Nov 11-12 and 18-19
2017

EAST #113

KEL BROWN
LISA CHOINACKY
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Conrad Keely
Rebecca Whitehurst
Clarevon

Saturday Nov 11
1-9pm

Conrad Keely performs 7pm

Sunday Nov 12
1-5pm

Saturday Nov 18
1-5pm

Rebecca Whitehurst performs 3pm

Sunday Nov 12
1-5pm

Clarevon performs 2-4pm

Friday, December 23, 8pm
2016
at Co-Lab Demo Gallery

CHRISTMAS

Matthew Steinke & Octant Ensemble

Matthew Steinke is a composer of new music and an inventor of new instruments. Steinke’s Octant Ensemble is a band of midi-controlled acoustic robots.

Co-Lab Projects and Northern-Southern are proud to present the third annual performance of Steinke’s program of Christmas music: The Stuttering Clock.

The concert is free! But we will accept donations toward The White Helmets, an organization dedicated to relief and aid to those trapped in war, www.whitehelmets.org/en

APR 2016

PERFORMANCE AND DOCUMENTATION

Brad Tucker as Bad Trucker
Caroline Gormley
Jared Leibowich
Bridget Evarts
Lisa Choinacky
Benjamin Cissner
Matthew Steinke/Octant
Monika Rostvold
Rachel Freeman
Sarah Saltwick & Katy Taylor
Sean Ripple
Shafer Hall
Sol LeWitt Bootlegs

BLUE FLAMES and WARM ASHES were companion events. BLUE FLAMES was a day-long show of music, performance art, experimental theater, poetry, story-telling, and visual art as choreographed movement. Weeks later, WARM ASHES presented documentation and remains of the previous show.

A flame is a verb as a noun — the object (the plume of fire) is an action (burning, a rapid chemical change). The is is a does. Ashes are what flames leave behind.

At BLUE FLAMES, Lisa Choinacky drew and hung two large pieces. The video documentation and the pieces were shown at WARM ASHES. Artist Bridget Evarts spoke as Liza Minnelli at BLUE FLAMES. At WARM ASHES she made a encore appearance, signing 8×10 glossies photographed at the previous event. And so on… Poets’ readings were made into texts. Stages for performance became installations. Singers’ songs were played on an old tape recorder at the spot in the room where the tape was recorded.

Lisa Choinacky

Caroline Gorely
Bridget Evarts as Liza
Sean Ripple
passenger Instructions for “This is Hardcore” – a performance for car
MATTER is a one-actor play about an astronaut written by Sarah Saltwick and performed by Katy Taylor at BLUE FLAMES. For WARM ASHES, Taylor’s space suit costume was displayed floating weightless above the room.
Sol LeWitt Bootlegs are instruction art pieces very loosely based on Sol LeWitt wall drawings and geared toward drafts-people of any skill level. Two were made during BLUE FLAMES.
DEC 19–20
2015

CHRISTMAS

Matthew Steinke & Octant Ensemble

For the second year, Matthew Steinke presents the Stuttering Clock of Christmas, a recital of Christmas music performed by the acoustic robots and new musical instruments of the Octant Ensemble.

This year’s performance features The Magnetosphere, a device that remotely transforms metal objects into resonant musical instruments.

Two performances:
Saturday,
December 19, 2016
7pm

Sunday (matinee)
December 20, 2016
3pm

DEC 2014

CHRISTMAS

Matthew Steinke & Octant Ensemble

Christmas music performed by Matthew Steinke (Satisfact, Mocket, Octant) and the Octant Ensemble of new and robotic musical instruments.

Hear the Tine Organ, the Robotic Harmonium, the Robotic Melodica and other inventions in a musical adventure referencing Bach, Handel, and traditional Yule-time themes.

Two Shows
Saturday
December 20, 2014
7pm

Sunday
December 21, 2014
3pm

FRI, MAR 14
2014

Matthew Caws
Leslie Sisson
David Israel
Booher
Aaron Blount
Joe Fletcher
Ralph White
John Wesley Coleman

In the spirit of the “South by So What” punk festivals hosted by the legendary Blue Flamingo (aka the Blue Flame), Northern–Southern hosted day of acoustic music and local fellowship curated by Leslie Sisson.

Sisson also played – her first show as the leader of the Panoramas (later the Moving Panoramas). The highlight was an enrapturing set by Nada Surf’s Matthew Caws.

Matthew Caws performing in front of a drawing by Alec Dartey
John Wesley Coleman hanging out