New Genre XV

Once again, for the 15th consecutive year, Living Arts of Tulsa is bringing you some of the most stimulating and thought provoking contemporary visual and performing artists in the nation.

This year’s New Genre Festival will be held
March 6th – 9th, featuring:
Five Installations,
Three Performances,
Plus a Cabaret and Video Matinee – all in Tulsa.

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DOENGES THEATRE, TULSA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
FRI & SAT, MAR 7 & 8, 8:00pm $20 ($15 Students) RESERVATIONS SUGGESTED: Call 596-7109 or go to www.MyTicketOffice.com. Festival pass holders still have to make reservations and pick up tickets,Take your pass to the ticket office.

“if you want to understand the world around you, study the phenomenon of sound,” says Ela Lamblin, Lelavision’s co-director and musical instrument inventor. Taking a basic premise of string Theory – that our world works on the same vibrational model as music – Lelavision returns to Tulsa with all new musical instruments and choreographed performance. The warping of space and time refers to Einstein’s theory that time and space form a continuum, which bends from the observer’s point of view. This performance builds on Lelavision’s groundbreaking work that has combined Lamblin’s musical-instrument inventions with Leah Mann’s broad-ranging choreography in a new genre of performance coined “Physical Music”.
Saturday's show emcee Melanie Fry www.lelavision.com

ETHYL LAB (305 S Kenosha),
THURS, MAR 6, 8:OOPM &NIGHTINGALE THEATRE,FRI, MAR 7, 8:00PM $10 ($7 Student)
A work for music and dance, a fusion of sound and movement, an artistic portrayal of the lives of the individuals involved: their achievements and struggles, and their continuous interactions and relations throughout both. This work and it performances are the collaborative effort of (The) Giants of Gender (improvisational trio, Youngstown, OH) and Kathleen Larrick (modern dancer, D.C.)
Friday's show emcee Melanie Fry
More info at: www.thegiantsofgender.com

NIGHTINGALE THEATRE, SAT, MAR 8, 8:00PM,    $10 ($7 Student)
Dave Gedosh is currently pursuing a DMA in music composition, with a specialization in computer music and intermedia at the University of North Texas, where is a teaching fellow for the College of Music. He has also been a teaching fellow for the Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia (CEMI), and taught classes in electro-acoustic music composition for the Composition Dept. He also teaches classes in audio engineering, music technology, and music business.
A highly creative and imaginative composer with musical roots in popular music and a background in audio engineering, his musical output extends into the genres of electro-acoustic music, intermedia such as video and collaboration with dance, popular music, and acoustic music composition. Aesthetically, David’s compositions explore the atemporal and the aspatial relationships between music and other art forms, between music and its medium of reproduction and performance, and within the musical parameters of the composition itself. His music has been performed at music festivals and conferences nationally and internationally including the Bourge Festival (IMEB), International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Society for Electro Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS), Florida Electro Acoustic Music Festival, IMMArts, Zeppelin Festival de Arte Sonora, and Sova Mill Museum and Janacek Academie (Czech Republic), as well as radio broadcast and independent film and video.   www.davegedosh.com

WHITE WALLS – NIGHTINGALE THEATRE
FRI & SAT, MAR 7 & 8, 10:00PM $10 ($7 Students)
This is a fluxus group of 3-6 accomplished musicians that are selected by Jon Mooneyham of Norman.
Part of the New Genre Performance Cabaret.
Guest emcee will be the notorious Tulsa performer Melanie Fry

MARIANNE EVANS-LOMBE – BODY DRAWINGS - NIGHTINGALE THEATRE FRI & SAT, MAR 7 & 8, 10:00PM $10 ($7 Students)
Body Drawings incorporates the artist’s studio practice with the act of performing or becoming the drawings. The work combines the movement of two bodies in relationship to one another in space with a visual depiction of the interactions inherent in the relationship. Projections of drawings depicting two figures in movement interface with the performers.
Part of the New Genre Performance Cabaret. www.arcadiagallery.com/marianne.htm

JEFF FALK – WASTELAND CIRCUS - NIGHTINGALE THEATRE
FRI & SAT, MAR 7 & 8, 10:00PM $10 ($7 Students) –
Jeff Falk returns to New Genre to present new work which combines personal narrative spoken word performance, costumes, and sometimes odd, irrelevant props. Also, included in the presentations are original video shorts.
According to the Artist: ”Wasteland Circus describes a basic approach in my performance work. Life is a bit of a freak show. The raw material that inspires my narrations, and informs the unusual characters, comes from the very arc line of my life. Sometimes I stand in what feels to be a vast wasteland. It is the place of memories, dreams and possible outcomes. Stretching back to childhood, moving into adulthood, then midlife, I am carried along like a passenger on a train. As an artist when I make a few stops to create and then present this flow of experience to an audience it reminds me of a trip to the circus. A place of entertainment and wonder. Sights and sounds known and unknown. Yet I am the performer and the audience.
Falk will perform as part of the New Genre Performance Cabaret. www.thepaperheart.com/theater.html Reset Window

GLENN HERBERT DAVIS – TRACK & TROLLEY – LIVING ARTSPACE
OPENS THURSDAY, MAR 6, 5-7PM No Charge
This installation represents a continuing study by the artist of the theoretical and practical relationships between the individual human body and systems it is subjected to – as incorporated in regiments of physical labor, vernacular furniture and utility architecture – engaged primarily through the design and construction of varied, furnished buildings. This is a site-specific work which caters logically to the architecture of the Myers Gallery. Everything will be suspended in the installation – nothing will be on the floor or walls. The performance is above the spectators’ heads. Installation remains on display through March 27.

GEOFFREY HICKS – ART 2.0 – TULSA ARTISTS’ COALITION
OPENS FRIDAY, MAR 7, 5-7PM. No Charge
Geoffrey Hicks will create an environment of interactive technology-based installations. Works such as: “Cubed Interactive”, “On Your Mind”, “Cellular Collaboration”, “Playground” and “Spamscapes” will be installed in and perhaps outside of TAC. Installation remains on display through March 27 www.geoph.com

URSULA SCHERRER & MICHELLE NAGAI – IMAGESCAPE:SOUNDSCAPE:LANDSCAPE – LIGGETT STUDIO
FRIDAY, MAR 7, 4-7:00PM. And SATURDAY, MAR 8, 4-7:00PM $15 ($10 Student)
Video Artist Ursula Scherrer and composer Michelle Nagai create an impressive installation of video and sound at Liggett Studio which will be performed by the artists during the opening. Over the course of several days, the artists will record sonic and visual footage of the physical environment of the gallery and the surrounding Tulsa cityscape. This raw materials will infuse the installation with a sense of contextual relevance and shed new light on existing materials the artists will bring with them. Installation remains on display through March 27.www.ursulascherrer.com

DURATION PERFORMANCE WORKS BY: ROCHELLE FABB
Secret Ceremony #5: OUT LIKE A LAMB – CHRYSALIS SPA,
FRI, MAR 7, 4:00 - 8:00PM. No Charge
Dressed as a Victorian “Bo Peep”, Ms. Fabb will fill a bathtub full of gallons of milk and heat it. Video of wild, expansive, ecstatic natural landscapes will play on the still milk in the tub. While the milk is warming, she will create vanishing sheep out of cotton candy which she will also feed the audience. Real sheep will be in the room with Bo on a small area of green sod, Bo will ask the audience what they are willing to give up in and for the future to which they will write their answer on her body. She will eventually enter the tub and cleanse herself in the milk bath. www.geocities.com/rochellefabb

Installation remains on display through March 27
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DEVEN LANGSTON – WAR MACHINE – CIRCLE CINEMA
OPENS SUNDAY, MAR 9, 1:00-2:00PM No Charge
War_Machine is a simplified, biased view of the systematic and mechanical structure of our social caste. It aims at nothing more than to bring your attention to the cycle of life in America. This graphic representation illustrates an unjust corporate structure which gives an advantage to those born into privilege. At the same time those born without such means to success are trapped in the single-file service industry. The city forcefully consumes those who can not resist its pull. There is no exploration into the reason behind the war, rather the focus is on the frivolous and continuous war cycle: soldiers are spewing from the machine and firing bullets at an unknown enemy in an interactive video installation format.

JONATHAN deLUCIA – “FLIM, FLIM, FLIM” – VIDEO INSTALLATION
SATURDAY, MAR 8, 1:00-7:00PM. Part of the “Kenosha Kluster”www.theprogressionconcept.com

PATRICK CUNNINGHAM – “DIGITAL BATTER” – PERFORMANCE/VIDEO/INSTALLATION
MAR 8, 1:00-7:00PM.
Digital Batter combines synthetic imagery with organic form in space. Together, the images and organism(s) create the opportunity for viewers to experience cognitive glitches. These glitches are moments of uncertainty that arise within an often seamless process of perception. When combined, the apparently lifeless human form and the lively, projected imagery produce an unnatural vitality. Viewers are then free to investigate in order to reconcile, modify or confirm their prior assumptions.

New Genre Video Matinee - Circle Cinema
SUN, MAR 9, 2:00pm
Experimental Videos Screening $7 ($5 Students)
Curated by Steve Liggett
Coordinated by David McPherson
With much appreciation for the Dallas Video Association and Bart Weiss, Exec Director

The Most Experimental New Videos by artists from around the world and the winners of the 3rd Annual 24 Hour Video Race will be shown at the New Genre Video Matinee. For years Living Arts has shown great fresh video art at the New Genre Festival.

Artists Invited

RYAN WYLIE - THE HUMAN STORY
STACEY STEERS – PHANTOM CANYON
DAN BOORD & LOUIS VALDOVINO – MUSEUM OF MEMORY
IDIOT JOY SHOWLAND COMPILATION by John Pilson and Claudia Altman-Siegel (presented by Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, NY) SHORTS BY NUMEROUS ARTISTS INCLUDING SOME ESTABLISHED ART STARS, EXPLORING A WIDE ARRAY OF SUBJECTS AND STRATEGIES.
INCLUDES:
FRAGMENTS FROM AN ABANDONED CINEMA by Peggy Ahwesh,
MAKING LOVE IN THE SUNSHINE by Guy Richards Smit,
FAMOUS QUOTES FROM ART HISTORY by Michael Smith
DOLL CLOTHES by Cindy Sherman
UNTITLED VIDEO by Guy Ben-Ner
REHEARSAL BEHAVIOR I by Alix Pearlstein
LOLLYPOP by Kalup Linzy
THE RESULTS OF ENERGY NEITHER BEING CREATED NOR DESTROYED ON A SUNNY DAY by James Yamada
FEAR OF BLUSHING by Jennifer Reeves
IF I WASN’T ME, I WOULD BE YOU by Harrell Fletcher
WING BOWL by Jenny Drumgoole
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE by Kathy Spade
CRUSH COLLISION by Chris Larson
SLEEP WALKERS by Doug Aitken
29 PSALMS: BRIEF by An My-Le
NORTH OF THE RUG FIBERS by Christopher Miner
LOWER EAST SIDE BIKE DRUMROLL (excerpt) by Kristin Lucas
MY FATHER BREATHING INTO A MIRROR by Neil Goldberg
HAROLD BONER by Larry Clark
HOUSE BURNING by Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller
Life like by Aida Ruilova
REVIEW by Jenny Perlin
YOU WON’T REMEMBER THIS by Jeff Scher
DON’T YOU WANT SOMEBODY TO LOVE YOU by Laurel Nadadate
SOFTCORE by Rodney Graham
HIC ET UBLIQUE by John Pilson
THE ART OF AWAKENING by Meiro Koizumi

THE WINNERS OF THE 3RD ANNUAL 24 HOUR VIDEO RACE ARE:
Animation Category Winner – Cox Golightly Productions with “World of Wonder”
Student Category Winner – Tulsa City Smashers with “[Censored]”
Video Phile Category Winner – O.P. Dragons with “Something About Pterry”
The Judges Choice Award Winner – Team Mokey with “The Public View”
People’s Choice Award and College Category Winner – To Space Productions with “The Donovan Johnson Story”

This event is sponsored by Specialty Materials, Inc. with many thanks for their continued help in presenting great works of video art in Tulsa!

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Making Scape
Scherrer and Nagai lead a hands-on workshop for high-school students that shares their creative process of collecting raw material and responding to it through language, drawing, sound and moving image.
Workshop time: Wednesday, March 5, 4:15-6pm, approx. 2 hours plus optional open studio time with the artists on Thursday, March 6 (afternoon hours) - Liggett Studio 314 S. Kenosha.
materials: would be great to have an array of drawing materials in shades of grey and black - charcoal, pencil, graphite, chalk, crayon etc. we will bring some, and also paper and fabric, but additional materials are great too. www.ursulascherrer.com

How war_machineWorks - Animation Demo
By Deven Langston

Saturday March 8th 12 noon. @ Youth Services of Tulsa 211 S. Madison.

Songs I Heard in a Dream Workshop
by Jeff Falk

Circle Cinema 2pm - 3:30pm
No Charge

Movement/Musical Wonderment: Physical Music
by Leah Mann:

Exploring polyrhythms in the body, Physical Music integrates movement and sound. The class will include stepping, clapping, gesturing, vocalizing and syllabic counting structures with playful intent. Participants will explore "movements" (self contained parts of musical composition and or actions of the body) and "play" (to sound an instrument and or to be game-fully engaged) toward a greater musicality articulated in the body. North Adult Day Service, LIFE Senior Services, 902 E. Pine & Lansing for Thursday, March 6th from 1-3pm.

The Fusion of Music & Dance
by Giants of Gender

Friday March 7th 8:30am
Riverfield Country Day School 2433 W. 61st Street, All Ages

Sound Design for Intermedia Workshop
By Dave Gedosh

A theoretical discussion and practical demonstration on sound design. An in depth demonstration of sound design for intermedia. Topics will include how to create sounds – sound design, advanced mixing techniques, and composing and creating sound for video, and dance.
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