Object Lessons! – an evening of extraordinary audio visual performances :: Saturday, November 20, 2010 at 8:00 p.m. :: @ Secret Project Robot, 210 Kent Avenue @ the corner of Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY :: Created by David Linton, Lesley Flanigan, Marcia Bassett, Maria Chavez, David First, Jon Giles, Shelley Burgon :: $10 ::

In tacit compliance with the Flickering Fingers of Fate Friends of the Creepy TriAngle proudly presents:
* Lesley Flanigan – 9:00-9:30: speaker feedback instruments + voice performance

**Naval Cassidy – “instant cinema” performance – 9:45-10:15

***”MERCE” Maria Chavez & Shelley Burgon -10:30-11:00: Turntable / Harp & electronics duet with live visuals by Thomas Dexter.

http://www.mynamelookslikeme.wordpress.com/

****Marcia Bassett /Margarida Garcia / Barry Weisblat -11:15-11:45 – Noise/Drone trio with video by Margarida Garcia: 4 compositions in chromadream: El, 2008. Sleep’s Bright Land, 2005. Sunnet, 2006. It had been a rainy day, 2006

http://margaridagarcia.blogspot.com/
http://post.thing.net/node/62

*****NOTEKILLERS – 12:00-12:45 – David First‘s proto no wave power drone trio with guest visualist Ben Dierckx

http://pitchfork.com/features/the-out-door/7887-the-out-door-9/4/
http://www.sondies.com/

******”Bicameral Research Sound & Projection System” – (Throughout the evening in between sets… ) – David Linton solo audio/video feedback performance vignettes — with surprise guest David Watson @ 1 AM!!!

http://www.youtube.com/user/bicameralresearch

a statement:

“OBJECT” is a curious word… when it refers to an actual “thing” it constitutes the basis of our sense of “form”… when referring to a “concept” (as with objects of thought or of language) it manifests as the essence of our sense of “content” which moves through the world at large to be “put forth” or “brought home” – etc

When both senses of the word “Object” collude a simple mundane physical “object” can come to be seen as a “Fetish” or “Symbolic” Object – a strange hybrid of thing and concept “embodied” all in one & defined as: any “thing” that conjures or represents another supposedly unrelated “thing” or “quality” that is thought to exist distinctly apart from “the first thing in itself”… etc Oh boy!

There was a time not that long ago when all aesthetic activity was invested in exploring the navigational contours of one categorical class of “object” or another… (painting, sculpture, dance, music, drama, literature – etc…)

For decades now a tendency has prevailed where many cultural producers have rather preferred to navigate the creative contours of a more ephemeral class of “objects” (borrowing from Language or Mathematics) that consist entirely of Information… sometimes eschewing “the physical” altogether or until the final “output” phase of the creative process… etc
Indeed this has become the way of the world… and while there is evidently no turning back… we may still take heart in the knowledge that there will always be a physical place in the human universe for willful acts of Perversion….

Today we beg to ponder the practical and thematic implications brought about by the continued navigational use of literal objects – by which we mean those possessing physical mass – as energetic “templates” in/for acts of temporal performance…