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21/4/2006

beallbellamy

Brooklyn Fire Proof, New York

Light blind

Brooklyn Fire Proof is pleased to present light blind, a new multi-channel video and audio installation by the UK-based collaborative pair beallbellamy (multi-media artist t s Beall and composer Mary Bellamy).

light blind is designed to be experienced with the viewer's peripheral vision. Using minimal, over-exposed imagery of vacant arenas and equitation competitions, beallbellamy play with notions of vision and perception by exploring the relationship between peripheral sounds and images.

Using large-scale projections and multiple audio channels, light blind creates a sense of dislocation. The camera seeks to identify a subject, but consistently fails to do so. beallbellamy are interested in how little our eye needs to hold an image' and how much our mind can fill in. The installation creates a soundscape that inhabits a realm on the edge of perception: often quiet, high-pitched or indistinct, it explores sounds that are spatially unsettled.

t s Beall studied Philosophy at St. John's College in Annapolis, MD and Photography at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. In 2004 she graduated from the M.F.A. Program at The Glasgow School of Art, and afterwards completed residencies at Skowhegan (Maine), the Pistoletto Foundation (Italy), and Yaddo (upstate New York). She has exhibited internationally, including at the Portobello Film Festival in London, at Tramway and Emerged in Glasgow, Good Manners and Physical Violence at the Edinburgh College of Art, and at Gallery Sowaka in Kyoto, Japan. Beall lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland.

Mary Bellamy studied music at Cardiff University in Wales, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (London) and completed her PhD in Composition at Sheffield University (England) in 2003. Her pieces have been performed at some of the UK's major contemporary music festivals, such as Inventions 2005, the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, and Hoxton New Music Days; and by some of its leading performers such as the London Sinfonietta, the Composers' Ensemble, and the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. She is currently working on a mini-chamber opera for the New York-based Scenery Ensemble. Bellamy's participation in this exhibition and in the BFP Off-Site Studio Residency Program (April 2006) is funded by the Arts Council of England.

beallbellamy is the recipient of the April 2006 BFP Off-Site Studio Residency. Additional to the exhibition is a related performance series curated by t s Beall and Jessica Lin Cox.

Gallery hours are Saturday and Sunday, 12 ­ 6 pm or during the week by appointment. For inquiries, please contact Jessica Lin Cox at 718 302 4702 or at jessica@brooklynfireproof.com.

Light Blind related performance series:

- Saturday April, 22, 2006 : 8 pm : FREE (following the light blind opening reception)
Giles Bailey, Paternal audio and primate behaviour: summer 1976 ­ summer 2005
Glasgow-based Giles Bailey presents a performance lecture examining a physical and emotional relationship to perceiving sound. Paternal audio and primate behaviour explores a fragile, formal language of education as it slips into venerability interweaving anecdotes, video and collapsing demonstrations. Bailey will also be the BFP Off-Site Studio Residency Recipient for May 2006.

- Baldvin Ringsted, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr¹s I Have A Dream Speech, for solo cello
performed by Loren Dempster, cello
Baldvin Ringsted has transposed an audio recording of Dr. King¹s speech into a musical score for solo cello, incorporating elements such applause as new symbols in musical notation. This piece is first in a series of transposed recordings that include speeches by Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler and George W. Bush. Ringsted, from Iceland, is currently attending the graduate program at the Glasgow School of Art.

- Thursday, April 27, 2006 : 8 pm : FREE
Rachel Mason, Model Anthem, 2004 performed by Eve Orenstein, mezzo-soprano
Model Anthem is a hybrid of 193 national anthems. A computer program based on the probability of word order generated the lyrics from their English translations and a composer created the score by utilizing the most common elements from their scores. Mason is a New York-based artist and lately can be found as a contributor to Topic 9: Music. This presentation is co-sponsored by TOPIC magazine in association with this issue.

- Friday, April 28, 2006 : 12 noon ­ 12 midnight : FREE
Therefore
Therefore is an exploratory sound art duo that incorporates elements of punk, progressive economics, and sonic graffiti to analyze the production and distribution of goods and services of art and music in its various guises. This final 12-hour performance marks the conclusion of nine years of truly unconventional collaboration between group members Michael Kaufmann and Wayne S. Feldman.

- Saturday, May 20, 2006 : 8 pm : $5 suggested donation
Nicedisc
Nicedisc's work to date can be considered an exploration of synthaesthesia that begins from the level of material production and moves to interrogate the psychological and perceptual phenomena of, and relationships between vision and sound. Their investigations have lead them through several media, including their initial experiments with 16mm film, live performance video using custom software (culminating in their debut Untitled DVD in 2004), and most recently with analog audio-visual generators.

- Directions to brooklyn fire proof
By train: L to Lorimer or G to Metropolitan. Walk north towards raised BQE. Right at Meeker, walk under BQE to Leonard. Turn left, north on Leonard, right on Richardson. BFP is on the left, one building down, across from the gas station.
By car/cab: Williamsburg Bridge, Stay left on BQE East, Exit 33 on right. Keep left on ramp. Left on Meeker, Under BQE to Richardson Street, veer right. BFP is on the right. From Bedford Avenue: Walk north, right on N11th, walk away from the river. N11th becomes Richardson across Union Ave. BFP is on the left after Leonard Street.

Opening Reception: Saturday, April 22, 2006, 6 ­ 8 pm, followed by performance works by Giles Bailey and Baldvin Ringsted

Brooklyn Fire Proof
101 Richardson Street, Top Floor - Brooklyn NY

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