Laura Kavanaugh + Ian Birse:

Instant Places


software instruments + multi-channel sound


Friday, March 13

7 - 10PM


Saturday, March 14

2 -10PM


Cost: Pay what you can

Diapason
882 Third Avenue, between 32nd and 33rd Streets
BROOKLYN (Sunset Park)
10th floor
info: 718-499-5070
www.diapasongallery.org

N, D or R to 36th Street
Bus: 35, 37, 63, 70



Instant Places


During a residency at Diapason, the artists will comb the Brooklyn waterfront for sounds, images and objects, and build software instruments to transform them in a multichannel sound field. During the two events, the artists will present process performances in which the work evolves to a new state.

Laura Kavanaugh and Ian Birse create intermedia artworks on location using software instruments they design. In their practice they combine independent activity that is local and micro-scale with internet collaboration and broadcast events. From a base in Tokyo they spent February—April 2008 presenting performance/installations at centers across Japan, and traveled to Chicago in May to make MOVIE PALACE, a series of intermedia works centered on the historic Congress Theatre building. Most
recently they have presented a public projection project in Toronto called CITIZEN, video transfigurations of snapshot portraits of residents, and premiered a performance for 12 speaker sound array and live video called HEAD! SMASHED! IN! BUFFALO! JUMP! at SoundPlay 2008.

Visit their project archive at www.instantplaces.ca