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CONDUCTOR NUMBER SEVENTEEN VERSION 2.0
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An evening with Performance Artist Cary Peppermint as he presents a raw,
improvisational and "lite" version release of "Conductor Number Seventeen"
the latest in his ongoing series of performances or "Technolectures."

Featuring special guests Jai (Ja-ee) Cha & Eriko Tamura!

http://www.restlessculture.net/conductor


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Saturday February 8th, 2003, 10PM
Collective Unconscious, 145 Ludlow Street, NYC - 212.254.5277
$5.00 Admission at the door

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Conductor Number Seventeen is Cary Peppermint's latest version in a
continuing series of multi-media performances first conceived by the artist
for "PORT", a pioneering exhibition of new media technologies and online
strategies initiated by Artnetweb at the MIT List Visual Arts Center in
January of 1997. Peppermint's Conductor performances deal directly and
brazenly with issues of mediation by incorporating live video/surveillance
technology that requires viewers to observe in simultaneity the actual
performance event and the real-time (live) approximation of that event. In
Conductor performances Peppermint engages multiple technologies to deliver
his own discourse of spoken language and techno-music that he terms
"Technolectures." Through both high & low-tech devices including halogen
work-lamps, laptop computers, and even a ukulele, Peppermint questions the
effectiveness, potential and even the necessity of the "live" performer.

Past performances have included varied performance-art "jam-sessions"
including Peppermint conducting his techno-lectures from the confines of a
pine-box for Conductors Number One and Nine and sealing himself off
completely in an 14 by 14 room for "Conductor number Zero."

"I like to consider the invention of the phonograph and its early alternate
label of 'ghost-box.' The 'ghost-box' produced voices from people who did
not exist… at least in physical presence. To reproduce the 'live' event is
to be involved with the work of the 'dead', the very act of (media)
entombment.