Whitney Museum of American Art: Events: Performances

Whitney Museum of American Art: Events: Performances http://whitney.org/Events Events at the Whitney Museum of American Art © 2012 Whitney Museum of American Art en-us Economy Performance: Lucy Raven <p> <b>Sunday, June 3, 2012  4 PM </b> <br />Fifth-Floor Mezzanine <br /><font color="#7f7f7f" size="1">Categories: 2012 Biennial Performances, Performances, 2012 Biennial </font></p> <p><a href="http://whitney.org/Events/LucyRavenPerformance"><img border="0" src="/image_columns/0036/5667/julianpointing_350.jpg" /></a></p> <div><p><a href="/Exhibitions/2012Biennial/LucyRaven">Lucy Raven</a>‘s <i>What Manchester Does Today, the Rest of the World Does Tomorrow</i>, is playing the <span class="caps">LCD</span> Soundsystem song <i>Dance Yrself Clean</i>. Fellow Biennial artist Jason Moran programmed the instrument to play a straight transcription (which syncs exactly with <span class="caps">LCD</span> Soundsystem’s recording), a stride interpretation, which takes the instrument’s history into account as it moves through various idioms and Moran’s more free-form response to the original recording. The rolls were made under Raven’s supervision, from <span class="caps">MIDI</span> files that were programmed by Moran and punched by Julian Dyer, with permission granted by <span class="caps">LCD</span> Soundsystem’s James Murphy.</p><p>Lucy Raven lives and works in Oakland, California and New York City. Jason Moran is a jazz pianist who lives in New York and plays and records under his own name and as a member of The Bandwagon. Julian Dyer is a Wokingham-based business analyst for National Grid, and one of six remaining pianola perforators in the world.</p><p><b><span class="caps">PERFORMANCES</span> <br />Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays<br />through June 3<br /></b>2 pm<b><br />Sundays through June 3<br /></b>4 pm<b><br /></b></p><p><b>Free with Museum admission. Space is limited and is available on a first-come, first-served basis.</b><b><br /></b></p><p><b></b></p><p><b></b></p></div> Whitney Museum of American Art http://whitney.org/Events/LucyRavenPerformance http://whitney.org/ics/events/whitney-event-5237.ics Performance: Lucy Raven <p> <b>Saturday, June 2, 2012  2 PM </b> <br />Fifth-Floor Mezzanine <br /><font color="#7f7f7f" size="1">Categories: 2012 Biennial Performances, Performances, 2012 Biennial </font></p> <p><a href="http://whitney.org/Events/LucyRavenPerformance"><img border="0" src="/image_columns/0036/5664/julianpointing_350.jpg" /></a></p> <div><p><a href="/Exhibitions/2012Biennial/LucyRaven">Lucy Raven</a>‘s <i>What Manchester Does Today, the Rest of the World Does Tomorrow</i>, is playing the <span class="caps">LCD</span> Soundsystem song <i>Dance Yrself Clean</i>. Fellow Biennial artist Jason Moran programmed the instrument to play a straight transcription (which syncs exactly with <span class="caps">LCD</span> Soundsystem’s recording), a stride interpretation, which takes the instrument’s history into account as it moves through various idioms and Moran’s more free-form response to the original recording. The rolls were made under Raven’s supervision, from <span class="caps">MIDI</span> files that were programmed by Moran and punched by Julian Dyer, with permission granted by <span class="caps">LCD</span> Soundsystem’s James Murphy.</p><p>Lucy Raven lives and works in Oakland, California and New York City. Jason Moran is a jazz pianist who lives in New York and plays and records under his own name and as a member of The Bandwagon. Julian Dyer is a Wokingham-based business analyst for National Grid, and one of six remaining pianola perforators in the world.</p><p><b><span class="caps">PERFORMANCES</span> <br />Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays<br />through June 3<br /></b>2 pm<b><br />Sundays through June 3<br /></b>4 pm<b><br /></b></p><p><b>Free with Museum admission. Space is limited and is available on a first-come, first-served basis.</b><b><br /></b></p><p><b></b></p><p><b></b></p></div> Whitney Museum of American Art http://whitney.org/Events/LucyRavenPerformance http://whitney.org/ics/events/whitney-event-5236.ics Performance: Lucy Raven <p> <b>Friday, June 1, 2012  2 PM </b> <br />Fifth-Floor Mezzanine <br /><font color="#7f7f7f" size="1">Categories: 2012 Biennial Performances, Performances, 2012 Biennial </font></p> <p><a href="http://whitney.org/Events/LucyRavenPerformance"><img border="0" src="/image_columns/0036/5664/julianpointing_350.jpg" /></a></p> <div><p><a href="/Exhibitions/2012Biennial/LucyRaven">Lucy Raven</a>‘s <i>What Manchester Does Today, the Rest of the World Does Tomorrow</i>, is playing the <span class="caps">LCD</span> Soundsystem song <i>Dance Yrself Clean</i>. Fellow Biennial artist Jason Moran programmed the instrument to play a straight transcription (which syncs exactly with <span class="caps">LCD</span> Soundsystem’s recording), a stride interpretation, which takes the instrument’s history into account as it moves through various idioms and Moran’s more free-form response to the original recording. The rolls were made under Raven’s supervision, from <span class="caps">MIDI</span> files that were programmed by Moran and punched by Julian Dyer, with permission granted by <span class="caps">LCD</span> Soundsystem’s James Murphy.</p><p>Lucy Raven lives and works in Oakland, California and New York City. Jason Moran is a jazz pianist who lives in New York and plays and records under his own name and as a member of The Bandwagon. Julian Dyer is a Wokingham-based business analyst for National Grid, and one of six remaining pianola perforators in the world.</p><p><b><span class="caps">PERFORMANCES</span> <br />Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays<br />through June 3<br /></b>2 pm<b><br />Sundays through June 3<br /></b>4 pm<b><br /></b></p><p><b>Free with Museum admission. Space is limited and is available on a first-come, first-served basis.</b><b><br /></b></p><p><b></b></p><p><b></b></p></div> Whitney Museum of American Art http://whitney.org/Events/LucyRavenPerformance http://whitney.org/ics/events/whitney-event-5235.ics Performance: Lucy Raven <p> <b>Thursday, May 31, 2012  2 PM </b> <br />Fifth-Floor Mezzanine <br /><font color="#7f7f7f" size="1">Categories: 2012 Biennial Performances, Performances, 2012 Biennial </font></p> <p><a href="http://whitney.org/Events/LucyRavenPerformance"><img border="0" src="/image_columns/0036/5664/julianpointing_350.jpg" /></a></p> <div><p><a href="/Exhibitions/2012Biennial/LucyRaven">Lucy Raven</a>‘s <i>What Manchester Does Today, the Rest of the World Does Tomorrow</i>, is playing the <span class="caps">LCD</span> Soundsystem song <i>Dance Yrself Clean</i>. Fellow Biennial artist Jason Moran programmed the instrument to play a straight transcription (which syncs exactly with <span class="caps">LCD</span> Soundsystem’s recording), a stride interpretation, which takes the instrument’s history into account as it moves through various idioms and Moran’s more free-form response to the original recording. The rolls were made under Raven’s supervision, from <span class="caps">MIDI</span> files that were programmed by Moran and punched by Julian Dyer, with permission granted by <span class="caps">LCD</span> Soundsystem’s James Murphy.</p><p>Lucy Raven lives and works in Oakland, California and New York City. Jason Moran is a jazz pianist who lives in New York and plays and records under his own name and as a member of The Bandwagon. Julian Dyer is a Wokingham-based business analyst for National Grid, and one of six remaining pianola perforators in the world.</p><p><b><span class="caps">PERFORMANCES</span> <br />Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays<br />through June 3<br /></b>2 pm<b><br />Sundays through June 3<br /></b>4 pm<b><br /></b></p><p><b>Free with Museum admission. Space is limited and is available on a first-come, first-served basis.</b><b><br /></b></p><p><b></b></p><p><b></b></p></div> Whitney Museum of American Art http://whitney.org/Events/LucyRavenPerformance http://whitney.org/ics/events/whitney-event-5234.ics Performance: Lucy Raven <p> <b>Wednesday, May 30, 2012  2 PM </b> <br />Fifth-Floor Mezzanine <br /><font color="#7f7f7f" size="1">Categories: 2012 Biennial Performances, Performances, 2012 Biennial </font></p> <p><a href="http://whitney.org/Events/LucyRavenPerformance"><img border="0" src="/image_columns/0036/5664/julianpointing_350.jpg" /></a></p> <div><p><a href="/Exhibitions/2012Biennial/LucyRaven">Lucy Raven</a>‘s <i>What Manchester Does Today, the Rest of the World Does Tomorrow</i>, is playing the <span class="caps">LCD</span> Soundsystem song <i>Dance Yrself Clean</i>. Fellow Biennial artist Jason Moran programmed the instrument to play a straight transcription (which syncs exactly with <span class="caps">LCD</span> Soundsystem’s recording), a stride interpretation, which takes the instrument’s history into account as it moves through various idioms and Moran’s more free-form response to the original recording. The rolls were made under Raven’s supervision, from <span class="caps">MIDI</span> files that were programmed by Moran and punched by Julian Dyer, with permission granted by <span class="caps">LCD</span> Soundsystem’s James Murphy.</p><p>Lucy Raven lives and works in Oakland, California and New York City. Jason Moran is a jazz pianist who lives in New York and plays and records under his own name and as a member of The Bandwagon. Julian Dyer is a Wokingham-based business analyst for National Grid, and one of six remaining pianola perforators in the world.</p><p><b><span class="caps">PERFORMANCES</span> <br />Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays<br />through June 3<br /></b>2 pm<b><br />Sundays through June 3<br /></b>4 pm<b><br /></b></p><p><b>Free with Museum admission. Space is limited and is available on a first-come, first-served basis.</b><b><br /></b></p><p><b></b></p><p><b></b></p></div> Whitney Museum of American Art http://whitney.org/Events/LucyRavenPerformance http://whitney.org/ics/events/whitney-event-5233.ics Performance: Lucy Raven <p> <b>Sunday, May 27, 2012  4 PM </b> <br />Fifth-Floor Mezzanine <br /><font color="#7f7f7f" size="1">Categories: 2012 Biennial Performances, Performances, 2012 Biennial </font></p> <p><a href="http://whitney.org/Events/LucyRavenPerformance"><img border="0" src="/image_columns/0036/3663/raveneventonline_400.jpg" /></a></p> <div><p><a href="/Exhibitions/2012Biennial/LucyRaven">Lucy Raven</a>‘s <i>What Manchester Does Today, the Rest of the World Does Tomorrow</i>, is playing the <span class="caps">LCD</span> Soundsystem song <i>Dance Yrself Clean</i>. Fellow Biennial artist Jason Moran programmed the instrument to play a straight transcription (which syncs exactly with <span class="caps">LCD</span> Soundsystem’s recording), a stride interpretation, which takes the instrument’s history into account as it moves through various idioms and Moran’s more free-form response to the original recording. The rolls were made under Raven’s supervision, from <span class="caps">MIDI</span> files that were programmed by Moran and punched by Julian Dyer, with permission granted by <span class="caps">LCD</span> Soundsystem’s James Murphy.</p><p>Lucy Raven lives and works in Oakland, California and New York City. Jason Moran is a jazz pianist who lives in New York and plays and records under his own name and as a member of The Bandwagon. Julian Dyer is a Wokingham-based business analyst for National Grid, and one of six remaining pianola perforators in the world.</p><p><b><span class="caps">PERFORMANCES</span> <br />Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays<br />through June 3<br /></b>2 pm<b><br />Sundays through June 3<br /></b>4 pm<b><br /></b></p><p><b>Free with Museum admission. Space is limited and is available on a first-come, first-served basis.</b><b><br /></b></p><p><b></b></p><p><b></b></p></div> Whitney Museum of American Art http://whitney.org/Events/LucyRavenPerformance http://whitney.org/ics/events/whitney-event-5225.ics Performance: Georgia Sagri <p> <b>Sunday, May 27, 2012  1 PM </b> <br />Fifth-Floor Mezzanine <br /><font color="#7f7f7f" size="1">Categories: 2012 Biennial Performances, Performances, 2012 Biennial </font></p> <p><a href="http://whitney.org/Events/GeorgiaSagriPerformance"><img border="0" src="/image_columns/0035/5061/sagriweb_400.jpg" /></a></p> <div><p><a href="/Exhibitions/2012Biennial/GeorgiaSagri">Georgia Sagri</a> presents an ongoing installation/performance in which she engages a variety of media-distribution methods, such as film and video, audio recording, and print publishing. With the goal of producing of a book, Sagri will invite philosophers, activists and organizers, artists, and laborers to shape, through conversations and activities, the concept of “Working The No Work.” Reflecting especially on the radical shifts in political and social life of the present and recent past, the texts generated will feed back into the project as a whole, with Sagri playing the role of designer/editor/illustrator in unexpected ways.</p><p><b><span class="caps">PERFORMANCES</span> <br />Sundays: March 11–May 27<br /></b>1 pm<b><br />Fridays: March 9 and 16; April 27; May 18<br /></b>7 pm<b><br /></b></p><p><b>Free with Museum admission. Space is limited and is available on a first-come, first-served basis.</b><b><br /></b></p><p><b></b></p></div> Whitney Museum of American Art http://whitney.org/Events/GeorgiaSagriPerformance http://whitney.org/ics/events/whitney-event-4984.ics Performance: Tom Thayer <p> <b>Sunday, May 27, 2012  12–5 PM </b> <br />Third Floor <br /><font color="#7f7f7f" size="1">Categories: 2012 Biennial Performances, Performances, 2012 Biennial </font></p> <p><a href="http://whitney.org/Events/TomThayerPerformance2"><img border="0" src="/image_columns/0035/5068/thayerweb_259.jpg" /></a></p> <div><p>Multimedia artist <a href="/Exhibitions/2012Biennial/TomThayer">Tom Thayer</a> will present two live performances, further activating his third-floor gallery installation with his own presence. Thayer’s installations are highly theatrical sight-sound environments featuring handmade backdrops, puppet-like figures, stop-motion collage animations, and vintage audio and image-making equipment. For his performances, he improvises on an array of self-made musical instruments, performs live animation and video mixing, and manipulates the objects in the installation to generate a quivering constellation of moving and static forms.<b><br /></b></p><p><b>Free with Museum admission. Space is limited and is available on a first-come, first-served basis.</b><b><br /></b></p><p><b></b></p></div> Whitney Museum of American Art http://whitney.org/Events/TomThayerPerformance2 http://whitney.org/ics/events/whitney-event-4990.ics Performance: Lucy Raven <p> <b>Saturday, May 26, 2012  2 PM </b> <br />Fifth-Floor Mezzanine <br /><font color="#7f7f7f" size="1">Categories: 2012 Biennial Performances, Performances, 2012 Biennial </font></p> <p><a href="http://whitney.org/Events/LucyRavenPerformance"><img border="0" src="/image_columns/0036/3660/raveneventonline_400.jpg" /></a></p> <div><p><a href="/Exhibitions/2012Biennial/LucyRaven">Lucy Raven</a>‘s <i>What Manchester Does Today, the Rest of the World Does Tomorrow</i>, is playing the <span class="caps">LCD</span> Soundsystem song <i>Dance Yrself Clean</i>. Fellow Biennial artist Jason Moran programmed the instrument to play a straight transcription (which syncs exactly with <span class="caps">LCD</span> Soundsystem’s recording), a stride interpretation, which takes the instrument’s history into account as it moves through various idioms and Moran’s more free-form response to the original recording. The rolls were made under Raven’s supervision, from <span class="caps">MIDI</span> files that were programmed by Moran and punched by Julian Dyer, with permission granted by <span class="caps">LCD</span> Soundsystem’s James Murphy.</p><p>Lucy Raven lives and works in Oakland, California and New York City. Jason Moran is a jazz pianist who lives in New York and plays and records under his own name and as a member of The Bandwagon. Julian Dyer is a Wokingham-based business analyst for National Grid, and one of six remaining pianola perforators in the world.</p><p><b><span class="caps">PERFORMANCES</span> <br />Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays<br />through June 3<br /></b>2 pm<b><br />Sundays through June 3<br /></b>4 pm<b><br /></b></p><p><b>Free with Museum admission. Space is limited and is available on a first-come, first-served basis.</b><b><br /></b></p><p><b></b></p><p><b></b></p></div> Whitney Museum of American Art http://whitney.org/Events/LucyRavenPerformance http://whitney.org/ics/events/whitney-event-5214.ics Performance: Dawn Kasper <p> <b>Friday, May 25, 2012  7 PM </b> <br />Third Floor <br /><font color="#7f7f7f" size="1">Categories: 2012 Biennial Performances, Performances, 2012 Biennial </font></p> <p><a href="http://whitney.org/Events/DawnKasperPerformance3"><img border="0" src="/image_columns/0035/5057/kasperweb_400.jpg" /></a></p> <div><p>As part of her ongoing <i>Nomadic Studio Practice Experiment</i>, in which the artist has relocated the entire contents of her studio as well as herself to a gallery on the third floor, <a href="/Exhibitions/2012Biennial/DawnKasper">Dawn Kasper</a> will present three scheduled performances within her new studio space. The content, form, and participants of each performance will be determined in the preceding weeks, as Kasper works in and interacts with her exhibition space and the Museum as a whole. Kasper’s performances are often bombastic, highly personal investigations into communication, persona, artistic activity, and the history of live art.<b><br /></b></p><p><b>Free with Museum admission. Space is limited and is available on a first-come, first-served basis.</b><b><br /></b></p><p><b></b></p></div> Whitney Museum of American Art http://whitney.org/Events/DawnKasperPerformance3 http://whitney.org/ics/events/whitney-event-4972.ics Performance: Lucy Raven <p> <b>Friday, May 25, 2012  2 PM </b> <br />Fifth-Floor Mezzanine <br /><font color="#7f7f7f" size="1">Categories: 2012 Biennial Performances, Performances, 2012 Biennial </font></p> <p><a href="http://whitney.org/Events/LucyRavenPerformance"><img border="0" src="/image_columns/0036/3657/raveneventonline_400.jpg" /></a></p> <div><p><a href="/Exhibitions/2012Biennial/LucyRaven">Lucy Raven</a>‘s <i>What Manchester Does Today, the Rest of the World Does Tomorrow</i>, is playing the <span class="caps">LCD</span> Soundsystem song <i>Dance Yrself Clean</i>. Fellow Biennial artist Jason Moran programmed the instrument to play a straight transcription (which syncs exactly with <span class="caps">LCD</span> Soundsystem’s recording), a stride interpretation, which takes the instrument’s history into account as it moves through various idioms and Moran’s more free-form response to the original recording. The rolls were made under Raven’s supervision, from <span class="caps">MIDI</span> files that were programmed by Moran and punched by Julian Dyer, with permission granted by <span class="caps">LCD</span> Soundsystem’s James Murphy.</p><p>Lucy Raven lives and works in Oakland, California and New York City. Jason Moran is a jazz pianist who lives in New York and plays and records under his own name and as a member of The Bandwagon. Julian Dyer is a Wokingham-based business analyst for National Grid, and one of six remaining pianola perforators in the world.</p><p><b><span class="caps">PERFORMANCES</span> <br />Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays<br />through June 3<br /></b>2 pm<b><br />Sundays through June 3<br /></b>4 pm<b><br /></b></p><p><b>Free with Museum admission. Space is limited and is available on a first-come, first-served basis.</b><b><br /></b></p><p><b></b></p><p><b></b></p></div> Whitney Museum of American Art http://whitney.org/Events/LucyRavenPerformance http://whitney.org/ics/events/whitney-event-5203.ics Performance: Lucy Raven <p> <b>Thursday, May 24, 2012  2 PM </b> <br />Fifth-Floor Mezzanine <br /><font color="#7f7f7f" size="1">Categories: 2012 Biennial Performances, Performances, 2012 Biennial </font></p> <p><a href="http://whitney.org/Events/LucyRavenPerformance"><img border="0" src="/image_columns/0036/3654/raveneventonline_400.jpg" /></a></p> <div><p><a href="/Exhibitions/2012Biennial/LucyRaven">Lucy Raven</a>‘s <i>What Manchester Does Today, the Rest of the World Does Tomorrow</i>, is playing the <span class="caps">LCD</span> Soundsystem song <i>Dance Yrself Clean</i>. Fellow Biennial artist Jason Moran programmed the instrument to play a straight transcription (which syncs exactly with <span class="caps">LCD</span> Soundsystem’s recording), a stride interpretation, which takes the instrument’s history into account as it moves through various idioms and Moran’s more free-form response to the original recording. The rolls were made under Raven’s supervision, from <span class="caps">MIDI</span> files that were programmed by Moran and punched by Julian Dyer, with permission granted by <span class="caps">LCD</span> Soundsystem’s James Murphy.</p><p>Lucy Raven lives and works in Oakland, California and New York City. Jason Moran is a jazz pianist who lives in New York and plays and records under his own name and as a member of The Bandwagon. Julian Dyer is a Wokingham-based business analyst for National Grid, and one of six remaining pianola perforators in the world.</p><p><b><span class="caps">PERFORMANCES</span> <br />Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays<br />through June 3<br /></b>2 pm<b><br />Sundays through June 3<br /></b>4 pm<b><br /></b></p><p><b>Free with Museum admission. Space is limited and is available on a first-come, first-served basis.</b><b><br /></b></p><p><b></b></p><p><b></b></p></div> Whitney Museum of American Art http://whitney.org/Events/LucyRavenPerformance http://whitney.org/ics/events/whitney-event-5192.ics