Magic Acts — Angie Eng, Okkyung Lee and Satoshi Takeishi :: May 28, 2009; 8:00 - 9:00 pm :: Issue Project Room (Old American Can Factory), 232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor, South Brooklyn, NY

Live video artist, Angie Eng, revives cinepoetry with miniature cameras, object manipulation and a light table with cellist Okkyung Lee and percussionist Satoshi Takeishi. A garden of digital improvisational delights, a cross between music for silent film, a surrealist appetizer and a magic act.

“The fundamental difference between cinema and video lies in their respective treatment of time. Video is real time. The video artist can relate more to happenings, chance operations, action theatre which made efforts to demolish boundaries between art forms and practices. Random Adventures/ Chance Operations (Duchamp, Cage) challenged the presumption that making art is active and viewing passive. Working in real time produces a chaos characteristic of nature which gives the artist an opportunity to create open ended structures.” — Angie Eng

This performance was partially funded by ETC presentation funds. The Experimental Television Center’s Presentation Funds program is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts.