation “Muidebrugge Wave (Matisse/Haacke Blues)” (2015). Since the late 1980s
she has received over 30 grants and arts awards in Canada, U.S.A. and France.
Concurrently she curates and organizes the Screen Compositions evenings at
Experimental Intermedia, NYC, since 2005 and, since 2006, the OptoSonic Tea salons
with Ursula Scherrer at Diapason, NYC, and in various nomadic locations, in New
York, North America and Europe, with OptoSonic Tea On the Road. In 2014 she
completed a PhD in art practice entitled “Improvisatory Live Visuals: Playing Images
Like a Musical Instrument” at the Universite du Quebec in Montreal (UQAM).

Sarah Bernstein

Sarah is a New York-based violinist/composer whose work blurs the lines between innovative jazz, new chamber music, experimental pop and noise music. Over the course of ten albums as a leader, and countless collaborations, she has garnered international acclaim for her multi-disciplinary performances and distinctive recordings.

ZTIMHCS AIDUALC

Artist’s Statement “My work starts where the media intersect. I am not interested in the modernity of technology as such but in its capacities for creating new imaginary dimensions. My arrangements constantly assume temporary states, reject and re-invent themselves, exploring the space-time continuum, rendering visible and questioning its borders. They investigate the limitations of media arrangements and modes of participation.“ As an international media artist, AIDUALC ZTIMHCS explores boundaries: Limits of perception, real and imagined barriers, liquid processes, body discourses. She explores paradigms of media translation – as a solo artist and in collaborative transmedia projects.