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From Performance to Installation: The Immersive Works of Kurt Hentschläger (Austria)
A Conversation With Wayne Ashley
An image from Zee by Kurt Hentschläger
Image courtesy of the Artist
Chicago-based Austrian artist Kurt Hentschläger creates immersive audio-visual compositions that lie somewhere in between performance and installation. ZEE--a stroboscopic, fog, pulse, light and sound installation--will have its New York premiere at 3LD Art & Technology Center, Oct 28-Nov 15, as part of FuturePerfect, a new performance, media, and technology initiative. At the Segal Center, FuturePerfect founding artistic director Wayne Ashley will join Mr. Hentschläger in discussing ZEE and other solo works, as well as his performances under the name of Granular Synthesis.
Kurt Hentschläger is an artist whose work reflects on the metaphor of the sublime. Trained as a fine artist, in 1983 he began as a sculptor by building surreal machine objects, followed by works with video, computer animation and sound. Between 1992 and 2003 he worked collaboratively as part of the duo Granular Synthesis. His most recent solo work is more poetic and further researches the nature of human perception and accelerated impact of new technologies on individual consciousness. www.kurthentschlager.com
ZEE is the inaugural event of FuturePerfect, a new initiative that researches and presents hybrid performance practices, media forms, and artistic ideas that continue to emerge as computer technologies and electronic networks mature and become inseparable from contemporary culture. In particular focus is the future of live performance and related visual culture. FuturePerfect 2011, a performance festival and exhibition, is slated for New York City during Spring 2011. Wayne Ashley is FuturePerfect’s founding artistic director, the former Director of Arts in Multimedia at Brooklyn Academy of Music, BAM.
ZEE is presented by FuturePerfect in association with Performance Space 122.
ZEE is produced by FuturePerfect and 3LD Art & Technology Center.
For more information about ZEE and to purchase tickets: https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/685515
6:30 p.m., Monday, Nov 2, 2009
Martin E. Segal Theatre. Free!