The Lab's Photographer-in-Residence: Robert Divers Herrick
Special preview on Friday, March 31, 2017
Final cut on Wednesday, May 31, 2017
8pm Doors / 8:30pm Film
$7 donation, no one turned away for lack of funds
During his residency at The Lab, artist Brontez Purnell created a documentary film and archive exploring the late San Francisco postmodern choreographer Ed Mock.
Ed Mock died in 1986 at the height of the AIDS epidemic; his story continues to engage contemporary conversations. Purnell states, “I believe Ed Mock is the missing choreographic link between Alvin Ailey, Anna Halprin, and Bill T. Jones. He is my direct predecessor, creatively. We – artists, black queers, Bay Area dancers, gay men - have to extract our collective past and create the historical record.”
8:00pm Doors / 8:30pm Music
$15 Guests / Free for Members
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One of the world’s premiere exponents of her instrument, Susan Alcorn has taken the pedal steel guitar far beyond its traditional role in country and western swing music. Well-known among steel players for her virtuosity and authenticity in a traditional context, Susan Alcorn first paid her dues in Texas country & western bands. Soon she began to expand the vocabulary of her instrument through her study of modern classical music (Olivier Messiaen, Edgard Varèse, Krzysztof Penderecki, Pauline Oliveros), visionary jazz (John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman), and world musics (Indian ragas, South American songs, and gamelan orchestra).
Friday, April 7; 8-10pm
Saturday, April 8; 8-10pm
Sunday, April 9, 1-3pm
Audience members are invited to try and control two giant, scary robots with your brainwaves! It won't be easy, but can you make them kiss? Fight? When two audience members accomplish this feat, everyone is treated to a show of lasers, fog, sound, video, and other cool chaos.
This performative installation is a collaborative project of Kal Spelletich (artist, robot maker), Masahiro Kahata (brainwave control hardware/software), and Mitch Altman (integration hardware and software). This is an experiment in improving people’s lives by exemplifying the poetry of the mind. The robots are not programmed, they are responding live to human brain waves.
9:30pm Doors / 10pm Sound
$25 General / $15 for Members
Photos above taken by The Lab's photographer-in-residence, Robert Divers Herrick.
Lawrence English is composer, media artist and curator based in Australia. Working across an eclectic array of aesthetic investigations, English’s work prompts questions of field, perception and memory. He investigates the politics of perception, through live performance and installation, to create works that ponder subtle transformations of space and ask audiences to become aware of that which exists at the edge of perception.
Arnold Dreyblatt (b. New York City, 1953) is a composer, performer and visual artist. He studied music with Pauline Oliveros, La Monte Young, and Alvin Lucier and has been based in Berlin, Germany since 1984. Among the second generation of New York minimal composers, Dreyblatt developed a unique approach to composition and music performance. As he began his music in the late 1970's in New York, he invented a set of new and original instruments, performance techniques, and a system of tuning and has formed and led numerous ensembles under the title "The Orchestra of Excited Strings". In 2007, he was elected to the German Academy of Art (Akademie der Künste, Berlin). He is currently Professor for Media Art at the Muthesius Academy of Art and Design in Kiel.
Arnold Dreyblatt will be giving a talk at 7pm on March 28 at SFAI: http://www.sfai.edu/events-calendar/detail/arnold-dreyblatt
8:30pm Doors / 9pm Sound
$25 General / Free for members
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John Chantler is a musician and organizer living in Stockholm, Sweden working with synthesizers, electronics and sometimes pipe organs to explore his own personalized compositional and improvisational strategies — working with and against the specific systems inherent in his chosen tools.
7:30pm Doors / 8pm Sound
$15 General / Free for members
Join us for an evening with Martin Creed. Those familiar with the Turner Prize-winning artist will know that one of the many engaging aspects of his live performances, regardless of the venue and context, is the unpredictability of the proceedings.
This event is co-presented by The Lab and Kadist, San Francisco. The artist will be donating his fee for this event to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
8pm Doors / 8:30pm Sound
$25 General / $15 for members
SATURDAY EVENING TICKETS
SUNDAY EVENING TICKETS
Photos of The Necks taken by The Lab's photographer-in-residence, Robert Divers Herrick.
Attention! We’ve moved highlights the ongoing displacement of artists and cultural spaces by bringing audiences to a floating, itinerant version of an underground club. Created by artist Constance Hockaday, Attention! We’ve moved. will be cruising the San Francisco Bay from January 12–14 and launching from Pier 40.
Thursday, January 12, 2017 – VIP Cruise
With Dynasty Handbag, Las Sucias, MSHR, Voicehandler, Kevin Blechdom, and a psychedelic dance party by International Freakout A Go-Go.
7–10pm VIP tickets, $160 each, available at http://bit.ly/AWM-VIPCruise
*Drinks and light appetizers will be served.
Friday, January 13, 2017
With Dynasty Handbag, Las Sucias, MSHR, and International Freakout a Go-Go.
7-8:45pm cruise, tickets $35 each, SOLD OUT
9-10:45pm cruise tickets, SOLD OUT
*Cash bar.
Saturday, January 14, 2017
With Dynasty Handbag, Voicehandler, Kevin Blechdom, and International Freakout a Go-Go.
7-8:45pm cruise, tickets $35 each, SOLD OUT
9-10:45pm cruise, tickets $35 each,SOLD OUT
*Cash bar.
Friday, July 14, 2017
8:00pm Doors / 8:30pm Sound
$25 Guests / $15 Members
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Camille Norment (b. 1970, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA lives and works in Oslo, Norway) works as an artist, musician and composer. Norment’s practice includes performance, installation, drawing, writing and sound, and draws from the artist’s training in music, dance, the visual arts and literature. Norment is concerned with investigating the relationships between sound, music and the visual arts and questioning the meanings of harmony and dissonance. Her art explores the socio-political encoding of sound historically and in the present, reflecting upon the power of dissonance to carve out a space for dissent and creative thinking.
In addition to her work as an artist, Norment performs as a soloist and with other musicians in selected projects. At The Lab she will play with an ensemble consisting of John McCowen (clarinet), Håvard Skaset (electric guitar), and Camille Norment (glass armonica).
Leila Bordreuil is a Brooklyn-based cellist and composer working in the realm of improvisation, noise music, and sound art. The New York Times has described her work as “steadily scathing music, favoring long and corrosive atonalities”. Bordreuil’s cello playing focuses on the inherent sonic qualities of her instrument, paying careful attention to timbre and texture. She challenges conventional cello practice through extreme extended techniques and imaginative amplification methods, compelling us to question what is valued in instrumental performance and why. Her composed works frequently incorporate sound-spatialization by way of site-specific pieces and multi-channel installations.
At The Lab, Leila Bordreuil will be performing a solo amplified cello set, using a multichannel set-up of different types of speakers and guitar amplifiers. An assemblage of microphones placed on various parts of the cello will create unique sound distortion possibilities that transform the cello into a polyphonic instrument, enhancing the instrument’s diversity of timbres.